Quiz For People Who Know Everything

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 15:21

This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't.

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?



Cont.....

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 15:21

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.'

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 15:22

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.

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 15:23

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.

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 17:01

Taxing our brains this monday Navek got most right though xx

ROBnJO


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Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 17:13

Navek



'dw' words,....



you missed out:



Dwaal: Befuddlement.

Dwale: Deadly Nightshade.

Dwam: Daydream.

Dwang: Nogging.

Dweeb: Stupid person.







Ouch!!!!!



Just dropped the Dictionary on my foot!!





rob

louthlass


Joined: 09/11/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 20:02

Dwine- to waste or pine away.

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
09/06/2009

Hi ROBnJO & louthlass



6. Only three words in STANDARD English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all



common words. Name two of them.



I did not compose the questions, only passed them on.



Go to the top of the class



PS sold my Encyclopædia Britannica,



Wife knows everything



Navek

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 00:05

a wee guy stays in a small......

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 00:17

well done Navek certainly made me think, got some answers.!! not as many as I should have got



Also made me think about a Dean Friedman song (has this line in it)





We're not as bright as we'd like to think we are

Sunnycee


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 192

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 00:24

msg 10

cant get those words out of my head now! What was the bloomin song called? I know there was a woman singing in it as well

sc

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 00:27

Nav go to wales they all start with DW xxxxx

Navek



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Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 09:42

Hi decanddyl,



Dean Friedman - Lucky Stars - Album - "Well, Well," Said the Rocking Chair - 1978....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVP9yM-Vi8



Navek

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
10/06/2009 21:32

Thanks Navek Could'nt for the life of me remember the title and even although we have the album it,s still in storage.