Offshoreonly.com

Offshoreonly.com (https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/)
-   General Boating Discussion (https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/general-boating-discussion-51/)
-   -   A Quiz For People Who Know Everything (https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/general-boating-discussion/12142-quiz-people-who-know-everything.html)

Von Bongo 01-17-2002 09:31 AM

A Quiz For People Who Know Everything
 
A Quiz For People Who Know Everything

(1) There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
What is it?

(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."
They are all common. Name two of them.

(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you
name half of them?

(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles
Lakers?"

(10) There are seven 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 six.

(11) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen,
canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?

(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that
begin with the letter "S."

26scarab 01-17-2002 09:47 AM

(1)

(2)Grand canyon

(3)carrots ,onions

(4)baseball

(5) strawberries

(6)They put the bottles on the trees and the
pear grows in the bottle

(7)dwindle, dwarf, dwell

(8)comma,period,semicolon,colon,question mark,apostrophe,exclamation mark

(9)

(10)

(11)coconut,kiwi

(12)socks,shoes,skis,sandles,slippers,scubafins,

28SS 01-17-2002 10:31 AM

1 chess

2 niagra falls

3 onion potato

4 baseball

5 strawberry

6 pear dehydrated

7 dwindel dwarf dwell

8 see keyboard

9

10

11

12shoe sock sandle ski snowshoes slippers

BAJA WILL 01-17-2002 10:49 AM

28SS

See Keyboard HA HA HA :D

I want to know true answer to Pear? I think they grow inside bottle.

Caincando1 01-17-2002 10:56 AM

9. The great lakes

bajabob38 01-17-2002 11:12 AM

# 10. hit by a pitch,intentionally walked, error,fielders choice,pass ball on third strike,pinch runner

euby 01-17-2002 11:20 AM

1) boxing

neu-rich 01-17-2002 11:23 AM

#1 I Was Thinging Boxing....

Is Chess A Sport???

Jeff

28SS 01-17-2002 11:52 AM

I put it in the class of golf? bowling?

laster 01-17-2002 12:06 PM

How about (1) Bullfighting :eek:

(8) "quotation marks", (parentheses), -dash, /slash, [brackets], ~tilde

28ss - there is at least one punctuation mark that is NOT a key on your keyboard. Do you know what it is? I wonder ...


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:50 AM.


Copyright © 2026 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.