Test answers

Tough huh? Now that we have found out what you don't know, lets look at the answers to the quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leade r 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 gall ons 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 only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball .... baseball.

5. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . . the strawberry.

6. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are pl aced 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.)

7. Three English words beginning with dw . . . dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

8. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. . . period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, br ackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

9. The original lakes referred to in Lakers . . . in Minnesota.
(The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.
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10. Seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit . . . taking a base on balls (a walk); batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops t hird strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch-runner.

11. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other for m but fresh . . . lettuce.

12. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" . . . shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.