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U.S. States that Start with M

There are 8 U.S. states that begin with the letter M. Can you name them all in one minute?
Quiz by Jerry928
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Last updated: March 31, 2021
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First submittedJuly 13, 2014
Times taken141,483
Average score87.5%
Rating4.89
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State
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
State
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
103 Comments
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Level 69
Dec 25, 2015
1:00 is about the time i need for spelling Massachusetts correctly... Couldn't remember the correct spelling for unknown reasons...
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Level 59
Mar 27, 2016
Couldn't agree more
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Level 51
Mar 27, 2016
i just type, and right click for spell check to do its job
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Level 76
Mar 27, 2016
This is a test of your spelling ability. Using spell-checkers is like using a motorized cycle in a bicycle race.
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Level 74
Mar 28, 2016
Sorry Jerry, it's not a test of spelling, it's a test of knowledge.
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Level 76
Mar 28, 2016
And a part of knowledge is knowing how to spell things :)
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Level 74
Mar 28, 2016
Not if they don't require you to spell it correctly. Think of jeopardy, the people give the answers out loud, no spelling required. It's a knowledge quiz. you can make it a spelling quiz if you want. but most people are here for the knowledge part. very few of us are here for spelling tests
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Level 76
Mar 28, 2016
But this one does. I just thought of Jeopardy (which I've been on!) but, like you say that's oral, and this is written, and here for the point you gotta spell it rite for the point.
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Level 65
Mar 28, 2016
That's really cool! What episode were you on?
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Level 76
Mar 28, 2016
It was on the New Zealand series, and I don't think they ever announced episode numbers for them. All I remember is the final answer, which was "the art of bell-ringing"; I had no idea and in a despairing long-shot I wrote "What is donging" which brought the house down. Luckily all 3 of us got it wrong, and because I bet the least, I won. I got through the next episode as well, but the third night I was knocked out. Anyway, now I know what campanology is, and always will.
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Level 65
May 29, 2024
OMG! When I was younger, I used to compete in spelling bees. My word was "campanology" and I misspelled it. But from then on, I have never forgotten its spelling or meaning. I guess we really do learn from our mistakes lol
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Level 65
Mar 28, 2016
Lol, luckily campanology is obscure!
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Level ∞
Mar 28, 2016
Wow. You're famous, Jerry928!
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Level 66
Mar 29, 2016
Jerry928, is spelling "right" rite...or is that a New Zealand thing?

Also, so many of the tests on here allow for spelling variations, so no, this site and specifically this test is not a spelling test unless that is a requirement in the instructions.

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Level 76
Mar 29, 2016
Nah, rite was just showing how horrific spelling things wrongly can look and feel. This is quiz is fine expecting you to know both the state, and its correct spelling, to earn you the point. A plurality of quizzers have managed to do that that for every question, so I hope you've become one of them.
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Level 68
Apr 1, 2016
I got all except for Main, Missury, Misisipy, Mitchigan and Massofshoesets. Not bad.
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Level 51
Mar 20, 2017
Well, as this comment chain is (or rather was) on the topic of misspellings and Jeopardy, how long until someone brings up the 'Emanciptation Proclamation'?
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Level 89
Jul 26, 2018
Jeopardy allows pretty crappy spelling on written answers, they're just looking to see if you know the answer.
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Level 72
Feb 16, 2019
Mass-of-shoe-sets hahaha that made me laugh :D
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Level 76
Jul 5, 2019
Dan has taken mercy on some of you for some of these answers, and Massichusits, Michagon, Minnnnasoda and Misisipi are all now accepted. The correct-spelling version of this quiz is now here.
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Level 53
May 28, 2022
I honestly don't see how it's hard to type Massachusetts.
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Level 40
May 9, 2023
same
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Level 28
Jan 2, 2023
yes same here
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Level 43
Feb 10, 2018
I got it right, not English speaking person had trouble with it before so I divided it into 3 parts: Massa (F1 driver) - Chu - Setts
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Level 72
Feb 16, 2019
I tend to write massachutes like massa (=a huge amount or mass in my language) and chutes as in parachutes, but that is the wrong way to spell. Though it seems stuck in my mind haha.
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Level 77
May 9, 2023
oh cool, what language?
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Level 86
Apr 15, 2018
Spelling Massachusetts is easy!

...Providing you're from Massachusetts.

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Level 36
May 13, 2019
I'm not from Massachusetts and I know how to spell it.
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Level 30
Nov 18, 2021
massachusetts. im from texas
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Level 28
Jan 2, 2023
massachusetts, im from europe
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Level 47
Oct 19, 2023
Massachusetts, I'm from another universe
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Level 60
Jan 23, 2019
I used to spell it like "Massachussetts", so now I remember it like this:

"So the 'z' sound in the middle of Massachusetts must be due to a double-s, but it isn't. The other double-consonants are there and don't make a 'z' sound."

