Quiz for
People Who Know
Everything
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
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.
People Who Know
Everything
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
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.
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