matthew

Ok, I am back... This is what I have...

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

BOXING

2. What famous north American landmark is constantly moving backward?

NIAGRA FALLS

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?

POTATOES & SWEET PATATOES

4. What fruit has its seed on the outside?

STRAWBERRIES

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.

DWARF DWELL DWINDLE

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

COMMA, COLON, PERIOD, QUESTION MARK, EXCLIMATION MARK, SEMI COLON, QUOTATION MARK,

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

?????

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

SHOES, SANDALS, SOCKS, SLIPPERS, SKATES, SKIES

matthew

Did you mean Awesome or Awful???

Baldur

Aw-shucks

Qsilv

how to grow a pear in a bottle (+ links to growing square watermelons) ;>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOz0HE5Uygk

Qsilv

full grown pear in a bottle pix

http://cookingupastory.com/growing-a-pear-in-a-bottle

polenta

Great Qsilv.
I showed it to everybody and sent the address to my brother... it's fabulous. I had seen the old traditional ships inside a bottle and knew how they made it but this is crazy!!!!!!!

puzzler

Answer to 8 must be a banana.

Baldur

I've eaten dried, sweetened banana chips, so that would make them processed.

Baldur

Lettuce, which was guessed earlier is probably correct

Baldur

Spurs, Stacked-heel strumpet shoes

Baldur

sultry sharkskin support hose

Baldur

scientific spaceman boots, strappy Saracen sandals

marius

Goodness, you guys have been busy. Glad you enjoyed the quiz.
Answers now posted in Baldur's answer channel.

Looks like, everyone is a winner.
Qsilv, gets points for her postings about pears in a bottle.

matthew gets points for being the only one to put his answers all in one place (and for possibly answering the most questions correcty ... although it was hard to tell.)

Dragon gets points for being the first one (on TD and among friends itrw) to correctly answer #8.

Robin gets points for being funny (Baldur ... trying to get to post # 5000 one shoe at a time!).

And, Baldur gets extra points for the things you wear on your feet that start with the letter "S"!

Baldur

Sabots, Scarpines, Scohs, Sceos, Scos, Sotularis, Sollers, Subtalaris, Stilts

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~Marc-Carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/GLOSSARY/bdefs.htm

puzzler

I feel a right nana now!

Baldur

Oh Baldur is in a right silly mood now.

Every Friday night Robert and I go to a pub/tavern not far from here for dinner. I will often order a pizza, or perhaps eggplant parmagiani, and buy my Powerball ticket for the Satyrday night drawing.
However last week, and the previous week Baldur was appearing as Santa and thus missed the weekly dinner outing.
Last week Robert took our friend Marcel and they enjoyed dinner together.
While there Marcel bought a Powerball ticket for himself. (No doubt the ticket that Baldur would have gotten in other circumstances).
He won $100,000.
Sometimes my life is just too strange.
He's a nice guy, hope he enjoys the windfall.

Login

Baldur, THAT's why I don't buy a lottery ticket ... I can't lose.

marius

Baldur, that's a funny lottery story. Sorry it wasn't you who won. One time I bought a Missouri Lotto ticket and whist filling it out, I wondered, "What if someone got every number correct except the 6th number, and the 6th number was wrong by only one place? (i.e. a "35" instead of a "36") Would that person be happy they won something with five numbers, or sad they missed a million bucks by one number?"

Well, I can answer that! The next morning I opened the paper to discover that had I picked a 36, instead of a 35, I'd have won the million.

However, $739 for five correct numbers came at a time when I really needed it and I was happy. Still, it was a very strange moment! : )

Dragon

I once read a story about a man whose friends bought him a fake newspaper. It was just like the regular paper except they made the lottery numbers say his exact numbers that he always picked and said he'd won 12 million dollars or something like that. So he reads his numbers and gets really excited and is whooping it up and then they tell him it was all a big joke and started laughing at him (kinda mean friends actually). Anyway he says to them "Laugh it up guys, cause I know what it feels like to win $12 million and you probably never will"
So I think he got the last laugh.

GOLDIEGIRL8

funny story,Dragon