I know you are probably sitting around bored because it is the week between Christmas and New Years. No one is in the office and you've already cleaned your desk 10 times. Now you are just counting down the hours until you can go home and have a little vacation time.
Here is something to help.
Enjoy and Happy New Year!
Ev
> 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.'
NOW THE 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 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.
PLEASE DO YOUR PART....
If you know others that are looking for something to do today feel free to send them this link. Just don't send it back to me. I've
already flunked it once.
