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

[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