Some Thinking Questions

[jholland1964]

Ok folks....here are some questions...I have the answers but am not posting them yet...give them your best shot.

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."

[PhilliePhan]

Ok folks....here are some questions...I have the answers but am not posting them yet...give them your best shot. . . . .

Ahhh . . An oldie but a goodie.

No cheating allowed!!!

[Gizmokid2005]

Man...I know half of these....but hell if I can think of any of them....

[TurcoLoco]

Never seen or heard of this and as an uneducated foreigner I am bound to fail but what the heck, here it goes:

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is...Poker.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving
backward?

Don't have the slightest clue but I am guessing some sort of an instrument, like a clock.

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?

Tomato and ....sunflower?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

I can only think of one: strawberry.

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?

The pear was put in there as a seed perhaps?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

Dwarf and Dwell? I know my English is horrible.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you
name at least half of them?

Oh god, didn't I just mention that my English was horrible?
(I just used 3 in the previous sentence) Period, comma, quotation mark, exclamation mark/point, question mark, colon, semi-colon. Do slash/back slash, parenthesis count as well?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen,
canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

A shot in the dark; watermelon?

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

slippers, socks, shoes, sandals, ski boots, skates?

~TL

[jholland1964]

~TL's score;
Not bad...3 and 2/3 correct, one pretty close...but not exactly correct.

[TurcoLoco]

~TL's score;
Not bad...3 and 2/3 correct, one pretty close...but not exactly correct.

Dang it, I tried! I am only human...baaaa!

Ahhh . . An oldie but a goodie.

No cheating allowed!!!

Funny you mentioned it was an oldie but no answers at all? Did you need time to research the answers or what?