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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: tom_baker1709 on January 21, 2009, 20:55:29
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This is a quiz for people who know everything! 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 backward s . 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.
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1. Politics ;D
2. Microsoft
3.
4. Terry
5. They used a shrink ray, then sized it back up again.
6. dwork
7. Period, Semi-Colon, Colon, comma, exclamation, question mark.
8. Lettuce
9. Snowboard, Skis, Shoes, Socks, snow shoes, eeh idk.
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Don't they show points in boxing? For that I was thinking of something along the lines of chess connect four or tic tac toe
Good quiz though
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6) what about Dwarfs, Dwarven, Dwarves, Dwelling, Dwelt, Dweller? Those are words..
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4. Terry
Hehe... :P
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1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
Boxing,
Judo
Jujitsu
[update]
Fred's pointed out that the score is known in Jujitsu and Judo, but on the same basis, I'd have to say that so is boxing, then.
in that case:
Poker
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
All of them, from the perspective of Europe. The USA moves backwards from the Eurasian landmass by 0.4cm per year (plate techtonics)
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?
Tony Blair
George Bush
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Austin
But seriously,
they aren't really there. I just programmed you to think they are
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?
It isn't really there. I just programmed you to think it is
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
Dwarf
Dwarfism
Dwarfish
Dwarves
Dwell
Dwelling
Dwellings
Dwindle
Dwindling
Dwindled
Dwe go that way?
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
Yes.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
Steven's clogs
Sally's clogs
Susan's clogs
Sheet metal clogs
Sycamore clogs
Slippers
Shoes
Sandals
Spiked clogs
Snakeskin clogs
Shirts
Skirts
Symbiotic Fungi
Silk Stockings (counts as two?)
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1: GloatHunting
2: Me
3: Nothing
4: Easy. The pear opened the bottle, and got in.
5: Dwig, Dworp, Dwish, Dwink the bear.
6: Maybe
7: I don't want to
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I know everything, I dont need a quiz to tell me that! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D