How well do you know your states?

[Spike88]

My mom got this in an email and sent it to me.
http://jimspages.com/States.htm
They give you the state and its name and you have to put it where it goes on the map.
On my first try I got an 84% with a 45 mile error average.
On my second go I got a 98% with a 7 mile error average. http://www.myresistance.net/smf/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif

[Thomen]

Whew.. 88% and 36 miles.. not bad for a legal alien. :up:

[Falkirion]

Not bad for an Aussie. 82% avg error 91 miles. Okay second round same score but a 52 mile error this time

[Onkel Neal]

I got Texas and Florida right!

We have a state named Minnesota? I always thought that was football city!

[UnderseaLcpl]

Avg score 90%/Avg error 21 miles/ time 361 seconds

How the hell am I supposed to know where Rhode Island is without the surrounding states?

[FIREWALL]

State of Anxiety :p

[Spike88]

Avg score 90%/Avg error 21 miles/ time 361 seconds

How the hell am I supposed to know where Rhode Island is without the surrounding states?

I got RI on my first try by looking at it and then the map. If you look there is a U on the side where a river starts and this same U can be found on the map.

[Bort]

96% and 7 miles average error.

[A Very Super Market]

90% Avg Error: 14 miles Time: 275 seconds

Did I beat any Americans?

Honestly, the game screws you over with Kansas and Arkansas. In the middle of the map...

[Letum]

92% first try
89% second try :hmm:

How odd.

Still, Did I beat any 'merkins?

[nikimcbee]

I got Texas and Florida right!

We have a state named Minnesota? I always thought that was football city!


:o :nope:

No soup for you!

[Happy Times]

90%/15miles The midwestern "boxes" are the difficult ones.:hmm:

[Letum]

90%/15miles The midwestern "boxes" are the difficult ones.:hmm:

I was lucky and didn't get them till late on my first try.
By the second try I had remembered them, but the first threw me off a little.

[Digital_Trucker]

Yep, y'all beat at least one 'merican. 80% 80 mile avg error. Guess that's why they gave me a map with my truck:rotfl:

Edit. That ain't fair, I got the middle states right off the bat

[Sailor Steve]

86%, 32 miles.

How the hell am I supposed to know where Rhode Island is without the surrounding states?
Exactly! If you get a lot of the central states first, even if you know them you can't get them right.

[Happy Times]

My knowledge came from looking election results at CNN website and playing a strategy game about American civil war.:lol:
I tought the East coast was easy.:lol:

[Letum]

My knowledge came from...errrr....dammed if I know!
I could only place 6 or 7 counties in the UK...

*edit* Can only name 10 with he correct location, but I bet there isn't an American who can beat me. ;)

http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/uk_counties_mapnew.gif

[sunvalleyslim]

88% 28 mile average

[UnderseaLcpl]

My knowledge came from...errrr....dammed if I know!
I could only place 6 or 7 counties in the UK...

*edit* Can only name 10 with he correct location, but I bet there isn't an American who can beat me. ;)

http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/uk_counties_mapnew.gif

Let's see, I can identify Cornwall (southwest penninsula) where my family's oldest known ancestor is buried), West and East sussex in the southeast region there. London is north of those upon the Thames and Kent lies southeast of that. Essex, Soufolk and Norfolk lie north of Kent in that order upon the coast of the North Sea. Cambridgeshire is North of London and is home to the Imperial War museum at Duxford, I believe that it is the region directly west of Norfolk and Suffolk there.
Hmm.... other than that I only know the location of Northumberland for sure, and it is on Scotland's southeastern border there.
I don't know any Welsh counties other than Cardiff, and that it is located somehwere around the mouth of that river/gulf thing. I think it is called the Severen or something.
Scotland appears to be fused into one entity on this map, but I could easily locate Abedeen, Glasgow, the Isle of Skye, and Edinburgh (which I believe is in the county of Midlothian)
and the City of Elgin, northwest of Aberdeen, where I spent a few weeks with a nice Scottish girl and her family, although I have no idea what county it is in.

