同事JJ上班休息时送来一个小quiz，说是用几个趣味问题来测试大家的常识。觉着好玩就做了，but, I failed big time.。再一看，说当天是National Mental Health Day! 这一下是有凭有据，我整个就是mentally retarded。难道患上了早老性痴呆(premature senile dementia)?
我把问题写下来，各位有兴趣的也试试:
1. Name that 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 letter "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:
测试完后，可在下面查对答案。
1. Boxing
2. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute).
3. Asparagus and rhubarb
4. Strawberry
5. 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. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar are: period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces and ellipses
8. Lettuce
9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
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