Friday Quiz Night

[Dom]

OK, so it's Friday, so I thought I'd post a brain-tinglingly good* quiz for us all. Don't cheat! (By which I mean don't use Google.)

Quiz!

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 six or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'.



Answers!


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 botty 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.


*subject to interpretation

[robwhizz]

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

Whose line is it anyway.


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

Canada?


4.  What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Before of after you've eaten it?



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?

Dynamo the magician puts them in.


7.  There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

full, com, col, ha, semi, da, hyp, apos, questi, quote, brack, paren, bracm and elli.


9.  Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'.

Slippers size 10, slippers sized 11 and slippers sized 12   

[sarahA]

Potatoes reproduce. If you don't dig them up (or miss one whilst digging them up), it'll grow into another plant with several more the following year. Potentially Garlic could too if you let it go to seed, as could onions, as that's all asparagus does effectively. Never left them long enough to try.

[familychoice]

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

iScrabble

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

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question13954.html

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?

In my garden: none

4.  What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Cake

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?

Mirrors/lies

6.  Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

Dreamweaver

7.  There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

full, com, col, ha, semi, da, hyp, apos, questi, quote, brack, paren, bracm and elli.

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

Graham Norton

9.  Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'.

Six pairs of flippers

[Dom]

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

Graham Norton

I lol'd, in a sort of silent, smirking kind of way.

[sickpuppy]

1.  Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest  ends.
Pro-celebrity dogging.

2.  What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
Michael Jackson's statue

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?
Big brother and X factor


4.  What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Larry Greyson

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?
Sailed in on the little ship

6.  Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
Dwoppy Dwars

7.  There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
Blinky, Inky, Pinky, Clyde, Mary, Mungo and Midge.

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

9.  Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'.
The human centipede's shoes.

[sickpuppy]

Potatoes reproduce. If you don't dig them up (or miss one whilst digging them up), it'll grow into another plant with several more the following year. Potentially Garlic could too if you let it go to seed, as could onions, as that's all asparagus does effectively. Never left them long enough to try.

I accidentally did this with a potato, One snapped off whilst digging it up that I didn't spot. It grew the year after.