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State Quiz - West Virginia - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 21,925 times
18,838 since last reset
- The average score is 15 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| States that border West Virginia | Virginia | 98%
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| States that border West Virginia | Ohio | 94%
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| States that border West Virginia | Pennsylvania | 93%
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| West Virginia became a state during this war | Civil War | 92%
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| States that border West Virginia | Kentucky | 92%
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| West Virginia is famous for mining this, but today mines less than a third as much as Wyoming | Coal | 90%
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| West Virginia is the only state that has two of this type of "handle" | {Pan}handle | 90%
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| 18 states have territory in this mountain range, but West Virginia is the only state that lies entirely within it | {Appalachian} Mountains | 89%
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| States that border West Virginia | Maryland | 88%
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| Capital city | Charleston | 87%
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| 19.9% of West Virginia's population is over the age of 65. Name one of the two states that have a higher percentage. | Maine / Florida | 82%
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| Singer who wrote "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | John Denver | 75%
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| Radical abolitionist who raided Harpers Ferry in 1859 | John Brown | 57%
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| Harpers Ferry sits on the confluence of these two rivers (name either) | Potomac / Shenandoah | 57%
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| West Virginia is the epicenter of this "epidemic" that has swept the U.S. in recent years | Opioid Epidemic | 52%
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| State nickname | The {Mountain} State | 52%
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| May holiday that was invented in 1908 by Anna Jarvis of Grafton, West Virginia | Mother's Day | 50%
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| Notable person who originally surveyed parts of West Virginia from 1748–1751 | George Washington | 48%
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| West Virginia native who broke the sound barrier in 1947 and whose drawl is the source of the "accent" that many pilots try to imitate today | Chuck Yeager | 44%
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| Most populous metro area | Huntington | 35%
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