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Category Elimination - U.S. States #1

In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
Also try Countries and Capital Cities!
# = the number of answers possible
Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
All data as of February 2022.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: February 10, 2022
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First submittedMay 20, 2019
Times taken178,741
Average score68.8%
Rating4.90
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Green Categories
44
States with at least 1 million people
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23
... which are landlocked
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3
... that share a land border with Canada
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1
... and don't begin with the letter M
Idaho
 
Orange Categories
41
States with a land area over 10,000 mi²
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13
... which contain the letter E
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5
... are part of the South Census Region
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1
... and which voted blue in the 2020 election
Georgia
Blue Categories
28
States with a vowel in their 2-letter abbreviations
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15
... with a maximum elevation over 1000m
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3
... which were included in the Louisiana Purchase
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1
... whose capital city contains exactly 7 letters
Nebraska
 
Purple Categories
29
States that don't end with the letter A
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18
... with 8 or more letters in their name
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6
... whose capital city is their largest city
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1
... and have a maximum elevation over 3000m
Colorado
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75 Comments
tom88
+15
Level 74
May 24, 2019
for the clue "... with 8 or more letters in their name" it accepted new york, which only has 8 letters if you include the space as a letter. Not sure if this is intentional or not but I just thought I'd point it out.
Stewart
+12
Level 68
May 24, 2019
Aha! You are of course correct and I completely missed that. Will fix now thanks :)
wiifly
+10
Level 59
May 27, 2019
dang it thought it said "Starts with a vowel in their 2-letter abbreviations"!
divantilya
+2
Level 36
May 31, 2019
I'm not sure what he wanted either. I tried VA, MA, DE, none were accepted. Finally, ME was accepted.
Stewart
+33
Level 68
Jun 1, 2019
All were accepted, but you need to type the state not the abbreviation itself.
zebidu92
+1
Level 41
Nov 3, 2024
omg... same
cpgatbyu
+6
Level 86
May 30, 2019
Who knew that there was a South Census Region?
Stewart
+7
Level 68
May 30, 2019
Not me before I made the quiz!
GrandMo
+3
Level 70
May 30, 2019
The Census regions are really antiquated and don't reflect current realities... They put Delaware in the South, etc. and then claim that population is evenly distributed around the country, as if the West doesn't encompass half the geographic space...
Stewart
+8
Level 68
May 30, 2019
The problem is it's the most widely used for statistics that's actually fixed. I couldn't just say "Southern states", because everybody has a different opinion on what that should be.
JWC1202
+3
Level 74
Jun 4, 2019
I agree. I ran through everything that I thought would be considered South Census, and West Virginia never once crossed my mind. I have always thought of it as Mid-Atlantic, perhaps Midwest, but not South. I think most West Virginians would agree.
TimFed
+1
Level 75
Sep 9, 2019
As someone who recently moved to West Virginia, whole heatedly agree it is not southern by any stretch of the imagination.
ander217
+6
Level 74
Oct 6, 2019
There are only four census regions - Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. Pennsylvania and New Jersey make up the southern edge of the northeast, leaving Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia making up the northern edge of the southern region which extends all the way to Texas. Each region is then further divided with WV included in the South Atlantic Division. When I look at a map of the regions and divisions it seems to make sense to me.
qcumber
+1
Level 45
May 7, 2020
I wasnt sure either. Havent heard of it...
qcumber
+3
Level 45
May 7, 2020
Also, West Virginia is definitely south. We think of it like this because it was part of Virginia which is considered south, and by extension, the Confederacy from 1861-1863.
SiloTheatrix
+3
Level 50
Nov 29, 2022
Tim there is absolutely no way you moved to West Virginia, there are about 49 other states better than it.
trombonekid98
+3
Level 71
May 30, 2019
You should specify land border for the first one- Pennsylvania shares a border with canada through Lake Erie. It's pedantic, but PA otherwise fits the other criteria.
Stewart
+2
Level 68
May 30, 2019
No trouble, have added the extra bit. Thanks
Shade9099
+3
Level 68
May 31, 2019
You need to make more of these, good work!
Stewart
+4
Level 68
May 31, 2019
Thank you! There's 5 currently, you can find them all here: Category Elimination!
samiamco
+3
Level 69
May 31, 2019
Same comment from me too, Stewart! These are great, and what I like is that they're progressively challenging, so you don't necessarily bomb the whole quiz if you don't get the final answer. Your clues also vary between forehead-slapping "D'oh, I knew that!" and hey-I-learned-something "Eureka!" moments.
GigglleGurll
+6
Level 24
Jun 1, 2019
Fun Fact: If you put "Colorado" for all of them, you get a score of 11
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Jun 1, 2019
Efficient!
roleybob
+2
Level 75
Jun 5, 2019

Go Broncos!!

somehow....

