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Etymology of US States on a Map - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 55 times
- The average score is 17 of 46
Answers on the Map
Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.
Answer Stats
| Language of Orgin | Etymology | State | % Correct |
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| Aleut | "Mainland" | Alaska | 76%
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| English | After a president whos surname is after a town in England | Washington | 76%
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| French | "Green Mountain" | Vermont | 69%
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| Latin | After queen Elizabeth I of England who never maried | Virginia / West Virginia | 69%
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| Latin | "Land of the Indians | Indiana | 62%
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| Nahuatl | After the Aztec people would founded the city of Tenochtitlan | New Mexico | 59%
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| English / Celtic | After the duke of a British city which has the etymology of "Yew-Tree Estate" | New York | 59%
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| French / Frankish | After a French king whos name has the etymology of "Famous" | Louisiana | 55%
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| English | After a county in England which is named after said county's largest city which has the etymology of "Village-Town" | New Hampshire | 55%
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| English / Norse | After a British island which has the etymology of "Geirr's Island" | New Jersey | 55%
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| Latin | After a British king whos name has the etymology of "Farmer" | Georgia | 52%
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| English / Hebrew | After a English queen whos name has the etymology of "Bitterness" | Maryland | 52%
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| Spanish | "Mountain" | Montana | 52%
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| Spanish | After a fictional island from the novel "Las Sergas de Esplandián" | California | 48%
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| Spanish | "Red" | Colorado | 48%
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| English / French | "Mainland" / After the village of the states founder / After a French Province | Maine | 48%
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| Dutch / Greek | "Red" / After a landmass in the Aegean Sea | Rhode Island | 48%
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| Spanish | "Flowery" | Florida | 45%
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| Spanish | "Snowy" | Nevada | 45%
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| (Native Language) | "Of the Gods" / after a legendary discoverer of the state | Hawaii | 41%
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| Latin / Frankish | After a English king whos name has the etymology of "Man" | North Carolina / South Carolina | 41%
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| Caddo + Spanish | "Friend" + "s" | Texas | 41%
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| Choctaw | "Red People" | Oklahoma | 38%
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| Welsh + Latin | After the founder whos name has the etymology of "head" + "Woods" | Pennsylvania | 34%
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| Apache / (Native Language) | "High" / "People of the mountains" | Utah | 31%
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| Ojibwe | "Large Lake" | Michigan | 28%
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| Ojibwe | "Great River" | Mississippi | 28%
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| Algonquian / Shoshone / Western Cree / Spanish / Portuguese / French | "Good and Beautiful (River)" / "River of the West" / "Grease Made From Fish" / "Big Ears" / "Hear the Waters" / A misspelling of "Ouisiconsink" / "Hurricane" | Oregon | 28%
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| (Native Language) | "Wind" | Arkansas / Kansas | 24%
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| French | "Of the War" | Delaware | 24%
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| Algonquian | "Speaks Normaly" | Illinois | 24%
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| Eastern Algonquian | "At the Great Hill" + "s" | Massachusetts | 24%
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| Plains Apache | "Enemy" / after a fictional native American world meaning "Gem of the Mountains" | Idaho | 21%
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| Dakota / Chiwere | "Sleepy Ones" | Iowa | 21%
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| Lakota | "Cloudy Water" | Minnesota | 21%
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| O'odham | "Little Spring" | Arizona | 17%
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| Eastern Algonquian | "Long Tidal River" | Connecticut | 17%
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| Iroquoian | "(On) the Meadow" | Kentucky | 17%
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| Seneca | "Large creek" | Ohio | 17%
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| Choctaw | "Plant-Cutters" | Alabama | 14%
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| Miami-Illinois | "Dugout Canoe" | Missouri | 14%
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| Chiwere | "Flattened Water" | Nebraska | 14%
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| Sioux | "Ally" | North Dakota / South Dakota | 14%
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| Miami-Illinois / Ojibwe | "River Running Through a Red Place" / "Red-Stone Place" | Wisconsin | 14%
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| Cherokee | "Winding River" | Tennessee | 10%
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| Munsee | "At the Big River Flat" | Wyoming | 7%
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