[Baaa] Poor Wyoming
Nov. 14th, 2008 03:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I had the first 47 in 4 minutes, and the next 2 with 4 minutes to spare. I felt foolish when it took me until there were less than 30 second to go before noticing there was a silhouette of the US map right there on the quiz page. It would have helped me visualize the missing chunk if I'd used it from the start. No, I didn't google a thing, or even think of doing so until now.
I was pretty sure I was missing one of those squarish states in the west or southwest, though it could have just as easily been a small state here in the east or one of the states down near Arkansas and Tennessee. My first hunch was right. Sorry, Wyoming!
Hey, at least my memory hasn't turned to complete rubbish, much as it often seems otherwise.
Thanks for the link,
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Date: 2008-11-14 09:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-14 10:41 am (UTC)OTOH suspect I'm doing better than most USians would with, eg, the UK county version of Statetris.
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Date: 2008-11-14 11:56 am (UTC)I'm trés amused that you misses Massachusetts. As for Wyoming, think: Yellowstone National Park. Old Faithful. Artists' Paintpots. Moose. Cody, Wyoming was also fun the couple of times I've been there.
Arizona's the one that's a big hole in the ground. The Grand Canyon is well worth a look. :-)
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Date: 2008-11-14 11:56 am (UTC)I'd like to think that most USians could manage "England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland" in the space of ten minutes, but . . . well, I'm not entirely sure I'd bet money on it.
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Date: 2008-11-14 12:19 pm (UTC)I accept that counties is a bit hard. But how would you do with European countries? That's a perfectly fair comparison to US states, though made a little harder because they've been changing their names rather a lot recently. I do recommend the European version of Statetris. And Statetris itself, for that matter.
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Date: 2008-11-14 12:59 pm (UTC)I do okay on European countries, generally. Way better than on African or Asian countries. About the same as South America. Nowhere near as good as naming all the countries of North America, Australia, or Antarctica, though. Those I can do pretty fast.
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Date: 2008-11-14 03:32 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2008-11-14 03:33 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2008-11-15 06:23 am (UTC)I learned all of the state capitals in 5th grade, but never the states in alphabetical order. So I did it geographically, then double-checked my "M" states ('cause I'm an M-state girl). I picked up Maryland that way. I forget which state was the 49th one I remembered.
I wonder if anyone did the quiz in the order the states entered the union, or (related) by the years of their state quarters. In grade school, we studied them by order of entry.
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