A quiz for people who know everything! (Full Version)

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid



Message

Mercnbeth -> A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 9:55:49 AM)

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. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?

5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

6. 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?

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

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

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los Angeles Lakers?

10. There are 7 ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls (a walk) is one way. Name the other 6.

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

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


OH - You want the answers???

I've decided to see what all the fuss is about about "cyber-sadism". This is my first attempt at long distance extended "cyber-scene". So if you want any answer, you'll have to EARN IT or Beg....Sincerely! [:D] [:D] [:D]



MsIncognito -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 11:14:00 AM)

This is so not my cuppa, but hubby loves these sorts of things. I'm going to send it to him and see what he comes up with :)



MrThorns -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 11:16:57 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

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.

Boxing

quote:


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


Hmmm... I'm not going to factor in continental drift..so, The USS Arizona memorial?

quote:



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...I wanted to say tomatoes...but those are fruit, aren't they?

quote:


4. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?


well...baseball comes to mind, as a runner can come home on a walk.

quote:

5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Hmmm...damned fruit and vegetable questions...strawberries?

quote:


6. 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?


Was the bottle blown around the pear? (although I would thing that the pear would wind up rather burned in the process.)

quote:


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


Are we allowed Proper Nouns.. Like Dwight? Otherwise...no clue.

quote:


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


period, comma, colon, semicolon, hyphen, apostrophe, exclamation point, question mark, although I'm thinking there are different names for the last 2.

quote:

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los Angeles Lakers?

In Minnesota

quote:

10. There are 7 ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls (a walk) is one way. Name the other 6.


Stealing 1st, hit by pitch, as a base runner, whilest playing 1st baseman, hmm...the only other thing I can think of is if the hit isn't recorded as a hit, but rather as an error.


quote:

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

Lettuce?

quote:

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


Socks, shoes, slippers, skis, sandals, skates, snowshoes, stockings...hmm...thats all I think of at the moment without resorting to dictionary.com or google.

This was fun...thanks

~Thorns




Mercnbeth -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 11:24:27 AM)

Thorns,
You got 5 correct [8|], (it wouldn't be appropriate to say which five). [;)] Not including the "partial credit". Appreciate you not cheating by looking in the dictionary for the "dw" question. You've exhibited your integrity!



suberic -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 12:34:41 PM)

Ah, another fan of West Wing:

4: Cricket
5: Strawberry
6: It's allowed to ripen while inside the bottle. The actual bottle is hung while the fruit is still a bud.
7. Dwell, Dwarf, and I can't remember the last: Dwomer (magic) and Dwaddle (to delay) are two more, but I don't kno if they are in the dictionary. Still can't remember it. Ah, just remembered it... dwindle.
8. Period, colin, semicolin, coma, question mark, exclamation point, parenthesis, brackets, braces, elipses, dashes, apostrophe, quotation marks and astereck (sp).

Those are all my tired brain can produce right now. And I'm not going to cheet by looking them up.



Mercnbeth -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:04:07 PM)

Okay Eric, I guess this "quiz" had an US prejudice, but I'll admit to not knowing all the nuances of Cricket to know if that answer is also correct.

The answer to #7 must consider that the words are "common usage", I don't know many who would use "Dwomer" and/or "Dwaddle" but I'll take your word if they appear in your dictionary. They weren't in mine. But another was that wasn't part of the original answer. Along with the 3 you site, Dwarf, Dwell (or dwelling), and Dwindle another "DW" word, originating in slang has made it into the Webster Standard Usage dictionary. To keep #7 alive - can anyone think of it? It is in very common usage as a derogatory term, but sometimes positive as a group identity with a common interest.

Good job with #8! Are you an English major, writer, editor, or....? (Note, illustration of an ellipse?) Now the challenge would be to use ALL 14 punctuation marks properly using the least amount of words/sentences.



Faramir -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:06:24 PM)

4. Baseball.

5. Strawberry

7. Dwarf, dwindle, dwarrow, dweomer, dwell, dwelling...is it a trick question? There are tons of "dw" words, mostly with ME or OE antecedents.

9. Minnesota Lakers.



tuttalila -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:08:31 PM)

dweeb?



Mercnbeth -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:11:03 PM)

tuttalila,
Good Job!



suberic -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:17:08 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

Okay Eric, I guess this "quiz" had an US prejudice, but I'll admit to not knowing all the nuances of Cricket to know if that answer is also correct.

