Tuesday's Test

unknown | 7/11/2017 | unknown

[sodpoodle]

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..

The answers are in the comment.

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.'

[oldbill]

#2 Congress

New Winner!!!

[alicewonders]

Stilettos.

What about brussels sprouts? Don’t they come back?

[BlueLancer]

Four times I read the answer to question 8 ... four times!

And each time, I read the answer as "cabbage".

I guess it's true you see what you want to see ...

[mabarker1]

LOL! Yes, it didn't take much time for "Brainless France" to destroy Big Bill's Dynasty did it ?

The Stands are closer to 1/4th IMO

Just as I move to Mooresville, NC the heart of what I now call NUTSCAR Land!

[Mrs. Don-o]

And I have a great lettuce soup recipe made with chicken broth and cream, yum!

Then there’s traditional German (and Appalachian) wilted lettuce salad, with the lettuce leaves partially cooked by the hot bacon grease. I expect that counts!

[mabarker1]

Thank You;)

[chajin]

In Việt Nam if you get lettuce with your meal that has not been cooked it is highly advisable not to eat it.

In Japan in the 1960s, we were advised to bleach (as in chlorine) any locally-grown vegetables, because of the use of nightsoil as fertilizer. It hasn't been that way in Japan for a long time since, but I'm not surprised that it might be true elsewhere in SE or south Asia.

[ThanhPhero]

The primary offense in Việt Nam is the water that vegetables are rinsed with. Most vegetables now are raised with commercial fertilizer though in the smaller towns and in the countryside the nightsoil reason for cooking everything still pertains. The Communists did two good things along with all the horrors they initiated after 1975. They built water bottling plants all over the country and heavily promoted the drinking of bottled water and they built brick factories all over so that building a house is cheap. Very few people drink unboiled ground water now though they still rinse vegetables in it. One notable result is the population explosion in Việt Nam. The babies all grow up to be adults producing more babies now.

[Buttons12]

Spats. Not so much anymore...

[Boogieman]

Stilettos

[Songcraft]

9 - spikes

6 - How about "dweam", as in dweam wacation?   (See Elmer Fudd on youtube.)

[hold_muh_bier]

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.

Here's a fifteenth: The interrobang. "?!"

Used thus:

Sodpoodle, I just read your "About me" page on FR. Are you kidding me?!

Please stay put. Some days, yours are the only threads I read here, especially when I need a laugh.

[alexander_busek]

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 know that, e.g., Wikipedia classifies them as punctuation marks, but in my estimation, hyphens and apostrophes are more-properly classified as orthographical or diacritical marks - comparable to the dierisis (" ¨ ") - since they are not used to parse the meaning of entire sentences, but rather only to modify the meaning of individual words.

Regards,

[varon]

6 - How about "dweam", as in dweam wacation?

or "dwop", as in dwop dead ;)

[HeadOn]

You are not buying a vegetable. You are buying a meal. You’ll never find canned, bottled, or processed (cooked and placed in a container for keeping) lettuce.

[HeadOn]

Cabbage is NOT lettuce.

[HeadOn]

But I guess that’s your point, isn’t it?

[HeadOn]

Yes. Sour Kraut is cabbage, and cabbage is NOT lettuce.

[HeadOn]

LOL... Been there.

[xander]

Re:#1 (sport)

Seem to recall some sport fishing outcomes are a complete mystery to all until the contestant’s fish are brought in, measured, and weighed. Typically a timed event.