A Quiz for Know-It-Alls - Neatorama

Dear smart people: do you think that you know everything? See how you'd do at Miss Cellania's short little quiz for know-it-alls. For example:

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

I got 5. Sigh.

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Slight nitpick on #4... The Strawberry can be said not to be a fruit as it is a member of the rose (Rosaceae) family. A strawberry is not a berry, but a pseudocarp. Some people call it a false fruit or a multiple fruit because each strawberry itself is multiple fruits. This is because the seeds themselves are considered to be individual fruits. Confused yet? :) So the seeds on the outside of the strawberry are actually fruits and the strawberry itself is not a berry. The main sticking point is in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries.

#8, One could argue that shredding, chopping and bagging is a form of processing for lettuce. If you say fresh WHOLE lettuce, then the question is completely accurate, but doesn't account for other forms in which lettuce is also sold.

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I got five, also. My guess for #8 was cucumber, though I'm sure it is eaten in other ways.

Also, this isn't really a sport, but for #1 all I could think of was staring contests, heh.

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Emoticon? ;-)

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Six so far. Watermelon is a good contender. I was thinking celery.

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6 1/2. I knew one of the veggies that keeps coming back year after year, but not the other.
I think Sumo wrestling would be an equally strong candidate for the sport question.
Dweeb is also a word, albeit a slang term.
My best guess for the unprocessed fruit/veggie was watermelon, because it is semi-rare to have anything made from it.

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Part of it is probably the extra publicity they've received from sites like this.

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Since World of Goo is a digital product, they lose nothing if someone buys it for just a penny (presuming no selling cost involved).

I always wonder if this would work on physical goods, where there is a non-zero cost of goods. It's iffy - but there are some pay-what-you-want restaurants that boost their profits with this scheme.

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Tx Neatoland for posting this.

I have read through the various links and forums and it is very interesting (if you are into this sort of thing :)

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Alex, since they went through Paypal, there are costs associated with collecting the money -- I think they said they lost money for any donation less than 30 cents.

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i had pirated it on my wii so i took the opportunity to give them a little money. i can't afford $20 for a casual game i played for a couple hours but $5 seemed justified

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Well thanks to this post I've bought the game for $0.50 and that's $0.50 more than they would have had because I would never have got it otherwise...Plus it's a really cool game, well happy!

Yes...I am cheap.

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How long before the game becomes boring do you realize you've paid 20 bucks for pixels. I paid out ten bucks for another physics game which was very challenging, but after about a week my brain was tired and I had built a solution for every level. I haven't used it since. I can only hope these games can inspire future architects and inventors.

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You could say the same thing about any medium pwscott... how long before a book becomes boring do you realize you've paid 20 bucks for a stack of paper with small symbols printed on it?

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Radiohead tried this a few years ago, except they did this at the time when the album came out and not a year after release. The wiki page goes back and forth between album sales being very successful and mediocre...so I am not really sure how that one turned out.

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I think I'll toss them $5 myself for their year old independently developed game just to support them, and have it on my computer should I ever have the desire to play it. This business model works well as long as there is no middle man, and unfortunately, Paypal is such a thing and profits could be better had it not been necessary. Like record companies, I would much rather avoid them and put the money directly into the hands of the artists.

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I paid $2.

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I bought this game when it first was released for $20 then I bought it again at a store for $20. So I spent $40 for the game.

It is a great games especially if you play it on a tablet.

What makes it even better is the lack of DRM.

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