Questions:
1) Who was the first president to have a typewriter in the White House?
2) Of all vegetables, only two can live top produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables have to be replanted every year. What are the two perennials?
3) In many liquor stores you can buy a pear brandy with a real pear in the bottle. The pear is whole and genuine and so is the bottle, meaning it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
4) Mary Pickersgill, a seamstress from Baltimore, is famous for what?
Answers:
1) Rutherford B. Hayes
2) Asparagus and rhubarb are the two perennials.
3) 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 entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
4) Pickersgill sewed the flag honored in Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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