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Think you know everything?
« on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 4:26pm » |
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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."
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Answers:
1. Boxing.
2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are
ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,
question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference;
catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a
pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes,
stockings.
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #1 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 4:37pm » |
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1. Boxing.
2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are
ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,
question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference;
catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a
pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes,
stockings.
Cathy 
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #2 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 4:53pm » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2004, 4:37pm, cathy wrote:
1. Boxing.
2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are
ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,
question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference;
catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a
pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes,
stockings.
Cathy
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This is very funny. Very, very funny.
But only for smrt people.
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #3 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 4:57pm » |
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1. Boxing
2. Niagra falls (water erosion)
3. Dunno 
4. Baseball
5. Strawberries
6. at a loss on this one
7. Dwarf, Dwell, Dwindle
8. comma, colon, period, semi-colon, Exclamation mark, Question mark, Parenthesis, Quotation marks, Brackets, and I'm spent.
9. they originated in minnesota and kept the name
10. hit by pitch, passed ball, pinch runner, catcher interfereance, dropped third strike, fielder's choice (btw, you said seven and only listed six) and base on balls.
11. Lettuce
12. slippers, shoes, socks, swim fins, snow shoes, sneakers, stockings.
Duh...........how'd I do? 
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #4 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 5:08pm » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2004, 4:37pm, cathy wrote:
1. Boxing.
2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are
ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,
question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference;
catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a
pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes,
stockings.
Cathy
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Well that was just incredible. Cathy must be the smartest woman on the PLANET! Not only were her answers correct, even the words were in the exact same order (right down to the line breaks!)
oh wait a minute...
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #5 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 5:19pm » |
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 ...are you accusing me of cheating....I did not!!! you never heard of coincidence....
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #6 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 7:18pm » |
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What a dweeb I am 
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #7 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 8:49pm » |
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If I had known the answers were ALREADY there, I wouldn't have wasted 20 minutes of my life trying to figure them out!
I want those 20 minutes back!
-Brad
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #8 on: Jan 24th, 2004, 8:47pm » |
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Found some more useless crap... LOL
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Maine is ! the only state whose name has just one syllable.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they're read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
- There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
..And Now you know everything
-Brad (Who knew nothing)
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Re: Think you know everything?
« Reply #9 on: Jan 24th, 2004, 8:54pm » |
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Why do you park on the driveway, and drive on the parkway?
And why did Kamakazee pilots wear helments?
Answers? Hell I don't even have the questions!
Talk amoungst yourselves.
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