Facts & Figures

I’ve just been sent this quiz, see how you get on, I’ll be posting the answers in a passworded post and will reveal the password next week! No cheating now! Post your answers in the comments!

This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.

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?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. 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?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ‘ dw’ and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter ‘S..’

You still there? Good, I’ll continue!

Yet another productivity sapping problem has hit the UK (according to moneysupermarket.com - hey that site makes me WILF). OK, OK, what exactly is Wilfing?

Wilf stands for “What Was I Looking For”, it’s the act of getting distracted and wandering off to another website, despite actually going online for a specific reason. Are you still here? Or maybe you got wilfed here and I’ve held your interest longer than normal! Excellent!

It’s kind of the online version of a “senior moment”, like walking into the kitchen, stopping, looking confused and asking yourself: “What did I come in here for?”.

70% of the 2,400 surveyed have the odd wilf here and there, and that amounts to people spending an average of two working days each month wandering the web aimlessly! A quarter of those surveyed spent 30% of their net time wilfing (that’s one working day every two weeks!!).

If you’re still here (and chose to be here in the first place), thank you for holding your interest.

If you wilfed here, welcome! Please bookmark me and come back soon!

It would appear that (according to Travelodge) that £1bn of fraudulent expense claims happen every year, and are committed by some 22% of workers (or 6.3 million people!!).

The regulars are all on the list:

• Clothes
• Alcohol
• Adult Films

But some of the odder ones include:

• Neutering a cat
• A Caribbean Cruise
• A pregnancy kit!

I for one would love to see the whole list, I’ll bet it’s hilarious!!!

Did you know that the King of Hearts is the only King without a moustache on a standard playing card?