Are you a Smarty Pants???

I got this email today, and I thought you might enjoy it.
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.'

Hard wasn't it! Are you ready for the answers.


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. 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. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

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

8. Lettuce.

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

How did you do?