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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Quiz for folks who know everything

This is pretty tough. I only got a couple right before cheating and looking at answers. I'll leave answers in my comments after everybody has a chance to read it all.

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. 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" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

8. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los Angeles Lakers?

10. There are 7 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 6.

11. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

12. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "s."

7 Comments:

At 1:48 PM, Blogger Karyn said...

I demand answers now!

(btw, I suck at this.)

 
At 1:50 PM, Blogger Jason said...

everybody would cheat if i put answers now. that's what you get for being the first to read it.

 
At 2:18 PM, Blogger Karyn said...

You cheated, did you not? I just want to know if dweeb is considered standard English.

 
At 2:28 PM, Blogger Jason said...

If you count dweeb, then there'd be 4. I found this on a message board, so obviously I found all of the answers before trying to figure them all out on my own.

 
At 6:17 PM, Blogger Jason said...

OK. Answer time. How'd you do?

1. boxing
2. niagra falls
3. asparagus and rhubarb
4. baseball
5. strawberry
6. 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
7. dwarf, dwell, dwindle
8. period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses
9. Minnesota (Team was originally the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved to LA)
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, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts

 
At 9:42 PM, Blogger Karyn said...

I sucked. I apparently don't know everything. What a shock.

 
At 3:51 PM, Blogger Harry said...

Sharp!

 

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