Morning Quiz

[bearngg00se]

Not necessarily funny but 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. I included the answers at the bottom.

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 are below... don't peek!!!!

Spoiler

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 is boxing

2. The North American landmark constantly moving backward is 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 is the 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. The fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar are 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 is lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" are
shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
stockings, stilts.

[Sid]

very good quiz..

[logicprobe]

EEEeeek!
A morning mind exercise!

Now I'm dizzy and I've got new muscles in my head.
I'd better go back to bed and sleep it off.

(Cool quiz... thanks for sharing)

[musky]

I missed 2









I'm a big fibber too

[MrGneiss]

Number 7 doesn't have my favorite punctuation, the Interrobang‽

[Sid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

if Stuey and wikipedia say so it must be true!

[MrGneiss]

What, do you think I would just make stuff up‽

[Sid]

Hey man, you know i am the last one to doubt you about anything..

well except 1 thing.... and the answer is still DID TOO!!!

[MrGneiss]

I was trying not to get into this in someone else's thread but.........

Spoiler

DID NOT!!!

[Tulsa]

It's my favorite punctuation, I love anything with a bang. - Ted Kaczynski

[bearngg00se]

I was trying not to get into this in someone else's thread but.........

Spoiler

DID NOT!!!

If you two are going to fight, I'm not going to do any more stupid morning quizzes!

ps. I think HE DID...but then that's just my thought