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
backward. 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 & nbsp; 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 mark, 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.
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