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[Malcolm Robinson]

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..

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.'

[Brettly]

Malcolm Robinson said:

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

Spoiler

Boxing

Malcolm Robinson said:

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

Spoiler

Clock of some description?

Malcolm Robinson said:

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?

[spoiler[Asparagus and some other one[/spoiler]

Malcolm Robinson said:

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Spoiler

No idea

Malcolm Robinson said:

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?

Spoiler

It was grown inside??

Malcolm Robinson said:

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

Spoiler

dwarf is one of them

Malcolm Robinson said:

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

Spoiler

comma, colon, semi-colon, apostrophe, exclamation mark, question mark, full stop, hyphen

Malcolm Robinson said:

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

Spoiler

nothing in Asda

Malcolm Robinson said:

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

Spoiler

socks, slippers, shoes....

[mercuryg]

Good God Malcolm, you are a glutton for punishment! Here are my answers to the ones I think I know.....and some I've guessed at!

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

Must be something with a handicap....haven't a clue!

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

Great question! Is it the Hollywood sign for some strange reason?

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?

No idea! It can't be a root vegetable, so I'll guess at sprouts and cauliflower....

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

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?

It grew on a bottle tree!

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

Contentious question: dwarf, dwell, dwindle, are three, and all have variants, so I would state that there are many more than three (dwindling, dwindled, dwarfed, dwelling, dweller......etc)

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

full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation mark, question mark, er.......are speech marks, parenthesis and so on included? (embarrasingly I'm a professional writer.....)


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

lettuce? It would be pretty pointless other than fresh, after all...

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

Shoes, socks, sandals, slippers, snow-shoes and skis!

Do I win £5?

[keith]

1 - Aircraft racing or aerobatics

2- Mount McKinley (spelling?) cos the presidents faces are constantly eroding

3 - Would agree with Merc here sprouts / cauliflower

4 - As above - strawberry (only cos I cant think of nowt else )

5 - I know it can be done with a boiled egg by creating a vacuum, poss do the same thing with a pear?

6 - Would add dwarfism dwelled etc. and all of Jonathon Woss' vocabulary wher "R" follows "D"

7 - 'Nuff said

8 - agree with lettuce

9 - Shoes, socks, stockings, slippers, sandals, ski's, skates

[foxy]

Get back to work you lot !!

[keith]

foxy, on 06 January 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

Get back to work you lot !!

LANGUAGE SIR, LANGUAGE !!!!

[keith]

keith, on 06 January 2012 - 11:22 AM, said:

1 - Aircraft racing or aerobatics

2- Mount McKinley (spelling?) cos the presidents faces are constantly eroding

3 - Would agree with Merc here sprouts / cauliflower

4 - As above - strawberry (only cos I cant think of nowt else )

5 - I know it can be done with a boiled egg by creating a vacuum, poss do the same thing with a pear?

6 - Would add dwarfism dwelled etc. and all of Jonathon Woss' vocabulary wher "R" follows "D"

7 - 'Nuff said

8 - agree with lettuce

9 - Shoes, socks, stockings, slippers, sandals, ski's, skates

Answer to question 2 should read Mt Rushmore (not McKinley)

[Malcolm Robinson]

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. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small,
and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the
entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the
stems

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 mark, brackets, 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.

[Malcolm Robinson]

All relating to the year 1900.

• 
  1. Radon discovered by whom……..
  
  2. Chicago Ship Canal opens connecting the Mississippi with what.
  
  3. Name 1900 uprising against foreigners in China.
  
  4. Puccini premiers which of his operas in Rome.
  
  5. Box Brownie launched by which company.
  
  6. Manufacture begins of which famous gun.
  
  7. F.L. Baum published what famous book.
  
  8. Who is released from exile in Siberia.
  
  9. In which USA city is there an outbreak of bubonic plague.
  
  10. What aeroplane is tested in Germany.
  
  11. Which city hosts 2^nd modern Olympic Games.
  
• 
  Which physicist reveals Quantum Theory.

