Due to a temporary  ‘typo’ in the Bonus Quickie below (in purple & green), we will leave this open for one more week to allow others to submit.  (The first 3 are closed.)  Return to the Wild Cards and click on  ‘Various Answers’ for more details.

Today, we are interested in the spelling of the (words for) various numbers.   We’ll deal with positive ‘whole’ numbers only.

1.  What is the only number whose letters of its spelling appear in alphabetical order?

2.  What is the only number whose letters of its spelling appear in reverse alphabetical order?

3.  What is the first number whose spelling contains an ‘a’.

Bonus Quickie:   John and James are twins (to each other).  John celebrated his FOURTH* birthday today, and James celebrates his first birthday tomorrow.

*Corrected Tuesday AM (9/30).  🙂

How can this be – and what day of the year must it be??

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Submit Answers!  There are NO tests and the answers are NOT graded, so lighten up!  🙂  If you want to submit  your answers to either or both of these, PLEASE feel free to do so!!  

You can do this 3 ways:  1)  Use the Leave A Reply section below (though I may not make it public until after Thursday noon);   2) reply to me individually by e-mail; or 3) by using the Contact Form link.   Except for using Leave a Reply, your anonymity is protected! 🙂
Next time around, I will share those who had correct solutions.  I may share FIRST correct submission, and depending on numbers and difficulties, I may share total number of submissions (but no names for incorrect submissions).  
Reminder:  Deadline for submissions (at least for recognition) is Thursday noon.