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Brain teasers....no 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.

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You certainly got me Bob, I managed two, Strawberries and Lettuce!!!!!!!!!



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Those who wish to reap the blessings of freedom must, as men, endure the fatigue of defending it.

Thomas Paine.

 

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Was in the staffroom at work when a person came in and asked if lettuce could be frozen. Someone yelled out YES. A few months later the lettuce person came into the staff room and started to tell the person who said YES that he was wrong. The YES person stated that lettuce can be frozen which was the answer to the question. Did it freeze? YES. What should have been asked is the lettuce edible once it's thawed out.

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Q 1 . Jeff Horn should have known the result of his title defence in good ole US of A.

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