How Smart Are You?
This is a quiz for people who think they know everything. These are not trick questions.
My mother sent me this quiz. I was really impressed with myself because I got most of the questions right. I only missed two.
How smart are you? Extra points if you can guess the 2 I missed...
1. Name the one sport in which neither the participants nor the spectators 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."
I told my mother not to send this to The Professor. If he gets more than me, I'll cry in my cereal until morning. However, I really don't see that happening. Without the incessant ticking of the Jeopardy clock, I believe I may have him beat!
13 comments:
My guess is the vegetable question and the brandy question are the ones you missed since you don't like either!
MOM
You're close
Close...but not quite
1. Name the one sport in which neither the participants nor the spectators know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
Cow Tipping
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
Rosie O'Donnell
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?
Britney Spears and Tom Cruise
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Rip Taylor
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?
It's not really in the bottle. It just appers to be in the bottle to those still part of The Matrix
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.
A. Dwayne
B. Dwon
example: Dwayne the tub, I'm gonna dwon
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.
Cheese Whiz
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "s."
Socks
Shoes
Sandles
Sand
Soot
Silt
Smoke [but you have to set them on fire first]
Stones
Super Rog made me laugh until I cried -
try a bit harder Lori!
Wow, I now feel much stupider. There were only maybe one or two that I felt really confident about. So, what are the answers?
Roger, you get mega points for creativity. I'm with Cindy...I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
Becky...I'm just waiting on Larry to try his hand at the quiz. I just want to know that, like the Xanadu quiz on your blog, I'm smarter than him.
Well, I think you're golden, Lori. I mentioned it to him this morning at church and he admitted to not knowing the answers. (Sorry, Larry.)
Okay, then I have 2 more people I need to stump...Geoff and Shawn... if they're even reading my blog anymore!
Not only do I not know, I'm too lazy to puzzle them out. The problem is, I only know stuff that is NOT interesting, like Czars of Russia or random dates. I would like to see a key, however--then I could commit this trivia to memory, as well.
Well, I guess it's enough to hear that the Professor doesn't know.
Here are the answers:
1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . Boxing.
(I ROCK)
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.
(I missed this one)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . Asparagus and rhubarb.
(Missed this one too. I don't even know what rhubarb is)
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside .. Strawberry.
(DUH)
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.
(I guessed the answer, but I had no idea why)
6. Three English words beginning with "dw". Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
(I got dwarf and dwell)
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
(Didn't know braces or dash, oddly enough)
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
(totally guessed this one, but got it right!)
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s". Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
(and don't forget scrub shoes, those little things doctors wear)
OK. You got me. But now that I know these, I'll never miss them again. Actually, although I was too lazy to write 'em down, I knew Niagra Falls, the strawberry, the brandy bottle, the punctuation, and the footwear. I was embarassed at not getting boxing or lettuce. If I had felt like it, I probably should have been able to noodle out the "dw" words. If you gave me a million years I wouldn't have gotten rhubarb or asparagus. Let's just say if the final Jeapordy category is "history" or "Bible stories" or even "almost anything you learned in school," I'm betting. But if it's "vegetables," I'm out.
Mine weren't right, but they were fun.
Merry CHRISTmas y'all. Give Frogboy a hug from Mr. Roger.
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