Here's something to make you think and find out how smart you are. Don't fret if you 'FLUNK" There are nine questions.
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 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 the 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'.
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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 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.
1. Rally racing.
2. ?
3. Mom grows rhubarb and used to hunt asparagus. Too bad i forgot both.
4. ?
5. I knew that one. Read it in a dr's. office magazine.
6. Dwindle is a word? I got Dwell and Dwarf.
7. Didn't think to look at the keyboard.... Forward slash is used to denote fractions in sentences. I wonder if it counts.
8. I hate it when an answer is an "I knew that!" but only after reading the answer.
9. I counted stockings and socks as the same, but realize they aren't.
Great quiz!
For number 8 I had banana
I didn't do too bad, got a lot of them. I thought of boxing, but instead chose wrestling. Totally didn't see question 5 & 6, must have been scrolling way too quickly... I'm more concerned about what that says about me. Yikes
I did pretty bad no answer for 1,2,half of 3, 4 wrong, 8, I said cucumber.
SER cheated, he has done this before. lol
jedwis, no didn't cheat, but blow it all to hell, I really sucked at it...
We need another KK test!
I got 4 of 9. I had partial matches on two.
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