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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on November 20, 2008, 10:18:03 AM
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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.'
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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 s . 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.
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I got about half right. Re question 1 - what about Chess?
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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.
Yacht/Dingy racing
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? Rhubarb and Asparagus
4. What fruit has its seeds 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 It grew there
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them. Dwelling, Dwell, Dwindle
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? Full stop, colon, semi colon, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, inverted commas, apostrophe, brackets, hyphen(?)
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh. Cucumber
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.' Shoes, Socks, Sandals, Slippers, Spats, Skis
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evil: I didn't see you had posted the answers as well. I was too busy thinking.
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I got about half right. Re question 1 - what about Chess?
Racing Dingies are a sport where the results are unknown until after the race because of the system of handicaps and appeals that apply. Anyone who has indulged in this sport will know that the results are never announced, nor known, until everyone is in the bar after the racing has finished.
I would also argue that the definition of English has been taken to mean American English in question 7 and in question 9 sneakers is deffo an Americanism.
In question eight ~ we certainly cook lettuce and I know many others who do. Google "Cooked Lettuce" and you'll get over 2 million hits. Many, many recipes and uses for cooked lettuce.
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Good answer with cucumber Snoops, I've never seen anything other than fresh.
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You can buy cucumber pickled.
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You can buy cucumber pickled.
True but aren't they Dill Pickles?
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Dill Pickles is an American comedienne, I think
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Dill Pickles is an American comedienne, I think
You are thinking of Don Rickles old boy. whistle:
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You can buy cucumber pickled.
True but aren't they Dill Pickles?
They can call them what they like but technically they are still cucumbers!
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Is there a technical definition of a cucumber then?
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Is there a technical definition of a cucumber then?
Go and sit on your stool
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I note my question has not been answered evil:
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The cucumber (Cucumis sativus)is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon.
A gherkin is not only a pickle of a certain size but also a particular species of cucumber: the West Indian or Burr cucumber (Cucumis anguria), which produces a somewhat smaller fruit than the garden cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Standard pickles are made from the West Indian cucumber, but the term gherkin has become loosely used as any small cucumber pickled in a sweet vinegar brine, regardless of the variety of cucumber used.
A "kosher" dill pickle is usually not kosher in the sense that it has been prepared under rabbinical supervision, which would ensure that no non-kosher ingredients were used, and that no utensil in contact with the pickles had ever been in contact with food that was not kosher. Rather, it is a pickle made in the traditional manner of Jewish New York City pickle makers, with generous addition of garlic to the brine.
Happy now?
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So they are all cucumbers then. Isn't that what I said?
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Indeed you did but you have to admit they are different species of cucumber.
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Still a cucumber! Banghead
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And these are "Yellow Squashes" same genus, different species ~ even you wouldn't call these cucumbers now would you?
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Looks like an Ann Summers party noooo:
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Looks like an Ann Summers party noooo:
Been to many of them have you ~ or just guesswork?
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Looks like an albino cucumber shrugs:
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And these?
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Cucumbers!
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Of course they are whistle:
Humour them everyone ~ they may turn nasty, I am assured the van is on the way.
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noooo:
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And this?
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The Palace of Westminster from the South side of the Thames. whistle:
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Girls attempting to evoke the idea of a bj?
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Girls attempting to evoke the idea of a bj?
Do you wear a sou'wester on Mr Wenches Birthday then? ;)
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Cucumbers in Cyprus are tiny
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Cucumbers in Cyprus are tiny
whistle: Lack of rain I 'spect ~ they are about 95% water.
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Cucumbers in Cyprus are tiny
whistle: Lack of rain I 'spect ~ they are about 95% water.
rubschin:
... but watermelons are huge
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So many things I could say. surrender:
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So many things I could say. surrender:
And... evil:
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small cucumbers, large melons, brain exploding with options of piss taking!
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small cucumbers, large melons, brain exploding with options of piss taking!
Mine too. happy001
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And this?
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World's biggest fishfinger drumroll:
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small cucumbers, large melons, brain exploding with options of piss taking!
Off you go then... I'm used to it all now... noooo:
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small cucumbers, large melons, brain exploding with options of piss taking!
Mine too. happy001
Now now, you pair should know better. Leave the poor bugger alone.
It's much more fun to get him when he isn't expecting it
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You're right GM ~ let him sweat a bit first I think.
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Large Melons?I like a pear myself angel1
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You've always been bananas though Nick.. whistle:
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Bit of a fruit loop in general really. whacky115
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So, about this huge fish finger eyes:
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So, about this huge fish finger eyes:
doh: