We won this week's trivia contest by 1 point. Both our team and the 2nd place team aced the 4-part final question, which also happened to be the most interesting piece of trivia this time out. The question:
There are 6 U.S. state capitols whose names end in a letter than no other state capitol name ends in. For example, Frankfort, Kentucky, ends in a "t," as no other state capitol does. Name any 4 of the other 5 state capitols.
We hammered this one out by brute force, naming states alphabetically and fishing for someone at the table who could produce the capitol. (I've really got to learn that song Wakko did on The Animaniacs.) Keeping track of the names on a napkin, we found all 5 answers. We were briefly deceived by Juneau, Alaska, until we arrived at Honolulu, Hawaii. (Those non-contiguous states have to stick together, I guess.)
Anyway, the answers: Phoenix, St. Paul, Salem, Raleigh, and Sacremento.
5 comments:
Dude...i would have aced this, you should have given me a ring. ;)
Cell phone calls are not permitted by those playing trivia. No "phone-a-friends." Otherwise you could juts have a buddy at home Google you the answer to everything. :-)
Reminds me of a question that always stumps me, about British football clubs beginning and ending with the same letter: Liverpool, York City, Charlton Athletic, Northampton Town... plus two more I can never remember.
Aston Villa is another one, but who's the last?
I can never remember, T.G. Maybe there's only five.
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