Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?
You should get credit for all the NE states by just typing New England
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HotCorner
I did it geographically in my head. Started in the northeast and went from there. I had 6 plus minutes left with only Nebraska left. Cost me over 4 minutes.
Same thing here, except it was Kansas for me. Took me about 6 minutes to go through the entire map in my head and dwindled my time from 8 remaining to only 2 remaining.
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I won a lot of bar bets with this question. A few beers addles ones concentration.
All my kids learned that state song. They'd perform it at school music functions (and wear like a vest brown grocery bags with the state flower, crest, motto, etc. on it).
My youngest can also do them in reverse-alphabetical order.
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Johnny Footstool
I did it with 8:08 remaining.
I learned them all in a song for a 5th grade musical.
"Fifty, Nifty, United States
from 13 Original Colonies..."
Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?
I think using the song is cheating. That proves you know the song, not the states.
The only "true" competitors here are the ones with the mental maps :)
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Edskin
I think using the song is cheating. That proves you know the song, not the states.
The only "true" competitors here are the ones with the mental maps :)
But can you do capital cities as well?
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Yachtzee
"Fifty, Nifty, United States
from 13 Original Colonies..."
Thanks, Yachtzee. I had completely forgotten the name of it.\
Here's a link for all you plebians who need to learn it:
http://www.aboutmattlaw.com/archives/50nif.mp3
The lyrics kind of remind me of Borat's version of the Khazak national anthem.
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Edskin
I think using the song is cheating. That proves you know the song, not the states.
The only "true" competitors here are the ones with the mental maps :)
My freshman History teacher made us learn to draw a map of the U.S. During my senior year in high school, a bunch of us visited him, and he asked us to draw the map again to see what we remembered. My map included things like "East Virginia" and a large section of unexplored territory.
Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?
5 flat. I got stuck on Michigan. :laugh: Comes from a lifetime of being an Ohio State fan, I guess.
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I forgot Rhode Island, Nevada, Wyoming. All flyover states to me.
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Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?
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Chip R
Got 'em all but Maine.
Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma
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Got all of them with 1:14 to spare. I couldn't think of New Jersey for some reason.
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6:51 remaining.
The real contest would be naming all the capitals in 10 minutes. :)
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Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?
I left out West Virginia, a state I've been to at least a dozen times to visit family. How in the world did I leave off a border state? Man, I'm dumb.