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Old 01-17-2002, 09:31 AM
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(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."
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(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,
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1 chess

2 niagra falls

3 onion potato

4 baseball

5 strawberry

6 pear dehydrated

7 dwindel dwarf dwell

8 see keyboard

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12shoe sock sandle ski snowshoes slippers
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See Keyboard HA HA HA

I want to know true answer to Pear? I think they grow inside bottle.
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9. The great lakes
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# 10. hit by a pitch,intentionally walked, error,fielders choice,pass ball on third strike,pinch runner
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1) boxing
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#1 I Was Thinging Boxing....

Is Chess A Sport???

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I put it in the class of golf? bowling?
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How about (1) Bullfighting

(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 ...
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