Quiz time yay!

[tikistitch]

These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. Italicize the ones you get right!

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 land mark 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.'

From leprekon4.



Answers:

1. Boxing - well, it's a sport, so we didn't even try, though in the case of a KO, can't they tell?

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 - this one's been on kajillion "do ya know?" emails from FIL.

3. Asparagus and Rhubarb - Asparagus is like our least fave veg in the world, horrible to find out it's a perrenial.

4. Strawberry - Another one we keep getting from FIL.

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. - We've actually got a bottle, a present from the Frenchman, who explained the way of the pear liqueur. That stuff'll kill you, by the way.

6. Dwarf, dwindle, dwell - And they forgot "dweeb!"

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark , exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. - We actually got 'em all, cause we are nerd, plus big fans of West Wing.

8. Lettuce - we personally don't agree with this answer, as we buy choppy lettuce from Snakeway all the time.

9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. - And they forgot "slides," must not've been a girl who wrote this originally.

Comments

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I knew them all but the boxing one. (I like asparagus. Mmmmmmmmmm. It grew in my yard as a kid.) And I'm not sure about the lettuce one, either, as I swear I've eaten dishes with steamed lettuce. (Or do chopped and steamed not count? :P)

I have a hard time believing most people do NOT know most of these; I mean, come on. It's gotta be one of those "Ho ho, look how smart I am by asking kind of obscure but not really questions!"

[dark-skada.livejournal.com]

In Chang Mai Thailand I bought a kind of "canned" lettuce. It was like, chopped up and sealed in a jar with this weird liquid stuff. Maybe it was pickled. I didn't eat it. But I did buy it. And send it to my grandmother who cans everything. Well, not everything. I proved the point with this. She had never canned lettuce before. But the point is, #8 is wrong. Because I totally bought it @_____@;;

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Ya know, come to think of it, my ancestors are British. I bet if they'd found a way to pickle lettuce, they would have. That's one of the things that grossed me out the first time I visited a grocery store in the UK--besides a whole "lard" section, there was a whole aisle of "pickled stuff."

[leprekon4.livejournal.com]

dweeb! how did I miss that one!! :)