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Old 05-09-2006, 12:17 PM
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Default Brainiac Quiz

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."


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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 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.
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