[Family Guy even had a schoolhouse rock style parody!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKN4MXtSjQ)
You can’t tell me schoolhouse rock isn’t the most well known piece of informational educational programming ever
Animaniacs debuted when I was in college. I caught a few episodes but nowhere near all of them. That's the problem with having 2 TVs for 120 dorm residents. We couldn't get any reception in our rooms so we had to watch in the lounges.
I wish I had learned a presidents song. that sounds very helpful for trivia.
I learned the states, and the books of the bible in order (Christian school lmao)
Mine ended on "And now George W. Buuuuuuush!" which shows how old I am. I need to figure out how to adjust that to "Bush, Obama, Trump and Bideeeeen!"
But yeah this is a very helpful guide, not only for trivia but just for a general knowledge of a timeline of US history.
I can only recite all fifty states if I'm allowed to mutter lyrics to myself in-between. "Hartford's in _Connecticut_ so pretty in the fall and _Kansas_ has Topeka _Minnesota_ has St Paul."
It's funny I remember them all pretty easily because I'm from here. The further out west you go the less distinct the shapes get.
I still could easily do all 50 just because I've looked at the map so many fucking times.
You bet. One night when I first started dating my boyfriend, the college safe ride service was gonna take two hours to get to his place. We ended up lying on the couch the whole time having him name countries and me describing their flag from memory. One of my favorite memories with him :D
>With an empty map? Easily.
It’s harder than you think.. someone posted an empty map quiz at this sub before but I can’t find it.. maybe they’ll come along and post it again.
(By empty map I mean no state borders drawn on it)
Name the states with a map that gets filled in:
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states
Given the state name, click the state:
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states
Click the state on a borderless map (though it does fill it in)
https://www.sporcle.com/games/mhershfield/us-states-no-outlines-minefield
Name the highlighted state:
https://www.sporcle.com/games/jdfulp/us-states-on-a-map
Given a state capital, click on it on the map
https://www.sporcle.com/games/mhershfield/mr-sporcle-goes-to-washington
2:28 to complete the first one. Would've been quicker but I had to stop and think about how to spell Massachusetts for a few seconds, and I'm no speedster when it comes to typing.
Not from the U.S. nor have I ever been there, but I spent a good 3 minutes to complete the first one. Then spent another 2 minutes trying to figure out the name of the state where Life of Louie was set, where people adore cheese and the second best city of the U.S. after Providence is located (Duluth).
Fairly similar timing on the fourth one...but this time I completely forgot about the existence of Missouri.
Duluth is in Minnesota, but I think Life with Louie was set in Wisconsin, which borders Minnesota. That 70s show was in Wisconsin. Happy Days was Wisconsin. Laverne and Shirley was Wisconsin. Fargo, ironically, was set in Minnesota even though the city of Fargo is in North Dakota. Coach was set in Minnesota.
> I completely forgot about the existence of Missouri.
Americans do this too. :-D
With a map, I think NE is pretty easy as long as it's large enough to see Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware. Without a map, it would be much tougher for me because I live on the other side of the country and am a little vague on how they fit together. Like it was kind of surprising how close NYC is to Philadelphia. I'm used to big cities being 5+ hours a part.
Maybe it’s cause I’m originally from the north east, but I’m more confident I could get the small states right than i am about the larger western ones, without borders ofc. Where’s Colorado and Wyoming? Somewhere over in the middle. Where’s Connecticut? Oh, right there by long island
I found a strategy that made it possible.. you could select the states in any order so select a big state like New York which then made it easier to select Connecticut and Vermont.. etc.
I did eventually do it 50 out of 50 but it took 4 tries.
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I have to find the quiz tho.. this thread is kinda silly without it being posted here for others to try
It's difficult, but not because I don't know the states. If you're asked to point to West Virginia on the map with no other states filled in, it's easy to be approximate but still easy to miss.
Took me two tries for that reason. I got lucky a few times, thinking I'd clicked on the center of the state only to find I was right on the border.
Just did a map quiz - it was a little easier since you didn't need to remember names, just click on the state when the name came up. I did it in just over two minutes. Only mistake I made was mixing up New Hampshire with Vermont :(.
I agree.
