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Jan
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08-01-2000

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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.

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."



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
marks, 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