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wisper
02-14-2008, 04:42 PM
> > 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 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 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 . Period,
> >comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,
> >exclamation point,quotation marks, 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.
> >
> > PLEASE DO YOUR PART.......
> >
> > Today is National Mental Health Day.
> >
> > You can do your part by remembering to send an e-mail to at
> >least one unstable person.
> >
> > Well, my job's done!
> >
> >
> >
>

mrwewiii
02-14-2008, 06:32 PM
cool! i got two! the pear bit and the strawberry.

Biofungus
02-14-2008, 09:31 PM
2, 3 and 8 stumped me.

Lord Fejj
02-14-2008, 10:39 PM
Artichokes are perennials. I'm not sure if they qualify as a vegatable, though.

Newt, what's the ruling?

sevans
02-14-2008, 10:41 PM
I got 2 - f**kin dumbarse. :blink:

Once you read the answers they all seem so obvious though. Boxing - Duh

Newt
02-15-2008, 12:36 AM
Artichokes are perennials. I'm not sure if they qualify as a vegatable, though.

Newt, what's the ruling?

Yeah, artichoke is a vegetable. It's a flower bud, just like broccoli.

BobRivard
02-15-2008, 12:56 AM
Sweet, knew them all except 3 and guessed correctly on 5.

Mike225
02-15-2008, 01:17 AM
I went straight to the answers!

Biofungus
02-15-2008, 04:42 AM
I went straight to the answers!
But yet you still swerve every which way you can to avoid "American Gods"...

Kep!
02-15-2008, 08:48 AM
I got 4...but I think "dweeb" in a common enough part of the vernacular that I should get credit for 5. :)

I'd of COURSE it's a vegetable, but I always thought of rhubarb as a fruit. At least I still have ketchup.

Scribbly
02-15-2008, 08:57 AM
I jut got 3....boxing, pears in a bottle and lettuce.

Newt
02-15-2008, 10:33 AM
I got 4...but I think "dweeb" in a common enough part of the vernacular that I should get credit for 5. :)

I'd of COURSE it's a vegetable, but I always thought of rhubarb as a fruit. At least I still have ketchup.

Because they make pie from it?

Really, the fruit/vegetable distiction is silly. Fruits are a type of vegetable, as are bulbs, tubers, leaves, stalks, stems, seeds, buds, florets, etc.

JAQ
02-15-2008, 10:45 AM
I always thought of rhubarb as a fruit.On the other hand, I remain unconvinced that it's a food.

Mike225
02-15-2008, 10:52 AM
But yet you still swerve every which way you can to avoid "American Gods"...I'm reading Stardust!

dano
02-15-2008, 12:16 PM
Because they make pie from it?

Really, the fruit/vegetable distiction is silly. Fruits are a type of vegetable, as are bulbs, tubers, leaves, stalks, stems, seeds, buds, florets, etc.
Bah! The line is dinstinct but people keep messing up the phrases.
Vegetable is the plant or root itself
fruit is the plants reproductive organ/tool.

If I eat a bull, its a vegetable.
If i eat it's rocky mountain oysters, it's the fruit!

Biofungus
02-15-2008, 06:20 PM
Because they make pie from it?

Really, the fruit/vegetable distiction is silly. Fruits are a type of vegetable, as are bulbs, tubers, leaves, stalks, stems, seeds, buds, florets, etc.
Isn't the main difference the edibility/digestibility of the seeds though? Don't fruit seeds have hard cases (which in *most* cases are inedible, or at least indigestible), whereas vegetables have edible/digestible seeds?

Toyandgadgetguy
02-15-2008, 06:29 PM
I got 2 - f**kin dumbarse. :blink:

Once you read the answers they all seem so obvious though. Boxing - Duh

What about competetive figure skating?

Newt
02-15-2008, 06:29 PM
I've never heard that distinction made.

The fact is, 'fruit' is an anatomical term and 'vegetable' is a culinary term. They are not alternatives to one another, they are broadly overlapping categories. Inedible fruit are still fruit, and fruit used as vegetables are still fruit.

Of course, this has no bearing on the fact that rhubarb is not any kind of fruit (it's a leaf stalk).

Biofungus
02-15-2008, 07:41 PM
What about competetive figure skating?
The quiz specified sport :p

Biofungus
02-15-2008, 07:42 PM
Sorry, reading the thread in order, I just found these to be fairly humorous :D

What about competetive figure skating?

I've never heard that distinction made.

Kep!
02-15-2008, 07:43 PM
Sorry, reading the thread in order, I just found these to be fairly humorous :D
Wouldn't count...you do know the score after each performance. In boxing you haven't got a clue until the earless guy screams.

Biofungus
02-15-2008, 08:14 PM
If an earless guy screams in the woods, and there's nobody else around, can he still hear himself?

Random Chance
02-15-2008, 08:40 PM
http://www.21food.com/showroom/3554/product/Canned-Lettuce.html