As promised, here are the answers to the quiz I posted last week. Most of you did pretty well. Even some of the answers that were wrong (according to the answers I have) seem to make good sense. At any rate, here they be...

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends is boxing

2. The North American landmark constantly moving backward is 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 is the 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. The fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar are 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 is lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" are shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 9:51 AM