Fun quiz: how many states can you name in 10 minutes?

Check this out. I forgot 6 of them. How about you?

h/t Sun Versus Wind

18 Comments

  1. tom hall
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:58 am | Permalink

    I got all of them that I could remember how to spell.

  2. Clear Thinker
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:25 pm | Permalink

    I got them all.

  3. Andre Kenji de Sousa
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    Oops, I missed Pennsylvania.

  4. tom hall 2
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 1:13 pm | Permalink

    Hi Tom Hall, it’s another Tom Hall. I live in Purcellville, Va. Anyway, I got all 50 in less than five minutes, alphabetically no less, because of a song I learned as a teen-ager: “Fifty Nifty United States.” It still helps me when I have to put lists of states in order.

  5. Carla
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    I somehow managed to miss Nebraska, Vermont, and Wyoming, even though I kept seeing images of cowboys and verdant mountains. Oh well, I had surgery last weekend and managed to forget my home telephone number yesterday when making a medical appointment. Maybe I’m still loopy.

  6. aznew
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

    I got all 49. I was under the impression that Nebraska had seceded.

  7. Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 3:45 pm | Permalink

    I forgot Minnesota and Missouri.

  8. Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    all in 4:50

  9. Sam T.
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    4:40!

  10. Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Andre - aren’t you in Brazil? And you got 49? Wow.

    I’ll bet those getting all of them (or nearly all) are a wee bit younger than I :(

  11. silence dogood
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

    I had 5 left to go with 7 minutes still on the clock when my phone rang with a business call that took 7 minutes 30 seconds.

    Also how come Mass. has to be so hard to spell?

  12. Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 6:15 pm | Permalink

    Tom Hall 2, I learned the same song in 3rd grade :D :D :D :D

    Got them all with 3 minutes to spare :) although I had to look up the bloody spelling of “Massachusetts” XD

  13. Gene Magruder
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 7:53 pm | Permalink

    48 with three minutes left-easily could have cheated but I left out red staters of Wyoming and Nebraska. does that really count. Do they really count

  14. Larryg
    Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    well.. I got the all with about 2 minutes left… took me 5 whole minutes to remember new jersey…

    but.. nifty fifty united states? never heard of it..and then I pulled in up on you Tube.

    I could never remember that song.. if my life depended on it… geeze…

  15. DAR
    Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:14 am | Permalink

    I’ll be honest…I missed 5. Those midwest states just wouldn’t come to me. I missed Indiana (sorry John Mellencamp), Iowa (the corny state), Kansas (sorry Dorothy & Toto), Wisconsin (the cheesy state), Missouri (the flooding state ?).

  16. Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:33 am | Permalink

    I was only able to remember 50, I still can’t think of the other 7.

    I’ll see if they are on Obama’s web site.

  17. Richard
    Posted Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 10:35 pm | Permalink

    Damn it! Nevada and Kansas. Been to the former once; flown over the latter more times than I can count. 48 in about 4 1/2 minutes… and 5 1/2 minutes failing to remember that weekend in Vegas or that rectangularish one in the middle.

  18. Meagan
    Posted Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

    I got 48. I forgot Hawaii and Alaska because I’m looking at a map without them on it. Oops. Hehe Oh well..

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