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Gerry

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Some are easy, some are not. This is not a gag quiz, it's straight up stuff you should know. Trust me, you'll be doing a DOH! :doh: Might even give you some ideas.

Take a break from the domain biz and put your mind to work on these for a bit. Answers at bottom.

Have fun.
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.) I have actually seen this in Italy, by the way.

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, bracket s, 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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here's what i guessed before checking answers, I considers growing the pears in the bottles, but it seemed like a silly amount of work.

1. Shooting? Any olympic sport?
2. Niagra Falls
3.
4. Strawberry
5. Start with the bottle in halves, add pear to a half, and melt them together?
6. dwarf, dwelling or dwell, dweeb?
7. period, ampersand, question mark, comma, colon, semi-colon, exclaimation point, ellipse
8. kiwi?
9. shoes, sandals, socks, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates
 

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Same thing...1,3, 8.

Three totally blew me away thinking Rhubarb was a fruit as it is always included in strawberry rubbarb pie.

8...one heck of a brain teaser. Kiwi is processed, canned, sold as juice.

Shooting. Scored as it happens (ie, when the shooter is off mark, he and the judges and speactators know it. Boxing...never crossed my mind.

Like I said, a few :doh: in here.
 

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I did well with this.. my answers were:

1) Boxing
2) Niagara Falls
3) Onions, Rhubarb (one right, one wrong - I was also considering Potatoes, but that was wrong too).
4) Strawberry
5) NO idea :)
6) Dwarf, Dwindle (could not thing of Dwell for the life of me)
7) Got 11 (missed parentheses :doh: brackets :doh: and braces)
8) Lettuce (but I had a hard time thinking of any way Watermelon, Cantaloupe, or Honeydew was processed - can anybody help me out?)
9) Shoe, Sock, Sandal, Slipper, Skis, Skates

7 of the 9 totally correct, one half correct, and the last one (pears in a bottle) - I whiffed.

I thought about the quiz for about 45 min before I looked at the answers though (yes, it was tough to keep from looking)

-Bob
 

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I did well with this.. my answers were:

1) Boxing Very impressed with anyone who gets this. Bugged the crap out of me
2) Niagara Falls
3) Onions, Rhubarb (one right, one wrong - I was also considering Potatoes, but that was wrong too). I got asparagas and onions
4) Strawberry
5) NO idea :)
6) Dwarf, Dwindle (could not thing of Dwell for the life of me)
7) Got 11 (missed parentheses :doh: brackets :doh: and braces)
8) Lettuce (but I had a hard time thinking of any way Watermelon, Cantaloupe, or Honeydew was processed - can anybody help me out?)all rinds can be home canned and pickled...a southern thang, y'all.
9) Shoe, Sock, Sandal, Slipper, Skis, Skates

7 of the 9 totally correct, one half correct, and the last one (pears in a bottle) - I whiffed. Had I not actually seen this being done I would have never guessed the correct answer. When I first saw bottles on a tree I though WTF? Growing bottles? Thought is was some avant garde art or sculpture :lol:

Niagara Falls I knew thanks to a national geographic special. Awesome computer graphics showing the progression of the receding falls over the centuries and the future. If you live up river, sell!

I thought about the quiz for about 45 min before I looked at the answers though (yes, it was tough to keep from looking)

-Bob
Impressed that you got some of the ones you did. Lettuce and Boxing really got me. Onions are not one to be continue growth. Some do self seed/sow but the parent will rot in the ground over winter.

I have to find another one someone emailed. Answers are so obvious but the way the questions are worded really throws you off and you end up beating yourself for not reading and paying attention. Real aptitude test. Should be mandatory before joining DNF.
 

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I had dwarf, dwarfism and dwarfist.....to be predjudiced against dwarfs....no?

I'll get me coat......
 

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Impressed that you got some of the ones you did. Lettuce and Boxing really got me. Onions are not one to be continue growth. Some do self seed/sow but the parent will rot in the ground over winter.

Boxing and lettuce were the last two that I got. I really had to think about them. On the Lettuce question, I had watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew. I figured if you do something with cantaloupe, then you would do the same with honeydew,so I threw those two out. Lettuce then sprang into mind, so I went with that and crossed out watermelon.

With boxing, I just thought and thought and thought and tried to picture in my mind a sport where the participants are standing around next to each other while the "verdict" was read. After awhile, boxing popped into my head :)

This was a really great quiz. Thanks for sharing :)

-bob
 
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