New trivia game!!

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Hi, all, I was e-mailed these trivia questions, and thought I’d start them along here. You probably woke to find it in your e-mail boxes too, but here they are. As with prior trivia games I’ve done, the first person with all correct answers gets immense braggin’ rights.

(1) There’s one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

(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.” They are all common. Name two of them.

(8) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?

(9) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the “Los Angeles Lakers”?

(10) There are seven 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 six.

(11) It’s the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?

(12) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter “s”.

Hard returns fixed by UncleBeer. Sheesh, use the preview.
[Edited by UncleBeer on 01-18-2001 at 06:46 AM]

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  1. deep sea diving.

  2. mount rushmore

  3. Potatoes and

  4. Rugby
    5.strawberry

  5. it grows there.

  6. dwell and dweeb. (or dwelling)

  7. ().,;:?"

  8. san diego ?

  9. steal, to be hit by trhe pitcher and then walked… I dont know, I’ve no idea about baseball.

  10. Horse Radish

  11. Socks, shoes, Slippers, Sling-backs, Saran Wrap, Stillettoes

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Gosh, how to score this. I guess it’s like a 2.98465 or something. Two answers were completely correct. Then on four others you got one or some of the multiple answers.

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  1. strawberries
  2. the branch of the pear tree, still on the tree, is placed into the bottle, and the pear grows there
  3. dwell and dwindle
    10}steal, dropped third strike, fielder’s choice, hit by pitch, error, as a pinch-runner

I know it doesn’t count unless I answer all…

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  1. Boxing
  2. Baseball
  3. (Remember we are all sitting in front of computer keyboards. :slight_smile: )
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  1. Boxing
  2. They put the bottles on the blossom and wait for the pear to form.
  3. LA Lakers are named after the lakes in Minnesota, “Land of 10,000 lakes.” That’s where the team originated.
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Three most recent posts are correct, b’cept Eohippus’s #7 only gives two of the three, and for #10, “error” can’t count since this is done after he hits the ball, which is a condition in the question. So, there’s one more way.

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(4) baseball
(10)
a. Base on balls
b. Hit by pitch
c. Reach on an error
d. Catcher interference
e. Catcher drops ball on third strike
f. On ball 4 or strike 3, the ball lodges into catcher’s mask
g. Pitcher throws the ball into the stands or dugout on either a pitch or pickoff move. (according to Cecil

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Oh, also, Tzel, one of the punctuation marks is not on the keyboard…

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#1 I’m sticking with boxing, here.
#5 Strawberries
#6 Pears grow inside the bottle (I think this was on NPR last month)
#7 dwell, dwindle and dwarf (Christ don’t you guys Role Play?)
#9 Minnesota (they were originally the Minneapolis Lakers)

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Re: #7

My version of Websters lists 4 dw words… dwarf, dweeb, dwell, and dwindle (ignoring the proper nouns such as Dwayne…)

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  1. Baseball and cricket both qualify.

All others are answered.

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when you want punctuation, are you looking for the names like period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, question mark, ellipsis, quotation marks, etc?

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JC is spot on so far.

elvis, I’m not sure about cricket.
Astro, I wasn’t counting “dweeb”, since it’s modern slang.

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1: Boxing decision.
2: The San Francisco trolleys.
3: Tomatoes and potatoes?
4: Baseball.
5: Strawberries.
6: Bottle the pollinated blossom, pick and fill the bottle when the pear ripens.
7: Dwarf, dwell, dwindle, and now dweeb.
8: Yes. 1)Comma, 2)period, 3)question mark, 4)exclamation mark, 5)quotation mark, 6)colon, 7) semicolon.
9: Minnesota.
10: It’s been done by CA.
11: Mulberries or elderberries. There’s a ton of these.
12: Shoes, socks, sandals, slippers, sneakers, stiletto heels.

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Spritle,
The baseball question says, “…without getting a hit”–it doesn’t say, “without hitting the ball”. An error is NOT a hit.

Also, your question on the “dw” words says, “name two of them”, so that’s what I did.

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  1. Boxing
  2. Niagara Falls
  3. Tomatoes and potatoes
  4. Baseball
  5. Strawberry
  6. the branch of the pear tree, still on the tree, is placed into the bottle, and the pear grows there
  7. dwell and dwindle
  8. 1)Comma, 2)period, 3)question mark, 4)exclamation mark, 5)elipses, 6)colon, 7) semicolon
  9. lakes of Minnesota
  10. a. Base on balls
    b. Hit by pitch
    c. Reach on an error
    d. Catcher interference
    e. Catcher drops ball on third strike
    f. On ball 4 or strike 3, the ball lodges into catcher’s mask
    g. Pitcher throws the ball into the stands or dugout on either a pitch or pickoff move.
  11. elderberries
  12. Shoes, socks, sandals, slippers, sneakers, stiletto heels
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  1. submarine races
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I’ll go for some of the unanswered, or stuff I thought might have other answers.

  1. Old Faithful? I know the “hot spot” is moving, but I don’t know if it’s moving “backward”.
    3)Asparagus is definitely one of these.
    7)“Dwarf” hasn’t yet been named.
  2. Parenthesis, comma, period, exclamation point, semi-colon, colon, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, question mark, bracket.
    12)Ski, sabot, snowshoe.
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Hey, Connor-
10)g- Doesn’t result in a player reaching 1st