easier quiz than parts of speech

This is for all you wimps who wouldn't help me with my homework.....

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."
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Reply #1 Top
1. Don't know
2. Don't know
3. Don't know
4. Strawberry!
5. No clue
6. Dwarf, Dwell, Dwindle
7. period, coma, colon, semi-colon, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, quotation mark.... I'm out
8.Don't know.
9. Sock, sandal, shoe, slipper... I'm out.
Reply #2 Top
#5. The bottle is placed over the flower and the pear grows inside the bottle (thanks, discovery channel!)
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Can we google? or is that cheating? I answered everything I could without... though I felt like I was cheating with the punctuation one -- I just looked at my keyboard.
Reply #4 Top
7. in addition to SHE's -- exclamation point, parenthesis, ellipses...
8. lettuce?
9. in addition to SHE's -- skis, snowshoes, sneakers, skates, stockings... (I seem to be on a winter theme)
Reply #5 Top
How did I forget exclamation point, parenthesis, and ellipses? I am a bad English major.
Reply #7 Top

1. Boxing

3. Rhubarb (I think)

 

Reply #8 Top
This is much more fun than "real" homework" (BTW....my essay came back covered with little red marks.)

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.

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 marks, bracket s, 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.
Reply #9 Top
This is much more fun than "real" homework" (BTW....my essay came back covered with little red marks.)

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.

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 marks, bracket s, 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.
Reply #10 Top
Do "swimfins" count for #9?

This was fun! I love having fairly useless knowledge.
Reply #11 Top
WOW!  I got half of #3!  I be smart.
Reply #12 Top
how about "dweeb" for #6!
Reply #13 Top
Answering these without looking at the replies...


1. Okay, I am not a sports fan so this is my edumacated guess...Boxing?

2. I have no clue...wild guess The Statue of Liberty?

3. Again guessing, potatoes and carrots?

4. I know this one! Strawberry!

5. My theory is that the ship in the bottle delivered the pears.

6. Hmm..Dwarf and Dweeb. First two that come to mind

7. period, comma, quotation marks, exclamation point, colon, semi-colon, parenthesis, points of elipses...

8. Hmm...how about a human vegetable? Oh that was bad. Can't think of any other.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Sandals, socks, shoes, slippers, stilts, stilettos, stink..

Okay, gonna hit send and then go look at the answers to see how stoopid I am.
Reply #14 Top
Oh! I got #1 right.
Ack, I should have know half of number 3.
And duh, why didn't I think of number 8?

This was fun!
Reply #15 Top
OK, see, I thought lettuce, but I have issues with the question. Technically, I would consider bagged salad to be "processed"; obviously they do not, though.