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A QUIZ FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING
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(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
What is it?
(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) Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the
team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
(5) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
(6) 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?
(7) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw."
They are all common. Name two of them.
(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you
name half of them?
(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
(10) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name
the other six.
(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin
with the letter "S"
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ANSWERS TO QUIZ
1. Boxing.
2. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 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. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they
are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,question mark,
exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the MinneapolisLakers
and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.
...Now You Know !
(Scroll Down for the answers)
(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
What is it?
(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) Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the
team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
(5) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
(6) 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?
(7) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw."
They are all common. Name two of them.
(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you
name half of them?
(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
(10) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name
the other six.
(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin
with the letter "S"
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ANSWERS TO QUIZ
1. Boxing.
2. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 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. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they
are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,question mark,
exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the MinneapolisLakers
and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.
...Now You Know !
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