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Monday, January 14, 2008

Answers to last weeks quiz

Last week I posted a quiz and said I would follow up latter with the answers so here they are.

Now if you haven't taken the quiz yet don't cheat! Follow this link POP QUIZ and see if you can get the answers on your own before you look at them here.


Answers To Quiz:


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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


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.
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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*.

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.


PLEASE DO YOUR PART.....
Today is National Mental Health Day. You can do your part by remembering to send an e-mail to or write a blog post for at least one unstable person.


Well, my job's done!

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