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Ten Little Trivia Answers

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1) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contestants do. What is it? - Boxing.

(2) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
It's 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.

(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?
They are asparagus and rhubarb.

(4) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?
Ten times (not eleven, as most people seem to think).

(5) What are the only two sports in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball? The sports are Baseball and Cricket.

(6) What fruit has its seeds on the outside? It's the Strawberry.

(7) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

(8) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
The lakes are in Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.

(9) 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? - Lettuce.

(10) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the letter "s".
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and so on.

 

~Contributed by Ron of Bend, Oregon



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