Quiz for Bright People

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

There are only nine questions.
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 '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 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. '



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. 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 mark, 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. 

PLEASE DO YOUR PART; Today is National Mental Health Day. You can

do your part by remembering to send this e-mail to at least one genius challenged person.

Okay, my job's done!

Don't send it back to me. I've already flunked it once

INTERESTING MESSAGE FOR US ALL TO TAKE ON BOARD

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai A question was posed to Dalai Lama.. "What is the thing about humanity that surprises You the Most" ? His answer was as follows:"Man" - Because He sacrifices His HEALTH in order to Make Money. - Then He Sacrifices His MONEY to Recuperate His HEALTH. - And Then He is SO ANXIOUS about THE FUTURE that HE DOES NOT ENJOY THE PRESENT - And as a Result He does NOT Live in the PRESENT or the FUTURE. - And He LIVES AS IF HE IS NEVER GOING TO DIE, - and Then He DIES Having NEVER REALLY LIVED.”

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The Land that made me ME

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What is Politics?

Email from jks weerasekera

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes

from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,

by promising to protect each from the other.

~Oscar Am ringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."

I offered my opponents a deal:

"if they stop telling lies about me,

I will stop telling the truth about them".

~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..

A politician is a fellow who will lay down

your life for his country.

~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious

a matter to be left to the politicians.

~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,

it might be better to change the locks.

~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author 

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over.

They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM;

I'm beginning to believe it.

~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.

Politicians are people who,

when they see light at the end of the tunnel, 
go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer

What happens if a politician drowns in a river?

That is pollution.

What happens if all of them drown?

That is a solution .....!!!

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MAY GOD BLESS YOU

Childhood toys, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Photo of children in a village around the hills of  Kandy enjoying the
ride on the arecanut leaf. 
Note the dog and serenity.
Stuck for lunch, we were hosted far an impromptu rotti meal by these people
who did not know us at all previously. 
The song goes ' mata denna mage punchi kaale' Give me my childhood.
jksw

Went Fishing, Caught 4 Deer

email sent by Gallege De Silva

Good story.
Pictures were in a format that I could not put on the blog. Sorry about that.

What a wonderful story, hope you all enjoy it................ Went Fishing, Caught 4 Deer A once in the history of mankind kind of thing. The Best Day Of Fishing Ever! Some fishing stories are a little  hard to believe but this guy has pictures to prove his story... I've heard of salmon jumping into boats, but never anything quite like this... Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly toward his boat.            "Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle the boat, looking directly at us            We could tell right away that the young bucks were distressed. I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it! Once on board, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering." "This is a picture I took of the rescued bucks on the back of my boat, the Alaska Quest.   We headed for Taku Harbour.  Once we reached the dock, the first buck that we had pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say 'thank you' and disappeared into the forest. After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help.                       This is me carrying the little guy. My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck to its feet. We didn't know how long they had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive. My daughter later told me that the experience was something that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!" ................. I told you! Awesome! "Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." - Mark Twain