what do you mean 'no'?
you don't want the answers?
if you don't already know you never want to?
well that's not a very good attitude...
everyone should aspire to self-improvement.
well that's too bad. i'm posting the answers anyway. so there!
1. name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score until the contest ends.
--> boxing
2. what famous north american landmark is constantly moving backward?
--> niagara falls - the rim is worn back about 2.5 feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water rushing over it every minute.
3. of all vegetables, only 2 can last multiple growing seasons; all others must be replanted every year. what are the only 2 perennial vegetables?
--> asparagus and rhubarb
4. in many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy with a real, whole, and ripe pear inside the bottle. the bottle hasn't been cut in any way. how did the pear get inside the 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.
5. what fruit has its seeds on the outside?
--> strawberry
6. only 3 words in standard english begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. name 2 of them.
--> dwarf, dwell, and dwindle
7. there are 14 punctuation marks in english grammer. name at least half of them.
--> period, comma, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. name the only vegetable that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
--> lettuce
9. name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 's'.
--> shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts... etc.
congratulations to john and the mysterious anonymous for combining to post most of the right answers... gold star!!!congrats!
how about now you try out the scavenger hunt???
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