Quiz

There are only nine questions.
               
               This is a quiz for people who know everything!  
               These are not trick questions.  
               They are straight questions with straight answers. 
               I answered them all correctly, of course.
               
               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 two of them.
               
               7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.  
               Can you name at least half of 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.'
               
               
               
               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 fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry. 
               
               5. 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. 
               
               6. Three English words beginning with dw:
 Dwarf, dwell and dwindle... 
               
               7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: 
Period, 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. Six or more things you can wear on your feet
 beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers,
 skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.