Random quiz time!

[deathpixie]

Sent to me by my dad. :)

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Boxing


2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? Niagara Falls


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? Rhubarb and asparagus


4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? Strawberry


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? 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. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them. Dwarf, dwell, dwindle.


7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? Period,comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.


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


9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S." Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Comments

[drharper.livejournal.com]

1. No clue.
2. Ditto.
3. Rhubarb, I think. Not sure about it, though.
4. That's easy. A strawberry. ;D
5. I know this one. They put the bottle over the developing pear soon after the flower petals fall off and tie it in place. The pear grows inside the bottle. When ripe, they cut the stem and fill with brandy.
6. Dwell, dwarf and dwindle.
7. period, comma, semicolon, colon, parentheses, question mark, quotation marks, exclamation point, apostrophe...Do ellipsis and ampersands count?
8. *blinks* There is such an organism?!
9. shoes, socks, sandals, stilts, snow-shoes, skis, skates, snowboard...and my imagination fails.

[ferox.livejournal.com]

2. There are a couple, though, I'm thinking Niagra Falls might be too obvious...

4. Strawberry.

9. Stilts, sandals, stilettos, socks, sneakers, skates, slippers, snow shoes...

OK, I'll play

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

1) ... I have no idea offhand. I want to say cricket, but I'm fairly sure that's wrong. Politics? ;)
2) Landmark implies something sedentary. And backwards in terms of what frame of reference?
3) pumpkins (at a guess) and bananas
4) Strawberries
5) The bottle has an extremely wide mouth.
6) dwarf, ???
7) Comma, period, colon, semicolon, ellipsis, em-dash, ampersand, bang (exclamation point), parenthesis, question mark. Does that satisfy?
8)
9) Socks, shoes, sandals ... ummm...

[nute.livejournal.com]

1: Boxing
2: Niagara Falls. The water slowly erodes the lip of the falls.
3: No idea.
4: Strawberry
5: No clue.
6: Dwell, dwarf, dwindle. Some people say "dweomer", but that's not an English word.
7: Period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point.
8: Lettuce
9: Shoes, socks, sandals, skates, skis, snowshoes

[iamgerg.livejournal.com]

1 boxing
2 Niagara Falls
3 rhubarb and asparagus (both of which I grew because I never get around to planting in time)
4 strawberry
5 grown inside the bottle
6 dwell dwarf... and something else that will come to me after I post this comment
7 period, comma, colon, apostrophe, semi-colon, ellipsis, question mark?
8 iceberg Lettuce
9 socks shoes sandals sneakers skis skates slippers

[kitchendinah.livejournal.com]

I seriously have no idea. These are all guesses.

1.) Extreme rocks-paper-scissors?

2.) Um.

3.) Onions and potatoes

4.) Strawberry

5.) Well, see, when it's a wee pear still on the tree, farmers slip bottles over the fruit and tie them to the branches until the pears can hold their own weight....

Actually it's probably something more along the lines of rehydration of dried, ripened fruits, yeah? (If one can rehydrate with brandy, that is.)

6.) dwell and dwarf

7.) comma, period, semi-colon, quotation mark, hyphen, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, colon, tilde

8.) I wanna say avocado or banana, but I think lettuce, actually.

9.) sock, shoe, sandal, skate, silk stockings, slipper

[faithfulpuppy85.livejournal.com]

lettuce can be processed when they put it in the bags. Bananas are processed if you consider dried bananas. I don't know that I've seen avocados sold any other way but fresh. Unless you consider guacomole. But then it isn't an avocado anymore really.

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

4) strawberry
5) put the bottle around the fruit before it grows
6) dwell, dwindle, dwarf
7) . , ? ! ' " ; : ( ) -
8) shoes, socks, stockings, stilletos, stilts, slippers, sandals,

[daroos.livejournal.com]

3. Asparagus
4. The Strawberry
5. The pear is dehydrated and shoved in there, where it rehydrates with liquor
6. dwelling, dwindle

[hex-16.livejournal.com]

8. Watermelon

[tieleen.livejournal.com]

6. So does that mean 'dweeb' isn't standard English? I am sad now, and not just because it's the only one I could think of before reading the comments.

8. Suede tapping shoes. (What?)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

1) Golf?
3) Rhubarb? I seem to remember us having a rhubarb plant for years at Woodend. Possibly potatoes, if you don't dig every last one up.
4) Strawberry
5) They used a magic shrinking ray!
6) Dwight, dwindle, dwit, dwy.
7) Full stop, comma, semi colon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, round bracket, square bracket, hyphen, double quotation mark, single quotation mark.
8) Lettuce
9) Socks, shoes, slippers, sandles, slippers, skis, snow shoes.