A challenge for your mind
Susan
Have fun! How many can you get? ( No peeking!)
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) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with
each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and
minute hands cross?
(5) What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the
team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
(6) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
(7) 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?
(8) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are
all common. Name two of them.
(9) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half
of them?
(10) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
(11) 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.
(12) 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?
(13) How is it possible for a pitcher to make four or more strikeouts in one
inning?
(14) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with
the letter "s."
Answers to follow below.........
ANSWERS TO QUIZ
(1) Boxing.
(2) Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 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) Ten times (not eleven, as most people seem to think, if you do not believe
it, try it with your watch, it is only 10 times).
(5) Baseball.
(6) Strawberry.
(7) 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.
(8) Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
(9) Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,
exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.
(10) In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and
kept the name when they moved west.
(11) Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
(12) Lettuce.
(13) If the catcher drops a called third strike, and doesn't throw the batter
out at first base, the runner is safe.
(14) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and
so on.
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Baglen
does this mean DWEEB isn't standard English? <g>
~~Betsy
<I> <font color="#333399"> "In dreams and in love there are no
impossibilities." ~~ Janos Arany</I>
Sackley3
nancy
Susan
LOL, Betsy ... my thought, too.
Aplejack
>know
>the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
I think this also applies to figureskating.
AJ
Sea si
LOL Dweeb was my third choice, too.<g>
Lupe
~Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money;
more heart-cleansing than prayer~
Jenn ifer
Jenn