A QUIZ FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING
1. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What
is it?
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. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the
team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the
ball?
5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
6. 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?
7. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw."
They are all common. Name two of them.
8. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you
name half of them?
9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
10. There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls (a walk) is one way. Name
the other six.
11. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
12. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin
with the letter "S."
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8 comments:
SecondAve I'm Dumb .
Don't feel alone. I'll post the answers tomorrow.
B.
"Don't worry about the world coming
to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia." --
Got quite a few of them Bill,......and I have since seen all the answers.....Good Questions,.....Some are just hard to think of ,...it reminds me of the Teacher who told the classs , that whoever could answer one question ,would have the week ,free of homework..........all the class wanting to take advantage of such a deal,....studied what they could in anticipation ,of the Monday question,..so as to have no homework that week,.......and so Q: for week #1,.... How many grains of Sand on Longbeach in California.......(no one could answer), Q: for week#2,... How many stars in the universe? (no one could answer)......and so the kids seeing the pattern decided to bolster their chances,........so when week #3 rolled around ,the kids were ready,...and just as the Teacher was about to ask the qualifying Question,........some kids in the back rolled some steel ball bearings out on the floor,.,.which immediately distracted his train of though ,.and he spontaneously blurted out,.."Who has steel balls? and the whole class yelled out in unison "Superman,......see ya next week" HF&RV
Answer to #4 would it be Lacross?
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Answers
1. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What
is it? Boxing.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
NiagaraFalls. 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. 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 and rhubarb.
4. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the
team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the
ball? Baseball.
5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? Strawberry.
6. 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 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 whole growing season. When the
pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw."
They are all common. Name two of them. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you
name half of them? Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen,
apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks,
brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles
Lakers?" In Minnesota, the team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls (a walk) is one way. Name
the other six. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher
interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being
designated as a pinch runner.
11. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it? Lettuce.
12. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin
with the letter "S." Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis,
skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
Hi Second Avenue, #10. What is a passed ball ? #10 . Reaches first base on an error? Reggie Paine
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