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 the 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 are below...
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
. < /SPAN>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 . .
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen,
apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point,
quotation marks, bracket s, 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.
