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Name Origins of U.S. State Capitals - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 261 times
- The average score is 24 of 50
Answer Stats
| Origin | Capital | % Correct |
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| French, meaning "red stick" | Baton Rouge | 92%
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| Hawaiian, meaning "sheltered harbor" or "calm port" | Honolulu | 90%
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| Mythical beast reborn from the ashes | Phoenix | 87%
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| Fourth president | Madison | 81%
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| Abbreviation of "Atlantica-Pacifica" | Atlanta | 80%
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| Third president | Jefferson City | 78%
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| Spanish, meaning "holy faith" | Santa Fe | 77%
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| Iron Chancellor of Germany | Bismarck | 76%
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| Largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere | Salt Lake City | 76%
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| Italian explorer and colonizer (ends in s) | Columbus | 75%
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| Sixteenth president | Lincoln | 74%
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| City in southern France | Montpelier | 74%
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| French, meaning "monks" | Des Moines | 73%
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| One of Jesus' apostles | St. Paul | 73%
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| Coastal town in southeastern England | Dover | 71%
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| Name of the state combined with the Greek word for city | Indianapolis | 70%
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| English, meaning "God's protective care" | Providence | 70%
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| Italian explorer and colonizer (ends in a) | Columbia | 67%
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| Hebrew, meaning "peace" | Salem | 63%
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| English, meaning "harmony" | Concord | 59%
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| Frontiersman and dime novel subject | Carson City | 50%
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| General who won the Battle of New Orleans | Jackson | 50%
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| Rock formation along the river that runs through the city | Little Rock | 47%
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| St. Louis fur trader of French descent | Pierre | 47%
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| Queen of Great Britain | Annapolis | 46%
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| Great Plains American Indian tribe | Cheyenne | 46%
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| English writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer | Raleigh | 43%
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| Kansa-Osage, meaning "good place to dig potatoes" | Topeka | 42%
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| French, meaning "woods" or "wooded" | Boise | 38%
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| Choctaw, meaning "red people" | Oklahoma City | 38%
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| Reference to the Catholic Eucharist | Sacramento | 37%
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| City in western Massachusetts | Springfield | 37%
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| Canadian miner and gold prospector | Juneau | 34%
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| Port town in eastern England | Boston | 29%
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| Nearby mountain range | Olympia | 29%
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| Former governor of the Kansas Territory | Denver | 26%
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| Daughter of U.S. Secretary of War Henry Dearborn | Augusta | 25%
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| Muskogean, meaning "old fields" or "old town" | Tallahassee | 24%
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| Secretary of State for the state before it was a state | Austin | 23%
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| English town that is now a southwestern suburb of London | Richmond | 21%
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| Duke who would become King of England, Scotland, and Ireland | Albany | 20%
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| English trader and city founder | Harrisburg | 20%
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| English town a little ways north of London | Hartford | 19%
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| Revolutionary war general who led the failed invasion of Canada | Montgomery | 19%
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| Father of the colonel who built the first permanent settlement | Charleston | 13%
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| Pioneer who was killed in the area | Frankfort | 13%
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| Either a township in Minnesota or a town in Arkansas | Helena | 12%
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| Town in central New York | Lansing | 12%
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| Revolutionary war general killed in the Battle of Germantown | Nashville | 10%
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| Prominent merchant and landowner in the area | Trenton | 9%
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