Answers to Trivia Questions

Here are the answers I promised you for last Thursday's trivia questions:

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, if you do not believe it, try it with your watch, it is only 10 times.)

5) Baseball.

6) Strawberry.

7) Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

8) Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

9) In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.

10) Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.

11) Lettuce.

12) If the catcher drops a called third strike, and doesn't throw the batter out at first base, the runner is safe.

13) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and so on.