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.'

Ok, just so no one says I am not doing my part to help boost the count here goes. My wife sent me an e-mail the other day, and it's a list of 9 questions for the person WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING! AND it proves we don't! So do your best and I will post the CORRECT answers next week. What's your best guess?


There are only nine questions.
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.'