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Test
« on: February 12, 2016, 09:47:14 AM »
There are only nine questions. 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....I INCLUDED THE ANSWERS BELOW. SO DON'T SCROLL DOWN TOO FAR!!

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? (Don't cheat by studying your keyboard!)

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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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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Re: Test
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2016, 10:08:01 AM »
Missed 1 and 8.  Should have known both.

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Re: Test
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2016, 11:50:45 AM »
Without spending any time thinking about it I only got a couple of them right. I think I could have done better if I stopped to think about each one.
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Re: Test
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2016, 01:01:35 PM »
I got 3-5 &8 wrong with 9 incomplete

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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2016, 08:02:04 PM »
Started weak.... brainfarted on 1, 2, & 3...(really should have known 1 and 2)..... on 9 I got up to five items and stalled.

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Re: Test
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Re: Test
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2016, 06:09:27 AM »
Good post, it's caused a couple hours discussion here.
Surprised at which people are getting which questions.

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Re: Test
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2016, 08:09:05 AM »
Would USPSA also be included in #1?   Or Chess?

Dweeb in #6

#7 is tricky on two counts.

First quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, and braces actualy (in most type styles) have both an opening and ending mark.  So that would add 4 more to the total.

Secondly the question asked for "punctuation marks" so one could justify NOT including special symbols and short cuts, such as $, %, #, &, *, etc..    So which is which?   Webster includes as punctuation; @, /, \, <>, as well as both dashes (em and en), ~,  =, «, » and ‽.

And what about the underscore and the copyright symbols?
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Re: Test
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2016, 10:37:48 AM »
It would appear that I'm no smarter than my wife thinks I am.
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Re: Test
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2016, 11:49:18 AM »
Chess?

Nope, not going to classify chess as a sport...

I missed it and I really like boxing, or at least I did before they made every "federation" under the sun a World Champion!

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Re: Test
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2016, 12:26:52 PM »
Chess?

Nope, not going to classify chess as a sport...

Well, yes, chess is a "game" not a sport.  Then I don't count figure skating/dancing or synchro-swiming either as a sport. 

But you are conceding USPSA/IPSC as fitting the category?

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