1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. (COMPETITIVE DRINKING)
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? (MICHAEL JACKSON)
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? (THE OCTO-MOM AND TRIFFIDS)
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? (ANY ONE THAT'S BEEN HIT BY A 44 MAG)
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? (SAME WAY THEY GET SHIPS IN THE BOTTLE, SMALL TWEEZERS AND LOTS OF PATIENCE)
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them. (IF ALL MY YEARS WATCHING BUGS BUNNY HAS TAUGHT ME ANYTHING, THERE ARE QUITE A FEW: DWATS, DWINK, DWESS, DWIBBLE, DWATS, DWEEB (OK, THE LAST ONE WAS GRATUITOUS)
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name at least half of them? (PERIOD, EXCLAMATION POINT, QUESTION MARK, COMMA, APOSTROPHE, SINGLE QUOTE, OPEN QUOTATION MARK, CLOSE QUOTATION MARK, COLON, SEMI-COLON, OPEN PARENTHESES, CLOSE PARENTHESES, EN DASH, BASHFUL, SNEEZY, DOPEY, AND DOC)
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh. (WHATEVER COMES OUT OF MY GARDEN)
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
(SPAGHETTI, SQUASH, SLUGS, SPUTUM, SPIKES AND SLOBBER--NO ONE SAID IT HAD TO BE COMFORTABLE)