So, you think you know everything?

scrapper

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So, you think you know everything? <br />This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.<br /><br />1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.<br /><br />2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?<br /><br />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?<br /><br />4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?<br /><br />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?<br /><br />6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.<br /><br />7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?<br /><br />8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.<br /><br />9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."<br /><br /><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><br /><br />Answers are below.<br /><br />1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . . boxing.<br /><br />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.)<br /><br />3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . . asparagus and rhubarb.<br /><br />4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . . strawberry.<br /><br />5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? <br />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.)<br /><br />6. Three English words beginning with dw . dwarf, dwell and dwindle.<br /><br />7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . . period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.<br /><br />8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh . . lettuce.<br /><br />9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" . . . shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. :D
 

ob

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

I somewhat disagree with #1.
 

heycods

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

Originally posted by ob:<br /> I somewhat disagree with #1.
Fishing to me, never no whos winning till its over me or the other guys, or the fish :D Other than that I got the strawberry and the lettiuce ones right. :(
 

Haut Medoc

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

I disagree with #9...Skulls....JK
 

SS MAYFLOAT

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On #8. I was thinking watermelon. Never seen it frozen or processed, only in its rhine. I'm wrong probably, but isn't lettece found in dehydrated soups?
 

BoatBuoy

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

#3 - potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts ??
 

gonefishie

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

yeah, I'm with the watermelon too. You can readily find mixed lettuce bag in grocery store, which mean it had been processed.
 

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

Well, I got them all right but that's because I have had practice. . .the two or three times this has been posted before. So I guess I cheated. :) <br /><br />I used to know everything, but the older I get the more things I thought I knew I find that I merely believed.
 

Ron G

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Watermellon wine :D its some good stuff.The more i think i know the dumber i feel :D
 

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

If skis and stilts qualify for #9 so do stirrups . . .
 
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1. I have been a boxing spectator and a participant and knew many times who was leading.<br /><br />2.If getting larger is growing backwards then you have a point.<br /><br />3. I have patch in my gardedn where the lettuce has come back for three seasons four crops on one planting.<br /><br />4. By biological definition is a Berry a Fruit?<br /><br />5. A Pear is a fruit not liquor. ;) I'd pay money to see that. Where can I buy a bottle?<br /><br />6. How a bout dwounding? ;) <br /><br />7. Which one of those funny keys is a brace?<br /><br />8. Ever drink a can of V8?<br /><br />9. Sabats...
 

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

Originally posted by technosupersubdued:<br /> 6. How about dwounding? ;)
LOL :D
 

scrapper

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Originally posted by technosupersubdued:<br /> 1. I have been a boxing spectator and a participant and knew many times who was leading.<br /> <br />1.(lying on the floor looking up, should be a good clue) <br /><br />2.If getting larger is growing backwards then you have a point.<br /><br />2. (IN TOUR CASE IS IT THE BRAIN?)<br /><br />3. I have patch in my gardedn where the lettuce has come back for three seasons four crops on one planting.<br /> 3. ( WOW! MR. GREENTHUMBS!)<br /><br />4. By biological definition is a Berry a Fruit?<br /><br />4. (BY THE SAME TERMS; IS A FRUIT A BERRY?)<br /><br />5. A Pear is a fruit not liquor. ;) I'd pay money to see that. Where can I buy a bottle?<br />5. ( AT YOU'R FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD LIQOUR STORE!)<br /><br />6. How a bout dwounding? ;) <br />6.( HOW ABOUT ENGLISH?)<br /><br />7. Which one of those funny keys is a brace?<br />7. (OUR KEYBOARDS ARE VERY DIFFERENT)<br /><br />8. Ever drink a can of V8?<br /> 8. ( NOT LATELY , BUT I'VE DRIVEN A FEW!)<br /><br />9. Sabats...
9. ( DITTO!) :D
 

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

Re #2. If errosion counts as moving backward then many of our landmarks qualify...
 
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Originally posted by scrapper:<br />
Originally posted by technosupersubdued:<br /> 1. I have been a boxing spectator and a participant and knew many times who was leading.<br /> <br />1.(lying on the floor looking up, should be a good clue) <br /> sounds like you have been there many times<br />2.If getting larger is growing backwards then you have a point.<br /><br />2. (IN TOUR CASE IS IT THE BRAIN?)<br />Is this an example of a personal insult?<br /><br />3. I have patch in my garden where the lettuce has come back for three seasons four crops on one planting.<br /> 3. ( WOW! MR. GREENTHUMBS!)<br />Better a Green thumb than a black heart.<br />4. By biological definition is a Berry a Fruit?<br /><br />4. (BY THE SAME TERMS; IS A FRUIT A BERRY?)<br />Duh.<br />5. A Pear is a fruit not liquor. ;) I'd pay money to see that. Where can I buy a bottle?<br />5. ( AT YOU'R FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD LIQOUR STORE!)<br />I don't live in Brentwood.<br />6. How a bout dwounding? ;) <br />6.( HOW ABOUT ENGLISH?)<br />No, English does not start with a DW <br />7. Which one of those funny keys is a brace?<br />7. (OUR KEYBOARDS ARE VERY DIFFERENT)<br /> Surely an intelligent gent like you could just press the key and show me.<br />8. Ever drink a can of V8?<br /> 8. ( NOT LATELY , BUT I'VE DRIVEN A FEW!)<br /> :D <br />9. Sabats...
9. ( DITTO!) :D
ditto what? <br /> <br /> :cool:
 

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Re: So, you think you know everything?

Originally posted by technosupersubdued:<br /> 1. I have been a boxing spectator and a participant and knew many times who was leading.
Getting beat up on the playground doesn't count :rolleyes: <br /><br /> :D
 
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Originally posted by TexomaAv8r:<br /> Re #2. If errosion counts as moving backward then many of our landmarks qualify...
SHHHHHHHHH, You're accurate and you are ethical, KNOCK IT OFF! :D
 
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Originally posted by RubberFrog:<br />
Originally posted by technosupersubdued:<br /> 1. I have been a boxing spectator and a participant and knew many times who was leading.
Getting beat up on the playground doesn't count :rolleyes: <br /><br /> :D
That's two for the latex amphibian. You know what happens when you get three. :D
 
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