Here's a quick quiz to test your memory and thinking
skills, which should work out important parts of your
brain. See how you do! (Answers are below).

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" and 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 one 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."

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. The 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 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.

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in Education and MBA from Stanford University, and teaches
The Science of Brain Health at UC-Berkeley Lifelong
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