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Quiz for Bright People - Twitchin Kitten - 12-03-2011
Got this in an email today and found I got stumped on a few.
I got half of #3 correct. 1, 4 & 5 were easy and I only got parts of some of the others with multiple answers. How well do you do without google or cheating?
Quiz for Bright People
There are only nine questions.
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 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 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.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - twisteroo - 12-03-2011
I knew all of them....after I looked at the answers.
I'm just too damn lazy to think about it.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - ralgith - 12-03-2011
Whoever wrote this wasn't all that bright. Sneakers are shoes.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - JohnWho - 12-03-2011
Elmer Fudd, "Oh, dwat, qwuestion #6 is hard!"
RE: Quiz for Bright People - Aurora Moon - 12-04-2011
number one and two stumped me but the rest of it was easy as hell for me to know.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - Rhubarb - 12-04-2011
I thought Golf for the first, only because I don't understand the scoring
RE: Quiz for Bright People - twisteroo - 12-04-2011
I'm still a genius.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - BarEdul - 12-04-2011
Never knew about the pear... hmmm.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - ralgith - 12-04-2011
(12-04-2011, 09:32 PM)BarEdul Wrote: Never knew about the pear... hmmm.
Really? They do the same thing with apricots as well.
Edit: Oh, and some amateurs here in Michigan do it with cherries too.
RE: Quiz for Bright People - Twitchin Kitten - 12-05-2011
Mmm.... cherries in vodka would be divine!