Q****uiz for People Who Know Everything
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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
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1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know **
the score or the leader until the contest ends. **
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2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
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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?
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4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? **
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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?
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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? **
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8. Name t he only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, **
**or in any other form except fresh.**
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9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.' **
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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**
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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.) **
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3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. **
**Asparagus and rhubarb.**
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4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside. Strawberry.**
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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.**
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6. Three English words beginning with dw. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.**
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7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. &nbs p; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, **
**dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, **
**parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.**
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8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any **
**other form but fresh. Lettuce..**
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9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S'.** **
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. **
