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Answers To Quiz:

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, slippers, skis, skates,
snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

How did you fare?

I didn't get the fresh vegetable one, nor the backwards-moving landmark. I kicked myself when I read the answers.