Factoriel41
+2
Level 52
Sep 16, 2019
For the clue "with a vowel in their abreviation", New York doesn't work ?
Stewart
+6
Level 68
Sep 16, 2019
In this case Y is not a vowel. Sometimes it can sound like a vowel, but in this instance it is not, since "York" uses a consonant sound and the Y in NY stands for York.
SnowEagle
+5
Level 30
Sep 16, 2019
Michigan doesn't have a land border with Canada, but it was accepted as an answer. It's borders are only lakes and rivers.
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Sep 16, 2019
You are correct! It seems I did not zoom in far enough on the map to see the border goes right through the Mary river and only connects to Canada via a bridge. I've removed it as an Answer for that now :)
BiggieSmalls
+2
Level 74
Sep 16, 2019
I like these quizzes, but the numbers and stats get skewed big time. So really, all you have to do is take the quiz, wait for the timer to run out and get the four end answers. You can then just type those 4 answers into each of the preceding boxes. For example, the first one, the end answer is Idaho. Now that I have that answer, When I retake the quiz, I know I can just type Idaho for each of the questions in the category. I think to make this a fairer quiz, I'd remove the option to re-take the quiz so folks true knowledge stands out
Stewart
+10
Level 68
Sep 16, 2019
The stats, and thus how points are calculated on percentiles, only count the first attempt. So if you retake a quiz it does not skew others.

Also the option to prevent retakes doesn't exist on any quiz, so I cannot implement this, nor do I think it should be. Part of JetPunk is taking, learning and then retaking to retest your knowledge. If you remove that ability to retake you're stopping people from being able to learn.

evilcheeser
+4
Level 74
Mar 8, 2022
And worse, stopping them from learning for some imaginary "fairness" standard which is basically just elitism when you boil it down.
mightythor
+2
Level 66
Sep 17, 2019
Maybe a quiz about US states should be using the Imperial system.
Stewart
+5
Level 68
Sep 17, 2019
Or how about sticking to the metric system which several billion people use!
qcumber
+2
Level 45
May 7, 2020
How about a quiz about the strange mix of imperial and metric that the US actually uses...
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Sep 18, 2019
Interesting quiz
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Sep 30, 2019
Only missed WV. Actually forgot that I took it not too long ago.
kpat
+1
Level 53
Oct 27, 2019
Nice quiz!!!!! Well done.

One point: "maximum elevation over..." doesn't make much sense. Nepal's maximum elevation is over one meter, for example.

Stewart
+5
Level 68
Oct 27, 2019
Thanks! And actually that's the intention of that clue. If a country's maximum elevation is 800m, then it doesn't have a "maximum elevation over 1000m", and so shouldn't qualify.

So the clue is exactly as intended :)

jennraven
+2
Level 67
Oct 28, 2019
Am I the only one who spent way too long typing out state abbreviations for the one letter vowel one before figuring out I need to type in the state name? Could NOT figure out why nothing was being accepted 🤦
SiloTheatrix
+1
Level 50
Nov 29, 2022
You're not alone lol
NewYorkBombers
+1
Level 16
Mar 3, 2020
2:05 left remaining. NIce Quiz!
Geopro
+1
Level 60
Oct 28, 2020
Could you create a category elimination quiz about Australia?
KrazyKookieKing
+1
Level 45
Dec 2, 2020
Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia
LuigiDood227
+3
Level 64
Jan 7, 2021
No thanks for spoilers
WackyAnagramDude
+2
Level 63
Sep 27, 2021
Don't read comments before taking the quiz if you don't want spoilers.
1ProximaCentauri
+4
Level 54
Apr 30, 2021
Should Wyoming not work for all but the last one in the pink? In its context, Y is a vowel, in both the name and abbreviation, since there is no other vowel in the syllable "Wy." Also, 80 percent of the state was annexed in the Louisiana Purchase, and its maximum elevation is above 1000 m. Great Quiz!
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Apr 30, 2021
You don't pronounce the word "WY" when it's abbreviated, so you have just "Y" on it's own which is not considered a vowel
Melks
+1
Level 22
Jun 20, 2021
Last second Colorado winner for me!

