Quiz for Bright People & Word of the Day

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It's been a while, but I'm working on two WIPs, almost non-stop, really. Although for a few weeks, the weather played havoc with the electricity in this area. I had to reset clocks way too many times, during that period. Tired of resetting my VCR/DVD player, I left it blinking for days, because every time I reset it, the power went out. Nothing like sweltering in the 100+ temperatures with no air conditioning.

But hey, the thunder and lightening shows were fun to watch and listen to, and the threat of rain finally manifested itself into an actual downpour that lasted maybe an hour? Whatever. Since it was the first rain of any duration here in this part of the desert for quite some time, I guess I would have been satisfied, if it hadn't brought humidity with it. So much for living in the desert to ease the irritation of Bronchial-asthma.

Quiz for Bright People

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.'

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.

PLEASE DO YOUR PART for National Mental Health.
You can do your part by remembering to send this to at least one person. Just don't send it back to me. I've already flunked it once! Well, my job's done!

That's Just Fine Word of the Day

mulct
You don't find triple consonants in one-syllable words all over the place in English, so it's worth treasuring the minority of words that sport them. Mulct is an infrequent verb that means, roughly, "defraud" or "swindle." An earlier noun meaning, "fine," is now pretty much obsolete. The root is Latin mulcta, "fine, penalty."

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