| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| …is larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined? | Alaska | 100%
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| …saw the Little Rock Nine become the first nine black students integrated into all-white schools in 1957? | Arkansas | 100%
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| …saw mass migration and a sprawling economy following the 1848 gold rush? | California | 100%
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| …was the first state to ratify the US Constitution in 1787? | Delaware | 100%
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| …is split into an upper peninsula and a lower peninsula? | Michigan | 100%
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| …contains the majority of the Navajo Nation? | Arizona | 93%
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| …produces the most oranges? | Florida | 93%
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| …produces the most peaches? | Georgia | 93%
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| …produces the most potatoes? | Idaho | 93%
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| …sees residents call themselves “hoosiers”? | Indiana | 93%
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| …was the setting of the Wizard of Oz? | Kansas | 93%
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| …is the home of the Orioles and the Ravens? | Maryland | 93%
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| …is Kansas City found in? | Missouri | 93%
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| …was the birthplace of Barack Obama? | Hawaii | 86%
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| …is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln? | Kentucky | 86%
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| …uses “parishes” instead of counties? | Louisiana | 86%
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| …is the setting of many of Stephen King’s works? | Maine | 86%
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| …became the first state to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012? | Colorado | 79%
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| …is home to the Mystic Seaport Museum and Yale University? | Connecticut | 79%
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| …was the site of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the two first battles in the American Revolution? | Massachusetts | 79%
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| …is the birthplace of Forrest Gump? | Alabama | 71%
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| …has a name meaning “sky-tinted waters” in the Dakota language? | Minnesota | 71%
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| …did the ferris wheel originate? | Illinois | 64%
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| …did blues music originate? | Mississippi | 50%
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| …is bordered by both the Mississippi and Missouri rivers? | Iowa | 29%
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