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Another Quiz (Harder)

17 years ago

This is tough...

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 a r e 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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Comments (10)

pattico_gw
17 years ago
Well I guessed the number 5....but my question is...How do they sterilize the bottle afterwards for filling it with the Brandy....or do they not sterilize?
suzieque
17 years ago
This IS tough. I think I know a few answers for #4, but that's it.
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ronf_gw
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#2 is Niagra Falls

#3 asparagus, maybe rhubarb.

#4 Strawberry. It's not really a fruit but, a modified stem.

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jannie
17 years ago
I'm pretty sure I know 1,2,4,6,7. Answers, please!
carla35
17 years ago
Chess (Boxing?)
Statue of Liberty?
Don't know
Strawberry?
It was grown in the bottle?
Dwarf Dwell
. , : ' : ? ! "
Lettuce?
Slippers, Sandals, Socks, Stockings, Shoes, Sneakers, Skates, Ski's,
janie_ga
17 years ago
1. ?????

2. Niagara Falls

3. potato ?????

4. strawberry

5. pear is placed in the bottle while it is still tiny and grows inside the bottle.

6. dwarf ?????

7. ?.,'";:!()-`

8. eggplant (is that a vegetable?)

9. socks, shoes, sneakers, sandals, sling-backs, slippers
Jasdip
Original Author
17 years ago
ANSWERS:
1. Boxing
2. Niagara Falls
3. Asparagus and Rhubarb
4. Strawberry
5. Pear is grown inside the bottle.
6. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle
7. .Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation mark,quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. Lettuce
9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
jannie
17 years ago
Thanks,Jas, that was fun. I tried so hard but I never got "lettuce".
soxxxx
17 years ago
#6 Is "dweeb" not a real word?
alisande
17 years ago
I vote for dweeb!!

Also, artichokes are perennial.......I think.

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