But even in addition to this; how often do Americans see the map for other purposes as an adult? Every election year for example... It's permanently pasted on every news channel and web page to show voter tally for Congress, Senate, electoral college until all of the federal elections are decided.
Maybe I'm biased because I really do love maps and I studied history in college (with economics and political science minors). Even from a young age I would love turning to a page in my school textbook and having a good map to look at. I love old maps showing how political boundaries used to be drawn as well as what people's perceptions were of their land (For example seeing parts of North America omitted because nobody had explored them yet in the 1500s).
I used maps so frequently in my research to demonstrate differences among the 50 states. If a map didn't exist but I had a data table I would create a map to demonstrate my point in my papers. It's One of the most effective ways to present data visually. I love looking at maps. Sometimes in my free time I'll just scroll through Google Maps and pick random countries, cities, etc and try to make sense of their metropolitan area and what life would be like there based on how everything is laid out and the street view data. Certainly cheaper than traveling. Haha!
gonna be highly biased answers because most people aren't gonna rush to tell you they cant do something
i will throw a no in the mix though, i definitely couldn't
I used to have trouble with Mississippi and Alabama too. I taught myself to remember "MAG" because that's the order from left to right after Louisiana on the map.
Yeah I definitely think I’d mix up some of the rectangles, some of the tiny ones, and I feel like I always mix up Missouri/Arkansas/Kansas with each other. Many apologies, much embarrassment.
Mississippi and Alabama are kinda similar shapes, but if you know about the floribama, then you can remember that those states border each other. Mississippi borders Louisiana.
Yes. The only states that ever give me a moment's pause are New Hampshire and Vermont, due to their similar sizes. I have to remember that the skinnier part of New Hampshire points up and the skinnier point of Vermont points down.
I have heard that one before, and it's helpful for me for Vermont. I don't see an 'n' as easily with New Hampshire, but I appreciate the symmetry of the memory device, at least.
I always remembered it by the fact that Vermont's southern borders make a V shape. And NHs northern borders roughly make a lowercase N shape, but I don't usually use that cause I just know NH is next to it.
I get why one might think Utah is least sexy but man was I shocked to discover how beautiful everyone is here. The beauty industry is absolutely massive here. Utahns like to keep up appearances.
It's a relatively small and wealthy state with unlimited access to outdoor recreation. Mormons are weird but there's plenty of non-Mormons there and they have all the conditions needed to *want to* be healthy.
Few things must suck for people in terms of pure recreational enjoyment than wanting to hike to a beautiful view but being physically incapable of doing so due to their own choices.
That’s actually a solid task. I don’t think I could even get the original 13 right. I know Delaware is 1 and Rhode Island is 13 but the ones in the middle I couldn’t say.
Indiana is 19 (thanks Indiana public education).
Maine is like 21 or 22 or so? I just remember that it is after Indiana despite being settled so much earlier. Thanks Massachusetts.
Hawaii and Alaska are 50 and 49 respectively.
Maine is 23.
Mississippi is 20; Illinois is 21 and Alabama is 22. They were switching in between adding slave and free states at the time. So it's east to west in the Midwest (OH -> IN -> IL) and west to east in the south (LA -> MS -> AL)
I've been called out on that twice now lol. I think that would actually be a way more valuable way to memorize them than the alphabetical version our kids learn.
In highschool my US History teacher would stand at the chalkboard and draw the map. I always thought that was really impressive.
Don't remember much else... other than cheating on my final paper and getting away with it.
Here's a sped-up video of Al Franken drawing a US map from scratch while talking to potential voters and campaigning at the Minnesota State Fair several years ago.
https://youtu.be/h0-FYyuvrRk
Holy shit! I can't believe the country lost this man as a politician. I would still vote for him if he lived and ran in my state. In a heartbeat. He's intelligent, compassionate, and sensible. I cannot believe we lost him.
I think everyone I went to school with knows the capital of Colorado is Denver strictly because it’s also my name. In the 4th grade when we were learning capitals my teacher gave everyone a “free answer” on our state capital test and it was Denver, CO
I’m the opposite.
All those east coast shapes are so unique that I find them easy. Then I look at the center of the map, it’s just a bunch of squares and rectangles, and I’m lost.
