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9 Questions for you
Topic Started: May 23 2011, 09:57:31 AM (536 Views)
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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 them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name 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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ABCDiamond
May 23 2011, 09:57:31 AM
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 them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name 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.'
1. Boxing
2. Niagra Falls
3. Asparagus and no idea
4. Strawberry
5. No idea
6. If you're Jonathan Ross, there are hundreds more the three
7. Got up to 10
8. Banana
9. Six? Really? Sandals, socks, stockings, slippers, shoes, erm, nope can't think of a sixth.

That was off the top of my head. I may go away and think about them, on the other hand I may have a nanna nap.......

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May 23 2011, 09:57:31 AM
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 them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name 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.'
3. Rhubarb
8. Cucumber
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the pear in the bottle thing - is that where they tie the bottle over the budding fruit and leave it there til it matures (or is that something else I saw on some obsure documentary channel)

dwarf, dwell ermmmm
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Anne
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dwindle
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dweeb, dwine, dwelt (may have the same root as dwell but it's a different word)
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May 23 2011, 09:57:31 AM
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 them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name 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.'
3. asparagus and artichoke.
4.strawberry
7. got about 10!
8.melon?
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footwear beginning with S

do skates count ?
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8 "Have you seen the price of" Lettuce.

9 add Skis? Sneakers?
Edited by BIX, May 24 2011, 03:28:00 PM.
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7 I'm missing three.....

full stop
comma
colon
semi colon
brackets
parenthesis
question mark
inverted commas
apostrophe
exclamation mark
hyphen

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braces
ellipses
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Wonderful Winsome Wench

stilts
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1... Boxing.

2... 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... The 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.

6... Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

7... Period (full stop in proper English), 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... Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

I'm not going to check anyone's scores, my brain wasn't even up to answering those questions myself. Good job I was sent the answers aswell :)
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