This is a quiz for people who know everything!

[me]

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 landmark constantly moving backwards.  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 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.

[Elaine]

okay that does it, i am an idiot, its official


oh woe

[me]

okay that does it, i am an idiot, its official


oh woe

You are not alone....

[kimmi]

Now you are really going to feel dumb.  I gave this same quiz (reworded the pear question) to my kids yesterday and they got them right!! 

[kimmi]

I also gave them this.

Alphabet Soup

Instructions:  Answer each question with either one or two letters.  Put your answers on the blanks provided. 


_______  What letter is a drink?

_______   What letter are we?

_______  What letter is a line?

_______  What letter is an ocean?

_______  What letter is an exclamation?

_______  What letter is an insect?

_______  What letter is a vegetable?

_______  What letters describe a slippery road?

_______  What letters transport blood?

_______  What letter is an animal?

_______  What letter is a question?

_______  What letter is one of our senses?

_______  What letter directs a horse?

_______ What letter is a bird?

_______  What letter is a verb?

_______  What letter is an elevated train?

_______  What letter occurs twice in a moment and not in one hundred years?

_______  What letters stand for intelligence?

[me]

Now you are really going to feel dumb.  I gave this same quiz (reworded the pear question) to my kids yesterday and they got them right!! 

Oh gee thanks...make my day....  

[me]

I also gave them this.

Alphabet Soup

Instructions:  Answer each question with either one or two letters.  Put your answers on the blanks provided. 


_______  What letter is a drink?

_______   What letter are we?

_______  What letter is a line?

_______  What letter is an ocean?

_______  What letter is an exclamation?

_______  What letter is an insect?

_______  What letter is a vegetable?

_______  What letters describe a slippery road?

_______  What letters transport blood?

_______  What letter is an animal?

_______  What letter is a question?

_______  What letter is one of our senses?

_______  What letter directs a horse?

_______ What letter is a bird?

_______  What letter is a verb?

_______  What letter is an elevated train?

_______  What letter occurs twice in a moment and not in one hundred years?

_______  What letters stand for intelligence?

Now that is an easy one....that helped cheer me up and let me know there was still some hope for me....