Time For Thinking Caps

[gray_marian]

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 Tomorrow Evening

[Doc Vernon]

Number 1 Boxing
2 Niagara Falls
3 Asparagus and rhubarb

Wont reveal all!
Cheers

[Jacyn Wade]

Doc, you're good. I live 3 hours away from it and hadn't thought about Niagara Falls.

#4 strawberries
#5 (they fold it up, shove it in the bottle, and unfold it with string... you know, like with ships, ha ha)
#6 dwarf, dwindle, dwell
#7 period, comma, colon, semi colon, apostrophe, quotation marks, question mark, hyphen, dash, exclamation point, parentheses, single quotes (can't think of the last two, shame on me)
#8 just a guess - cabbage?
#9 shoes, sandals, slippers, socks, stockings, spats, sling-backs

[happy daze john in oz]

#8 Lettuce

Technicaly strawberry is a vegetable as the seeds are on the outside, Tomato is a fruit, seed on the inside, and rhubarb is a vegetable.

Sling backs are shoes you no longer require.

[Doc Vernon]

Doc, you're good. -- sling-backs

Just the Power of Google this time Jacyn! LOL
Hope you are keeping well Jacyn!
Her indoors still remembers her lovely trip on the Boat that goes under the Falls,they gave all the passengers Waterproof Jackets ,she said she just loved it!
Cheers love
Doc!xxx

[John Pruden]

jacyn its great to see you posting again were have you been???jp

[Graham Payne]

No 4. Cashew nut tree. the nut grows at the bottom of the fruit on the outside. Only one nut per fruit thats why they are so expensive. See them in St Lucia, West Indies.

[gray_marian]

#7, Graham good one, I had forgotten about the cashew nut bush, tis not the answer though for this quiz sorry

#5, Naughty Doc for cheating, consider yourself disqualified

Jacyn & John almost....... doing well

[gray_marian]

Here you go folks answers to quiz

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 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: Full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation mark, quotation mark, 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.

[Jacyn Wade]

jacyn... were have you been???jp

Thanks, John. Sadly, I've been working like a dog! Busy, busy, busy and little time left at the end of the day. I'm trying to look in as often as I can now.