… or think they do.
These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers.
(Answers are in the comments)
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 o f 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 in the comments)
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 backwards: 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: Aspargaus 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.
#3- What about artichokes?
#4- A strawberry isn’t a fruit. Those “seeds” on the outside are actually the complete fruits themselves.
#1….doesn’t chess count?
For #4, Cashews also have seeds on the outside of the fruit.
Or chess-boxing!
1. In boxing, you can usually tell before its over who is going to win. Especially if one guy is really bloody and the other guy isn’t.
2. “Backwards” is relative. All you can say about Niagara Falls is that it is eroding.
3. (It’s spelled Asparagus. I assume that was a typo and wasn’t spelled that way intentionally.)
6. Dwarf/dwarves/dwarfs (n.), dwarfism (n.), dwarf (v.), dweeb, dwindle, dwell (dwelt), dwelling…
7. Apostrophes, quotation marks (both single and double), ellipses and braces are not punctuation marks. And you forgot the solidus, the en dash, the em dash. You didn’t say it was, but I also feel I need to point out that the asterisk is also not a punctuation mark.
That is all.
chess is a game, not a sport, otherwise all “games” could be included.
#1 – I’ve seen lots of boxing matches where I knew the leader before it was over.
#2 – Depending on which way you are facing, couldn’t you say it’s moving forward?
#3 – I agree with ‘s’ Artichokes should be included.
#6 – What about dwelling and dweeb?
#9 – (A few more) – Spurrs, Stilettos, Sketchers, Steel Toe boots, soccor cleats, snowboard, scuba shoes,…
The question should read, “What do people commonly wear…” Because I COULD wear Squid on my feet if I wanted to…
FUN!
I consider chess a sport, just as football is considered a game, but in chess you definately know the leader by the number of captured pieces.
I also dispute #8 because I know I’ve had toasted sandwiches where they put the lettuce through with the meat, and also some people will boil it like cabbage. I’d say people these days sell just about anything done just about any way.
Could #8 also be a watermelon? I’ve never seen that in anything but fresh.
#6- Dwezel Zappa.
tough crowd, lol
#9 – SPATS!
Spurs
8. watermelon/melon?
#9 – While walking barefoot, I stepped in a big pile of S**T. It felt pretty good; all warm & gooey, especially between my toes, so I wore it the rest of the day. (Does that work?)
I got a knee injury from chess once, like hell it isn’t a sport.
#1 – United States Practical Shooting Association Matches. No one knows the leader or winner until the match is completely finished and all scores for each stage tallied.
1. I thought about politics and the elections since we never REALLY know until the count comes in.
8. Could be several things, and you CAN buy lettuce which has been “processed” if it’s with other ingredients. By the time you get that burger in your mouth, the lettuce has been cooked and is no longer “fresh”. Not to mention some asian cuisines which cook both lettuces and cabbages.
You don’t actually “wear” skis. You wear ski boots and lock them to the skis with binders.
That was fun.
I’ve never thought of rhubarb as a vegetable (hardly ever think of rhubarb at all). We use it more like a fruit…in pies or as a sweet sauce. I have a friend who accidentally grew sun chokes (she liked the flowers) and even though she keeps pulling them up, she has a “crop” every year.
3) I thought of onions and garlic. My mom has a patch of onions in her yard we have been trying to get rid of for years, miss one and they are right back. I felt dumb about Asparagus and rhubarb, I have both in my yard.
8) Watermelon doesn’t work, because of watermelon pickles.
Fun quiz.
There are any number of sports involving animals that do not have a winner until after the event is over; i.e. horse racing, dog racing, etc.
Isn’t this supposed to be a “fun” quiz for one’s own edification and enjoyment? The poor messenger is getting lambasted with nonsense. I was going to forward the quiz to my friends, but on second thought I don’t think that I could stand the grief. By-the-by, I also stepped in S%@T, and find that to be a valid answer, but cooked lettuce on a grilled cheese is unforgivable – LOL
watermelon has been canned! I have Bought it. nasty stuff though!
awesome funny list!
1 Special Olympics for the blind
2 Glacier National Park Montana
3 All wild vegetables — where else did could they have come by?
7 Answers on your keyboard
8 Celery, Tobacco
I thought #8 was watermelon too. But it really comes canned?! Gross!
Thanks for the fun quiz, Jonco!
I’ve also seen watermellon diced, as well as most other fruits. I’ve never seen Artichoke anything but fresh, though you can get canned Artichoke hearts. As for the Lettuce, it is served already prepared for Salads, both with and without the other ingredients mixed in, and those bags aren’t exactly filled with holes, so I’d have to say you can get it processed for just that reason.
Half of the questions are from West Wing!
What about GOLF? It’s a sport but you don’t know the scores until the end. I figured you were aiming for Boxing but just wondered.
1… In golf, you score each hole as you play it. In races, you know the leader all the way.
3… I have rhubarb, but always thought of it as a fruit. Guess it’s like a tomato, huh?
8… Watermelon can be dehydrated, or dried. My family loves this, although it takes forever
to do because of the high water content. Yummy!
1. In golf, you can tell who’s ahead even sooner based on whose ball is closer to the green and how many shots they’ve taken. How about Thumb War? That’s a sport, right?
6. Dweomer. You didn’t specify “modern English”.
7. All hail Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation At least 50% of those are used in English grammar, which puts the total count solidly above 14.
Nice set of questions, though.
Dehydrated Watermellon…would be like a waisin I guess.. or a drymellon.
you can buy frozen melon balls too. I thought of avocados at first, then realized you can buy it in those cryovac packages.