Monday, April 17, 2006

In Answer to your Answers.....

Well Ladies and Gentlemen the time has come to put up the answers for the questions that I posted last week. But first your winners.....



Shannon gets 4 out of 9... excellent effort!



Andrew gets... yes that's right.... 9 out of 9!!!!



And last but not least Jason who scores in at 6 out of 9 and so ladies and gentlemen our winner is the incredibly talented Andrew Gazaneo!!!



Here are the answers for your information! There were no half points awarded!



  • 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 rimis 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 marks, 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

3 comments:

Andrew G said...

surprisingly, this victory isn't as sweet as i thought it would be... i feel like a big nerd

sc@vp said...

ARG! I should have been awarded half points. And all of the answers that I got right FIRST should have been deducted from Andrew's & Jason's score. Because I got them FIRST. CHEATERS! CHEATERS!!

ahem.

What I meant to say was, "congrats Andrew. I'm really happy you won."

Sarah-Aubrey said...

Nerds are hot.