Little quiz for 5 mins...

Quiz for "Know-It-Alls"

Wow this is not so easy!!This is a quiz for people who know everything!

These are not trick questions..
They are straight questions with straight answers, ill post the answers in a bit.

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.'

[the_lone_wolf]

AAARGH, the Formatting!!!!!


I'm gonna go with...

2. Niagra falls

3. Potatoes and...?

5. Dried and rehydrated? edit: scratch that, I bet they put the bottle over the young pear while it's still growing on the tree?

8. Asparagus

9. Shoe, sock, sandal, slipper, snow shoes, sexy boots?

4. May be wrong but do Strawberries not have their seeds on outside?

7. full stop, apostrophe, comma, colon, semi colon, quotation marks, exclamation mark, brackets (think correctly known as parenthesis?)

9. Shoes, socks, sandals, stiletos, stockings (well they go on your feet...), slippers.

1) boxing
4) pineapple?
5) the pear was so ****ed it cant remember
6) dwell, dwelling, dwelt [is this cheating?] erm dwindle
7) full stop, comma, apostraphe, inverted commas, colon, semicolon, hyphen, exclaimation mark, question mark, open bracket, close bracket, at symbol, smiley face, sad face.

i should be working

6) dwight d eisenhower

[tinpants]

Originally Posted by specialone

Quiz for "Know-It-Alls"

Wow this is not so easy!!This is a quiz for people who know everything!

These are not trick questions..
They are straight questions with straight answers, ill post the answers in a bit.

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.'

1. Boxing
2. Niagara Falls
3. Asparagus and Rhubarb
4. Strawberry
5. The bottle is placed over the branch with the small pear on it. The pear grows into the bottle
6. Dwell, dwindle and dwarf
7. Colon, Semi-colon, period, exclamation point, question mark, hyphen, speech marks, inverted commas, commas, parentheses, brackets, braces, dash, hyphen
8. Lettuce
9. Sock, shoes, slippers, sandals, snowshoes, stockings

Originally Posted by specialone

Quiz for "Know-It-Alls"

Wow this is not so easy!!This is a quiz for people who know everything!

These are not trick questions..
They are straight questions with straight answers, ill post the answers in a bit.

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

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

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?
potatoes

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
strawberries

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?
its grown inside the bottle then the brandy is added after

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

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name at least half of them?
full stop, comma, quotation, question ,inverted comma , exclamation, hifans (sp),

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

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
shoes , socks ,slippers, sandles, sling backs, stelletos, snow shoes,

how do you like them apples

Dave Preston done the best i think

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 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 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.

I haven't looked at any answers but gone straight to quote, so here goes ......

1. Boxing?

2. Grand Canyon?? Dunno

3. Hmmmm, Courgette/Marrow, Sprouts ???? Dunno

4. Strawberry

5. The bottle is put over the pear when it was growing.

6. Dwarf, dwelling

7. OK - Cheating here cos I'm on the keyboard . , : ; ? ! "

8. Cucumber ???

9. Socks, slippers, sandals, sneakers, ski's, skates, stockings,

[Mr Speirs]

Snowshoes???? Really???