The answer to #7 must consider that the words are "common usage", I don't know many who would use "Dwomer" and/or "Dwaddle" but I'll take your word if they appear in your dictionary. They weren't in mine. But another was that wasn't part of the original answer. Along with the 3 you site, Dwarf, Dwell (or dwelling), and Dwindle another "DW" word, originating in slang has made it into the Webster Standard Usage dictionary. To keep #7 alive - can anyone think of it? It is in very common usage as a derogatory term, but sometimes positive as a group identity with a common interest.

Good job with #8! Are you an English major, writer, editor, or....? (Note, illustration of an ellipse?) Now the challenge would be to use ALL 14 punctuation marks properly using the least amount of words/sentences.



Well, Cricket was a guess.

As for #7, there's Dweeb.

As for #8, I'm a writer in my spare time. I have three books in various stages of done, two stories about 80% finished, and had some erotica stories eaten by the Apple ][e that it was originally written on. Plus, it was a question on "THe West Wing" at one point, along with the DW words and the Seeds on the outside question, and I remembered most of them, but had to go over my keyboard carefully to get the rest. There's also "daggers" which serve the same purpose as the Asterick and double asterick as well as double daggers. Just FYI. LOL

I got to admit that some of the dw words I was grasping at straws for. I'm not sure of the spelling on dwomer, since I didn't look in a dictionary, but dwaddle (I'm 90% on the spelling there) should be in the dictionary if it's not.



Faramir -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:22:05 PM)

suberic, do you mean "dawddle?", ie to walk or work slowly?




suberic -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:33:19 PM)

Ah, yes, I do. Thought there wasn't an "a" in there. Spelling was never my strong suit.

< sigh > Mea culpa.



Faramir -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 1:49:24 PM)

s'ok bro, thsi is waht happens wehn I dont use a spellchker.

[;)]



tuttalila -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 2:10:15 PM)

Grazie! from the Italian vocabulary aficionada [;)]



NakedOnMyChain -> RE: A quiz for people who know everything! (8/29/2005 11:36:48 PM)

Actually, it's dawdle, not dwaddle. Sorry, don't mean to be the spelling police. It just discounts it from the running.



Mercnbeth -> RE: A quiz - THE ANSWERS... (9/2/2005 11:45:56 AM)

Sorry I didn't post these sooner...

Answers To Quiz:

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 only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball . . . baseball. (and Cricket)

5. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . strawberry.

6. 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.)

7. Three English words beginning with dw . dwarf, dwell and dwindle. (#4 - dweeb)

8. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . . period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

9. The original lakes referred to in Lakers . . . in Minnesota. (The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.)

10. Seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit . . . taking a base on balls (a walk) . . . batter hit by a pitch, passed ball, catcher interference, catcher drops third strike, fielder's choice, and being designated as a pinch-runner.

11. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh . lettuce.

12. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" . . . shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Let the begging cease! (Except beth of course!)



Lordandmaster -> RE: A quiz - THE ANSWERS... (9/2/2005 1:45:09 PM)

OED recognizes all these words:

dwa-grass
dwale, dwele, dwole
dwalm, dwaum, dwawm
dwang
dwarf (and derivatives including dwarfify, dwarfish, dwarfism, dwarfling, dwarf-man, dwarfness, dwarfy, etc., as well as alternate spellings, including dwerf, dwerg, dwergh, dwerowe, dwrfe)
dway-berry
dwble
dweeb
dwell (and derivatives like dwelling, dwelling-place, dweller, dwelster, etc.)
dwelth
dweomercraeft (yup--it's not just in D & D)
dweomerlayk
dwer
dwere
dwete
dwild
dwile
dwindle
dwine
dwle
dwly
dwme
dwr
dwresse
dwte
dwwe

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

7. Three English words beginning with dw . dwarf, dwell and dwindle. (#4 - dweeb)




luvdragonx -> RE: A quiz - THE ANSWERS... (9/2/2005 2:39:00 PM)

I dare you to use dwme in a sentence [;)]




Lordandmaster -> RE: A quiz - THE ANSWERS... (9/2/2005 4:20:56 PM)

I had a frisson of impending dwme.

"Dwme" is just doom.



luvdragonx -> RE: A quiz - THE ANSWERS... (9/2/2005 4:22:31 PM)

Ya know.....I had a feeling you'd do it. [:D]



Page: [1] 2   next >   >>

Valid CSS!




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy
0.03125