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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. Which fruit has its seeds on the outside?


5. 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.'

8. Aubergine AFAIK

6. Dwindle, Dwarf, Dwell

Mick wrote:8. Aubergine AFAIK

No, it's lettuce

3 = Asparagus. (well, I live in the area that produces the best in the world)

5.
The bottle is put over the blossom, and then the pear grows inside.

1. Boxing?

2. Niagara Falls. It's moved 11km apparently in 30,000 years.

3. Asparagus yes, plus artichoke and rhubard (yes it's technically a vegetable). Horseradish must count too. What about chives too, or are they considered a herb.

4. Must be strawberry?

That only leaves Shoes, slippers, socks, sabots, sneakers, sandals, stockings, skis, skates...I'm bored now.

7:
Comma, full stop, colon, semi-colon, exclamation mark, question mark, hyphen

That's half, and then I ran out!

I'd guess that brackets and stroke/slash would be included too, but not sure?

EDIT: And apostrophe....

Bernard wrote:That only leaves Shoes, slippers, socks, sabots, sneakers, sandals, stockings, skis, skates...I'm bored now.

Oh no! I've forgotten Comma, full stop, colon, semicolon, quotation mark, question mark, exclamation mark, parentheses.... that's more than half- got bored again.

Bernard wrote:

Mick wrote:8. Aubergine AFAIK

No, it's lettuce

Bollocks!
At the risk of being pedantic.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/dried-lettuce.html as long as you buy it by the ton.

And as Aubergines I now note can be pickled. I give in.

I'm really no good at this, I just have to google it, then I cannot play

Aubergine also sold cooked on top of Moussaka.

1. Chess?