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    Questions for those of you who might think they know a little about everything. Don't cheat.........give this an honest try,...............it isn't as easy as you think............



    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.'







    1. Boxing



    2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.



    4. Strawberry



    5. 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. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.



    7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces , and ellipses.



    8. Lettuce



    9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
    What I once considered boring, I now consider paradise.
    Faust

  • #2
    goodness I know nothing almost....LOL.
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    • #3
      I did pretty well. I missed Boxing ( I thought it was Cricket) and Lettuce. How could I miss lettuce?

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      • #4
        You never had my Grandma's 'Wilted Lettuce'. I don't remember how the whole thing went, but it was to cook bacon, make a dressing with the hot bacon fat, sugar and vinegar (with a few other things) and that is drizzled over the lettuce to wilt it. I may be stretching it, but it is kind of cooked...okay, maybe not.

        Other than that, I did pretty poorly. I knew 4, 5 and some of 7.
        Don

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        • #5
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          • #6
            Do snowboots count?
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            • #7
              How about dweeb for #6? LOL

              Dori

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              • #8
                Other DW listings per dictionary.com
                dweeb
                dweebish
                Dwell
                dwelled
                Dweller
                dwelling
                Dwellings
                dwells
                dwelt
                dwem
                Some of these are version of the same thing, so they don't count. You had a good list.
                Don

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                • #9
                  I are a dumb arse shaggy

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by shaggy View Post
                    I are a dumb arse shaggy
                    Arse is an English term referring to the buttocks, first recorded circa 1400 (in arce-hoole) and is commonly used in English speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, parts of Canada and former parts of the British Empire. In the United States and other parts of Canada the variant form ass is used. So... Arse is an old form of ass.
                    Robert

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                    • #11
                      Well, now y'all know what I is. ( Don't ya just love my white trash language?) shaggy

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by shaggy View Post
                        Well, now y'all know what I is. ( Don't ya just love my white trash language?) shaggy
                        I understand quite well... just jabbin ya for fun.

                        From another...
                        It takes one to know one.

                        Loves ya
                        Robert

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                        • #13
                          Sheesh....That was pretty embarrassing. Outside of easily naming 6 things beginning with the letter 's' that you could wear on your feet, I was clueless. I didn't even guess 'strawberry.'
                          Angela

                          If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

                          BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Dori View Post
                            How about dweeb for #6? LOL

                            Dori
                            That was one of mine, too

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                            • #15
                              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.

                              Asparagus and rhubarb. How about artichoke?

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