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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 thei r 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 wit h 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. 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.
 
Liked that one (although a bit too much thought for first thing in the morning ;))

Strictly speaking, isn't Mount Rushmore also moving backward, albeit at a much slower rate?
 
Liked that one (although a bit too much thought for first thing in the morning ;))

:D I didn't do very well :eek::D

Strictly speaking, isn't Mount Rushmore also moving backward, albeit at a much slower rate?

Much like our society :rolleyes:
(or at least it seems that way at times...)


:)
ken
 
I got a couple of those :p well 1 and 5 anyway but to be pedantic Ken a strawberry is not a fruit and it's not even a berry ! (along with blackberry's and raspberry's) by (the botanical) definition a fruit is "the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed" and therefore a strawberry can not be a fruit. :p :D

Oh and other examples of berries that people commonly refer to as fruit or vegetables - tomatoes, bananas, grapes, chillies and kiwifruit.

Sorry I was watching Qi recently and this question was on there.;)
 
I got a couple of those :p well 1 and 5 anyway but to be pedantic Ken a strawberry is not a fruit and it's not even a berry ! (along with blackberry's and raspberry's) by (the botanical) definition a fruit is "the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed" and therefore a strawberry can not be a fruit. :p :D

Oh and other examples of berries that people commonly refer to as fruit or vegetables - tomatoes, bananas, grapes, chillies and kiwifruit.

Sorry I was watching Qi recently and this question was on there.;)

So it's not a berry or a fruit :confused: What is it?
 
I knew you ask that :D I can't remember what they called it on Qi but from the internet it's, in botanical terms, a pseudocarp or false fruit. Science is great - if it not one thing its a pseudo or false thing :p
 
I knew you ask that :D I can't remember what they called it on Qi but from the internet it's, in botanical terms, a pseudocarp or false fruit. Science is great - if it not one thing its a pseudo or false thing :p

I'll ask my mother to fix me a bowl of pseudocarp and milk next time I go to see her - :p:p

(She may try to wash my mouth with soap - :eek::p)
 
Got some Qi questions/ trivia for you:

1) What City has the largest number of canal's ?
2) What is the rarest blood type in the World ?
3) What is the largest mountain in the World ?
4) What is the longest animal in the World ?
5) What is the largest living thing on the Earth ?

I'll post answers in a little while - oh and no cheating now ;)
 
1. Venice
2. Mine - I hope no one ever see's it :)
3. Everest
4. Some kind of whale
5. Some kind of whale

??
 
I think 5 is the Great Barrier Reef?
 
Manchester .....
2 ?
3 its not everest - its a submerged one with only the tip showing
longest

tape worm
largest - hmmm I didn't agree with this but its plantium


Oh.. and I'll be watching QI this evening

for our american cousins this is a brilliant little prgramme - with probably one of the cleverest people around on it

he's the other half of House
Stephen Fry
 
3 spinage -that comes back (evergrowning) as does watercress, chicken of the Wood - (mushroom)-

Lettuce I'll give you- must be another one though ..
 
Cooked lettuce .. yes - there are 2 dishies that come to mind - although lettuce is not the main ingredient in either the first is petite pois al francea(?)
Peas in a light white sauce with shreeded lettce the other one is chinnes and the lettuce is more cabbage - but still classed as lettuce ..
gbp
 
I'm undoubtedly displaying my ignorance here, but what is the difference between a dash and a hyphen?

Also, between brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses?
I assume one of these is the square type and one is curved, but what are the other two?
 
Also, between brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses?
I assume one of these is the square type and one is curved, but what are the other two?

If you ever need to make the jump from VB/vb.net to c/c# then you'll quickly find out what a brace is :p

{ is a brace

... is an ellipsis
 
This is a dash –
This is a hyphen -

see the difference ? try it like this:

-

A dash is used as a punctuation mark and is longer (the size of an m), a hyphen is used to join words and has no spaces before or after it and is the size on an n. Apparently a hyphen is actually an n-dash and a dash is an m-dash :confused:

Parenthesis ( ) are commonly called brackets , braces are these { } and I'm not sure what you mean about ellipses as they are an elliptical circle - do you mean [ ] these ? if so they more commonly called brackets. clicky
 
Can't hold myself back any longer - here's the answers:

1) What City has the largest number of canal's ?

Birmingham, UK not Venice (close Gary !)

2) What is the rarest blood type in the World ?

Hh or Oh - Bombay phenotype of type O blood - clicky

3) What is the largest mountain in the World ?

Mauna Loa clicky - bit of trick question as I said largest not highest ;-)

And in the format of Qi, interestingly it can be argued that Everest is not even the highest as it is a mountain on top of the mountain range of the Himalayas so therefore Mount Kilimanjaro is higher than Everest as not only as it is a ‘standalone’ mountain (it raises straight out of the African plain) but it is at the equator it is therefore further from the center of the earth.

4) What is the longest animal in the World ?

Lineus worm - 60m clicky - as with Qi, well done Gary have a couple of points :p

5) What is the largest living thing on the Earth ?

Honey fungus - 3.4 square miles clicky

And futher to Gary for our cousins over the pond if you want to watch any episodes – clicky it a brilliant show, one of my fav’s, it might seem a little ‘British’ but it’s very entertaining (and original).

This is great I feel like Stephen Fry :D and to continue tut tut Ken you fell into all the traps you've got minus 40 points :p :D

If you want more I'm happy to post them - maybe we could do our own online version of the show :p
 
How many moons are there around the earth ??

always good for an argument ...
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