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Sociology > Depression |
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"Indigo Moon Man" |
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25 Feb 2004 04:40:50 AM |
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Brain Aerobics |
The Answers are at the bottom of this post.
(1) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants
know the score or the leader until the contestants do. What is it?
(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) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident
with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour
and minute hands cross?
(5) What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of
the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the
ball?
(6) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
(7) 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?
(8) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw". They
are all common. Name two of them.
(9) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name
half of them?
(10) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
(11) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls - a walk - is one way. Name
the other six.
(12) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
(13) How is it possible for a pitcher to make four or more strikeouts in one
inning?
(14) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with
the letter "s".
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ANSWERS:
(1) Boxing.
(2) Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 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) Ten times (not eleven, as most people seem to think).
(5) Baseball.
(6) Strawberry.
(7) 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.
(8) Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
(9) Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.
(10) In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers,
and kept the name when they moved west.
(11) Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
(12) Lettuce.
(13) If the catcher drops a called third strike, and doesn't throw the
batter out at first base, the runner is safe.
(14) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings,
and so on.
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| User: "Steven M to reply, remove the cola" |
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| Title: Re: Brain Aerobics |
25 Feb 2004 05:45:22 PM |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 03:40:50 -0700, "Indigo Moon Man"
<indigomoon@bonbon.net> wrote:
The Answers are at the bottom of this post.
(1) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants
know the score or the leader until the contestants do. What is it?
How about gymastics, diving, ice-skating, or any other sport involving
judges?
(5) What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of
the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the
ball?
Not quite true as written. When the ball has been batted and is in
the air, or has been dropped, or is on the the way out of the park,
and maybe other circumstances, it is not in the possession of the
defense.
(11) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls - a walk - is one way. Name
the other six.
(11) Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
How does a batter get on base because of a passed ball??
--
Steve M - (remove dirt for reply)
"Fear those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they
make many others die with them, often before them, at times
instead of them." -- Umberto Eco
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| User: "Hap Arnold" |
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| Title: Re: Brain Aerobics |
26 Feb 2004 02:02:21 AM |
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"Steven M (to reply, remove the cola)" <unspam@houston.rrcola.com> wrote in
message news:5jcq30p52iu44bs8rhh4cb8vjt8j58dkn8@4ax.com...
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 03:40:50 -0700, "Indigo Moon Man"
<indigomoon@bonbon.net> wrote:.
(11) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base
without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls - a walk - is one way. Name
the other six.
(11) Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher
drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
How does a batter get on base because of a passed ball??
I think that is the scoring if a catcher uses his mask to scoop the ball on
a ball in play. There is a base awarded any time the catcher uses his
equipment to stop the ball, including throwing the glove.
I don't have any support for this besides my memory though.
I think it was a Tigers game when the catcher, a guy who always carried his
mask instead of throwing it away, blocked a pitch and scooped it up with the
face mask and threw down to first. As I remember it there was a big umpire
meeting and they decided instead of 'out at first' or 'safe at first' it
must have been a foul ball after all.
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E Sempre l'Ora
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