-- -- QUIZ FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING
-- This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.
>> 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. 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'.
>> Answers To Quiz:
>> 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . . Boxing.
>> 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.)
>> 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . . . Asparagus and rhubarb.
>> 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . . Strawberry
>> 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.)
>> 6. Three English words beginning with dw . . . Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
>> 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.
>> 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh . . . Lettuce.
>> 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S' . . . Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
HAVE A GREAT DAY
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-- LAWS OF LIFE:
* Murphy's First Law for Wives: If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.
* Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation: The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.
* The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.
* Miller's Law of Insurance: Insurance covers everything except what happens.
* First Law of Living: As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else.
* Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross-references.
* The Grocery Bag Law: The candy bar you planned to eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the bottom of the grocery bag.
* Lampner's Law of Employment: When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When you leave work early, you will meet the boss in the parking lot.
