A quiz for our resident Know-it-alls

[Wolferz]

A Quiz For People Who Know Everything

(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

(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) Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?

(5) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

(6) 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?

(7) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.

(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?

(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"

(10) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name the other six.

(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?

(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter "S."

[Charles Lindsey]

1. Don't watch sports

2. Niagra falls

3. Ouch, I like gardening too. Don't know that one though.

4. Don't watch sports.

5. Strawberry

6. Hmm, dehydrated, pushed into the bottle then the liquor re hydrates it?

7. I love the internet. Dwell, Dwarf, and dwindle. I must admit I didn't know this one.

8. Sentence stoppers: Period, question mark, exclamation point. Sentence separators, comma, colon (tee hee), semi colon. Ownership; apostrophe. Attibution; quotation marks. Do the left and right one count as separate or not? I count I got 8. I knew these but all you have to do is look over your keyboard.

9. Don't watch sports

10. Don't watch sports

11. Banana?

12. Shoes, socks, sandals. I give up on the rest.

And the apostrophe is also used for contractions.

Ok teach grade me.

[weegee_101]

1) Riflery?

2) Chavik got it

3) Dunno

4) Hmmmmmm...

5) Chavik got it

6) They grow them in the bottle

7) Chavik...

8) Blah, do I even need to say this. Chavik got them anyways.

9) Jeeze, I forget this one. I know it was in Minneapolis though, but they've got a LOT of lakes in Minnesota.

10) Uhhh....

11) Pomegranate (?)

12) Shoes, socks, sandals, stockings (as in like ladies stockings), slippers, and snowshoes (does this count? They are technically different from shoes, since they allow you to walk on the top of the snow.)

[Wolferz]

I'll wait and give others a chance....

[Reno]

4 - Baseball

10 - I only know two of the other six. One is if the pitcher throws the damned ball into the ground. Forget what it's called though. The other is if the ball hits -you-

[echo]

1. hmmmmmmmmm Bass fishing

2. Chavik

3. ?

4.Reno

5. Chavik

6. Don't they put the bottle on the bud on the tree?

7.Chavik

8. Chavik

9. Wee Gee

10. Error, Drop 3rd strike, Catcher interference(sp.), Hit by pitch, Fielders choice, fan interference, pinch runner

11. Wee Gee

12. Shoes, Socks, Slippers, Sandals, Stilletos, Slingbacks

[Charles Lindsey]

I remember the peach thing now. Seems I do remember seeing that the put the bottle over the flower now.

Another tidbit. The tomato, the we call and use as a veggie, is really a fruit. I think there is a veggie we use and call a fruit but I forget what that is.

Good opne on the feet thing. I messed up on slipper but would have never guessed stilleto. Women.

[Wolferz]

Answers tomorrow

A Stilletto is a type of shoe and if Echo wears them, I would seriously like to be her...... Podiatrist

Yeah. that's it, her Podiatrist

[Wolferz]

"Answers To Quiz"

1. Boxing.

2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. Baseball.

5. Strawberry.

6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.

10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.

11. Lettuce.

12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.

...Well, now you know! Feel any smarter?

[Guest Grayfox]

my brain is simply about to burst with all the trivia you just now packed into it wolfy

thanks!

[Kevin Trotter]

you gave up the answers to soon!

[Wolferz]

quote:

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Originally posted by Grayfox:

my brain is simply about to burst with all the trivia you just now packed into it wolfy

thanks!

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"Sledge-o-matic" Works every time

/Ducks under sheet of plastic

[Narny]

(4) "Name the _only_ sport..."

Doesn't cricket fit too?

[Wolferz]

quote:

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Originally posted by Narny:

(4) "Name the _only_ sport..."

Doesn't cricket fit too?

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Got a bit of a sticky Wicket with that question 'ol Chap

I am not familiar with Cricket

[Cc]

You guys are up early,for crying out loud.

[Wolferz]

quote:

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Originally posted by Cc:

You guys are up early,for crying out loud.

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"Early to bed and early to rise

Makes a man healthy

and puts bags under his eyes"