Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *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.' /* >
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > */_ > 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 |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
^You could also say kick boxing, MMA, UFC, and just about any other fight sport. 5/23/2010 3:42:57 PM |
ncsuapex SpaceForRent 37776 Posts user info edit post |
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[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 3:43 PM. Reason : Fail] 5/23/2010 3:42:58 PM |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
I got 1, 2, and 7 right without looking. 5/23/2010 3:45:17 PM |
NyM410 J-E-T-S 50084 Posts user info edit post |
#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 |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
SchndlrsFist All American 5528 Posts user info edit post |
I got 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9. The others I was totally clueless on. 5/23/2010 3:54:10 PM |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Wolf2Ranger All American 2615 Posts user info edit post |
#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 |
theDuke866 All American 52766 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
UberCool All American 3457 Posts user info edit post |
^^ grapes won't work for 8. what are wine and grape jelly, if not processed grapes? 5/23/2010 3:57:48 PM |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "#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 |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Wolf2Ranger All American 2615 Posts user info edit post |
good point of the wine and jelly, but canned grapes? 5/23/2010 4:07:13 PM |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
^^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 |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
ShinAntonio Zinc Saucier 18946 Posts user info edit post |
The punctuation thing is easy, just look down at the keyboard. 5/23/2010 4:12:43 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
^Good point! I never thought about that. 5/23/2010 4:14:12 PM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
sarijoul All American 14208 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
jataylor All American 6652 Posts user info edit post |
1. can also be golf 8. can also be watermelon 9. can also include stilettos 5/23/2010 4:28:45 PM |
sarijoul All American 14208 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
jataylor All American 6652 Posts user info edit post |
everyone is on a different hole, so scores aren't accurate until everyone is done 5/23/2010 4:33:32 PM |
UberCool All American 3457 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Big4Country All American 11907 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
AHEM they forgot one
Quote : | "6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, > dwell and dwindle.../*/ /*" |
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egyeyes All American 6209 Posts user info edit post |
Paging JTMONEYNCSU 5/23/2010 5:51:57 PM |
FuhCtious All American 11955 Posts user info edit post |
and dweeb. 5/23/2010 7:08:59 PM |