RazMan
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 10:42 PM |
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FOR PEOPLE WHO 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."
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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iank
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 10:55 PM |
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The ones I know (or I'm pretty sure I know)
2 Niagara Falls
4. Strawberry
5. dwell, dwarf
6. full stop, comma, semi-colon, colon, exclamation mark, question mark, hyphen, quote, double quote, apostrophe, ...
9. Socks, shoes, sandles, slingbacks, stillettos, stockings (erm, last three theoretically  )
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Peteff
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 11:05 PM |
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One more for 6
Dwindle
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 11:27 PM |
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1) Chess
5) Grown in the bottle
8) Erm... banana?
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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Macbeast
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 03:18 AM |
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!. Boxing
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Peteff
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 10:01 AM |
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There are more than two perennial vegetables according to this. I'd go with asparagus
and artichokes.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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iank
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 10:05 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
8) Erm... banana?
Pete
No banana's are berries (yes I'm a QI fan  ) not veggies.
Looked it up (all the questions pasted into google come up with the answers) it's lettuce.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 10:10 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by iank
No banana's are berries (yes I'm a QI fan ) not veggies.
Oh well get you
Pete
[Edited on 11/5/07 by scoobyis2cool]
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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cossey
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 05:49 PM |
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3.rhubarb?
5. dry it out, it shrinks then swells back up in the bottle as it absorbs the liquid.
8 banana even if it is a berry is still a fruit isnt it and it say fruit or veg but then you get banofee pie
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RazMan
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 05:54 PM |
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Ok then, it's time to put you out of your misery - a lot of you came close (and some cheated  ) but here you go .....
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 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 marks, bracket, 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.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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DIY Si
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 06:00 PM |
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Isn't number 8 cheating a bit? What with it being FRESH lettuce (as opposed to just lettuce), as I'm sure you can get it in other forms?
What about other fresh fruit and veg?
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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iank
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 06:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DIY Si
Isn't number 8 cheating a bit? What with it being FRESH lettuce (as opposed to just lettuce), as I'm sure you can get it in other forms?
What about other fresh fruit and veg?
The sentence is missing a full stop (period pah American's ) - well they are all missing question marks, but the others have stops.
Should be
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh? Lettuce.
<pedant> you can buy it cut up in prepacked salads which is processing </pedant>
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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smart51
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 06:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by RazMan
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Period.
I beg your pardon but English grammar contains a full stop.
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