Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Answers to A Quiz for People Who Know Everything

Following are the answers to the quiz questions. Please bear in mind that I didn't make up the quiz or the answers and if you want to dispute any answer feel free!

1.The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends is boxing.

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward is 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, they are asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside is strawberries.

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. The three English words beginning with "dw" are dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. The fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar are: 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 is lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "S" are, shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Soooo, how’d you do? I got rhubarb!

8 comments:

Theresa in Mèrida said...

After I left my comment I looked up fruits with external seeds, and another two answers are pineapples and the cashew nut. I should have remembered the cashew net fruits because they sell them on the street here and I posted about them.
regards,
Theresa

Mike Nickell and Cynthia Johnson said...

I had a feeling there would be some comments about the answers...Thank you Theresa!

Anonymous said...

after reading the answers i felt like i should have known most of them, except maybe the asparagus and rhubarb question, but nah, i failed miserably.

have a great day!

teresa

Mike Nickell and Cynthia Johnson said...

t - You didn't fail - you gave it a shot! That's what counts.

GlorV1 said...

I did pretty good. Thanks for the test, I needed that. It's good to keep that brain functioning.

Mike Nickell and Cynthia Johnson said...

Hi Glo - I keep thinking about your (and Mindy's from the Rosas Clan) answer of watermelon...the only way I've had it besides fresh is pickled! Does that count?!

Rosas Clan in Tulum said...

yummy pickled watermelon sounds interesting.

Mike Nickell and Cynthia Johnson said...

Yes, my great aunt used to pickle it and we'd have it around the holidays. Different!