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.