NICKEL, DIME, QUARTER
Credit: NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
Novembe 20, 2005
Will Shortz

If you were asked what coin comes between a nickel and and a quarter, you would say a dime. But if you were asked which coin comes alphabetically between a nickel and quarter, you would have to say a penny. Each question below names two things from a certain category. Name something else from that category that would fit alphabetically between the two.

1. Mars - Neptune
2. Cleveland - Coolidge
3. Peach - Persimmon
4. Illinois - Iowa
5. Blitzen - Cupid
6. Right field - Shortstop
7. Michigan - Superior
8. Sweden - Syria
9. Indigo - Red
10. Denver - Dover
11. Nahum - Numbers
12. Labor Day - Memorial Day

Answers:

1. Mercury
2. Clinton
3. Pear
4. Indiana
5. Comet
6. Second base
7. Ontario
8. Switzerland
9. Orange
10. Des Moines (capital cities)
11. Nehemia
12. Martin Luther King Day