Think You Know Everything?
April 20, 2007
Here is a quiz for people who know everything!
These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.
1. Can you 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 liquour 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. Can you name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh?
9. Can you name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet> > beginning with the letter “S”?
No Cheating try and answer them first
Now here are the answers.
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. 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.
The only two I got wrong were questions 2 and 3, how did you do? Click comments below and share your score.

