Friday Trivia
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You have the weekend to come up witht the answers. Moday is answer day.
1. There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contestants do. 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. At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?
5. What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
6. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
7. 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?
8. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw". They are all common. Name two of them.
9. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
10. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
Enjoy your weekend.
1. There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contestants do. 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. At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?
5. What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
6. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
7. 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?
8. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw". They are all common. Name two of them.
9. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
10. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
Enjoy your weekend.
Comments
#7 - it was dehydrated which shrunk it, stuffed in the bottle and rehydrated by the liquor.
#9 - period, comma, exclamation point, colon, semi-colon, question mark, apostrophe, brackets, braces, dash, quotation marks, hyphen, ellipses, Aagghh! One more...what is it?
Anne in Ohio
#2 Niagara Falls
#6 - strawberry?
#8 - dwell and dwarf?
Anne in Ohio
Wouldn't they 'cross' 719 times but be exactly coincident 11 times?
#3 asparagus
#5 baseball
#7 put bottle over the flower on the growing pear tree and wait for the fruit to ripen
#10 minnesota (so are the stars from the Dallas hockey team, I think)
#8 = Dwell, Dwarf, Dwindle
#3 = Asparagus and spinach?
[url]www.yourdictionary.com[/url] has dweeb listed.
[b]dweeb[/b]
noun
[u]Slang[/u] An unpleasant, tiresome person: bore.
[u]Slang[/u] drip, jerk, nerd, pill, poop2.
#2 California Coast?
#3 ??
#4 21 ?
#5 - Baseball
#6 - strawberries
#7 - a vaccuum process? Putting the pear in before the bottom is attached?
#8 - "dwain the tub, I'm dwowning" (Elmer Fudd)
#9 - period, comma, colon, semi-colon, question mark, exclamation mark, quotes, parenthesis, brackets, dash, underscore . . .
#10 - ?
#5 - baseball
#7 - pear is dehydrated placed in the bottle
#8 - dwelling, dwarf, dwindle
#10 - Minnesota