That gives me ten definites and a handful of maybes and almosts.:D Who says video games can't teach you geography? Thank you, "Battle of Britain".


I remember visiting Somerset, but I can't place it for the life of me. I think it's somewhere in the southwestern region, with a coast. And I think that there is a Dorset or Dorsetshire or something in the middlish area, but I have no idea where.

[Letum]

I have a disadvantage living in the biggest county. I have no neighbors to remember for miles around.

[UnderseaLcpl]

I have a disadvantage living in the biggest county. I have no neighbors to remember for miles around.

And no maps, either? I'm tempted to post the Miss Teen South Carolina link:D

[Letum]

I have a disadvantage living in the biggest county. I have no neighbors to remember for miles around.
And no maps, either? I'm tempted to post the Miss Teen South Carolina link:D
Does it not follow that if you live in a smaller county nearer the border of several other
counties then you are more likely to be well acquainted with then than if you live in the
center of the biggest county?

If you live in Staffordshire you are likely to visit Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire,
Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire very often, but living in the middle
of Yorkshire, it has been many, many years since I have travled the 30+ miles to the
closest county, let alone those on the southern side. Consequentially, the location of
Chesire is far from indelibly marked in my mind.

*edit*
It's not like I'm mistaking countries like Miss S.Carolina. You didn't read "county" as "country" did you? ;)

[A Very Super Market]

Oh, you crazy Breets and 'Muhricans. Makes me proud to to second largest nation in the world... and have a total of 13 provinces and territories.

http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr278/A_Very_Super_Market/blag.jpg

First one to name them all get's an imaginary high-five!

Or a fist-bump for OCD sufferers

[Fr8monkey]

Take that suckas!! First try. Took me so long becaust I had to feed the cat!

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp257/Fr8monkey_2009/USGame.jpg

[Torplexed]

First one to name them all get's an imaginary high-five!

Or a fist-bump for OCD sufferers


Ummm. Bob?....Doug?....Mackenzie?

[AngusJS]

Score Avg. Error Time

98% 3 miles 297 secs


Here's a European version.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_europe_G2_drag-drop.html

[Letum]

39/46.
Europe was harder. The mini-states threw me. Will try again when sober.

[Tchocky]

Europe - 44/46, 96%, Average Error 8 miles.

Was chatting to a Slovak guy I work with while doing this, he saw me getting Slovakia very, very wrong. :oops:


The US of States to follow...

[Tchocky]

92%, Avg Error 17 miles, 404 seconds.

[OneToughHerring]

I threw Alabama off the map and the game ended. :D

[PhantomLord]

USA - Wild guesses sometimes... but 81% with 71miles average.
Europe - 89% with 30 miles. These mini states.... :doh:

[HunterICX]

92%
19 miles avg error

not bad:D

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Europe version

91%
20 miles avg error

HunterICX

[Letum]

96% on Europe in the cold, soberness of today.
Thats a relief.

[AngusJS]

Europe

% Correct Avg. Error Time
98% 4 miles 262 secs

And they say Americans don't know geography... :D

For a real challenge, try the same for Africa (http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Africa/Africa_G2_1280_800.html).

[Tchocky]

Africa - 43/53 81% 254 miles :D

[Letum]

Africa did not go well.

60% Over 1000miles out

[PhantomLord]

Same here: 68% with 671 miles avg.

[Happy Times]

Europe
trial 1
46/46 100% correct
avg. error 0 miles
time 272 seconds

[Happy Times]

Africa
trial 1
51/53 96% correct
avg. error 12 miles
time 337 seconds

[Happy Times]

Middle East
trial 1
17/17 100% correct
avg. error 0 miles
time 90 seconds

[Happy Times]

double post

[Spike88]

Oh, you crazy Breets and 'Muhricans. Makes me proud to to second largest nation in the world... and have a total of 13 provinces and territories.

http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr278/A_Very_Super_Market/blag.jpg

First one to name them all get's an imaginary high-five!