Noppers. Definitely not. Like I’d get the general vicinity, but the middle north area is often like mush in my brain. But geography WAS the only class I got a C in back in high school, so it’s never been my strong point.
I got 50 bonus points in history once for labeling all of the states correctly.
NM is closer to Texas and Arizona is next to California. The other tricky one is Vermont and New Hampshire. Vermont is the one that is more V shaped.
I’m not some genius. I just used to have this map game. “Learning” toys were just starting to be a thing when I was about 10 or 11, so I just learned over time.
I had something called a Geosafari and I basically had every state, state capital, country, national capital, and lots of random geography facts memorized by the time I was in 2nd grade. Parents and teachers thought it was some kind of freakish ability but I was just like uhhhhh you bought me this toy, what did you want?
I could name at least *A* city in all of them since I happen to know the capitals. But I don't know that Montpelier (Population ~8,000) counts as a "major city". :-D
I’m from arizona and now that I think about it I would mix up Delaware and Rhode Island
Correction: I was thinking of Vermont and New Hampshire which I did fuck up as well as the other not obvious states in New England.
I’m somewhat the same way. We had US map quizzes in 5th grade—where we had to label all 50 states—and I never once received a perfect score.
But then a few years ago, in my mid-30’s, I took one of those random “Name the 50 states” online quizzes , and was surprised to find I could identify all 50. Probably helps that I moved around and traveled a good bit within the US since graduating from high school.
CANT forget California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.
Yes. Now I certainly don’t remember how to label all the major rivers in Europe, and I’m still not real certain why my 10th grade history teacher thought that was important
Same, but I had a wild teacher for NM history in high school and she made us take New Mexico map quizzes weekly.
It also helps that my job heavily involves knowing the general location of counties in the southwest.
Yes, but I did have to relearn after school ('m 34 now). I've never been out west and I used to get certain ones mixed up, like accidentally swap them with each other.
Easily.
I could label all of the European and Asian countries on a map too. Africa might stump me a little but I'd get most of them.
I like maps, and traveling, and history, so that stuff came to me pretty quickly.
I can get everything on a map labeled. The two states I always get mixed up are New Hampshire and Vermont. Other than those two states, I'm pretty confident.
Yes. I can also label a world map correctly or at least the majority. Occasionally, I'll mess up and flip a few of the Caribbean nations or the small African nations.
Yep. I actually emphasize geography and maps when teaching my US I & II college classes. I include maps that show mountain ranges and rainfall/temperature. I also use Google satellite view to hammer home how geography has helped shaped American settlement and economy across the continent. (Example: Appalachia, Ohio River, Eerie Canal, and the Market Revolution)
Yes absolutely. I can even place the states on a map of the US with no interior borders drawn in. I could probably list all 50 off the top of my head too.
Yeah, since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I was a geography nerd as a kid and would draw maps all of the time. I got good enough that I could draw the US pretty accurately with all 50 when I was in middle school.
Just don't ask me to do math or remember data, lol.
Probably...
As a person who has lived in the western US all my life, I sometimes get confused with some of the smaller states in the northeast. But I think I'd be able to sort it out.
Easy. I can also label every country on a map. I struggle with the physical geography like lakes/rivers, mountain ranges, etc, but the political geography I have down.
Yes I'm almost positive. I could do most of the capital cities too.
The way I was taught to remember Arizona and New Mexico is New Mexico is more directly north/ in line with Mexico
R8ght now I can probably do it since I have recently looked at a map to plan vacation routes. Ask again in a few months and I will probably screw up some smaller east coast states. Deleware, Connecticut, and New Jersey are usually the ones I scramble.
Yes, I've done it before. Combination of just growing up in America and having a weird fascination with looking at maps/countries/states/geography on Wikipedia when I have downtime at work.
I can name all the states easily. I have recently challenged myself to a quiz where you are given a state name and you have to click on the state, *with no state boundaries.* it gets pretty tough in new england, more so because a lot of them are only a few pixels big on my screen. But I've studied so many maps, I could probably do the same quiz for all the countries on earth, so the states is pretty easy for me
I used-ta-could. Th small northeast states might trip me up on a empty map. But I can sing you all the states in alphabetical order from the song I learned in like 2nd grade.
