Today is Mental Health Day - Test Yours with this Quiz

[BobH]

There are only nine questions.

This is a quiz for people who know everything! 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.'

[HansV]

1.

Spoiler

Boxing?

2.

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Niagara Falls

4.

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Strawberry

5.

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The bottle is placed over the pear when it is still very small, and attached to the branch. So the pear grows inside the bottle while still on the tree.

6.

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Dwarf, dwindle

7.

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Point, comma, colon, semi-colon, exclamation mark, question mark, dash

9.

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Shoes, socks, slippers, sandals, skates, skeelers

[BobH]

I'll reveal all the answers later. Those you provided are all correct.

[PaulB]

6:

Spoiler

dwell, dwelling (arguably two different words with two different meanings)

8:

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lettuce

[BobH]

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. - I THINK SOME OF THESE ARE KNOWN TO AMERICANS

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
NOTE: Some say that lettuce is 'processed' when it is washed and combined with other ingredients for salads.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S':

Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

[HansV]

I respectfully disagree with the answers to 3. and 8.

3. Not "only two" perennial vegetables: also artichoke, broccoli, horseradish, kale, radicchio.

8. Lettuce is sometimes boiled or stewed. See this Google search.

[BobH]

I bow to the Master!

[AlanMiller]

I had a couple of unorthodox ideas:

1. Russian roulette

6. dweeb, a bit obscure, but making 4 standard English words.

[HansV]

Good ones!