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Due to the obvious popularity of the recent quiz, I left the post up longer. :( If you haven't taken the Quiz yet, don't cheat. Go to the post before this one and take it! What else in the world do you have to do?



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> 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the
> participants know the score or the leader until the contest
> ends: Boxing
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> 2. North American landmark constantly moving backwards:
> 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.)
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> 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their
> own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and Rhubarb.
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> 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.
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> 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.)
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> 6. Three English words beginning with dw. Dwarf, dwell and
> dwindle.
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> 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar:
> Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,
> question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets,
> parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
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> 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned,
> processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. Lettuce.
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> 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning
> with 'S'. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers,
> skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.