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A Quiz for all you Know-It-Alls
Topic Started: Aug 4 2006, 01:38 PM (360 Views)
George K
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This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. Answers later - no cheating!

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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6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.


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Number one is probably boxing.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
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Number 2 is Niagara Falls
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Number 4 is a strawberry
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Number 6 is dwarf and dwell
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Number 8 is lettuce
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Number 5 is they grow the pear in the bottle, the bottle is literally hanging from the pear tree.
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number 9 is sandals, shoes, socks, slippers, skates, sneakers, slip ons, stilettos, skis
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Number 3 is asparagus and and and and and, I don't know.
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well, I'm impressed
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Welp, that was fast....

Number 3: Asparagus and Rhubarb.

Number 6: You forgot dwindle

Number 7: Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

Number 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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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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My guess for #1 was chess, but since boxing actually has a score, I agree it is better.

Regarding the pear in the bottle - I knew that once upon a time but quickly guessed "dehydration".

These days you can get processed lettuce - all chopped, shredded, etc and waiting - your salad in a bag.
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hay!

i could have gotten rhubarb. :smokin:
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I would not have thought of rhubarb as a vegetable. I have one - grow it as much for the pretty large leaves as the stems.

We have the best recipe for rhubarb pie w/o strawberries (gack! I hate slimy strawberries in my pie). It's almost like a custard with a sugary, crunchy top.
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we used to grow rhubarb in Maryland. It's one of my favorite pies. Can't find any rhubarb down here. Most native Floridians have never heard of it.
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dwindle, dwindling, dwarf, dwarves, dwarfing, dwarfed (verb), dwelling, dwell (verb), etc. There may be more.
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- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Dwashing, dwindow, dwatermelon....
I have a 6' Stainweggie
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4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?



Uh......OT?......
I have a 6' Stainweggie
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4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?



Uh......OT?......

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Aug 4 2006, 05:38 PM
This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. Answers later - no cheating!

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."

Without looking at other answers yet...

1) Boxing (or Chess :P)
2) Niagra Falls, if that's considered part of the USA (might be Canada, I'm not sure)
3) No idea...corn?
4) Strawberries
5) No idea...they grow it inside? :P
6) Dwarf, dwindle, dwain!
7) Comma, colon, semi-colon, period, exclamation point, question mark, quotation symbol, paranthesis, etc...btw, mye speling stinkes
8) Lettuce?
9) I can only think of 4 right now...
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