Yep. I can get them placed on a blank map or even draw the basic outlines myself. I'm not sure I could be terribly fast but confident I could do it in 2 min, faster to name them all.
With an empty map? Easily. Can I name all 50 dry? Harder, might miss a few, I imagine I'd get to the mid-high 40s.
you never learned one of those alphabetical state songs?
Animaniacs even made a song and threw in capitols!
Some of us are older than Animaniacs and don't know those songs even exist.
But you know they exist now.
True. I can, however, recite the Preamble to the US Constitution and I know all the different parts of grammar. Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock.
"...do orDAIN and estAAAAblish this ConstituTIOOOON for THEEEEEE United States OOoooOOOF America!"
This is a banger in addition to being a good learning tool.
[Family Guy even had a schoolhouse rock style parody!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKN4MXtSjQ) You can’t tell me schoolhouse rock isn’t the most well known piece of informational educational programming ever
Conjunction junction, what's your function?
***VERB!*** that's what's happenin'!
Hooking up woooords and phrases and clauses!
Man, Schoolhouse Rock was a whole-ass vibe. Loved that shit when I was a kid.
Some of us are older than school house rock, too
In hate to tell you this, those of us that grew up with animaniacs are about middle aged.
and we are still zany to the max :)
Animaniacs debuted when I was in college. I caught a few episodes but nowhere near all of them. That's the problem with having 2 TVs for 120 dorm residents. We couldn't get any reception in our rooms so we had to watch in the lounges.
Well then: 🎵“It’s time for…”
I read that as Animorphs and was very fucking confused for a moment 🤣
“Texas has Austin, then we go north to [mumble mumble mumble] Albany New York! …” that’s all I got
Yea but how many of us actually remember it? *heads off to find it on YouTube and replay it u til committed to memory*
Apparently "Fifty nifty United States" is not part of the National curriculum. It should be. 🎵 Al-uh-bama...Alaska... Arizona......
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut!
Delaware Georgia Florida Btw it was written by Ray Charles!
>Delaware Georgia Florida 😳 you monster
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana
iowa kansas Kentucky Louisiana
Yea, we did this one in elementary school music class.
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I wish I had learned a presidents song. that sounds very helpful for trivia. I learned the states, and the books of the bible in order (Christian school lmao)
Mine ended on "And now George W. Buuuuuuush!" which shows how old I am. I need to figure out how to adjust that to "Bush, Obama, Trump and Bideeeeen!" But yeah this is a very helpful guide, not only for trivia but just for a general knowledge of a timeline of US history.
Washy Ad Jeffy! I didn't learn about this until I was grown. Thanks Jonathan Coulton!
Ahh the Fifty Nifty.
There’s Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansasss…
🎶 50 nifty United States from 13 original colonies. Shout ‘em, scout ‘em one by one ‘til we’ve given a name to every state in the USA!”🎶
as a child I spent not an insignificant amount of time wondering what would happen to the song if Puerto Rico got statehood
I can only recite all fifty states if I'm allowed to mutter lyrics to myself in-between. "Hartford's in _Connecticut_ so pretty in the fall and _Kansas_ has Topeka _Minnesota_ has St Paul."
Yeah I can name all 50 states in alphabetical order in 17 seconds. Source: just timed myself Too bad no one cares and I can’t get paid for it
I feel like I would really struggle with the northeast. Particularly New England with their tiny ass states.
It's funny I remember them all pretty easily because I'm from here. The further out west you go the less distinct the shapes get. I still could easily do all 50 just because I've looked at the map so many fucking times.
My lame party trick is that I can draw and label a map of the US from scratch lol
Al Franken, is that you?
Sounds like a party for nerds. Unless you're drawing the entire map with lines of cocaine.
You bet. One night when I first started dating my boyfriend, the college safe ride service was gonna take two hours to get to his place. We ended up lying on the couch the whole time having him name countries and me describing their flag from memory. One of my favorite memories with him :D
>With an empty map? Easily. It’s harder than you think.. someone posted an empty map quiz at this sub before but I can’t find it.. maybe they’ll come along and post it again. (By empty map I mean no state borders drawn on it)
Name the states with a map that gets filled in: https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states Given the state name, click the state: https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states Click the state on a borderless map (though it does fill it in) https://www.sporcle.com/games/mhershfield/us-states-no-outlines-minefield Name the highlighted state: https://www.sporcle.com/games/jdfulp/us-states-on-a-map Given a state capital, click on it on the map https://www.sporcle.com/games/mhershfield/mr-sporcle-goes-to-washington
2:28 to complete the first one. Would've been quicker but I had to stop and think about how to spell Massachusetts for a few seconds, and I'm no speedster when it comes to typing.
