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Sunday Puzzle: State Capitals

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and Larry Otten from Sheridan, Ore.
Sunday Puzzle

On-air challenge: I'm going to read you some sentences. Each sentence conceals the name of a state capital in consecutive letters. You name the capitals.

Example: Check the chart1. You can't rent only one trailer.2. How does golf rank for television?3. That's not too pleasant a feeling.4. Dad prepared flapjacks once.5. The numeral eight comes before nine.6. We fly to Zurich Monday.7. Are you and Eric on cordial terms?8. I wanna polish off dinner.

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