A Trivial Scavenger Hunt

This is a research-scavenger hunt through the library and internet requiring high level problem solving!

1. Name the one sport in which no one (the spectators, the participants, the leader) knows the score 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 some stores, you can buy a bottled drink 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. What are they?

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."

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