HarvDog Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 For BRAINIACS Only 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." Answers are below... V V V V V V V V V V V Answers To Quiz: 1. boxing 2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb. 4.Strawberry. 5. 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. dwarf, dwell and dwindle. 7. period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, bracket s, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 8.lettuce. 9.Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise I got 1, 4, 6, everything in 7 except braces and ellipses, 8 and everything in 9 except skates, snowshoes and stilts. 2, 3 and 5 I absolutely did not know the answers to. Learned something new today, thanks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdvantageTimberLou Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise thanks Harv, gave my brain a work out of those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise What was so hard about that??? I got 'em all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise Good thing I have never claimed to be a brainiac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarvDog Posted June 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise [ QUOTE ] What was so hard about that??? I got 'em all. [/ QUOTE ] Sure..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise I got 4,5,6,7,8,9 Ranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise Im not to smart.lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutter Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise I missed 1&3 but got the rest. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaTrophyHunter Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Re: Brain Exercise i got them all my teacher gave us a quiz the last week of school and it was all them and i remembered the answers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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