A quiz for everyone.

There are nine questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. Answers are given towards  the end.   

1. Name the one 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 fruits 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 the Quiz, ad seriatim.

1. Boxing.

2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. Strawberry.

5. 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. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle..

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces and ellipses.

8. Lettuce.

9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Tailpiece.

Got up half an hour late being Sunday, the chores and was ready by a quarter to 10. Spoke to Gavvy and Ansuiya which were interesting interactions.

It was pouring last night and it continued for a while this morning. The temperatures are bound to rise in the coming days. Lekha had ordered fruits for the week. There were power outages galore today....what the hell is happening? The advertisement saying that there were no power cuts for the previous five years of the LDF government is gonna prove costly for them.