| # | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Sees the Northern Lights the most of any state | Alaska | 100%
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| 21 | Like 3, it is usually not drawn to scale | Hawaii | 79%
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| 7 | Dispute over Ellis Island with 30 | New Jersey | 77%
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| 2 | Trail named after this state reached Missouri | Oregon | 77%
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| 4 | Only landlocked state for its time zone | Nevada | 76%
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| 9 | Features four stone faces, two of which were born in 6 | South Dakota | 73%
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| 27 | 16 owns 1% of a famous park, this state owns 96% | Wyoming | 71%
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| 30 | Only state with more people than 22 in 1850 | New York | 69%
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| 23 | This 1854 Act involved 18 and this state | Kansas | 67%
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| 31 | 23 is in its name | Arkansas | 65%
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| 16 | The Snake River defines 2's border with it | Idaho | 65%
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| 28 | After 3 and 21, this is the westernmost state | Washington | 65%
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| 42 | 34's NBA team was defeated in the 2022 playoffs by this state's team | Texas | 59%
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| 6 | Successor of 13 in terms of statehood | Virginia | 59%
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| 47 | Only state that 14 dwarfs | Rhode Island | 56%
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| 26 | Borders 4, switched parties in 2020 | Arizona | 55%
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| 14 | Its neighbor 22 is twenty-two times larger than it | Delaware | 55%
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| 25 | Succeeded 11 in secession to form the Confederacy | Mississippi | 55%
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| 12 | In 2000, 44 and this state were swing states. Now both are red. | Florida | 54%
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| 15 | Its shape is very comparable to 27 | Colorado | 51%
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| 17 | Beats its neighbor 33 in corn production | Iowa | 50%
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| 1 | Voted against Nixon in the 1972 election | Massachusetts | 49%
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| 22 | 22, 38, and 43 broke the Blue Wall in 2016 | Pennsylvania | 49%
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| 34 | 4 separated from this territory | Utah | 49%
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| 39 | 12's panhandle affects this state's coastline | Alabama | 47%
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| 8 | Controlled by 1 until 1820 | Maine | 47%
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| 18 | Splits electoral votes like 8 does | Nebraska | 47%
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| 32 | An important district is wedged between 6 and 32 | Maryland | 45%
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| 40 | This state's panhandle prevents 23 and 42 from touching | Oklahoma | 45%
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| 11 | Lost to 2 in the 2024 Men's NCAA Tournament | South Carolina | 45%
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| 13 | Borders 8 to the west | New Hampshire | 42%
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| 20 | Between 6 and 11 geographically | North Carolina | 42%
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| 5 | Called the (30's nickname) of the South | Georgia | 41%
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| 45 | At its greatest extent, 42 contained half of this state | New Mexico | 41%
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| 50 | Borders 5, 6, 20, 25, 31, 39, 41, and 48 | Tennessee | 41%
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| 46 | Use the first letters of: 1, 2, 13, 50, 3, 18, 31 | Montana | 40%
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| 19 | Seceded from 6 in the 1860s | West Virginia | 36%
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| 33 | Continue the sequence: 36, 25, 31, 50, 48, 41, 33 | Illinois | 35%
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| 37 | Smaller than its three neighbors: 9, 35, and 46 | North Dakota | 33%
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| 44 | Ulysses S. Grant lived in 30, but was born here | Ohio | 32%
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| 41 | Succeeds 36 and precedes 23 in alphabetical order | Kentucky | 28%
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| 43 | 18, 25, 43, and 48 have capitals named after presidents | Wisconsin | 27%
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| 48 | Civil War border state west of 41 | Missouri | 26%
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| 49 | Only 1, 7, and 47 have a higher population density | Connecticut | 24%
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| 38 | Gained something from 43 in 1837 | Michigan | 24%
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| 35 | Like 1 and 46, borders two states with 11 letters | Minnesota | 24%
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| 10 | Was independent once, like 21 and 42 | Vermont | 24%
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| 24 | Allied with 42 in the 2024 movie "Civil War" | California | 22%
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| 36 | The river is named after 25, but it starts here | Louisiana | 18%
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| 29 | 38 borders four, 30 borders two, its eastern neighbor 45 borders one | Indiana | 15%
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