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Level 78
Feb 1, 2022
I might say it differently... but Massachusetts doesn't have a "z" sound anywhere. But "chuss" would rhyme with bus... so it shouldn't have the "s" twice there anyway. Massachusetts seems logical.
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Level 58
Jan 29, 2019
Well, I love auto correct
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Level 52
May 2, 2019
It took me like 2 seconds to spell massachusetts, and I'm from germany. There's no excuse
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Level 33
May 2, 2020
That is probably because you practiced trying to spell it a lot. I know how to spell it now, but it took me awhile. I think Massachusetts is the hardest state in the US to spell. That and Pennsylvania probably.
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Level 31
May 5, 2020
I only know how to spell it because of the 50 US states quiz
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Level 19
Oct 28, 2020
lol same
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Level 67
Mar 31, 2021
Not true at all. Massachusetts is relatively easy to spell (or at least for me), just remember 2 s's and 2 t's and pretty much you'll eventually get your fingers used to typing it easily.
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Level 40
May 9, 2023
Massachusetts. I remember.
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Level 44
Jul 6, 2024
it took me men seconds to realise i typed massahusetts
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Level 78
Jan 6, 2016
Very hard :P
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Level 76
Jan 6, 2016
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Level 59
Mar 27, 2016
No points :-(
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Level 65
Mar 28, 2016
Try again. You'll get points now :)
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Level 63
Mar 27, 2016
easy. did it with 44 seconds remaining
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Level 56
Mar 27, 2016
I needed just 1 more second to type "nesota".
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Level 76
Mar 27, 2016
Cool name. If there's ever to be a 52nd state they should call it that.
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Level 56
Mar 28, 2016
What's the 51st?
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Level 76
Mar 28, 2016
#51 will be Puerto Rico.
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Level 40
Jun 28, 2021
I thought #52 was Greenland...
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Level 62
Jan 4, 2022
The US did attempt to purchase Greenland from Denmark but Denmark denied
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Level 81
Mar 27, 2016
You forgot Massachippasippi.
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Level 47
Mar 27, 2016
Massachusetts is a commonwealth, not a state.
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Level 41
Mar 28, 2016
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virgina all refer to themselves as commonwealths; however, this legally means nothing and as far as the federal government is concerned they are states just like the other 46.
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Level 58
Dec 12, 2016
What do you want him to do?
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Level 79
Feb 18, 2019
Errr.........
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Level 40
Jun 28, 2021
This is a weird section.
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Level 74
Mar 28, 2016
You are so right about always forgetting one. Barely remembered Maryland in time.
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Level 96
Mar 28, 2016
freaking Maryland...arghhh
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Level 7
Mar 30, 2016
I kept spelling Missouri wrong, but eventually got it.
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2019
The proper spelling is Misery, well known by all of us who live here. (Just kidding, I love my state.)
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Level 73
Sep 23, 2016
Lol, three points for seven out of eight. Full house would get me five points. Four points is......impossible. One of the qwerks of the percentages points allocation.
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Level 23
Oct 23, 2016
30 seconds would be better

god save fifty nifty

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Level 58
Dec 12, 2016
Oh fer f- sake..the only one I missed was the one I was born in...Missouri.
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Level 64
Feb 14, 2017
Got it with 2 seconds left! Missouri you dog!
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Level 65
Jun 7, 2017
Literally took me 11 seconds
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Level 45
Dec 23, 2017
Almost forgot maine
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Level 74
Mar 8, 2018
I'm Polish, I missed Maine and Minnesota
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Level 68
Jul 5, 2019
Cześź
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Level 81
Sep 6, 2018
Time limit is perfectly adequate.
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Level 26
Jan 23, 2019
Surprised myself and got them all on my first try, albeit scrambling to type Montana in the last few seconds.
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Level 49
Jan 23, 2019
Missedissippi.
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2019
My father taught me to spell it as "M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter-i-crooked letter-crooked letter- i-humped back-humped back-i."
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Level 67
Jan 23, 2019
As I was struggling to think of the last state, Mest Mirginia occurred to me. Then I remembered Maine - or remembered the Maine.
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2019
Glad to see my home state's flag on the thumbnail.
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Level 76
Jul 5, 2019
Your comment made me realise Michigan's coat-of-arms' similarity to my own high school's one.
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Level 47
Jan 23, 2019
Malaska
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Level 33
Jan 23, 2019
Phew! 4 seconds left
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Level 22
Jan 26, 2019
u forgot mount everest
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Level 62
Apr 28, 2020
and Mars
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Level 65
May 29, 2024
and Mexico, New
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Level 49
Feb 15, 2019
100%, Maryland with 0:01
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Level 34
May 6, 2020
Thanks for putting Michigan in the thmbnail!
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Level 58
Aug 28, 2020
7 of 8. Drawing blanks for the last one. It's Missouri.

I live in Missouri. *face palm*

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Level 47
Dec 8, 2020
Go Michigan!!
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Level 32
Mar 8, 2021
This is easy, love this!
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Level 63
Mar 13, 2021
100% first time, 44 seconds left to spare!
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Level 65
Mar 31, 2021
same lol
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Level 67
Mar 31, 2021
Easy when you know the fifty nifty United States song!
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Level 46
Apr 26, 2021
thats what i did. got to louisiana then started the quiz and sang along
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Level 46
Apr 26, 2021
49 seconds left
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Level 40
Jun 28, 2021
I missed Montana. Never heard of that state (P.S.: I'm not American! Don't attack me please!)
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Level 69
Aug 19, 2021
Ok I won't attack you.
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Level 69
Aug 19, 2021
Just think about Tony Montana or Hannah Montana and you'll remember it
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Level 69
Aug 19, 2021
19 seconds
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Level 62
Jan 4, 2022
WOW JERRY,I thought you were smarter than this but you missed memteny.
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Level 56
Aug 22, 2022
Maine almost got me there.
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Level 76
Nov 7, 2022
Remembered Minnesota with just two seconds left. Barely got it in on time.
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Level 21
Mar 27, 2023
Forgot Mississippi!

Which is weird because I live right next to the Mississippi River.

GO MINNESOTA!!!!

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Level 16
May 9, 2023
Jokes on you I forgot 2.
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Level 43
May 9, 2023
I'm actually quite surprised that I got it 1rst try as I'm not always perfect with geography quizzes without a map.
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Level 46
Apr 30, 2024
Most of the time it took me to take the quiz was going through the whole 50 states song before I got to M