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Here are 9 questions for you to answer.
They are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.
Cut and paste the questions, along with your answers, and send them to me in a PM. I will send a PM back to you, with your score.
Next week I will post the correct answers and present a super-duper, stunning prize to the person with the highest score.
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Here are the questions:
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. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. 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?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
And the winner is . . . . . .
Drum-roll, Maestro, please . . . . . .
The First Prize goes to . . . . . .
Gasp, 3 participants all got the highest score of 5 correct answers. They each win the First Prize of a beautiful Fairy Glitter Globe (luckily I had 3 in stock). They are . . . . . .
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SONJA
(Sason)
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MERYL
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CHRISSI
(Penthesilia)
Winning a lovely glittery red rose in 2nd place, with 4 correct answers, is . . . . . .
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LEE
(Front-Ranger)
And in 3rd place, winning a pretty pink star for correctly answering Niagara Falls to Question 2 . . . . .
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tforster
And as a special thank-you gift to everyone for entering, each participant gets a big basket of cherries, to make their very own yummy cherry cake . . . . . .
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