A quiz for people who know everything.

[sushimo]

These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. When I come on site I will respond to any correct replies, but until then, just go for it!



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.'

[gaia]

5 - the bottle is put around the fruit when it is tiny, it then grows into the bottle
6 - dwell, dwelling, dwelt
7 - colon, semicolon, full stop, comma, hyphen, apostrophe, exclamation mark, quotation mark, question mark, brackets, ellipsis

[gaia]

2 - Ooh just thought, asparagus is one, my parents have been growing it for at least 30 years, and not replanted it once.

[feral]

what about dwarf and dwindle ?

[feral]

and 4 is strawberry aint it ?

[feral]

3 and my rocket is on its second year .
and what about beans ?

[feral]

8. LETTUCE

9.socks ,sandals ,slippers,shoes ,stockings,sneakers

Right.I got the hard ones .Someone else can do the easy ones

[sushimo]

OK Feral, let's see what you have right - or not!!

1 & 2 are still un answered
3. You did mention asparagus, though in the wrong place, and that is right, but still one more to find.
4. Strawberry - correct
5 - 9, all correct.

So, still 1 and 2, with the other part of 3 to do - anyone?

Oh, and well done Feral, well thunk out!

[feral]

1.Boxing ?

[sushimo]

Correct! ;D You're a bit good aren't you! Bet you can't get #2 though!

[gaia]

what waterfall is in america? the one that's not in south africa. victoria falls?

[sushimo]

Tell you what Gaia, I am going to give you that, because if I answered your question, that Feral would leap in and claim a winner - she's like that ya know!

The Niagara Falls is the answer. 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.

1/2 a question to go then..................

[gaia]

2 1/2 feet? blimey, they'll be in greenland soon

[gaia]

rhubarb. Hate the stuff.

[gaia]

but isn't that a fruit?

[feral]

Tell you what Gaia, I am going to give you that, because if I answered your question, that Feral would leap in and claim a winner - she's like that ya know!

The Niagara Falls is the answer.

I knew that .I just didnt want to appear too clever

[mango]

love the way the googled answers are being painstakingly d r a g g e d out


www.butlerwebs.com/entertainment/test-knoweverything.htm

[mango]

bitsandpieces.us/2008/10/09/quiz-for-people-who-know-everything/


(first link - strange answer to Q. 1 )

silence...?
what the .....

[Lord Snooty]

Some of the answers are very North American inward looking.
Just in the vegetable bit, there is also artichokes, sorel, and Good king Henry to name but a few. Questions must have been asked by a English nerd or an American dweeb.

[Scooby Do]

No. 1 could also be Yacthing. The handicap system is so complicated the results often take days.