Answers to the Quiz

1. Boxing [suggested this, but DH said no]

2. 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. Asparagus and rhubarb

4. Strawberry [got this one]

5. It grew inside the bottle (The bottles are placed over the 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.) [got this one]

6. Dwarf, dwell, dwindle. [got 2 out of 3 -- missed dwindle]

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses. [got all these]

8. Lettuce [got this one]

9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts [got this one]


So, how'd you do?