Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Quiz Time

Today's guest author is the one and only Donna Kiebawls. She has provided the quiz Q & A.

This is a quiz for people who think they 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 theparticipants 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 forseveral growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted everyyear. 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 pearinside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle isgenuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside thebottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw'and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There a re 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name atleast half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

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. Is "dating" a sport?

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 everyminute..). The Chicago Cubs would also qualify.

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own forseveral growing seasons . . Asparagus and rhubarb . Personally, I don't believe rhubarb actually exists.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside thebottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and arewired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entiregrowing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.) This explains why there is no watermelon brandy.

6. Three English words beginning with dw Dwarf, dwell and dwindle . Isn't "dweeb" a word, and what about "dwunk"?

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, questionmark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces,and ellipses. I propose that smiley faces and "..." be added.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

Donna Kiebawls, a grateful blog community salutes you.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No, dating is not a sport. In order for something competitive to be classified as a sport, the rules must be clear to those particiapting. I know whenever I date, the rules are on a need to know basis. And Rhubarb is alive and well and on the pie menu at Bakers Square.