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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Negative Capital
by Sandy Wood - July 6, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Welcome back from Independence Day weekend. Here’s hoping that yours went well, since the next big holiday doesn’t occur for another two months. Until then, stay sharp with the Brain Game every weekday, and please feel free to drop us a comment whenever you’d like. Here’s today’s edition. Enjoy!

Which letter of the alphabet appears in the name of
11 different U.S. states but not a single state capital?

Here is the SOLUTION.
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  1. My first thought was to think of Scrabble tiles in the 3-4 point range. I got lucky and thought of this one pretty quick (thanks to the \New\ states).

    recaptcha: dogtrot $1-billion
    (Sounds like a sign of the times…)

    posted by Tom in GA on 7-6-2009 at 9:11 am

  2. It took me a while, I had to go through almost the entire alphabet.

    Thanks Sandy!

    posted by Sue on 7-6-2009 at 10:34 am

  3. I almost said K (I had 7 states in my list when I stopped and switched over to W). I too employed a list of the alphabet and started exercising that fifth grade useless trivia, and answering that age old question of will I ever use this information again?

    Thanks, Sandy! I like it when you mix in these types of questions with the mathematic ones!

    posted by Carolyn on 7-6-2009 at 2:20 pm

  4. My first thought was odd letters such as X and Q, but I couldn’t find eleven states with either letter so my next thought was W. I must say I was suprised when I found that no capitals contain W, relatively common letter.

    posted by Matt Allcorn on 7-6-2009 at 3:51 pm

  5. I listed all the letters and started by spelling out a few capitals and striking out letters. After just a few, “W” stood out as one that I could think of a lot of states for . . .

    posted by Hodge on 7-6-2009 at 7:29 pm

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