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There are only nine questions. 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 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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Had no clue on two and only got rhubarb on three.

Never seen Pear Brandy, but guessed it matured in the bottle.

Could not come up with dwarf, but got the other two.

Scary how well I knew my punctuation and how many S words fit on your feet, but I did not think of lettuce.

I give myself a 6.6
 

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Forgot spurs for #9.
 

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1) I answered competitive bodybuilding(and yes it is debatable whether it is a sport) for #1 because you get updates on the judges scoring after each round in Boxing. But then again, IIRC the NPC gives scoring updates while the IFBB doesn't.
3) chayote squash, sorrel, and tree kale also could be on that list. I grow rhubarb, tree kale, and sorrel.
5) Only one I didn't know.
 

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1) I answered competitive bodybuilding(and yes it is debatable whether it is a sport) for #1 because you get updates on the judges scoring after each round in Boxing.
3) chayote squash, sorrel, and tree kale also could be on that list. I grow rhubarb, tree kale, and sorrel.
5) Only one I didn't know.

Don't be modest, we know you got them all right.

Luckily there was no Mr. Robot trivia on there.
 

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Don't be modest, we know you got them all right.

Luckily there was no Mr. Robot trivia on there.

I didn't know #5. I thought maybe they dehydrated the pear because it has an 89% water content per fruit(or something like that, as I'm guessing again), but even that is stretching it as a method to get it into a bottle. Growing it in the bottle... interesting. I learns sumfing today.
 

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I didn't know #5. I thought maybe they dehydrated the pear because it has an 89% water content per fruit(or something like that, as I'm guessing again), but even that is stretching it as a method to get it into a bottle. Growing it in the bottle... interesting. I learns sumfing today.

Wait til u see what I have in store for the Colts IGT.
 

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