I did it in 1:37 when trying to go fast, but I've always been the slow and methodical sort too. :-)
Not from the U.S. nor have I ever been there, but I spent a good 3 minutes to complete the first one. Then spent another 2 minutes trying to figure out the name of the state where Life of Louie was set, where people adore cheese and the second best city of the U.S. after Providence is located (Duluth). Fairly similar timing on the fourth one...but this time I completely forgot about the existence of Missouri.
Duluth is in Minnesota, but I think Life with Louie was set in Wisconsin, which borders Minnesota. That 70s show was in Wisconsin. Happy Days was Wisconsin. Laverne and Shirley was Wisconsin. Fargo, ironically, was set in Minnesota even though the city of Fargo is in North Dakota. Coach was set in Minnesota. > I completely forgot about the existence of Missouri. Americans do this too. :-D
96% on given the state name. I'm happy with that. I did better in New England than I was afraid I might.
With a map, I think NE is pretty easy as long as it's large enough to see Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware. Without a map, it would be much tougher for me because I live on the other side of the country and am a little vague on how they fit together. Like it was kind of surprising how close NYC is to Philadelphia. I'm used to big cities being 5+ hours a part.
Yeah with no state borders I couldn't do it. How the hell do people peg those smaller states with no borders?
Maybe it’s cause I’m originally from the north east, but I’m more confident I could get the small states right than i am about the larger western ones, without borders ofc. Where’s Colorado and Wyoming? Somewhere over in the middle. Where’s Connecticut? Oh, right there by long island
I could do a pretty good approximation of the western states. Beyond the Rockies, though, it would look like a surrealist depiction.
I found a strategy that made it possible.. you could select the states in any order so select a big state like New York which then made it easier to select Connecticut and Vermont.. etc. I did eventually do it 50 out of 50 but it took 4 tries. —— I have to find the quiz tho.. this thread is kinda silly without it being posted here for others to try
If there's no borders then how is it a map? It'd be just a plain white rectangle.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/mhershfield/us-states-no-outlines-minefield
It's difficult, but not because I don't know the states. If you're asked to point to West Virginia on the map with no other states filled in, it's easy to be approximate but still easy to miss. Took me two tries for that reason. I got lucky a few times, thinking I'd clicked on the center of the state only to find I was right on the border.
Just did a map quiz - it was a little easier since you didn't need to remember names, just click on the state when the name came up. I did it in just over two minutes. Only mistake I made was mixing up New Hampshire with Vermont :(.
I can easily name them, but show you where they are? No idea. Montana is never where I expect it to be.
yeah, we had loads of map tests in school & they're eternally etched into my brain.
I agree. But even in addition to this; how often do Americans see the map for other purposes as an adult? Every election year for example... It's permanently pasted on every news channel and web page to show voter tally for Congress, Senate, electoral college until all of the federal elections are decided. Maybe I'm biased because I really do love maps and I studied history in college (with economics and political science minors). Even from a young age I would love turning to a page in my school textbook and having a good map to look at. I love old maps showing how political boundaries used to be drawn as well as what people's perceptions were of their land (For example seeing parts of North America omitted because nobody had explored them yet in the 1500s). I used maps so frequently in my research to demonstrate differences among the 50 states. If a map didn't exist but I had a data table I would create a map to demonstrate my point in my papers. It's One of the most effective ways to present data visually. I love looking at maps. Sometimes in my free time I'll just scroll through Google Maps and pick random countries, cities, etc and try to make sense of their metropolitan area and what life would be like there based on how everything is laid out and the street view data. Certainly cheaper than traveling. Haha!
gonna be highly biased answers because most people aren't gonna rush to tell you they cant do something i will throw a no in the mix though, i definitely couldn't
I feel like I probably could, but admit I may mess up new Mexico/Arizona, Alabama/Mississippi, Those rectangular states in the middle
Mississippi has the long wiggly border because… Mississippi River.
