Quiz

[jpskewedthrone]

Update 1: Well, lots of responses. I'll just update the answers. I posted the first person who commented with the correct answer, although most of you got most of them in the long run. We're only missing one answer at this point: the last punctuation mark.

This might be fun. Or not. We'll see. I'll post the answers as soon as they appear in the comments, with credit to the answerer-er-er. I got about half of them correct. Just curious how other people do.

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. Boxing tryslora

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

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? asparagus hkneale; rhubarb tryslora

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? Strawberry aeriedraconia

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? Place the bottle around the budding pear on the tree so that it grows inside iagor,

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them. dwarf aeriedraconia; dwell iagor; dwindle hkneale

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? Ok, so this one was easier because everyone was sitting at the computer and most of them are right there on the keyboard, but . . . Period aeriedraconia; Comma aeriedraconia; Semi-colon aeriedraconia; Colon aeriedraconia; Quotation Marks aeriedraconia; Apostrophe aeriedraconia; Exclamation Point aeriedraconia; Question Mark aeriedraconia; Hyphen aeriedraconia; m dash iagor; Periods of Ellipses iagor; Parentheses iagor; Brackets iagor

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

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S." Socks aeriedraconia; Slippers aeriedraconia; Shoes aeriedraconia; Stockings aeriedraconia; Sandals aeriedraconia; Sneakers iagor; Skates iagor; Stilts tryslora; Snowshoes/snowboots tryslora; Skis meijhen; stilettoes coolmajaka

Fun answers to questions that I didn't count:

6. Dweeb aeriedraconia;

9. Suntan aeriedraconia; Sleeping Cats aeriedraconia; spurs iagor; sabatons/sollerets iagor;

Comments

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

1. Car racing?
2. ??
3. Onions and potatoes
4. Strawberry
5. They put a dried pear into the bottle and it re-hydrated?
6. Dwarf and...dweeb?
7. .,;:"!?'-
9. Socks, slippers, shoes, sandals, stockings, suntan, sleeping cats,

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Dur! I missed 8. (I'm so not good with numbers). How about lettuce?

[iagor.livejournal.com]

Arg, I so totally missed stockings. I put them on a lot and I missed it.

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised I thought of it, I hate wearing any sort of hosiery. It was all designed by the Inquisition for the purpose of torture.

I wonder if skin counts as something you'd wear on your feet?

[iagor.livejournal.com]

1. Fencing.

2. Victoria Falls

3. Potato. And sweet potato?

4. Is sunflower a fruit? Because I'd say sunflower. I mean technically it has a fruit phase... Strawberry has seeds on the outside, but it's a berry...

5. I know that one - they put the bottle on the pear while it's growing on the tree

6. Dwell, dwarf, dwemer.. Oops, scratch that last one :P I don't know.

7 Comma, period, semicolon, colon, m dash, n dash, ellipsis, parenthesis, exclamation mark, question mark, apostrophe, quotation mark, slash - do brackets count as separate from parenthesis? - then I don't know

8. Watermelon!

9. Shoes, sandals, socks, slippers, sneakers, skates (cheating!) spurs (double cheating), sabatons or sollerets as they are sometimes called, so it only counts as one, I don't knoooow, brain strain overload!

:passes out:

[anghara.livejournal.com]

2. Victoria Falls

Um.

Just a point of geographical order, if I may.

As I recall teh question specified North America. Victoria Falls straddle the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

In Africa.

Could you possibly have meant the Niagara?.. *grin*

[iagor.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yes, obviously, thank you! I have the worst memory for names. I actually have to go back to the front of the manuscript I'm writing to check what I called people. :P

[hkneale.livejournal.com]

1. My first though was "chess", but I don't know if that counts as a sport, so my second though was "wrestling".

2. Um... Dunno.

3. Asparagus and Artichokes

4. Strawberries

5. The bottle was placed over the newly-set blossom. (I've done this with cucumbers)

6. Dwell, Dwarf, Dwindle and Dweeb (Okay, I'm kidding on the last one)

7. Period (full stop), comma, question mark, exclamation point, colon, semicolon, em dash, en dash, apostrophe, quotation marks, parentheses... I forget the rest.

