Think you're smart? Try this and find out. You can't count any answer as correct unless you answer ALL parts of that question correctly. Be honest about your score ....


1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until thecontest 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 (2) perennial vegetables?

4. Name 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?

5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

6. 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?

7. Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

8. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the Los Angeles Lakers?

10. There are 7 ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls (a walk) is one way. Name the other 6.

11. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

12. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."


ANSWERS:


1. Boxing
2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb

4. Baseball

5. Strawberry

6. The pear 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 he entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they
are snipped off at the stems.)

7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle

8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
mark,
exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces,
and ellpses.

9. The original lakes referred to in Lakers are in Minnesota.
The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept
the name when they moved west.)

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 third strike, fielder's choice, and being designated as a
pinch-runner.

11. Lettuce

12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
stockings, stilts. So far, no one has gotten all the answers

I got a few of them right. Does that mean I r a smart person?

of course Adri there wasn't a doubt in my mind, smiles

8 out of 12,

Barely a passing grade.

9 of 12. I always fail baseball questions.

everyone has done well number one I thought was chess lol didn't even get the first question right

There was a quiz ???

Vepl

I answered ultimate fighting in #1. Didn't even think about boxing.
Got #s 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12. Guessed the answer to 11.

Vepl, see above the quiz "Test for smart People" that is what we are talking about

I got the pear right. See my sig tho