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solo

Got these questions in an email today, not as easy as it looks, took some thinking which took up some work time.

Feel free to answer the ones you know.

%(#000080)[1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
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?
What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
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?
Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.
There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."]

Frederik

Here's my go...

Boxing...
Niagara falls...??
Asparagus and ???
Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries
Dwarf, dwell and...
(Not sure I understand this question...)
My first though was watermelon but then I came to think of the processed kind that goes together with vodka...
Socks, shoes, sandals, sneakers, slippers and... Skates... (that's six... )

TIG

Ditto
Ditto ??
Ditto and Rhubarb
Strawberry
Ditto
'Dwarfish', and 'Dwelling', 'Dwell', et al... AND 'Dwindle' / 'Dwindling' / 'Dwindled' etc = get smaller... AND 'Dwang' = a roofer's crowbar
,.:;?!-/—"'()[]… = 16 - comma, full-stop[period], semi-colon, colon, question-mark, exclamation-mark, hyphen, slash[virgule indicating a choice of word], dash[it's longer than a hyphen and it separates rather than joins], double-inverted-commas[double-quotes], single-inverted-commas[single-quotes][also used as an apostrophe], parentheses(open/closed), brackets[open/closed], ellipsis [a continuation mark - it's NOT a . x3!]
BUT also consider &=ampersand[although it could be seen as a contraction like 'etc' or '%']
Ditto ??
Ditto

jeff hammond

dwindle is another dw word

period, comma, exclamation point, apostrophe, colon, semi-colon, question mark.. maybe a hyphen counts as one too.. not sure about the others

[edit, well tig has the punctuation covered i see )

marvins_dad

Banana

Chris Fullmer

I think banana's seeds are in the middle.

Now a REAL fruit (non berry) with its seed on the outside is the Cashew fruit.

#3 - What about Artichokes?

marvins_dad

@marvins_dad said:

Banana

Sorry - picked the wrong veg/fruit number to answer.

Meant - #8. Banana - don't think it comes canned, frozen, processed or cooked. But watermelon seems to fit that bill as well.

david_h

dweeb. . .

Rich O Brien

Banana is a herb

And to make matters worse a strawberry isn't a berry.

TIG

Bananas are processed and cooked - dried, fritters, banana-cake, banoffee-pie etc...
Water-melon seems OK, but melon is balled and canned ???

solo

Okay, y'all are pretty bright, you got:

Boxing
Niagara falls
Asparagus is right so far, what is the other?
Strawberries it is.
Fredrick's picture summed it up well.
TIG covered that and more.
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
hmmm...struggling I see.
That was too easy

boofredlay

Lettuce. However I believe you can buy it pickled nowadays...

jeff hammond

lettuce?
stilts

[edit] well, that the 2nd time in this thread i've posted on top of someone.

solo

Lettuce is right!! and yup stilts too.

Khai

@unknownuser said:

Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

Boxing

What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Mnt Rushmore

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?

Onions

What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Strawberry

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?

they grow the pear inside the bottle

Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

Dwarf, Dwell

There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

comma, colon, semi colon, period, quotemark, dash, slash,

Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

sock, shoe, stocking, sandal, slipper,

honoluludesktop

Wounder why is that?

TIG

You can 'cook' lettuce! It's an English dish - 'wilted lettuce with peas' or 'wilted lettuce soup' - and you would buy such a dish as a starter in a restaurant = 'sold'!
I thought cucumber - but you can pickle that!

TIG

I said earlier 'Rhubarb' - it is a vegetable and it grows every year of its own accord and even spreads invasively if it's not kept in check... - although it is often eaten as if it were a fruit it is veg [the opposite of tomato!]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb

notareal

@solo said:

Lettuce is right!! and yup stilts too.

Erm... http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/205852802/Canned_Pickled_Lettuce.html

Gaieus

any glacier nowadays...
horse reddish, too.
there cannot be any. We pickle every vegetable and dry every fruit here.
(dog) shit...