STAN'S WEEKLY TRIVIA CHALLENGE CONTEST NO. 92
For a time in the 1990s, a portrait of what famous woman (not a head of state) could be found on the circulating banknotes of two different European countries?
HOW TO WIN: Send your answer, with your full name and address, either by e-mail to TriviaBits@gmail.com, or on a postcard to Stan Newman's Trivia Challenge No. 91, P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762. Only one submission per person, please. Answers must be received within seven days of publication. One winner will be chosen at random from all correct entries, who will receive a copy of Stan's new book "15,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia," courtesy of Random House. Answer and winner will be announced in a future issue.
ANSWER TO TRIVIA CHALLENGE CONTEST NO.
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Not counting the two blanks, the only two U.S. states whose names can't be spelled from a standard set of 98 Scrabble titles are KENTUCKY (one K too many) and CONNECTICUT (one C too many). Winner: Anne Ceplikas of Auburn, Me.
Previous answer: As stated by a character in the George Bernard Shaw play "Back to Methuselah," "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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