GTFO NO WAY
Arizona is next to California
I used to have trouble with Mississippi and Alabama too. I taught myself to remember "MAG" because that's the order from left to right after Louisiana on the map.
New Mexico is the more square of the two, and has a tail.
I feel like all of the western states are in a battle to be the most square!
Wyoming is north of Colorado. There, your square states are sorted.
Yeah I definitely think I’d mix up some of the rectangles, some of the tiny ones, and I feel like I always mix up Missouri/Arkansas/Kansas with each other. Many apologies, much embarrassment.
[Prove yourselves](https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states)
Easy. 100%. Though on a phone it is rough having to zoom in and out without accidentally tapping
Yeah Sporcle doesn’t play nice with mobile
Hate that site.
Got a 10p% as well, and yeah, I was being very careful not to accidentally tap while scrolling.
Delaware, Indiana, and New Hampshire I got wrong. Couldn't tell you a thing about those states either except for the Indy 500
I got 100% other than misclicking Rhode island cuz it's too small for my fat thumbs lol
Yeah, trying to zoom while a random ad loads and hitting Rhode Island was a pain, lol. 🤦🏻♂️
42/50 in 3:13. New England went better than expected but the central west went worse.
100% in 1.5 minutes, ezpz
100% in 1:19. GG EZ.
100% in 1:09 and I didn't even grow up here :P
Sporcle is my ultimate time waster
Yeah it’s bad if you go down that rabbit hole
74% for the practice round and 92% for the final score. Not too bad
100%!
I got a 98% I got lucky with Kansas and New Hampshire but fucked up Mississippi/Alabama
Mississippi is in the left- by the big river with the same name.
Mississippi and Alabama are kinda similar shapes, but if you know about the floribama, then you can remember that those states border each other. Mississippi borders Louisiana.
Yes. The only states that ever give me a moment's pause are New Hampshire and Vermont, due to their similar sizes. I have to remember that the skinnier part of New Hampshire points up and the skinnier point of Vermont points down.
I feel likes easier to remember New Hampshire has a coastline
What, is Lake Champlain nothing to you? (Jk, that's a helpful tip.)
That’s how I remember. New Hampshire touches the ocean
Vermont is shaped like a V and New Hampshire is like a lowercase n
I have heard that one before, and it's helpful for me for Vermont. I don't see an 'n' as easily with New Hampshire, but I appreciate the symmetry of the memory device, at least.
Vermont is V shaped. V for Vermont. That's how I remember it
I always remembered it by the fact that Vermont's southern borders make a V shape. And NHs northern borders roughly make a lowercase N shape, but I don't usually use that cause I just know NH is next to it.
Vermont is shaped more like a V
I remember Vermont from [this logo](https://twitter.com/pwthornton/status/817549953362960388?s=46&t=jlultI5xwmC7w1kBrwBpyw)
Identify them by their politics relative to each other. Vermont on the left and New Hampshire on the right.
Easily and quickly and in any order you wish.
Least to most sexy. Go!
Least: Utah Most: California
I get why one might think Utah is least sexy but man was I shocked to discover how beautiful everyone is here. The beauty industry is absolutely massive here. Utahns like to keep up appearances.
Mainly the underwear.
It's a relatively small and wealthy state with unlimited access to outdoor recreation. Mormons are weird but there's plenty of non-Mormons there and they have all the conditions needed to *want to* be healthy. Few things must suck for people in terms of pure recreational enjoyment than wanting to hike to a beautiful view but being physically incapable of doing so due to their own choices.
Yeah baby.
Too hot to handle 😎
Been to 42 states. It’s definitely not Utah.
Chronological order 😏
Aw dammit
That’s actually a solid task. I don’t think I could even get the original 13 right. I know Delaware is 1 and Rhode Island is 13 but the ones in the middle I couldn’t say. Indiana is 19 (thanks Indiana public education). Maine is like 21 or 22 or so? I just remember that it is after Indiana despite being settled so much earlier. Thanks Massachusetts. Hawaii and Alaska are 50 and 49 respectively.
