A quiz for people who know (think they 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."   

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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 land mark  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

thebottle. (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.

 LIFE IS A JOURNEY.  

 ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW AND ENJOY THE BREEZE