Quiz - Can you locate all 50 US states?

SharpshooterTom · 18-04-2020 6:54pm #1

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!)

Quantum Erasure · 18-04-2020 6:56pm

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

Rodin · 18-04-2020 7:00pm

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 · 18-04-2020 7:32pm

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.

Beanntraigheach · 18-04-2020 8:23pm

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-04-2020 8:53pm

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.

AllForIt · 18-04-2020 9:31pm

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

Rothko · 18-04-2020 9:41pm

Got the 50 states with 4:34 left.

Love sporcle. A great way to waste time.

Manach · 18-04-2020 11:25pm

30/50

fritzelly · 18-04-2020 11:27pm

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

Guy:Incognito · 18-04-2020 11:29pm

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

fryup · 18-04-2020 11:37pm

17/50

Thelonious Monk · 18-04-2020 11:37pm

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.

Harry Palmr · 18-04-2020 11:41pm

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

northknife · 18-04-2020 11:48pm

Has Mr. Trump tried this.
Probably only get 20/50 ðŸ˜·ðŸ˜œ

Thelonious Monk · 18-04-2020 11:48pm

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

fryup · 19-04-2020 12:08am

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

RobertKK · 19-04-2020 12:12am

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.

Westernyelp · 19-04-2020 12:15am

35/50 disappointing

Your Face · 19-04-2020 12:19am

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

JohnnyFlash · 19-04-2020 12:23am

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

Victor · 19-04-2020 12:25am

45/50 and 32/32.

cj maxx · 19-04-2020 12:29am

54% think I mixed up Alaska and Hawaii

bigtimecharlie · 19-04-2020 12:30am

Mid West states caught me out as well.

Very good spot op.

wakka12 · 19-04-2020 12:34am

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

Urethral Buttercup · 19-04-2020 12:41am

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?

uch · 19-04-2020 2:47am

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

NSAman · 19-04-2020 2:59am

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

Have visited 40 of them

Peregrine · 19-04-2020 4:05am

41/50

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

jimmycrackcorm · 19-04-2020 4:30am

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

metaoblivia · 19-04-2020 9:16am

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.

Montage of Feck · 19-04-2020 9:34am

Yeah got 70%, got a few mid west and small new England states mixed up.

Huntergonzo · 19-04-2020 9:45am

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!

Huntergonzo · 19-04-2020 9:56am

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!

Victor · 19-04-2020 10:22am

Huntergonzo wrote: »

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

Capt'n Midnight · 19-04-2020 11:14am

AllForIt wrote: »

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

Of course. Because North Dakota doesn't exist.

Mad_maxx · 19-04-2020 12:25pm

44%

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

fryup · 19-04-2020 12:35pm

any of you getting an annoying eir promotion pop-up ??

cj maxx · 19-04-2020 12:45pm

Just did it again . Seem to hit the one beside what I'm after .
Plus chubby thumbs

check_six · 19-04-2020 12:53pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

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.

funkey_monkey · 19-04-2020 12:56pm

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.

Pherekydes · 19-04-2020 2:46pm

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

Victor · 19-04-2020 4:43pm

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.

HalloweenJack · 19-04-2020 5:45pm

I got 48 out of 50 with 5:05 remaining.

ShatterAlan · 19-04-2020 7:42pm

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!)[/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.

ShatterAlan · 19-04-2020 7:54pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

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.

kneemos · 19-04-2020 7:57pm

There are actually four Commonwealths and 46 states to be pedantic.

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

ShatterAlan · 19-04-2020 8:08pm

northknife wrote: »

Has Mr. Trump tried this.
Probably only get 20/50 &#55357;&#56887;&#55357;&#56860;

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.

Manic Moran · 19-04-2020 8:25pm

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?

Huntergonzo · 19-04-2020 8:47pm

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.

take everything · 19-04-2020 9:02pm

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).

Quiz - Can you locate all 50 US states?

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