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    Word of the week: "phthisiologist," whose first two syllables sound like "thizzy." It is the study of tuberculosis. Lest you think you'll never see that word outside of a medical-school textbook, it appears on a 76-cent U.S. …

  • Trivia Bits, July 5
    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 …

  • Trivia Bits, July 4
    We love "apposite anagrams" — phrases whose letters can be rearranged to form other phrases with the same (or nearly the same) meaning. Our crossword pal Mike Shenk, editor of the Wall Street Journal puzzle, once came up with BENEATH …

  • Trivia Bits, July 3
    Eponym of the week: Vanadis, a goddess of beauty in Scandinavian mythology, corresponding to the Norse goddess Freya. The element vanadium was named for her, because of the multicolored beauty of its chemical compounds. Most of the other eponymous …

Trivia Bits, May 17

STAN'S WEEKLY TRIVIA CHALLENGE CONTEST NO. 85
Not counting the two blanks, what are the only two U.S. states whose names can't be spelled from a standard set of 98 Scrabble titles?

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. 85, 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. 78
Most American English words differ from their British English counterparts in standard ways, such as color/colour, center/centre and realize/realise. The seven-letter word in American English that becomes its British English equivalent when an A is changed to a Y is "pajamas," which in England is spelled "pyjamas." Winner: Dayle Sternstein of Deerfield Beach, Fla.



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