I’m a day late on this one, due to the holiday crunch (which only confirms to me that the decision to take the holidays off is a good one!). Anyway, this week’s puzzle challenged you to go through the alphabet by naming celebrated New Yorkers. The challenge was to use up all the letters in the alphabet in as few names and/or letters as possible. Here’s my shortest list:
Humphrey Bogart – Famed Movie Star was born in NYC on Christmas Day (so it even keeps with the holidays)
Liz Smith – New York Gossip Columnist
Robin Quivers – Howard Stern’s Sidekick Extraordinaire
Jack Gilford – Very Funny Character Actor Who Befell the McCarthy Blacklist
Max Weinberg – Bandleader for Conan O’Brien
That is five names totaling 56 letters. If you can do better than that, drop a comment to this post.
Tags: Brain Teaser, humphrey Bogart, Jack Gilford, Liz Smith, Max Weinberg, New York City, Robin Quivers, Word Puzzles
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