Quiz‏

[elaine]

This is a quiz for people who 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.



>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
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[torres9]

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

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several following seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables? Potatoes and turnips

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? It grows from a seed

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them. Dwindle, dwarf, dwell

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? Full stop, comma, apostrophe, colon, semi-colon, question mark, exclamation mark, inverted commas, open bracket, closed bracket, slash, backslash, asterix.

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

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, stilettos, stockings.

[elaine]

very good toress :icon_yes: 7 out of 9

[Byrner]

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

2. The landmark constantly moving backwards is the Niagara Falls. (The rim is worn down about 37cm 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 are: Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with seeds on the outside: Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get in the bottle? It grew inside. (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” are dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation mark, 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 is lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with “s” include shoes, socks, sandals, slip slops, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings and stilts.

:)

[torres9]

Sure you didnt google there Byrner - thats cheatin'

[Byrner]

I am shocked that you would think such a thing torres9, Nope not me, but it looks like you did :icon_boxing:

[elaine]

Now now lads looks like you both googled :icon_suspicious: cheaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

[shirl]

Well Elaine,did Byrner get them all right :confused:

[torres9]

If I had googled I would have got 9/9 and not 7/9, n'est pas ?

[elaine]

Ye Shirl Byrner got them all right word for word :icon_yes: .......... think Torres is a bit upset dont know if its over Byrner winning him or maybe its because he guessed the 2 he got wrong ...and googled the others :confused:

[torres9]

Ye Shirl Byrner got them all right word for word :icon_yes: .......... think Torres is a bit upset dont know if its over Byrner winning him or maybe its because he guessed the 2 he got wrong ...and googled the others :confused:

Im shocked Elaine. I actually guessed six of them.

Anyone going to the REAL quiz tonight ?

[shirl]

Not me,weather's too bad, :(

[torres9]

Lets have our own, I'll go first ;

Movies
Name the films that these bands got their names from ;

Duran Duran BARBARELLA
The Boo Radleys TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD
Steely Dan NAKED LUNCH (it was the name of a dildo)
Heaven 17 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
T'Pau STAR TREK
Moloko A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Thompson Twins HERGE'S ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN
Travis PARIS, TEXAS
Iron Maiden THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
Uriah Heep DAVID COPPERFIELD

[Byrner]

Well I think that torres9 deliberately got 2 wrong so we would'nt suspect him off cheating, but we aint that stupid :icon_peace:

[torres9]

Hot for Teacher by Van Halen

check out www.musicovery.com

[elaine]

Byrner you cheated to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:icon_drdodgy: