# Trivia question... I'm stumped

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 8, 2000, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485 "2000-09-08T13:11:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/1 "2000-09-08T13:11:17Z")

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Recently this trivia question was thrown at me, and I can’t for the life of me figure out the answer:

“What is the only number when spelled out, has all its letters in alphabetical order?”

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**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/2 "2000-09-08T13:16:08Z")

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Forty ?

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**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/3 "2000-09-08T13:18:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Zumba The Cat \*  
> \*\*Forty ? \*\*

Well knock me dead and slap me silly.

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**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/4 "2000-09-08T13:22:41Z")

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I take it that answer works for you? I finally answered something first!! Yippy for Zumba. 🙂 🙂

Every time I see a question I know the answer to six people have already answered it.

This time Zumba wins!

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/5 "2000-09-08T15:03:48Z")

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Five minutes. She **is** a fast cat.

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**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/6 "2000-09-08T15:27:57Z")

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_blushing_

UncleBeer noticed me!

Getting an answer right and having UncleBeer notice me makes today a perfect day.

I feel like dancing in the street…or on a table. Which ever I find first.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/7 "2000-09-08T15:30:40Z")

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When I saw the the title of this post I thought for sure it was going to have “GRY” written all over it!

A life has been saved today!

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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/8 "2000-09-08T16:21:45Z")

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That’s funny. “Gry” is alphabetically ordered, too.

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**Author:** ![TampaFlyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@TampaFlyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TampaFlyer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/9 "2000-09-08T17:47:17Z")

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What about dos? Nobody said it had to be in English.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/10 "2000-09-08T18:30:39Z")

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OK TampaFlyer, what about “deux”?

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-im-stumped/32485/11 "2000-09-08T18:42:04Z")

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Or dix, or IV, or IX, . . .