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. 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. 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 mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce. 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slip pers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. My score was 4.5 (rhubarb but not asparagus)
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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Answers, courtesy of Google Boxing. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb. Baseball. Strawberry. 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. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner. Lettuce. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
I think you pasted in a couple too many answers. :laugh: :laugh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I think you pasted in a couple too many answers. :laugh: :laugh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Chris Meech wrote:
I think you pasted in a couple too many answers.
Probably. I was trying to get the answers from Google and then I was carrying on here at work in a conversation with a colleague and I'm surprised I didn't paste the whole damn site. :)
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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None of these is a trick question. 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 north american 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.'
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
I will try to answer without googling... 1) Boxing? Chess? Judge scored "sports" in which the score is subjective and only revealed at the end? 2) Political progress? A glacier? 3) Asparagus. Broccoli. 4) Strawberry. 5) Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in. 6) Dwarf. Dwindle. Dweeb? 7) Yep, the iPhone I'm using now has a bunch. 8) Iceberg lettuce. 9) Socks. Silk. Shoes. Slippers. Sandals. Suede, Sesame Oil, Scabs, Scars, Snow Shoes, Suiture. Or, did I only have to list an initial item starting with the letter "S"? ;P
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Oakman wrote:
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
I suspect that depends on culture and definition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce[^]
jschell wrote:
I suspect that depends on culture and definition.
The link has nothing about preserving lettuce for later use :confused:
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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I will try to answer without googling... 1) Boxing? Chess? Judge scored "sports" in which the score is subjective and only revealed at the end? 2) Political progress? A glacier? 3) Asparagus. Broccoli. 4) Strawberry. 5) Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in. 6) Dwarf. Dwindle. Dweeb? 7) Yep, the iPhone I'm using now has a bunch. 8) Iceberg lettuce. 9) Socks. Silk. Shoes. Slippers. Sandals. Suede, Sesame Oil, Scabs, Scars, Snow Shoes, Suiture. Or, did I only have to list an initial item starting with the letter "S"? ;P
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
I will try to answer without googling...
I am impressed.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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jschell wrote:
I suspect that depends on culture and definition.
The link has nothing about preserving lettuce for later use :confused:
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
Well, stap me vitals! Canned pickled lettuce[^] - and more!
The 1-legged bar stool of understanding is supported by booze. Equipped with that, I know everything, and the rest of you are just a bunch of ignorant peasants with dung on your boots. A R G H
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Answers, courtesy of Google Boxing. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb. Baseball. Strawberry. 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. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner. Lettuce. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Slacker007 wrote:
skis
Which naturally leads to "snowboard", "skateboard" (arguable), and "skates". :)
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Well, stap me vitals! Canned pickled lettuce[^] - and more!
The 1-legged bar stool of understanding is supported by booze. Equipped with that, I know everything, and the rest of you are just a bunch of ignorant peasants with dung on your boots. A R G H
You're absolutely right. Chinese lettuce is a variant of the same genus and it is cooked and can be canned with a pickle sauce. Thanks! (I've already changed the quiz. So you're still wrong ;))
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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You're absolutely right. Chinese lettuce is a variant of the same genus and it is cooked and can be canned with a pickle sauce. Thanks! (I've already changed the quiz. So you're still wrong ;))
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
I'd have punted for watermelon. Never seen that anything but fresh. So, of course, someone's going to post a link to prove me wrong. Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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You're absolutely right. Chinese lettuce is a variant of the same genus and it is cooked and can be canned with a pickle sauce. Thanks! (I've already changed the quiz. So you're still wrong ;))
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
It surprised me. I Googled "Tinned Lettuce" (Edward Gorey fan); and there it was.
The 1-legged bar stool of understanding is supported by booze. Equipped with that, I know everything, and the rest of you are just a bunch of ignorant peasants with dung on your boots. A R G H
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jschell wrote:
I suspect that depends on culture and definition.
The link has nothing about preserving lettuce for later use :confused:
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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I'd have punted for watermelon. Never seen that anything but fresh. So, of course, someone's going to post a link to prove me wrong. Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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I will try to answer without googling... 1) Boxing? Chess? Judge scored "sports" in which the score is subjective and only revealed at the end? 2) Political progress? A glacier? 3) Asparagus. Broccoli. 4) Strawberry. 5) Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in. 6) Dwarf. Dwindle. Dweeb? 7) Yep, the iPhone I'm using now has a bunch. 8) Iceberg lettuce. 9) Socks. Silk. Shoes. Slippers. Sandals. Suede, Sesame Oil, Scabs, Scars, Snow Shoes, Suiture. Or, did I only have to list an initial item starting with the letter "S"? ;P
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
- Change the bottle temp, creating a vacuum, which causes the pear to be sucked in.
Pretty sure that isn't going to work. You could probably get to to be sucked in but it would be destroyed in the process.
Yeah, probably not. It was all I could think of at the time though.
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.