Monday Wake-Up Call For Your Brain Cells

These questions were waiting for me in my inbox this morning - sitting calmly, waiting to pounce on me and make me feel a fool on a Monday morning.  Suffice to say I didn’t get them all right!  

Instead of posting the answers below, I’m going to give you the day to think about them and post the answers tonight.  Thinking’s good, right? Okay…usually……

      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. 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. (Four words counting a slang word.)

      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.”

The uncle who e-mailed this out said that it’s been sent to lots of teachers, and that no one has gotten them all right. 

Good luck…have fun…and if you get them all right, don’t tell me!

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ANSWERS:

      1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know
      The score or the leader until the contest ends . . Boxing

      2. The 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. The only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several
      Growing seasons. . Asparagus and rhubarb.

      4. 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…
      Baseball.

      5. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . Strawberry.

      6. 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.

      7. Three English words beginning with dw . . . Dwarf, dwell, dwindle and dweeb
(inept person)

      8. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. . Period, comma, colon,
      semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point,
quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

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

      10. The seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without
getting 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. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked,
or in any other form but fresh . . . Lettuce.

      12. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with “s”…Shoes,
      Socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes stockings,
      Stilts.