Not even honolulu? or did Hawaii slip your mind. I think if you go state by state that is the one most people not from the US (or having studied it) would get correct. And I don't mean accidentally get right by guessing, in which case boston is a good contender. But by knowing it or atleast being relatively sure.
Why I know Tallahassee don't ask, I've learned some of the harder ones in states with big cities such as Albany from looking at a map and wondering why it wasn't New York City :P
Likewise I have no idea why or how I know Punxsutawney but well, it is a word that sticks haha. (I wrote it Punxatawny just now, spellcheck didn't agree, so I looked up the spelling (when punxatawnee wasnt it either), but spellcheck still doesnt agree haha ow nevermind.. there needs to be a "u" hm still ! a red scribble, ah well.. :))
The states in question have been around longer than their biggest cities were big. Obviously both Miami and Orlando are far younger than the state and colony of Florida. Tallahassee however probably goes back to the 18th Century.
Most smart states have their capital at the center of the state, or population, to unify the state and not alienate an area of the state, as well as to make travel easier. Also, this is to prevent putting all your eggs in one basket. If something happened to LA, then Sacramento would most likely be fine, and vice versa.
This quiz has taken me from knowing 4 capitals in my first attempt to now knowing all 50.
I now want to take it to the next level and have a randomised map where you have to name the state and its capital in two text boxes. Is that even possible?
Whilst some of these make sense (Boston for Massachusetts, Denver for Colorado) some make so little sense - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has barely a third of one per cent of Pennsylvania's population. Austin or Sacramento may not be the largest cities in their respective states, but they are of respectable size. Some of these places are seemingly just random, minor towns.
Many of them are in central locations (Harrisburg and Austin, for instance). And the capitals are not necessarily permanent. In Texas, it used to be Houston (Googled it). And learned in elementary school that Detroit was Michigan's capital before 1847, when it moved to (more) centrally located Lansing.
That wouldn't make sense, since the actual names of the foreign cities you mentioned do not have " City" attached to them, we just translate them that way to English. But OKC, SLC, and Jefferson City have it as part of their official name.
Huh what? Erm yea they do, it is Ciudad de México and the official English name is Mexico City, similar thing in other languages ((Mexiko-Stadt, Mexico-stad, Città del Messico etc).
Same for panama, Ciudad de Panamá, it has city in the original language as well as in the official english name, Panama City.
I think the same for Kuwait, Madiinat ul-Kuwayt is Kuwait City
I missed one...ONE! Got 49 right, 98%, better than 86% of all quiz takers, whose average is 29. And for that I get FOUR POINTS? That's not good enough for five? WTF?
I got 0/50 with 0:00 on the timer and I'm a 45-year-old geography teacher from the US capital and best city in Puerto Rico: Albuquerque! I'M BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU!!!
Why is 'Salt Lake' accepted for Utah, but the 'City' must always be added for Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, and others? Personally, I'd prefer having to type it in, just because the others are already like it, and most shortcuts that I've tried don't work for any of the other capitals.
It took a few aborted tries, but I got 50/50 with 2:02 remaining. On my first try, I got 32 of them. I missed 3 on my second try, and then I got them all the third time.
Baton Rouge,Louisiana,Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus is the capital of Ohio. There's Montgomery, Alabama,south of Helena,Montana, then there's Denver,Colorado, and Boise,Idaho......
Texas has Austin, then we go north to Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York, Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.,Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee!!!!
Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri, you've got Richmond in Virginia, South Dakota has Pierre; Harrisburg in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine, and here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware!
There are a lot of reasons why the capital is not always the largest city. For example, Florida's capital is Tallahassee because it was about equidistant from St. Augustine and Pensacola, the two capitals of Spain Florida colonies. Sometimes the reasons are historical, and sometimes it's like Brazil. They moved their capital from Rio de Janeiro, on the southeast coast, to Brasilia, a city that they manufactured that is more central as to show that the government is focused on reform in more rural areas.
I'm of the Joey Tribbiani school of thought on the states game. There are 56. A lot of those are missing on this quiz. It's 2018. I think it's time we got this quiz up to speed.
If you mean American Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam or anything like it; it doesn't count. They are not states, but territories, which means they are basically a state, but don't have the right to vote. Altogether they don't have as many rights as the actual states do.
All pretty large cities, but a lot arent the major city in a state, just like Canberra in Australia or Ottowa in Canada, Ankara in Turkey, Abuja in Nigeria, Islamabad in Pakistan, and a lot of others.
I could be wrong as I'm not American, and this comment is old, but perhaps people say "I'm going to Salt Lake" but you wouldn't hear someone say "I'm going to Jefferson/Carson"? Either way sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't it's not that hard to type the word city
I'm surprised New Hampshire is currently the least guessed, I thought the primary would have given the small state a boost. The reason I remember Iowa's capital so well is because we hear about it so much every four years
I knew all the answers and finished with 28 seconds left on the first try. The thing is I am only in 5th grade but I memorized all this at home when I was in 3rd grade. That's probably only because I love geography though.
I rarely ever comment on JetPunk, but I'm quite proud to say that I - as a European - got all US state capitals. Though, when I started trying, I had never heard of about two thirds of them.
It's interesting to me that in most US states, the capital is not the most well known city, at least outside the USA. I think most Australians would guess that NYC is the capital of New York state, or that either Miami or Orlando, both of which we've heard of thanks to the NBA, is the capital of Florida. Same for Detroit and Michigan, or Houston (NASA!) and Texas.
I finished this quiz with 876,000 hours remaining, jumped multiple dimensions, witnessed the Big Bang 2.0 and saw my future where I become the next Elon Musk. Anyone want to challenge me?
e.g. when you say Florida, I immediately typed Miami (wrong)
and then New York, I was going for NYC until I suddenly remembered that it is Albany
And this pattern continued for most other states that I have attempted
Although I did not attempted more than 15 states
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I now want to take it to the next level and have a randomised map where you have to name the state and its capital in two text boxes. Is that even possible?
I'm from New Zealand and I have finally got them all! Phew!
Just don't forget Pierre
Same for panama, Ciudad de Panamá, it has city in the original language as well as in the official english name, Panama City.
I think the same for Kuwait, Madiinat ul-Kuwayt is Kuwait City
(DC is not a state cpital_
Weird thing is: I get Cheyenne and Concord?!
Sometimes I don't know what is going on in my mind?!?!?!
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50/50 state capitals?
You only need 10/20 cities in France, 15/20 cities in Germany and 42/69 cities in the UK for their respective badges...
BTW the same argument goes for the presidents - but that is another quiz.
Didn't have to skip any and come back, and I'm a slow typist.
Boston
Austin
Tallahassee
Albany
Indianapolis
Boise
Baton Rouge
Montgomery
Columbus
Dover
Nashville
Santa Fe
Helena
Augusta
Trenton
Frankfort
Providence
Richmond
Harrisburg
Jefferson City
Montpelier
Concord
Sacramento
Honolulu
Atlanta
Phoenix
Juneau
Little Rock
Salt Lake City
Oklahoma City
Springfield
Jackson
Des Moines
Am from norway and i got 43