Saturday's Riddles
ANSWERS BELOW
1. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
2. 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?
3. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters
"dw". They are all common. Name two of them.
4. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name half of them?
5. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles
Lakers"?
ANSWERS:
1. Strawberries
2. The pear grew inside the bottle.
The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are, small, and
are wired into 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.
3. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
4. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point,
quotation marks, brackets, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
mark, parenthesis, braces and ellipses.
5. In Minnesota.
The team was originally known as the Minnesota Lakers, and kept
the name when They moved west.
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