Like this series, trying to get all of the quizes completed now ;D.

smoceany
+1
Level 51
Oct 21, 2021
maryland can answer all of the orange except the last one
smoceany
+2
Level 51
Oct 21, 2021
nevermind, i have realized it says land area
Max3017
+1
Level 26
Dec 27, 2021
Im trying to add more regexes like this quiz but it isnt letting me
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Dec 27, 2021
You can only get more by using the Import function of step 2
Max3017
+1
Level 26
Dec 27, 2021
I don't understand the import function, I did what the help section said.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Dec 27, 2021
Alternatively, if you're on REGEX mode you can add more typeins using a single line. E.g. if you want NAURU and TUVALU to be typeins, you could do:

^(NAURU|TUVALU)

as a regex typein. This means it starts with (^) either "nauru" or "tuvalu". A pipe | (or bar / line) is used to mean OR in regex.

Max3017
+1
Level 26
Dec 27, 2021
Thank You!
DanielCO
+2
Level 72
Mar 8, 2022
voted blue, or counted as blue...
vermiciousknid
+3
Level 89
Mar 9, 2022
Voted blue, and correctly counted as such, thanks. Take your thinly-veiled disinformation elsewhere.
countryknower2
+1
Level 27
Apr 5, 2022
willy wonka fan, i see
jmellor13
+1
Level 67
Mar 9, 2022
I, too, like to just make stuff up sometimes.
MalyJacus
+1
Level 58
Mar 10, 2022
Tougher, especially with the time limit.
Willuna
+1
Level 56
Mar 30, 2022
I only missed Colorado...guess where I live...
EvanAviator
+1
Level 59
Apr 6, 2022
Never knew the plurality of US states ended in 'a'
MalyJacus
+1
Level 58
Jun 22, 2022
And in the orange category, are we sure Georgia voted blue in 2020 elections (a little topical January 6th commission joke, here here).
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 57
Sep 12, 2022
Wow, Idaho has 1,000,000 people? I thought it had less.
debra1053
+1
Level 59
Sep 14, 2022
Seems odd to me that a question about US states' two letter postal abbreviation won't allow you to use them.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Sep 14, 2022
But that's how all this series works. You're guessing states, and then you have to pool knowledge from other areas to filter down to a single state. It would not make sense to allow you to guess using population ot area figures, so making an exception for abbreviations would not be coherent. And also it would disrupt the flow of people typing because it's not expected.
Asolin
+2
Level 63
Sep 20, 2022
Kentucky is KY for its 2 letter abbreviation, I think that should be included in the vowels question.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Sep 20, 2022
But the Y in "KY" is not a vowel, since it is said "Kay Why", not "Kye". This is regardless of the "y" sound in Kentucky, which is indeed a vowel.
Praab05
+1
Level 45
Apr 6, 2023
This makes no sense how come North Dakota doesn’t work for boarding Canada
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Apr 6, 2023
It has to match all preceding clues. So for the Canada one it must also have 1 million people and also be landlocked. This is why the number of possible answers always decreases to 1 (shown on the left).
chewbacca
+1
Level 54
Oct 12, 2023
Is Michigan landlocked or does it not share a land border w Canada like pick one
Neonman11
+1
Level 50
Mar 13, 2024
Would Wisconsin not also work for the green category?
Joe15273
+1
Level 22
May 31, 2024
be more open and have multiple answers per question
law20
+1
Level 58
Sep 20, 2024
Mount Greylock in massachusetts has an elevation of 3491 feet, so its technically also a correct answer for the last one
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Sep 20, 2024
The question clearly states 3000m (i.e. METRES, not feet)
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