Or a fist-bump for OCD sufferers


Except for the fact that 90% of Canadians live near the American Border :P

[August]

1st try: 88% 28 miles 331 seconds

[Stealth Hunter]

99%
2 Miles
402 Secs

[conus00]

86%
39 miles
306 sec

[UnderseaLcpl]

I have a disadvantage living in the biggest county. I have no neighbors to remember for miles around.
And no maps, either? I'm tempted to post the Miss Teen South Carolina link:D
Does it not follow that if you live in a smaller county nearer the border of several other
counties then you are more likely to be well acquainted with then than if you live in the
center of the biggest county?

If you live in Staffordshire you are likely to visit Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire,
Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire very often, but living in the middle
of Yorkshire, it has been many, many years since I have travled the 30+ miles to the
closest county, let alone those on the southern side. Consequentially, the location of
Chesire is far from indelibly marked in my mind.

*edit*
It's not like I'm mistaking countries like Miss S.Carolina. You didn't read "county" as "country" did you? ;)

Good heavens, no. I was just having a little fun. :DL Also it's hard for me to imagine how an Englishman couldn't have visited virtually every spot on the British Isles. No intent to offend, but they aren't that big, and there is so much to see and do there. Beautiful country, chock full of museums and historical battlefields and the like.

I can kind of see what you mean about how living in a large county might discourage one from visiting neighboring counties, but I live in Texas and I still know approximately where all the other states are (and their capitols:smug: ). Then again, that might not be a good comparison, I'm not quite sure what importance is afforded to county lines in England.

Well, it's a lovely country nonetheless. You should experience it more.:DL

[Letum]

Then again, that might not be a good comparison, I'm not quite sure what importance is afforded to county lines in England.
Good question.
It is rather complex. The counties are not always the same as the political borders.
Some counties are much more distinctive than others.

They are trivia in so far as they are not taught in schools, but less trivial in that they
are often provided as answers to the question "where are you from?".

As for seeing all of England, that's not really possible.
The places are so densely packed that you could spend years visiting places and only
cover a county or two.

I don't have any urge to see more of the world. The experiences I crave can, for the
most part, be found within my self, rather than the world.

[Onkel Neal]

My knowledge came from...errrr....dammed if I know!
I could only place 6 or 7 counties in the UK...

*edit* Can only name 10 with he correct location, but I bet there isn't an American who can beat me. ;)

http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/uk_counties_mapnew.gif

What is that? Hawaii?

[August]

What is that? Hawaii?

:DL:DL

[UnderseaLcpl]

I don't have any urge to see more of the world. The experiences I crave can, for the most part, be found within my self, rather than the world.

I have no idea what that means, other than a possible allusion to drug use and/or sex:DL

I kid, but I really do wonder what you mean. I understand if you'd rather not elaborate, being such a personal topic and all.

[Letum]

I don't have any urge to see more of the world. The experiences I crave can, for the most part, be found within my self, rather than the world.
I have no idea what that means, other than a possible allusion to drug use and/or sex:DL

I kid, but I really do wonder what you mean. I understand if you'd rather not elaborate, being such a personal topic and all.

Oh dear, this is going to go waaaay off topic and upon reflection I can see that it is
almost impossible to explain without sounding ridiculously pretentious.

I'm just a philosopher in an extended existential crisis and I am determined to come
out of it the hard way. I'm not settling for less than complete enlightenment about
the nature of my existence or the cessation of my existence. The latter being the
most likely so far as I can see.

I could waffle on about this at extreeme length, but this isn't the right topic or
forum to do so in.

[A Very Super Market]

Except for the fact that 90% of Canadians live near the American Border :P

So? 85% of Russians live in the European part of it. They're still the biggest.