[mercuryg]

• . Radon discovered by whom……..not sure; priestley?
  
  2. Chicago Ship Canal opens connecting the Mississippi with what. Atlantic?
  
  3. Name 1900 uprising against foreigners in China. Boxer.
  
  4. Puccini premiers which of his operas in Rome. Madame Butterfly?
  
  5. Box Brownie launched by which company. Kodak?
  
  6. Manufacture begins of which famous gun. not sure; Colt 45?
  
  7. F.L. Baum published what famous book. Wizard of Oz, I think....
  
  8. Who is released from exile in Siberia. No idea. A very cold bloke.
  
  9. In which USA city is there an outbreak of bubonic plague. No idea, guess at new york
  
  10. What aeroplane is tested in Germany. This is a good question; some form of monoplane?
  
  11. Which city hosts 2^nd modern Olympic Games. Not sure, I'll go for London
  
• Which physicist reveals Quantum Theory. Not sure, Planck?

[Malcolm Robinson]

3 1/2 Merc..........

[mercuryg]

Malcolm Robinson, on 07 January 2012 - 03:36 PM, said:

3 1/2 Merc..........

No surprise; I wasn't around then.......

[keith]

I got them all right, just could'nt be botthered to pot the answers ...... ahem

[Canny lass]

The discovery of radon is often accredited to Freidrich Ernst Dorn around 1900 and It could be Alexander Solzjenitsyn (never could spell his name) who was released from exile in Siberia in the 50's. But i know for certain that the 2nd modern olympics was held in Paris, about the same time that Dorn was supposedly discovering radon.

[Vic Patterson]

#10, Zeppelin (airship, Write brothers first flight 1903!)

[threegee]

Sorry to come late to the show, but I've never seen a "frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh" avocado, and I just ate one today!

1 and 4 are obvious!

...and isn't a tilde (~) a common punctuation mark? Plastered all over dictionaries to signify alternative word endings, and us coders use it all the time not! [Programmers joke]

...surely ... is ellipsis, and not ellipses - oh, OK, so maybe that's the plural!

And the Wright brothers are going to be turning in their graves over the above! BTW an airship is not an aeroplane, it's a dirigible. Aero plane = the wingie things, gerrit! Lighter than air does not fly; it floats - as Count Zeppelin would have told you!

[Vic Patterson]

Funny Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin never mentioned it
I was trying to be polite by pointing out that Germany would not be testing an "aircraft" as such three years before the Wright brothers first controlled, powered flight in 1903! but in 1900 they were in fact "floating" around in airships or "dirigibles"

[Malcolm Robinson]

1. Radon discovered by whom…….. Friedrich Dorn.

2. Chicago Ship Canal opens connecting the Mississippi with what. The Great Lakes.

3. Name 1900 uprising against foreigners in China. Boxer Rebellion.

4. Puccini premiers which of his operas in Rome. Tosca.

5. Box Brownie launched by which company Eastman Kodak.

6. Manufacture begins of which famous gun. The Lugar Pistol.

7. F.L. Baum published what famous book. Wizard of Oz.

8. Who is released from exile in Siberia. Lenin.

9. In which USA city is there an outbreak of bubonic plague. San Francisco.

10. What aeroplane is tested in Germany. Zeppelin Airship.

11. Which city hosts 2nd modern Olympic Games. Paris.

Which physicist reveals Quantum Theory. Max Planck.

[keith]

yep ...... got them all right

[threegee]

Vic Patterson, on 09 January 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:

Funny Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin never mentioned it
I was trying to be polite by pointing out that Germany would not be testing an "aircraft" as such three years before the Wright brothers first controlled, powered flight in 1903! but in 1900 they were in fact "floating" around in airships or "dirigibles"

So is Zeppelin the Wright answer to the wrong question? I'm not aware of any heavier than air stuff in Germany apart from Lilenthal (sp?) in or before 1900, and he was killed before 1900 in a stall. There was an Austrian guy though, who's name I can't recall, messing around with attempted flights off a lake.