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Quiz - Can you locate all 50 US states?

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  • 18-04-2020 6:54pm
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    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭


    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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    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Connecticut always gets me, edit, and the rest...


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    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    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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    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    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.


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    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    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 :)


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Beanntraigheach wrote: »
    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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    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I got north Dakota wrong even though I'd already done south Dakota


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    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,846 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Got the 50 states with 4:34 left.

    Love sporcle. A great way to waste time.


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    #9
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,674 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    30/50


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    #10
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,305 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    The real question would be how many Americans can find America on a map?


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    I got 23. I was one state over for a good 15 of them.


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    17/50 :o


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    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,890 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    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.


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Fairly terrible, the American interior is basically just a bunch of interchangeable shapes


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    northknife
    Registered Users Posts: 464 ✭✭northknife


    Has Mr. Trump tried this.
    Probably only get 20/50 😷😜


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    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,890 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    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


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    so many straight line borders??.... can't see that working in Ireland


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    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,730 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    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.


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    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    35/50 disappointing


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    #20
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    West Virginia caught me out - John Denver was full of s@@t.


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    #21
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3E5e7fZ6M


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    #22
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,287 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    45/50 and 32/32.


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    #23
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,501 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    54% think I mixed up Alaska and Hawaii


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    #24
    bigtimecharlie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭bigtimecharlie


    Mid West states caught me out as well.

    Very good spot op.


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    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    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


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    Urethral Buttercup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Urethral Buttercup


    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?


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    I'd honestly say only about 4% of americans could get this right

    21/25



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    #28
    NSAman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,394 ✭✭✭NSAman


    48/50 fat fingers r i would have got 50..:)

    Have visited 40 of them


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    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    41/50

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


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    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    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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    metaoblivia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    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.


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