Quiz for Really Bright People

[NewHemi]

There are only nine questions and I have now posted the answers.

This is a quiz for people who think they know everything!

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.

Answer 1: Boxing

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Answer 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 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?

Answer 3: Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Answer 4: Strawberry.

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?

Answer 5: 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. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

Answer 6: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

Answer 7: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

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

Answer 8: Lettuce.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.

Answer 9: Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

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Looking for the answers??

Not so fast there sparky...

I will post answers in a couple of days. Until then, no cheating... No Google searches and no Wikipedia searches... unless of course, you want to do that, and then try to look smart.

But remember, people who think they know everything, are particularly annoying to those of us who actually do.

And just in the name of full disclosure, NO, I didn't get them all right.

David
The New Hemi Guy

[Michael Beard]

I tried to hide my answers so others could read past it more easily and answer freely on their own.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

Boxing

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Niagara Falls (erosion)

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?

Soybeans, rhubarb?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Strawberry

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?

The bottle has a large opening, and/or small pear?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

dwarf, dwaddle

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

Period, comma, exclamation point, colon, semicolon, ellipsis (my favorite...), question mark, parenthesis, single quote, double quote, apostrophe, dash

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

Watermelon

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.

Socks, shoes, slippers, sneakers, sandals, stockings, snowshoes, spurs, stilletos, steeltoes, spikes... you don't really "wear" stilts.

Going to bed. Gotta finish taxes in the morning. Bleagh.

[Michael Beard]

So...... answers?

[nickh]

Okay you expect us Rednecks down here to answer them questions...LOL???

[NewHemi]

I would have posted the answers previously, but had a forced .
sabbatical from this site for posting something that was seen as "political"

Will look for my copy of the answers and post back soon.

David
The New Hemi Guy

[Ron Ortiz]

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Russian Roulette

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
All landmarks facing West

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 give up on this one, I did not know that two vegetables could reproduce

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? The one you spit out of your mouth

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? It is a small pear when it goes in and after time get bloated from absorbing the brandy

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them. Dwarfs Dwelling what to Dwink

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? .,;:!? Eye kant pro nounce dem

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

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.
sand, sweat, slime, surf, snow, and when you step in s_ _ _

Did I get them right?

Ron Ortiz
U/SA silly quizzes

[nickh]

Funny Ron I am still trying to answer #1