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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2620
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 01:19 pm: |   |
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." |
Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1385
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 01:56 pm: | |
1 chess?
2 statue of liberty?
3 no idea
4 Strawberry?
5 they let the pear grow in the bottle,
6 dwarf and dwell?
7 : ; ! ? " ( , '
8 banana,
9 sandals, shoes, socks, sneaker, skates, slipper |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3001
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 08:55 pm: | |
Bill and Harry,
I think #8 is melon, any kind of melon, I have never seen one frozen, cooked, canned or processed in any way, except cut open and sliced into cubes or salads.
and #7 is not that they just let the pear grow in the bottle, they force the pear to grow in the bottle by inserting the bud end into the bottle and tying the bottle onto the tree and leaving tied on the tree until the pear is grown and then they pick the pear at the stem, thus freeing the bottle with the pear inside.
And #3, I think would be BEANS (or Squash) and ASPARAGUS. I am very sure about the Asparagus because I have a small patch in my yard and it always comes back on its own. The Beans, I think so also, but that is from memory from my childhood when I grew all sorts of stuff and I think the beans always came back, or it could be the squash that came back.
Claudia
MINDSIGHT MODERATOR
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2256
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 06:32 am: | |
I have a bottle of Mambria with a pear inside of it. It was distilled and bottled at "Rancho El Morillo" in Saltillo, Mexico where I lived for three months. I used to walk through the pear orchards regularly to see how the fruit was doing. They wait for the petals to fall off of the blossoms and then stick the branch in the bottle.
The biggest threat to the harvest is kids with bb guns.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2257
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 06:42 am: | |
The third "dw" word would be Dwindle (The first one that I thought of.)
My first thought for number one was boxing but I think that the scorers cards are now made public during the bout. Is Chess a sport?
I know that asparagus re-seeds itself but not sure what else might.
I've never seen bananas any way but fresh unless you count banana bread. Could be melon.
Are we going to see the correct answers someday?
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com
http://theunrealmccoy.blogspot.com |
Tom Elkins
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
677
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 09:17 am: | |
ESPN calls everything a "sport". They broadcast the National Spelling Bee, non-stop poker, pool tourneys (which they mistakenly call Billiards), and - worst of all - competitive eating contests. May as well toss in Chess.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2621
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 09:18 am: | |
"Are we going to see the correct answers someday?"
Only after you send me $10.00 (cash,no checks)
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2626
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 11:25 am: | |
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 s, 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 |
Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
262
Registered: 07-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 01:58 pm: | |
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s"
. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates,
snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
You can wear sardines too but people look at you funny. You know with a "where can I get a pair of those" look
Kevin |
Tom Elkins
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
697
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 06:24 pm: | |
Bill - Just for kicks, I went to the FoodTV web site and did a search for "cooked lettuce". It found 582 recipes.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2665
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 08:36 pm: | |
Yuk! |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1898
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 11:12 pm: | |
1. Canadian Baby Seal Clubbing
2. Douglas "Wrongway" Corrigan's Robin J-1 airplane
3. New Zealand spinach and parsnips
4. blackberry, boysenberry, and raspberry
5. They mold the bottles in halves and glue them together around the pear (if they don't, they should, as it would save money to do everything at one time inside the distillery rather than paying for the extra labor it takes to do it in the orchard)
6. dweeb and dwelling
7. backward slash, forward slash, em dash, en dash, right single quote, left single quote, right double quote, left double quote, colon, semicolon, tilde, horizontal bar (underscore), grave accent, accute accent, umlaut, circumflex accent, period
8. avocado
9. sandals, shower shoes, sweatsocks, saran wrap, safety pin, signed plaster cast
http://www.fdungan.com/duke.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2667
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 12:14 pm: | |
Fred,
You're off your meds again, aren't you? |
Tom Elkins
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
700
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 02:22 pm: | |
Fred - most groceries sell guacamole (avocado) prepared and packaged, ready to use.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1900
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 08:35 pm: | |
Most grocery stores sell frozen watermelon balls. I seriously doubt that there is any fruit or vegetable that is not capable of being processed.
http://www.fdungan.com/duke.htm |
Tom Elkins
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
702
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 06:06 am: | |
My thought exactly, Fred. Who makes those lists, anyway? Couldn't they find a better way to spend their time...like doing the laundry?
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3554
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 08:53 pm: | |
Obviously, they haven't seen those packages of pre-made salad...
Mindsight Moderator and ex-PA author
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