This was sent to me in an e-mail. The first question is right and wrong. It should probably be reworded to include all of the sports that are similar.

Anyway, I got some of them right.

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>
> *There are only nine questions.*
>
> /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.' /*
>

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> */_
> 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 mark, brackets, parenthesis,
> braces, and ellip ses./*/ /*
> **/
> 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. /*



[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2010 3:35:36 PM

I can answer all 9

1. Boxing
2. Niagara Falls
3. asparagus and rhubarb
4. strawberry
5. it grew inside the bottle
6. dwarf, dwell, and dwindle
7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellip ses.
8. lettuce
9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

5/23/2010 3:40:54 PM

^You could also say kick boxing, MMA, UFC, and just about any other fight sport.

5/23/2010 3:42:57 PM

SIM

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[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 3:43 PM. Reason : Fail]

5/23/2010 3:42:58 PM

I seriously knew the asparagus one, well at least half of it. We have an asparagus garden that comes back every year.

5/23/2010 3:44:04 PM

I got 1, 2, and 7 right without looking.

5/23/2010 3:45:17 PM

#1 is really not all that true. Most of the experts certainly are pretty accurate in terms of their scorecard and can predict who will win a decision. Of course there is an uncertainty given the chance of a knockout but you can easily tell who is leading.

5/23/2010 3:49:02 PM

Have you ever seen fully grown asparagus? It's pretty cool. It grows to be about 3-4 feet tall and gets all bushy. You have to cut it pretty much every day if you want to eat it, otherwise it's pretty worthless. We just got back from a week in Florida yesterday and I had to cut it all down. Today there are already new ones coming up.

5/23/2010 3:49:31 PM

I got 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9. The others I was totally clueless on.

5/23/2010 3:54:10 PM

Quote :

"#1 is really not all that true. Most of the experts certainly are pretty accurate in terms of their scorecard and can predict who will win a decision. Of course there is an uncertainty given the chance of a knockout but you can easily tell who is leading."

I agree with that too and like I said, kick boxing and MMA also use judges that announce the score after the fight is over. With all of that being said, no one knows the official score until the fight ends.

5/23/2010 3:54:53 PM

#1 Blackjack or Poer if viewed by a contest = 1 hand
#2 Anything that faces west
#8 can also be grapes

5/23/2010 3:54:55 PM

I knew 4 of them, and I thought of "dwarf" on that other question (but not "dwell" or "dwindle").

5/23/2010 3:55:52 PM

^^ grapes won't work for 8. what are wine and grape jelly, if not processed grapes?

5/23/2010 3:57:48 PM

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"#2 Anything that faces west"

With that logic they Niagra Falls is moving forward, or is it sideways? This queston isn't about the rotation of the earth, it is about erosion.

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2010 3:58:59 PM

Quote :

"asparagus? It's pretty cool.......You have to cut it pretty much every day if you want to eat it"

...and you can eat it fresh from the garden! Yum!-- the stuff at the store is days old and has "plant rigormortis"

Quote :

"#8 can also be grapes"

Quote :

"grapes won't work for 8. what are wine and grape jelly, if not processed grapes?"

Also, there are canned grapes.





[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 4:03 PM. Reason : ]

5/23/2010 3:59:11 PM

good point of the wine and jelly, but canned grapes?

5/23/2010 4:07:13 PM

^^WOW! I've never seen those before and I work at a grocery store. Anyone want to get together and can some Lettuce today and then sell it at the farmers market?

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 4:08 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2010 4:08:40 PM

Quote :

"> 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: > Strawberry./*/ /*"

I knew this one as soon as I read it, but since we are being technical and all with these questions, they shouldn't have that there because it is completely false.

Those are NOT seeds on the outside of a strawberry, those are the fruits. The fleshy red part is NOT the fruit, just a swollen receptacle that once held the ovaries.

I thought everybody knew that by now?

5/23/2010 4:11:10 PM

The punctuation thing is easy, just look down at the keyboard.

5/23/2010 4:12:43 PM

Quote :

"^^WOW! I've never seen those before and I work at a grocery store."

neither have i, but umm, the canned fruit salad with peaches, cherries, etc? that also contains grapes.

5/23/2010 4:12:57 PM

^Good point! I never thought about that.

5/23/2010 4:14:12 PM

Quote :

"good point of the wine and jelly, but canned grapes"

How about your canned fruit salad?

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 4:16 PM. Reason : ^^Damn. Beat me to it.]

5/23/2010 4:16:15 PM

got 1,4,5,6,7

there was a scene from the west wing where president bartlett asks the group to name all fourteen punctuation marks in some meeting. anyway.

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 4:28 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2010 4:27:51 PM

1. can also be golf
8. can also be watermelon
9. can also include stilettos

5/23/2010 4:28:45 PM

the golfers don't know the score while they're playing?

then what are those guys doing carrying around score signs

5/23/2010 4:32:02 PM

everyone is on a different hole, so scores aren't accurate until everyone is done

5/23/2010 4:33:32 PM

Quote :

"8. can also be watermelon "

pickled watermelon rind, anybody?

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 4:34 PM. Reason : l]

5/23/2010 4:34:46 PM

Quote :

"everyone is on a different hole, so scores aren't accurate until everyone is done"

Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

But people do know the official score while the contest is still going. After 1 hole of play the first golfer is leading and then other golfers tee off. If they do better than him then they will be in the lead, so after 1 hole of play someone will be leading and the score will be posted on the leader board for everyone to see. In boxing, kick boxing, and MMA the judges do not post the official score card after each round. People watch and can see who is performing better and try to keep score, but that still isn't the official score. The official score is only announced after the fight ends.

5/23/2010 4:43:52 PM

AHEM they forgot one

Quote :

"6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, > dwell and dwindle.../*/ /*"

5/23/2010 5:41:55 PM

Paging JTMONEYNCSU

5/23/2010 5:51:57 PM

and dweeb.

5/23/2010 7:08:59 PM