A Grand Tour of the United States - With a Map - Statistics

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Preceding State	Interesting Tour Fact	Next State in the Tour	% Correct
Alaska	...is the northernmost U.S. state; the southernmost is...	Hawaii	100%
Connecticut	...was the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. The first was...	Delaware	96%
Vermont	...is separated by the Connecticut River from...	New Hampshire	96%
Delaware	...is the second smallest state, larger than only...	Rhode Island	96%
Hawaii	...was once an independent kingdom - similar to how a New England state was once the independent republic of...	Vermont	96%
Maine	...contains the terminus of Interstate 95, which begins 1,906 miles south in...	Florida	92%
Alabama	...hosted the Selma to Montgomery march of Martin Luther King Jr., but his home state was...	Georgia	92%
Wyoming	...contains 96% of Yellowstone National Park, but 3% is in Montana & 1% is in...	Idaho	92%
Mississippi	...experienced up to 28 feet of storm surge from Hurricane Katrina, but the state with the most deaths was...	Louisiana	92%
Georgia	...is separated by the Savannah River from...	South Carolina	92%
North Dakota	...became a state the same day as...	South Dakota	92%
Tennessee	...was the birthplace of Davy Crockett, but he died at the Alamo in...	Texas	92%
Idaho	...has the second largest percentage of Mormon residents, trailing only...	Utah	92%
Florida	...is home to NASA launches at Cape Canaveral, but NASA's Space Camp is in Huntsville,...	Alabama	88%
Utah	...has 5 national parks, but the first land set aside by Congress for recreation was Hot Springs,...	Arkansas	88%
Illinois	...shares the Quad Cities with...	Iowa	88%
Rhode Island	...is nearly bisected by an ocean bay, much like the Mid-Atlantic state of...	Maryland	88%
Ohio	...fought a "war" over Toledo with...	Michigan	88%
Michigan	...borders Lake Superior - as do Wisconsin and...	Minnesota	88%
Minnesota	...is home to the city of Moorhead, which is a suburb of Fargo,...	North Dakota	88%
Iowa	...is one of only two 4-letter states where 3 of the letters are vowels. The other is...	Ohio	88%
Maryland	...shares most of the Mason-Dixon line with...	Pennsylvania	88%
North Carolina	...shares Great Smoky Mountain National Park with...	Tennessee	88%
Texas	...was the longtime home of both Presidents Bush, but each attended Yale University in...	Connecticut	84%
Pennsylvania	...is home to the source of the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. The river ends in Cairo,...	Illinois	84%
Louisiana	...has the second highest percentage of residents with French ancestry, trailing only...	Maine	84%
Arkansas	...and its neighbor ______ have their namesake rivers converge southeast of Pine Bluff.	Mississippi	84%
New Hampshire	...is home to Mt. Washington, but the highest point east of the Mississippi River is in the Black Mountains of...	North Carolina	84%
West Virginia	...was formed in 1863 from...	Virginia	84%
South Carolina	...doesn't have Charleston as its capital, but Charleston is the capital of...	West Virginia	84%
South Dakota	...is home to the Black Hills; however, Devil's Tower is located in neighboring...	Wyoming	84%
Nevada	...and its extreme southern point are separated by the Colorado River from Bullhead City,...	Arizona	80%
Oregon	...is home to Mt. Hood, from whose summit you can see Mt. Shasta in...	California	80%
Virginia	...was home to England's 1st colony in the future U.S. - their 2nd was founded in 1620 in...	Massachusetts	80%
California	...shares the longest straight border between U.S. states - its diagonal border with...	Nevada	80%
New York	...is the home of Liberty Island, but it is surrounded by the waters of...	New Jersey	80%
Arizona	...is home to the largest portion of the Navajo Nation, shared mainly with its neighbor...	New Mexico	80%
Massachusetts	...and Virginia were founded by English colonists, while the Dutch settled in an area now known as...	New York	80%
New Mexico	...shares a common point at Four Corners with Arizona, Utah, and...	Colorado	76%
Colorado	...has the highest "low point" of any state, at 3,317 feet in elevation along the Arikaree River at its border with...	Kansas	76%
Kansas	...along with Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas all border Cinamaron County,...	Oklahoma	76%
Washington	...is separated by the Columbia River from...	Oregon	76%
New Jersey	...was the destination of a daring Christmas Eve raid across the Delaware River led by General...	Washington	76%
Montana	...is the third-largest U.S. state, trailing only Texas and...	Alaska	68%
Wisconsin	...is home to the northern suburbs of Chicago. The city's eastern suburbs are in...	Indiana	68%
Indiana	...Dunes is one of the newest national parks. The founding of the nation's first, Yellowstone, is commemorated by the Roosevelt Arch in Gardiner,...	Montana	64%
Nebraska	...has a capital city named after a president who was born in...	Kentucky	60%
Kentucky	...and Arkansas are the only shared neighbors of the two states that border 8 states each - Tennessee and...	Missouri	60%
Oklahoma	...'s last five letters can be rearranged to spell the name of the largest city in...	Nebraska	60%
Missouri	...was the final home for Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was born in the "Little House in the Big Woods" of Pepin,...	Wisconsin	60%

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