Brain Teaser!

1.) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

(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.) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?

(5.) What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?

(6.) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

(7.) 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?

(8.) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.

(9.) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?

(10.) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the letter "s."

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ANSWERS TO QUIZ

(1.) Boxing.

(2.) Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 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.) Ten times (not eleven, as most people seem to think).

(5.) Baseball.

(6.) Strawberry.

(7.) 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 the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

(8.) Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

(9.) Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,braces, and ellipses.

(10.) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and so on.