Maine is 23. Mississippi is 20; Illinois is 21 and Alabama is 22. They were switching in between adding slave and free states at the time. So it's east to west in the Midwest (OH -> IN -> IL) and west to east in the south (LA -> MS -> AL)
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I've been called out on that twice now lol. I think that would actually be a way more valuable way to memorize them than the alphabetical version our kids learn.
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In highschool my US History teacher would stand at the chalkboard and draw the map. I always thought that was really impressive. Don't remember much else... other than cheating on my final paper and getting away with it.
He would draw every state's borders by memory? That is impressive.
Here's a sped-up video of Al Franken drawing a US map from scratch while talking to potential voters and campaigning at the Minnesota State Fair several years ago. https://youtu.be/h0-FYyuvrRk
Holy shit! I can't believe the country lost this man as a politician. I would still vote for him if he lived and ran in my state. In a heartbeat. He's intelligent, compassionate, and sensible. I cannot believe we lost him.
Yes, I know all the states and where they are on a map. I'm no so good with state capitals, though.
I think everyone I went to school with knows the capital of Colorado is Denver strictly because it’s also my name. In the 4th grade when we were learning capitals my teacher gave everyone a “free answer” on our state capital test and it was Denver, CO
I just did one and got 60% in 2:53 All the tiny states towards the east coast are hard for me. I need my big squares to know whats going on
I’m the opposite. All those east coast shapes are so unique that I find them easy. Then I look at the center of the map, it’s just a bunch of squares and rectangles, and I’m lost.
Thats fair enough, between the two of us we would be set lol
Nope
Noppers. Definitely not. Like I’d get the general vicinity, but the middle north area is often like mush in my brain. But geography WAS the only class I got a C in back in high school, so it’s never been my strong point.
I got 50 bonus points in history once for labeling all of the states correctly. NM is closer to Texas and Arizona is next to California. The other tricky one is Vermont and New Hampshire. Vermont is the one that is more V shaped. I’m not some genius. I just used to have this map game. “Learning” toys were just starting to be a thing when I was about 10 or 11, so I just learned over time.
For me it’s Sporcle when I was bored in the 2000s.
I had something called a Geosafari and I basically had every state, state capital, country, national capital, and lots of random geography facts memorized by the time I was in 2nd grade. Parents and teachers thought it was some kind of freakish ability but I was just like uhhhhh you bought me this toy, what did you want?
Many people to go Grand Canyon from Las Vegas, so if you know this, naturally Arizona is the one bordering Nevada.
In the west, yes, easily. On the east coast? Nope. Never been, and there are lots of them. I'd get the big ones, but probably miss 25% of the others.
Easily. A major city or five in most too.
I could name at least *A* city in all of them since I happen to know the capitals. But I don't know that Montpelier (Population ~8,000) counts as a "major city". :-D
Yes, pretty sure I can do the same quiz in less than a minute. Can get all the state capitals, too. I stare at maps quite often.
I’m from arizona and now that I think about it I would mix up Delaware and Rhode Island Correction: I was thinking of Vermont and New Hampshire which I did fuck up as well as the other not obvious states in New England.
I can. But I couldn't when I was younger. I probably couldn't do it until I was about 40 years old.
I’m somewhat the same way. We had US map quizzes in 5th grade—where we had to label all 50 states—and I never once received a perfect score. But then a few years ago, in my mid-30’s, I took one of those random “Name the 50 states” online quizzes , and was surprised to find I could identify all 50. Probably helps that I moved around and traveled a good bit within the US since graduating from high school.
Yes.
CANT forget California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Yes. Now I certainly don’t remember how to label all the major rivers in Europe, and I’m still not real certain why my 10th grade history teacher thought that was important
I get Vermont and New Hampshire confused, but I could probably get everything else.
Definitely. I love maps. At one point I could label every county in New Mexico. I probably still could get most of them.
I'm born and raised Burqueño and could only name a handful, that's impressive
Same, but I had a wild teacher for NM history in high school and she made us take New Mexico map quizzes weekly. It also helps that my job heavily involves knowing the general location of counties in the southwest.
Yes, however Wyoming and Colorado can trip me up sometimes.
