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    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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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    Quote Originally Posted by HotCorner View Post
    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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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    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.
    She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning

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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool View Post
    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..."
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    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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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Edskin View Post
    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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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Yachtzee View Post
    "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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Edskin View Post
    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.
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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    5 flat. I got stuck on Michigan. Comes from a lifetime of being an Ohio State fan, I guess.
    Will trade this space for a #1 starter.

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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    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?

    Got 'em all but Maine.
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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Chip R View Post
    Got 'em all but Maine.
    Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma
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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    Got all of them with 1:14 to spare. I couldn't think of New Jersey for some reason.

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    Re: Can you name all 50 States in 10 minutes?

    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?

    There's 50???
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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.


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