Quiz for People That Know Everything

[Keith]

This is not a drill.. :idea:

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.

Usual amazing prizes for 9 correct answers

 

[Jim Craik]

#4 Strawberrys?

 

[Garry]

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

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?
Pumpkin and Squash?


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?
They put the bottle over the budding Pear and it grows to fullness in the bottle.

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
Dwarf, Dwight and Dweeb.(Ha!)

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name at least half of them?
Comma, period, colon,semi-colon,question mark,parenthesis,quotation marks...

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

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.
Shoes,sandals,slides,?????.....

Garry

 

[Jim Craik]

#2
Niagara Falls?

 

[Ian K]

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

Boxing - only the judges know the scoring, and they don't know each others until the end - if it makes it that far.

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

Niagara Falls - erosion is making the shelf recede

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?

There are more than two -asparagus, rhubarb, and artichokes are three, I believe there are more.

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?

The bottle is placed over the budding pear, and then removed when the pear is ripe.

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

dwarf, dwell, dwindle - of course, there are variations on the roots such as dwarfism and dwelling.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name at least half of them?

period, comma, ellipsis, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, question mark, ampersand, hyphen, brackets, slash, quotation mark, apostrophe, parenthesis

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

lettuce

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.

shoes, sandals, socks, slippers, stockings, sliders, sneakers, skates, stilts, stilettos

Ian

 

[Dave Bilyk]

1 Boxing
2 Statue of Liberty due to continental drift?
3 Asparagus,artichoke
4 Strawberry.
5 It's grown inside the bottle.
6 dwang dweeb dw?
7 Full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, apostrophe, exclamation mark, question mark, quotation mark.
8 Lettuce.
9 Sandals, socks, shoes, slippers, slip-ons, stoob and snotgnillew (well they do begin with s if you spell them backwards:laugh

Dave

 

[David Morton]

aN i FAWT i WAZ SMART UNTIL i FOUND WICKEPEDIA !!!

 

[Keith]

Ian - well done but you need to get out more

There are 100 forum points now in your PointsBox. Press 1 at any time to redeem - photos & videos of our prizes (as you know) are to be found in the Video & Pictures Buffet section.

Just one question though. Since it's now official that you know Everything, what was the name of the guy my third wife shagged behind the dustbins at the Yacht Ckub?

 

[Pat Buckley]

Ian, perhaps?

 

[Ian K]

Ian - well done but you need to get out more

Thanks Keith. I get out quite a bit, I just have a sponge of a brain - I collect plenty of trivial information

Just one question though. Since it's now official that you know Everything, what was the name of the guy my third wife shagged behind the dustbins at the Yacht Ckub?

"That Son of a Bitch"



Oh, and I have seen many of these questions before ...

Ian

 

[Dalton Veitch]

Re question 9, I can't wear stilletos on my feet. They are murder.