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quickdodgeŽ
07-14-2007, 08:46 AM
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 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" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

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

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los Angeles Lakers?

10. There are 7 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 6.

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

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

Later, QD.

coolcat
07-14-2007, 09:10 AM
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 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" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

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

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los Angeles Lakers?

10. There are 7 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 6.

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

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

Later, QD.


1. Boxing..
2. Any iceburg
3. Potatoes maybe?
4. Handball?
5. Strawberry
6. Seed was put inside at the beginning, nutrients were added and later dumped
7. Dwarf, Dweeb.
8. , . - ' " ? ! ( ) / : ; [ ]
9. Minnesota
10. a walk, player is hit, catcher interferes.. cant think of more
11. Seaweed? probably wrong on that one. EDIT: yes I was wrong.
12. Shoes, Sandals, Socks, Stockings,.. EDIT: Skates, and Slippers

Stormhammer
07-14-2007, 09:10 AM
1. Boxing

2.

3. asparagus and... hmm

4. baseball?

5. strawberry

6. they actually grow the pear inside the bottle ( when its still little they put the bottle and wire it over on the tree and let it grow - stuff is pretty potent )

7. dwarf and dwell

8. 1) period, 2) comma, 3) semi-colon, 4) hyphen, 5) question mark?, 6) exclamation point!, 7) "quotation marks"

9. Minnesota - since LA Lakers used to be the Minniapolis ones

10. Batter gets hit by a pitch, a passed ball, the catcher interferes, catcher drops third strike, fielder's choice, and being designated as a pinch runner.

11. lettuce

12. shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, and I can't think of another 2 at the moment

tony
07-14-2007, 09:17 AM
4. dwarf dwell and dwindle since all the rest are there

Stormhammer
07-14-2007, 09:21 AM
#2 is Niagra Falls

quickdodgeŽ
07-14-2007, 09:22 AM
Yup. Google is your friend, lolol. Later, QD.

coolcat
07-14-2007, 09:24 AM
Yup. Google is your friend, lolol. Later, QD.

:D Only for skates and slippers though, lol.

ShooterMcGavin
07-14-2007, 10:08 AM
good post, didn't use google so i only got about half of them