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Quiz for People Who Know Everything
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 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. 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. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? 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? 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? 8. Name t he only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh. 9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.' 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 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.) 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. Asparagus and rhubarb. 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside. Strawberry. 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. 6. Three English words beginning with dw. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle. 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. 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. Lettuce.. 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S'. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. Doug Edwards, CMI |
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I got 1-6-7-8-9- how did I do? Three is wrong, all fruits & vegatables, will reproduce on their own without human intervention If they don't then where did we get the seeds to plant or replant. IMO
"It's not what you believe that matters...it matters what you believe!" |
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The individual plant dies at the end of the season and has to be replanted. I got hung up on that too but reread the question. My wife sprung this on me (I guess she thinks I am a know it all) this morning before I had my second cup. I gaffed off most of them just to get to the end.
Doug Edwards, CMI |
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BTW, Asparagus will grow for up to 25 years and makes a beautiful landscaping addition, that you can eat off of.
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Crap, I got 3 out of 9 right. Question 4, don't laugh, are the things on the outside of a pineapple the seeds or no, goes to show ya how much fruit I eat..
On #8, could it also be Avacodo or does buying it as Gaucamole not count?? T.J. NACHI #03120124 www.aplushomeinspections.net Proundly Serving S.E. Wyoming & Western Nebraska "Learn from the mistakes of others, Life is to short to make them all yourself" |
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lol, No and No. You did about as well as I did.
Doug Edwards, CMI |
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Only if you are Frank Zappa and heavily medicated.
Doug Edwards, CMI |
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They cook lettuce in Guatemala, France and China that I know of. John McKenna, CMI
Executive Director - Master Inspector Certification Board Inspector - Instructor - Thermographer (TREC #4565) 25 Yrs Constr Exp - 12 Yrs Home Inspector Exp American Home Inspection - East Texas. Free Energy Audit & Radiant Barrier Class Radiant Barrier Video Consumers Guide - Infrared Thermography German Shepherd Puppies - Texas 4SarahPalin.org Financing on the lowest priced IR CAMERAS & TRAINING in the USA and Canada. Last edited by jmckenna1; 2/22/09 at 1:04 AM.. |
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Bye the way.... I have two Grandsons visiting for the weekend {8 & 12 years old} and they had a blast with this "test"! {They did a lot better than I did! Signed, Frank Carrio, CMI Certified Master Inspector & Consultant Certified Commercial Building Inspector Certified, WDI Inspector Founder & Current President, New Hampshire State Chapter NACHI NACHI, State Representative for Legislative Affairs Retired: ICC Certified Member Retired: Code Compliance Inspector. Retired: ASTM Committee Member New Hampshire License #0096 www.Americascertifiedinspectioncompanyllc.com |
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