8. Lettuce

9. socks, shoes, sandals, slippers, slip-ons, strappies. (Does that count?)

[tryslora]

This is a cooperative effort from both of us...

1. Boxing?

2. Lady Liberty

3. rhubarb and um.... dunno?

4. the strawberry

5. The bottle is made around the pear? [Kev says this is not right but he won't give me a better answer so mine stays]

6. dwarf, dwell, dwelling

7. period, comma, semi-colon, colon, exclamation point, question mark, em-dash, ellipses

8. lettuce? [Kev: I cannot think of iceberg lettuce as anything other than a head of iceberg lettuce... and the bag of it is still fresh and not processed.]

9. shoes, socks, sandals, snowboots, sneakers, stilts [Kev claims one doesn't exactly wear stilts on one's feet but I like it for originality so there *giggles*], snowshoes

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
Boxing. Or maybe orienteering?

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 growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
Rhubarb & Artichoke. At least in Texas, tomatoes are perennial also..

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?
Bottle was placed over the fruit when it was still tiny, on the tree. Pear grew 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.
dwell & dwarf (what's the other one?)

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
comma, period, apostrophe, semi-colon, colon, asterisk, quotation mark, interrogative, exclamatory, ellipse,

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. Socks. Stockings. Sandals. Sneakers. Slippers. Skis.

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

3. potatoes?

5. I know this because I worked in a liquor store that had one (for the two years I worked there) -- you put the bottle around the pear when it is small and it grows until it's too large to fit through the neck.

7. comma, semicolon, colon, period, hyphen, question mark, parentheses, exclamation point, ampersand, quotation, backslash, (this should be easy, considering most are on the keyboard, lol), brackets, urm...

8. lettuce?

9. shoes, socks, sandals, strappies (is that even legit????), slippers, stilletos,

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

At least I got stilletoes suckers!!! Otherwise I pretty much suck, lol And I mispelled it at least once

[krteilman.livejournal.com]

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

--golf? I'm not a sports person I would never get that one.

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 growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

--rhubarb and asparagus--

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?

--the pear is grown 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.

--dwindle and dwarf--

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
-- coma, semi-colon(sp?), colon, exclamation point, question mark, period,hyphen?, quotation marks, apostrophy(sp)

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."
--socks, sneakers, shoes, sandals, strappy heels, soccer shoes, slippers

[clarkesworld.livejournal.com]

My wife and I came up with these together. I think we each had 6-7 on our own.

1. Boxing (a guess, knockouts and only the judges know the score)
2. Niagra Falls
3. Rhubard, Asparagus
4. Strawberry
5. Pear grew inside the bottle
6. dwarf, dwell
7. coma, period, exclamation point, colon, semicolon, hyphen, exclamation point
8. lettuce
9. socks, shoes, slippers, sandals, sneakers, stockings

[tapinger.livejournal.com]

I think it's the en dash that hkneale mentioned. Looking at the definitions on dictionary.com, it isn't the same as a hyphen--"en dash" says "A symbol ( - ) used in writing or printing to connect continuing or inclusive numbers or to connect elements of a compound adjective when either of the elements is an open compound, as 1880-1945 or Princeton-New York trains." while "hyphen" is more general.

Can we get a comment from the grader?

[tapinger.livejournal.com]

My bad. iagor also mentioned it; maybe other people did too.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

OK, I believe that the n-dash and the hyphen are essentially the same thing. After all, we don't have two different keys on the keyboard for them.

The missing punctuation mark is (taking a clue from the last two on the list) the brace, or rather braces. {}

I didn't get that one either. Who uses braces in novels? I use them as mathematical notation all the time, but . . .