Thursday, September 27, 2007

Quiz Answers

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.

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