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  • A Quiz for Bright People!

    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.'

    Answers tomorrow Say on here when you've answered all the questions but don't give me the answers - yet!!
    Last edited by veggiechicken; 10-12-2012, 11:12 PM.

  • #2
    Ok, I've sent you the answers. I think I need to stop doing Pub Quizzes......
    Last edited by julesapple; 10-12-2012, 10:10 PM.
    Jules

    Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

    ♥ Nutter in a Million & Royal Nutter by Appointment to HRH VC ♥

    Althoughts - The New Blog (updated with bridges)

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    • #3
      Full marks to Jules Well done! I couldn't answer them all

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      • #4
        Oh I didn't answer them all myself - the BH has quite a brain on him (when he chooses to use it.... )

        I used to do the pub quiz every Sunday at our local, until the people complained the questions were too hard *sigh* I took them all out of a quiz book for kids and they were multiple choice.......
        Last edited by julesapple; 10-12-2012, 10:16 PM.
        Jules

        Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

        ♥ Nutter in a Million & Royal Nutter by Appointment to HRH VC ♥

        Althoughts - The New Blog (updated with bridges)

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        • #5
          These came to me in an email this evening so I thought I'd share it!!

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          • #6
            I'm obviously dim rather than bright. Struggling and looking forward to the answers.

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            • #7
              Number 8 is proving tricky.

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              • #8
                I answered all but three - whether right or wrong! Don't forget to post the answers please...
                My hopes are not always realized but I always hope (Ovid)

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                • #9
                  I'm still thinking about some of these :blush: but this statmennt
                  3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.
                  ain't really true, is it?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
                    I'm still thinking about some of these :blush: but this statmennt
                    ain't really true, is it?
                    I took it to mean that if you harvest everything from it that you can one year it'll come back.
                    After all if you dug all the jerusalem artichokes up they'd not come back. It's only because they're the devil to find all of them...
                    If you harvest a beetroot it aint coming back...

                    And even then it is more than 3... I think.
                    Last edited by alldigging; 11-12-2012, 09:16 AM.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by maytreefrannie View Post
                      I answered all but three - whether right or wrong! Don't forget to post the answers please...
                      Answers posted later today! Just to give you time to think and discuss

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                      • #12
                        I have an answer that fits #1 but I will bet that it differs from the competition official answer
                        He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

                        Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by alldigging View Post
                          Number 8 is proving tricky.
                          Me, me, me I know the answer to no 8

                          plus no 4 and 9 but then thats about it

                          just worked out no 5 and 6. that's me done
                          Last edited by Bren In Pots; 11-12-2012, 10:14 AM. Reason: figured out more answers.
                          Location....East Midlands.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by bearded bloke View Post
                            I have an answer that fits #1 but I will bet that it differs from the competition official answer
                            I couldn't think of anything for this but then my OH pointed out what we'd been watching for an hour on BBC4.

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                            • #15
                              alldigging you have post
                              He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

                              Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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