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Quiz - Can you locate all 50 US states?

  • 18-04-2020 5:54pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017
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    Curious to see what your US geography skills are like.

    https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states

    Only 18.2% of users can successfully locate all 50 states on a map, 45-49 is the most common score. Quite surprising really given most of the users are almost certainly American.

    I got all 50 with 4:44 remaining, but I follow US politics which helps. Don't worry about the time, the quicker you do it, the more likely you are to make a mistake.

    The tragic thing is I actually did the Irish 32 county quiz and failed. :(
    https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3150

    To be fair I moved to Northern Ireland aged 14 and have lived here since so some of geography south of Dublin isn't great (got mixed up between Laois and Offaly!)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,433 Quantum Erasure
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    Connecticut always gets me, edit, and the rest...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 Rodin
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    Curious to see what your US geography skills are like.

    https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states

    Only 18.2% of users can successfully locate all 50 states on a map, 45-49 is the most common score. Quite surprising really given most of the users are almost certainly American.

    I got all 50 with 4:44 remaining, but I follow US politics which helps. Don't worry about the time, the quicker you do it, the more likely you are to make a mistake.

    The tragic thing is I actually did the Irish 32 county quiz and failed. :(
    https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3150

    To be fair I moved to Northern Ireland aged 14 and have lived here since so some of geography south of Dublin isn't great (got mixed up between Laois and Offaly!)

    ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 SharpshooterTom
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    Connecticut always gets me, edit, and the rest...

    I'd say where most people are suspect are the mid west states and Delaware vs Rhode Island.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 Beanntraigheach
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    50/50 Timer 4:48

    The hardest for me is the interior of the country, Colorado, Iowa, etc - a patchwork of rectangles with little notches cut out of them :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 DEFTLEFTHAND
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    50/50 Timer 4:48

    The hardest for me is the interior of the country, Colorado, Iowa, etc - a patchwork of rectangles with little notches cut out of them :)
    I find the north east difficult. All these small states bunched together.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 AllForIt
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    I got north Dakota wrong even though I'd already done south Dakota


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,940 Rothko
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    Got the 50 states with 4:34 left.

    Love sporcle. A great way to waste time.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,769 Manach
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    30/50


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,870 fritzelly
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    The real question would be how many Americans can find America on a map?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 Guy:Incognito
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    I got 23. I was one state over for a good 15 of them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 fryup
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    17/50 :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 Thelonious Monk
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    Me and my partner play a game sometimes where we have to name a stage each until we run out... we normally get about 46 or 47 and forget something like Oklahoma or Idaho.
    It's actually mad people in Ireland know all the states just from TV and news but most Americans couldn't point out France on a map.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 Harry Palmr
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    Fairly terrible, the American interior is basically just a bunch of interchangeable shapes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 northknife
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    Has Mr. Trump tried this.
    Probably only get 20/50 😷😜


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 Thelonious Monk
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    Fairly terrible, the American interior is basically just a bunch of interchangeable shapes

    Yes the midwest is difficult, Texas and California must be the most recognisable shapes though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 fryup
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    so many straight line borders??.... can't see that working in Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 RobertKK
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    50/50 but geography is one of my good subjects and I have done tests on American states before, so it was a big help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,402 Westernyelp
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    35/50 disappointing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 Your Face
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    West Virginia caught me out - John Denver was full of s@@t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 JohnnyFlash
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 Victor
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    45/50 and 32/32.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,309 cj maxx
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    54% think I mixed up Alaska and Hawaii


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 bigtimecharlie
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    Mid West states caught me out as well.

    Very good spot op.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 wakka12
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    I knew surprisingly few.Got 27 out of 50, good few were just guesses though. The coastal ones are fairly easy but other than a rough direction didnt really get many of the interior mid western ones. Arkansas..Idaho..wyoming..Oklahome..no clue tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 Urethral Buttercup
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    Played a game recently and could name all of them save maybe two or three. Locate them all on a map? Not a chance. Doubt I'd get ten. Would ye be able to locate all the English provinces on a map?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 uch
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    I'd honestly say only about 4% of americans could get this right

    21/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 NSAman
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    48/50 fat fingers r i would have got 50..:)

    Have visited 40 of them


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Peregrine
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    41/50

    I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 jimmycrackcorm
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    I got 23. I was one state over for a good 15 of them.

    I too got about half of them but was supposed at how many I got wrong were next door


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 metaoblivia
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    50/50 with 5:26 left on the clock. I was taking my time to ensure I wouldn't fat finger anything. I'm American, although I guess to some that may make my score more unlikely, so I'll just say that I really enjoy geography and punch above my nationality in the subject.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,775 Montage of Feck
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    Yeah got 70%, got a few mid west and small new England states mixed up.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 Huntergonzo
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    Interesting quiz

    Got 50/50 with 3:44 left but I did half guess at 1 or 2 around the middle, I love Geography though. I used to go asleep reading maps as a child so I was hoping to do well!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 Huntergonzo
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    Jaysus I nearly missed the Ireland one, I got that 100% in 52 seconds, nearly mixed up Monaghan and Armagh though.