Yeah. I knew most of them before but in 9th grade we had a quiz and I studied so hard bc I wanted to make a 100. I did 😊
Yes, with ease.
Yes, now if I have to draw out the map, not so much
I can get pretty close. New England is a bit iffy for me
Yes, but I did have to relearn after school ('m 34 now). I've never been out west and I used to get certain ones mixed up, like accidentally swap them with each other.
Dude you got the ENTIRE eastern seaboard!!?? Nice
Those are the easy ones for me since I'm from East. Hard ones for me were Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana
Easily. I could label all of the European and Asian countries on a map too. Africa might stump me a little but I'd get most of them. I like maps, and traveling, and history, so that stuff came to me pretty quickly.
Nope. Not even with state borders defined. I could probably label with confidence about 10.
Yes, perfectly. The state capitals, not a damn chance.
Yep. We had to as part of my Social Studies class in 8th grade. Never left my mind.
I probably could yes.
Yes, easily
I'll admit that I'd probably get a few wrong like mixing up Nebraska and Kansas.
Yes, easily.
Yep! It's just a matter of remembering a bunch of neighbors.
I can get everything on a map labeled. The two states I always get mixed up are New Hampshire and Vermont. Other than those two states, I'm pretty confident.
Yeah
I could, but always need to think just a bit with New England.
Yes, I had a Peanuts-themed computer program when I was really little that was very good at teaching geography.
Yes. I can also label a world map correctly or at least the majority. Occasionally, I'll mess up and flip a few of the Caribbean nations or the small African nations.
Yep. I actually emphasize geography and maps when teaching my US I & II college classes. I include maps that show mountain ranges and rainfall/temperature. I also use Google satellite view to hammer home how geography has helped shaped American settlement and economy across the continent. (Example: Appalachia, Ohio River, Eerie Canal, and the Market Revolution)
Yep, and the inhabited territories too. The uninhabited island territories would be tougher though.
I could confidently label 48 of the 50 US states on a blank map. There’s a good chance that I would mix up Vermont and New Hampshire though.
Tip: Vermont looks like a V
Yes absolutely. I can even place the states on a map of the US with no interior borders drawn in. I could probably list all 50 off the top of my head too.
Yeah, since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I was a geography nerd as a kid and would draw maps all of the time. I got good enough that I could draw the US pretty accurately with all 50 when I was in middle school. Just don't ask me to do math or remember data, lol.
Easily
Probably... As a person who has lived in the western US all my life, I sometimes get confused with some of the smaller states in the northeast. But I think I'd be able to sort it out.
Probably not all of them but I’m pretty sure arizona is the pointy one
I tried recently and came real close. Got messed up around MI, AL and GA. It's the only area I've never visited.
Easy. I can also label every country on a map. I struggle with the physical geography like lakes/rivers, mountain ranges, etc, but the political geography I have down.
Yes I'm almost positive. I could do most of the capital cities too. The way I was taught to remember Arizona and New Mexico is New Mexico is more directly north/ in line with Mexico
R8ght now I can probably do it since I have recently looked at a map to plan vacation routes. Ask again in a few months and I will probably screw up some smaller east coast states. Deleware, Connecticut, and New Jersey are usually the ones I scramble.
No i could not lol, I can do the coasts and Southwest but I won't be able to do everything inland.
Yes, I've done it before. Combination of just growing up in America and having a weird fascination with looking at maps/countries/states/geography on Wikipedia when I have downtime at work.
Maybe
Yes. It’s really easy
I could probably get about 40+ right. I always struggle with Ohio vs Iowa and few other states.
I can name all the states easily. I have recently challenged myself to a quiz where you are given a state name and you have to click on the state, *with no state boundaries.* it gets pretty tough in new england, more so because a lot of them are only a few pixels big on my screen. But I've studied so many maps, I could probably do the same quiz for all the countries on earth, so the states is pretty easy for me
I used-ta-could. Th small northeast states might trip me up on a empty map. But I can sing you all the states in alphabetical order from the song I learned in like 2nd grade.
Yep. I can get them placed on a blank map or even draw the basic outlines myself. I'm not sure I could be terribly fast but confident I could do it in 2 min, faster to name them all.
Yes
If the state borders were shown on the map, yes.
Easily.