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Old 06-01-2007, 01:47 PM   #16
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 01:48 PM   #17
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 01:58 PM   #18
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 02:39 PM   #19
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 03:01 PM   #20
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 03:03 PM   #21
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 03:06 PM   #22
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"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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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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Old 06-01-2007, 03:19 PM   #23
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5 flat. I got stuck on Michigan. Comes from a lifetime of being an Ohio State fan, I guess.
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Old 06-01-2007, 03:21 PM   #24
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I forgot Rhode Island, Nevada, Wyoming. All flyover states to me.
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Old 06-01-2007, 04:38 PM   #25
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Got 'em all but Maine.
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Old 06-01-2007, 04:49 PM   #26
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Got 'em all but Maine.
Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma
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Old 06-01-2007, 05:05 PM   #27
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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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Old 06-01-2007, 05:13 PM   #28
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6:51 remaining.

The real contest would be naming all the capitals in 10 minutes.
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Old 06-01-2007, 05:19 PM   #29
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There's 50???
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Old 06-01-2007, 05:51 PM   #30
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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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