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  • What you do or don't know

    This is fun....shows you what you do or don't know

    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?

    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. 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.
    Robert

  • #2
    I got 6 of them. I would have 7 but I thought artichoke was a perennial vegetable, didn't think of rhubarb. Missed boxing, thought the answer might be some kind of card game. And Niagra Falls. I figured it must be a glacier with all this global warming stuff. The others all involve language or gardening, two subjects I enjoy.
    The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot do so well for themselves”- Lincoln

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    • #3
      Originally posted by barndweller View Post
      ... I would have 7 but I thought artichoke was a perennial vegetable, didn't think of rhubarb. ...
      Julie, I think like you. According to the dictionary, the Globe Artichoke, the type we see in the grocery stores, is a perennial in the thistle group of the sunflower family. The flowers develop in a large head from an edible bud.

      I found interesting reading at Casteroville, Artichoke Festival.
      Whether perennial or annual, depends on what one does with the plant or seed.

      Robert
      Robert

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      • #4
        I also thought artichoke.

        I only got 5 correctly. The pear in the bottle is a wonderful little factoid that will take up room in my memory banks for years to come.
        Lawren
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        There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favourite places is on the back of my horse.
        - Rolf Kopfle

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        • #5
          Since I grew up next door to Castroville (in Aptos, find that if you can ) of course I thought of artichoke.

          Interesting little story: my dad was from Oklahoma. When he went into the Navy he was stationed in Long Beach, Ca. They served artichokes in the mess. He had no idea how to eat it because he had never seen or heard of them.

          As a kid we would buy them at roadside stands 15/$1. Of course lettuce was 10cents a head, too!

          The pear in a bottle thing can be done with peaches & plums, too. Then you fill the bottle with brandy. Makes nice holiday gifts.
          The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot do so well for themselves”- Lincoln

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          • #6
            village idiot here....!
            Connie

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            • #7
              Originally posted by barndweller View Post
              Since I grew up next door to Castroville (in Aptos, find that if you can ) of course I thought of artichoke...
              I've been to Monterey 3 times and feel anyone visiting that region should drive the roads looking at the fields of produce. Quite a sight.
              Robert

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              • #8
                Only got 4 - I better keep this quiet, might have my Geek status revoked!

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