Answers to the Quiz

ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ FOR BRIGHT PEOPLE

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:    Full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen,  apostrophe, question mark, exclamation mark,  quotation mark, 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.