This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. so..put on your thinking caps and let's play:

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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.

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. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in
possession of the team on defense, and the offensive
team can score without touching the ball?

5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

6. 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?

7. Only three words in standard English begin with the
letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two
of them.

8. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name at least half of them?

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los
Angeles Lakers?

10. There are 7 ways a baseball player can legally
reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base
on balls (a walk) is one way. Name the other 6.

11. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never
sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any
other form except fresh.

12. 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
. . . 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 only sport in which the ball is always in
possession of the team on defense, and the offensive
team can score without touching the ball . . .
BASEBALL

5. The fruit with its seeds on the outside
STRAWBERRIES

6. 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.)

7. Three English words beginning with dw . dwarf,
dwell and dwindle.

8. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . .
period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen,
apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point,
quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.

9. The original lakes referred to in Lakers . . . in
Minnesota.
(The team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.)

10. Seven ways a baseball player can legally reach
first base without getting a hit . . . taking a base
on balls (a walk) . . . batter hit by a pitch, passed
ball, catcher interference, catcher drops third
strike, fielder's choice, and being designated as a
pinch-runner.

11. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen,
canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but
fresh .... LETTUCE

12. Six or more things you can wear on your feet
beginning with "s" . . shoes, socks, sandals,
sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
stockings, stilts.

 NOW, YOU KNOW ALMOST EVERYTHING ......... Thanks to Donnie !

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