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Etymology of US states and territories - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 163 times
- The average score is 29 of 50
Answer Stats
| Language of Origin | Meaning | State | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw | "Albaamu", a tribal name meaning "thicket-clearers" | Alabama | 86%
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| English | After a US president | Washington | 86%
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| Spanish | "Flowery" after its discovery during the Easter season | Florida | 85%
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| French | After King Louis XIV of France | Louisiana | 85%
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| Latin | "Land of the Indians" | Indiana | 82%
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| Hawaiian | "Place of the Gods" | Hawaii | 80%
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| Spanish | "Mountain" | Montana | 80%
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| English | After Queen Henrietta Maria | Maryland | 78%
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| Welsh and Latin | "Penn's Woods" | Pennsylvania | 78%
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| English | After Elizabeth I of England, who was known for never taking a husband | Virginia/West Virginia | 76%
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| Dutch or Greek | "Red Island" or after the name of a Greek island near to Turkey | Rhode Island | 75%
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| Spanish | "Snow-covered" after the name of a mountain range in this state | Nevada | 74%
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| Latin via English | After King George II of Great Britain | Georgia | 73%
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| English | After an English county, which derived its name from its largest city, Southampton | New Hampshire | 73%
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| French | "Green mountain" | Vermont | 72%
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| Aelut via Russian | "Mainland" | Alaska | 71%
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| French | After the largest of the British channel islands, the birthplace of its founder | New Jersey | 71%
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| Kansa via French | After a river named for the Kaw tribe | Kansas | 67%
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| Spanish | "Rich port" | Puerto Rico | 67%
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| Miami via French | From the French spelling "Mescousin" of a tribal name meaning "river running through a red place" | Wisconsin | 67%
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| Spanish | "Ruddy " or "red" | Colorado | 65%
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| Cherokee | After Tanasi, a local viliage | Tennessee | 65%
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| English | "Mainland" | Maine | 63%
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| Nahuatl via Spanish | A name imported from a Spanish territory, after the Aztec people who founded Tenochtitlan | New Mexico | 63%
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| Ojibwe via French | "Great river" | Mississippi | 62%
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| Latin via English | After King Charles I of England | North/South Carolina | 61%
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| Ojibwe via French | "Large lake" | Michigan | 60%
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| English | After the duke of an English walled city | New York | 58%
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| Dakota via French | After French "Aiouez", a demonym for a native tribe | Iowa | 54%
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| Disputed native language | Not known exactly, however the first use refers to apparently a native word for the Columbia River | Oregon | 52%
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| Spanish | Probably a fictional island from a popular novel at the time | California | 51%
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| Dakota | "Cloudy water" | Minnesota | 51%
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| Sioux | "ally" or "friend" | North/South Dakota | 46%
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| Kansa via Illinois | After an Illinois rendering of a tribal name referring to the Quapaw | Arkansas | 44%
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| French via English | After a French lord, whose name means "of the war" | Delaware | 42%
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| Choctaw | "Red People" | Oklahoma | 42%
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| Caddo via Spanish | "Friends" | Texas | 42%
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| Western Apache via Spanish | From a Spanish demonym for the local tribe, which means "high" in their own language | Utah | 41%
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| Spanish or Basque | "Having a little spring" or "The good oak" | Arizona | 38%
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| Eastern Algonquian | "At the long tidal river" | Connecticut | 38%
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| New Latin | After Christopher Columbus | District of Columbia | 38%
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| Seneca via French | "Large creek" | Ohio | 33%
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| Munsee Delaware | After a Pennsylvanian valley, "At the big river flat" | Wyoming | 33%
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| Iroquoian | After a major river, "on the meadow" | Kentucky | 32%
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| Illinois | "Dugout Canoe" | Missouri | 30%
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| Plains Apache | "Enemy", probably used to refer to the Comanches | Idaho | 29%
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| Chamorro | From "Guahan", meaning "What we have" | Guam | 28%
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| Algonquian | a plural demonym meaning "at the great hill" | Massachusetts | 28%
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| Chiwere | "Flattened water" | Nebraska | 28%
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| Algonquian via French | "Speaks normally" | Illinois | 26%
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