Quiz for people who know everything


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 backwar d . 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 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.

"Kswck" wrote:

6. Three English words beginning with dw . Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

Dweeb is a word... so is dwelling (a shelter), which is different from
dwell.


M-W

dweeb
noun
: an unattractive, insignificant, or inept person
---

Sheldon

"Kswck" wrote in message
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Quiz for people who know everything


8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.


8.. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.


This one is wrong. Check V8.

"Steve Wertz" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, Kswck wrote:

Quiz for people who know everything

I got all these except for:

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?

I only got asparagus of the two.

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

I guessed banana, and I still don't see how this isn't a valid
answer. Canned (implies cooked) or frozen bananas? Sorry. I
don't see it.

-sw

You can buy frozen banana.

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:56 -0500, Steve Wertz
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, Kswck wrote:

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

I guessed banana, and I still don't see how this isn't a valid
answer. Canned (implies cooked) or frozen bananas? Sorry. I
don't see it.

-sw

Bananas are sold cooked in lots of forms. Banana bread? Bananas
Foster?

And lettuce is sometimes cooked. I have seen a recipe by Jacques Pepin
in one of his earlier cookbooks, that has cooked lettuce. The dish
looks good too.

Christine

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . Strawberry.

Those aren't seeds. Those are nitrogen nodules. Strawberries are rhizomes.

Paul

On Sep 13, 3:55 pm, Steve Wertz wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, Kswck wrote:
Quiz for people who know everything

I got all these except for:

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?

I only got asparagus of the two.


You've obviously never had rhubarb. I swear you can't kill it, no
matter what.

N.

"Nancy2" wrote in message
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On Sep 13, 3:55 pm, Steve Wertz wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, Kswck wrote:
Quiz for people who know everything

I got all these except for:

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?

I only got asparagus of the two.


You've obviously never had rhubarb. I swear you can't kill it, no
matter what.


We had it growing everywhere in New Hampshire. It truly never died and it
was the first plant to sprout after the winter freeze.

Paul

"Paul M." wrote:

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . Strawberry.

Those aren't seeds. Those are nitrogen nodules. Strawberries are rhizomes.

You're brain is a nitrogen nodule.


"The strawberry has its dry, yellow "seeds" on the outside (each of
which is actually considered a separate fruit)."

http://www.pickyourown.org/strawberryfacts.htm


Sheldon

"Steve Wertz" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, Kswck wrote:

Quiz for people who know everything

I got all these except for:

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?

I only got asparagus of the two.

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

I guessed banana, and I still don't see how this isn't a valid
answer. Canned (implies cooked) or frozen bananas? Sorry. I
don't see it.

You can buy frozen bananas dipped in chocolate. Bananas are used in bread
and muffins. They can be grilled. However, lettuce can also be cooked.
Not sure I've ever seen any done commercially but there is wilted lettuce
and a pea soup with lettuce in it.

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, "Kswck"
wrote:

8.. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

My guess was watermelon. In what other form is watermelon sold?

Tara

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:41:54 -0400, Tara
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, "Kswck"
wrote:

8.. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

My guess was watermelon. In what other form is watermelon sold?

Tara


Pickled.

Boron

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:41:54 -0400, Tara
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, "Kswck"
wrote:

8.. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

My guess was watermelon. In what other form is watermelon sold?

Tara
watermelon sherbert, granita, margaritas....

Christine

"Tara" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:33 -0400, "Kswck"
wrote:

8.. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

My guess was watermelon. In what other form is watermelon sold?

Sorbet?

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:01:21 -0400, "Knit Chic"
wrote:

never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.


This one is wrong. Check V8.

I really think V8 was canned. ....or do you have a V8 tree in your
backyard?