    I'd say a quiz of African countries would be tough, I'd be happy with anything over 50% in that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 Victor
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    Jaysus I nearly missed the Ireland one, I got that 100% in 52 seconds, nearly mixed up Monaghan and Armagh though.

    I'd say a quiz of African countries would be tough, I'd be happy with anything over 50% in that!

    Here you go: https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/africa?sc=africa


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,599 Capt'n Midnight
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    I got north Dakota wrong even though I'd already done south Dakota
    Of course. Because North Dakota doesn't exist.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 Mad_maxx
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    44%

    Stubby fingers meant i kept hitting the wrong ones in the north east cluster


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 fryup
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    any of you getting an annoying eir promotion pop-up ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,309 cj maxx
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    Just did it again . Seem to hit the one beside what I'm after .
    Plus chubby thumbs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 check_six
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    Yes the midwest is difficult, Texas and California must be the most recognisable shapes though

    The seterra.com site has one version of the US states quiz which is just the shapes. Not easy!

    The seterra quizzes are good because you can switch the mode so that you can label the stuff you know first before moving to the tricky ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,602 funkey_monkey
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    I knew Kilkenny bordered Tipp but didn't realise it was so far south as I thought it bordered Offaly. Also thought Carlow was more central. But I am a nordie so.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 Pherekydes
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    Peregrine wrote: »
    41/50

    I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri.

    47 right, and Mo was the first one I got wrong.

    I tried again immediately after and almost immediately got Mo wrong again, clicking on the same effing state.

    /raging


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 Victor
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    fryup wrote: »
    any of you getting an annoying eir promotion pop-up ??

    Yeah, I got a dodgy page as well. I think it just works off which ISP you are using.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,336 HalloweenJack
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    I got 48 out of 50 with 5:05 remaining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ShatterAlan
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    Curious to see what your US geography skills are like.

    https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states

    Only 18.2% of users can successfully locate all 50 states on a map, 45-49 is the most common score. Quite surprising really given most of the users are almost certainly American.

    I got all 50 with 4:44 remaining, but I follow US politics which helps. Don't worry about the time, the quicker you do it, the more likely you are to make a mistake.

    The tragic thing is I actually did the Irish 32 county quiz and failed. :(
    https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3150

    To be fair I moved to Northern Ireland aged 14 and have lived here since so some of geography south of Dublin isn't great (got mixed up between Laois and Offaly!)[/QUOTE


    I got 44. It's the ones in the centre that always throw me. I always think Idaho is not as far west and the redneck states like Kansas and Arkansas always confound me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ShatterAlan
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    Me and my partner play a game sometimes where we have to name a stage each until we run out... we normally get about 46 or 47 and forget something like Oklahoma or Idaho.
    It's actually mad people in Ireland know all the states just from TV and news but most Americans couldn't point out France on a map.


    I think you'll find that most Americans don't even know the capital of the state in which they reside and even fewer could name more than 10 states. By comparison most Irish people could name at least 25 of the 32 counties. GAA boggers could name them all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 kneemos
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    There are actually four Commonwealths and 46 states to be pedantic.

    Might be useful in a pub quiz to bamboozle the questionnaire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ShatterAlan
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    northknife wrote: »
    Has Mr. Trump tried this.
    Probably only get 20/50 ����


    That's being pretty charitable considering the arsehole thought Kansas City was in Kansas. Well some of it is but the Kansas City Chiefs who won the SB are a Missouri team.


    He spoke of timezones like "nambia and nipple" and of building a wall between Colorado and Mexico. So I think 20 / 50 would be out of the question for the doofus.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,653 Manic Moran
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    50/50, 5:12.

    It helps that the only ones I can't recall being in are Idaho, Vermont and North Dakota and Wisconsin. Interestingly, contrary to many here I find West and Mid-West to be very easy, it's the central South and NorthEast I need to slow down and take my time over. Then again, when it takes seven hours to drive one end of Wyoming to the other (700km) it gives you plenty of time to ponder where you are on the map and when you'll get to the next damned state over. Or even the next town. There's a whole lot of not very much there.

    My Irish knowledge, however, is a little lacking. I got about 34% on the first try. 60% second try.
    I think you'll find that most Americans don't even know the capital of the state in which they reside and even fewer could name more than 10 states. By comparison most Irish people could name at least 25 of the 32 counties. GAA boggers could name them all.

    Hyperbole, much?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 Huntergonzo
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    kneemos wrote: »
    There are actually four Commonwealths and 46 states to be pedantic.

    Might be useful in a pub quiz to bamboozle the questionnaire.

    I remember seeing that on QI years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 take everything
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    43/50
    Not too bad but i thought i'd do better.
    Confused Arizona with Nevada, Oklahoma with Nebraska and got a lot of the northeast states mixed up (Rhode Island, Delaware etc).


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