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A Quiz For People Who Know Everything
(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
(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) Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
(5) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
(6) 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?
(7) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.
(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
(10) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name the other six.
(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter "S."
I'll post answers later
This post is for dwindling dweebs that dwell on dwarfs!
This quiz is giving me a headache!
This post is for dwindling dweebs that dwell on dwarfs!
I see somebody already took this quiz :wink:
I see somebody already took this quiz :wink:
Nope first time I saw it was now, we got about 1/2 of them.
It said quiz so those that are googling blow. :cry:
I may not be able to answer the questions but I know how to use Google
Here are the answers if you want them (http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2003/everything_ans.html)
The pear or plum , grows inside the bottle that attached on the branch of the tree
I may not be able to answer the questions but I know how to use Google
Here are the answers if you want them (http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2003/everything_ans.html)
I'm having trouble with the baseball question answers, How do you reach 1st on a passed ball? Isn't that the same as a dropped third strike. And what about an error?
(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
Chess?
(2) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
don't know
(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?
don't know
(4) Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
don't know
(5) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Strawberry?
(6) 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?
wide enough opening?
(7) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.
dwarf, dwelling
(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
colon, semi-colon, period, question mark, exclamation point, apostrophe, comma
(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
Minnesota
(10) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name the other six.
don't know
(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
lettuce
(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter "S."
socks, shoes, slippers, steel-toe boots, slingbacks, sunscreen
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Of the ones I guessed how'd I do? :idea:
I may not be able to answer the questions but I know how to use Google
Here are the answers if you want them (http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2003/everything_ans.html)
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