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ttfn | 22:20 Mon 31st Jan 2011 | Quizzes & Puzzles

25 Answers

There are only nine questions.

These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers
No googling or recourse to dictionaries and the like!

I shall return to check any answers tomorrow - hope it gives you some fun. ttfn

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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IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY 697 Monday January 31st 2011

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cancross

2. Niagara Falls

ljdksa

1) boxing
4) strawberry
5) grew there?
6) dwindle, dwarf, er...
7) full stop, comma, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, question mark, exclamation mark
9) shoe, sock, sandal, snowshoe, sneakers (?), stockings, slippers

ljdksa

...dwell

ladyalex

4 Strawberry
5 They slip the bottle over the pear when it is tiny then allow the pear to grow inside the bottle
8 Pomegranate ?
9 slippers socks stockings shoes skis skates snowshoes

factor-fiction

I recall that teh answer to 8 is supposed to be LETTUCE but this answer is not correct

scotman

5. Bottles are tied to pear trees with young pear hanging inside the bottle. It then grows inside the bottle.

ljdksa

3) rhubarb?

bibblebub

8 brussels sprouts ??? (wild guess - but don't recall ever seeing them other than fresh)

TheWinner

8. Avocado ?

boxtops

6
dwindle
dwell
dwarf

boxtops

7 yes
comma, full stop, colon, semi colon, hyphen, bracket(s), question mark, apostrophe,
quotation mark(s) - that's 9/14

8 lettuce?
9 socks slippers shoes sandals salopettes ski-boots

boxtops

If 8's not lettuce then I'll try MARROW (btw you can get frozen Brussels sprouts)

Azalian

period, comma, colon, semicolon,question mark ,exclamation mark, braces, brackets, parentheses, quotation marks, hyphen, apostrophe, ellpisis, solidus (slash)