Quiz of 9 questions.
There are only nine questions.
These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers.
Of course Mr Google will have the answers or you can wait until tonight for them to be posted unless someone gets them all correct.
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
I think I know 4 of the answers.
mistred64 wrote:
I think I know 4 of the answers.
Stay tuned Ed, answers posted after dinner.
[quote=plumbob]There are only nine questions.
These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers.
Of course Mr Google will have the answers or you can wait until tonight for them to be posted unless someone gets them all correct.
I'll try for some of them
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
Chess
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
The East Coast.
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
One is Potatoes.
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Kiwi
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
They heat the bottle to remove the air and then suction pulls it in. (I think)
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
Watermelon
plumbob wrote:
There are only nine questions.
These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers.
Of course Mr Google will have the answers or you can wait until tonight for them to be posted unless someone gets them all correct.
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
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Gordon
Loc: Charleston South Carolina
plumbob wrote:
There are only nine questions.
These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers.
Of course Mr Google will have the answers or you can wait until tonight for them to be posted unless someone gets them all correct.
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
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2. Statue of Liberty
4. Heard before but can't remember. Just remembered Strawberry.
5. Grows it in the bottle
6. Dwarf , Dwindle
8. Cabbage
9. Can only get 4. Socks, Shoes, Sandals , Slippers.
Gordon wrote:
2. Statue of Liberty
4. Heard before but can't remember. Just remembered Strawberry.
5. Grows it in the bottle
6. Dwarf , Dwindle
8. Cabbage
9. Can only get 4. Socks, Shoes, Sandals , Slippers.
Here's your last 2 for #9 G. Skates and Skis.
Slippers
Ruby red like Dorothy
Did I miss something?
What are the answers Plum?
Did Troy take away your laptop and phone before he locked the shed?
If he did you can't answer.
Answers To Quiz:
1... The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends:
Boxing.
2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara
Falls ....
(The rim is worn down
about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of
water that rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several
growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside
the bottle.
The bottles are placed
over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree.
The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the
pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon,
semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,question mark, exclamation point,
quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S':
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates,
snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
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mistred64 wrote:
Did I miss something?
What are the answers Plum?
Did Troy take away your laptop and phone before he locked the shed?
If he did you can't answer.
Sorry Ed, you know how it is when you go to bed just knowing you forgot to do something?
Human factor kicked in again last night.
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