Fun Brain Teasers to Challenge Your Memory and Thinking Skills – Can You Solve These?

Here's a quick quiz to test your memory and thinking skills, which should work out your temporal and frontal lobes. See how you do!

- Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

- What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

- 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?

- What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

- 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?

- Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

- There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

- Name the one vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

- Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Answers on request!

Hi, I don't know whether they are right or wrong. Avolok, help us out!!

Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. - Chess

What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? - Greenland

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?

What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

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?

Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters "dw," and they are all common words. Name two of them. - Dwell, Dwarf

There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? - Question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, parenthesis, semicolon, comma, inverted comma, full stop

Name the one vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S." - Shoes, slippers, socks, stockings

Regards,

Anuradha

Supporting and adding some more... Hope it's correct!

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

Chess

What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Greenland

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?

Asparagus & one type of Spinach

What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Cashew

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?

The pear grows right in the bottle.

Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

Dwell, Dwarf, Dwindle

There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

Question mark, exclamation mark, quotation, parenthesis, semi-colon, comma, inverted comma, full stop, apostrophe, hyphen, ampersand, slash, brace

Name the one vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Shoes, slippers, socks, stockings, sneakers, sandal

Regards,

Janavi

Well done. Some of you were very good and got most of it right.

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. 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. 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 marks, 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.

Hi Avalok,

Please find the answers to your questions:

1. Boxing.
2. Niagara Falls - The rim is worn down about 2 1/2 feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that move over it every minute.
3. Asparagus, radicchio (red/white lettuce), types of spinach, potatoes, and onions - and then there's so much more!
4. Strawberries
5. They place the bottle around a small pear, then it grows in the bottle.
6. Dwarf, dwell, dwindle, dwarfism.
7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. Lettuce
9. Shoes, sneakers, socks, stockings, stilettos, sandals, stirrup pants, spike heels, spurs, slippers, ski boots, sabots, silly-looking tattoos, sand, sticky gum, staples, sunburns, salt, snail guts, string, soap.

Am I right? If not, please send me the answers at shabbir16.mohammad@gmail.com.

Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
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?
What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
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?
Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.
There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
Name the one vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

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Here's a quick quiz to test your memory and thinking skills, which should work out your temporal and frontal lobes. See how you do!

- Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
- What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
- 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?
- What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
- 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?
- Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.
- There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
- Name the one vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
- Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Answers on request!

1) Boxing.
2) Niagara Falls
3) taro
4) strawberries
5) The pear 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 whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
6) Dwarf, Dwindle, Dwelling
7) comma, full stop, exclamation mark, question mark, semicolon, colon, hyphen, open/close brackets
8) Lettuce.
9) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings

Regards,
Prosenjit