That would be very time consuming as the results are only impacted by each user's first try. So you would have to create a new account every time you wanted to further influence the stats.
Sure, in retrospect, with all the options laid out, it's easy to pick the one most likely to be popular. But if you thought of something else first, it's easy to get on the wrong track.
My guess would be sheer population numbers. People are most likely to know the capital of their home state, even if they don't know any other state capitals. California has the most people, hence Sacramento is the capital that the largest group of people is guaranteed to know.
I think Sacramento is one of the most famous state capitals, especially for the non-americans. I would have thought Boston and Atlanta would be guessed the most though.
I think most non-americans have never heard of sacramento.. (and just tried big names without knowing if they were capitals or not NY, LA, san francisco, chicago, boston, miami, washington I think those are the most known ones)
People of a certain age remember the song "Sacramento" by Middle of the Road. Brought the name to the attention of non-Americans (or non-Californians even). If you went to California, why would you be singing about Sacramento? Must be a reason. So we found out.
You're right about non Americans. One of the first things we learn about state capitals is that they tend not to be the biggest or most famous cities in their states. Next, I kind of recall hearing about Sacramento, Albany, Austin, Springfield and Tallahassee.
I can understand Sacramento due to the CA population.
I'm surprised to not see Denver mentioned though. I thought that would be the answer due to the airport, size, central position, sports teams, lack of competing Colorado cities, etc.
Could also imagine Atlanta/Boston/Phoenix. Though I personally didn't grow up categorizing Boston/Phoenix as capital cities- just as well-known.
Could it be because California has the largest number of Jetpunk users, at least in terms of people who have taken the U.S. state capitals quiz? Even if you are terrible at geography should at least know the capital of the state you live in. For example, you can't live in New York state and think the capital is New York city.
For many people, Romeo and Juliet is the first (and often only) Shakespeare play they've read. I read it first in middle school English class. I didn't read Hamlet until AP English my senior year in high school. R+J has also been made into much more popular movies much more recently than Hamlet, so that surely factors into it.
I'm sure about anyone knows California when it comes to U.S. states - geography geek or not. And if you look at a map it's one of the three states on the Eastcoast - the far left if you will. Considering that, I'm sure more people know Sacramento than Olympia or Salem as a state capital.
Paprika is actually just the Hungarian word for pepper, so in that sense they are the same. But since this is an English quiz it definitely shouldn't be accepted as an answer.
I wrote "Romeo and" but it didn't accept it so I thought it wasn't the right answer! That's over half the answer, surely it's obvious what I was going to write and it's enough to be accepted??
Similar to "Bosnia" being enough for "Bosnia and Herzegovina" to be accepted.
Because Jetpunk requires more than just the first word for quizzes with very few non-geographic exceptions...? Having 'Bosnia' or 'Saint Kitts' be accepted answers is very different than having 'Romeo' or 'Julius' be accepted for Shakespeare plays. That would be like allowing 'Lawrence' or 'Schindler' be accepted on the Best Pictures quiz.
I don't think I would've got pepper if the clue didn't specify "we don't consider salt to be a spice" - it sort of turns the question into "not salt, but ..."
Sacramento boggled me. No way people guessed that before Atlanta, Boston, Denver, or Phoenix. Didn't know Sacramento even existed before JetPunk. One more reason to dislike California
That still might be one of the least deserved Nobel Peace Prizes ever awarded. He'd been in office less than a month by the time the submission process was closed, and it wasn't even because of Guantanamo Bay, it was for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Basically just his campaign promises.
what's effective about this quiz is that it gives me insight into quizzes I would never take because I only can name the one thing - orion, ironman, etc. haha
Not surprised about Sacramento. California is the biggest state.
Didn't even try Pokémon. Way too old to have been exposed to that cultural phenomenon. same for all the quizz's with Harry Potter questions.
The rest i found gettable with tons of time left, but the sun will die befoire I would get Pokemon. I've only just finished the quizz and already the answer has left me :)
13 is quite low as an average for this quiz! Being called easiest answers ;)
I got it in the first try.
Which strikes me that I also don't know if those are capitals, just the biggest city I associate with that state.
I'm surprised to not see Denver mentioned though. I thought that would be the answer due to the airport, size, central position, sports teams, lack of competing Colorado cities, etc.
Could also imagine Atlanta/Boston/Phoenix. Though I personally didn't grow up categorizing Boston/Phoenix as capital cities- just as well-known.
I only know a few, Des Moines is a good answer on Pointless.
Similar to "Bosnia" being enough for "Bosnia and Herzegovina" to be accepted.
I got Sacramento anyways
Sometimes I forget the bias in favour of recent events, on history tests, older events are guessed less often.
Didn't even try Pokémon. Way too old to have been exposed to that cultural phenomenon. same for all the quizz's with Harry Potter questions.
The rest i found gettable with tons of time left, but the sun will die befoire I would get Pokemon. I've only just finished the quizz and already the answer has left me :)