Another fun thing I received via email.
The Quiz
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.
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. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. 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?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ” dw” an d 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.”
So, whadda ya think? I’ll post the answers later 
Sorry but the question about perennial veg is wrong there are more than two types of perennial veg. There are hundreds.
Posted by dibnah | Friday, March 2, 2007, 1:49 pmSo name some others
I just put the answers up that I received in the email.
Josh – very good answers
Posted by vjp | Friday, March 2, 2007, 1:53 pmTree onions and many other onions
Jerusalem artichokes
Asparagus
Chilli peppers
Ramsons
Radicchio
Sweet potatoes/yams
Daylilies
Sorrel
Samphire
Watercress
Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, but there are loads possibly not hundreds, I suppose it’s what you class as a vegatable.
Posted by dibnah | Friday, March 2, 2007, 2:36 pm1 not sure
2 Niagra falls
3 as above
4 strawberries
5 pear is grown in bottle
6 dwell,dwindle,dwale
7 full stop, comma, semi-colon, colon, question mark, punctuation mark, apostrophe
8 strawberries
9 Shoes, socks, slippers, sandels, skates, sneakers?? although we say trainers so for me that does not count.
I only cheated on question 6 thanks whackette:)
Posted by dibnah | Friday, March 2, 2007, 2:53 pmDaylilies are not vegetables
And I’m pretty sure you have to plant sweet potatoes every year.
Posted by vjp | Friday, March 2, 2007, 3:42 pmIn reality you can leave them in the ground, like Jerusalem artichokes and they will keep growing. This applies to all potatoes and onions.
You can eat the flower and the root of daylilies, I’m being boring now……..
Posted by dibnah | Friday, March 2, 2007, 7:21 pmIf you leave them in the ground, then you can’t eat them
And even if daylilies are edible, they aren’t vegetables.
Posted by vjp | Friday, March 2, 2007, 7:34 pmIs not a Vegetable described as ‘ a plant or part of a plant used as food’ ?
Honestly you can eat daylillies and many other flowers. We just need to rethink our relationship to plants and our environment.
Posted by dibnah | Sunday, March 4, 2007, 11:18 am