Pragmatist's Challenge:
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
The Game Of Life. Okay, okay... Chess?
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
Hillary Clinton
3. Of all the 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 two perennial vegetables?
Artichokes and.....Asparagus!
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
Strawberry
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? [My question: how do you get the pear out?]
They put the bottle over the baby pear when it's on the tree. (I didn't look that up either.)
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters"dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them. [All three if you want to]
Dwit, Dwang, and Dwimble. (The three Dwingleberries)
7. There are 14 punctuation makes in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
, . ; : ' " - _ ! ~ [called a tilde] and of course the inimitable (Parenthesis).
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
Kumquat?
9. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."
Socks, sandals, shoes, slingbacks, supporters of the arches, snowshoes, snowboots, slippers, sabretooth tigerskin szapatos!
Dont' mess with me, I'm a nut!