1. What is the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends?
2. What is the North American landmark that constantly moves backward?
3. What two vegetables can live to produce on their own for several seasons?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. How do pears get inside of brandy bottles?
6. Can you list three English words that begin with the letters “dw”?
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name seven of them?
8. What are the only two vegetables or fruits that are not ever sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked or in any form other than fresh?
9. Can you name six or more things you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter “s”?
Answers
1. Boxing
2. Niagara Falls — The rim erodes about 2.5 feet each year by the water flowing over it causing the water line to move backward
3. Asparagus and rhubarb
4. Strawberries (I bet most of you got this one right)
5. It grows inside the bottles. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small and are wired in place on the tree. The bottles remain there for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe they are snipped off at the stems.
6. Dwarf, dwindle and dwell
7. Period, comma, colon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, point, quotation mark, bracket, parenthesis, brace and ellipse
8. Lettuce and watermelon
9. Shoes, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings and stilts
