(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants
know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
(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) Name the only sport in which the ball is
always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score
without touching the ball?
(5) What fruit has its seeds on the
outside?
(6) 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?
(7) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters
"dw." They are all common. Name two of them.
(8) There are fourteen
punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
(9)
Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles
Lakers?"
(10) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach
first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name
the other six.
(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold
frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is
it?
(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that
begin with the letter "S."
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"Answers To
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1. Boxing.
2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4.
Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the
pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and
dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,
question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as
the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter
hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike;
fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
11.
Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes,
stockings.
...Well, now you know! Feel any smarter?
Posted:
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
