Answers to Monday's quiz

Okay I knew it... four days have passed and I had forgotton all about it until the impatient man of the house who wanted answers reminded me. :)

Answers To Quiz
(If you haven't taken the quiz, see previous post first)

1. boxing

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 andrhubarb (personally I always thought it was a fruit)

4. strawberry

5. 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. dwarf, dwell, dwindle

7. period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, bracket, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. lettuce.

9. shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, and stilts.