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So what do you get when you put bored ALT's in a teacher's room all day with nothing to do?? Random knowledge that "normal" people would never have the patience to acquire painstakingly seiving over 1,000's of articles on Wikipedia! Good Job guys... I think between all of us we managed to answer pretty much all the questions! Remember this was written by an American and since America is the ONLY place in the whole world, some answers might be slightly umm biased. I know, I know, us Americans and our ethnocentric thinking! Anyways...here are the answers: DRUM ROLL PALEASE!!



1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends....boxing

2. The 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. The only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons....asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball....baseball.

5. The fruit with its seeds on the outside...strawberry.

6. 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.

7. Three English words beginning with dw...dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

8. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

9. The original lakes referred to in Lakers...in Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.

10. The seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit...taking a base on balls (a walk), batter hit by a pitch, passed ball, catcher interference, catcher drops third strike, fielder's choice, and being designated as a pinch-runner

11. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh...lettuce.

12. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning With "S"... Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts, stilletos.