There are only nine questions.

There are only nine questions.
This is a quiz for  people who know everything! . 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.'

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: 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 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.