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Postby andyvball93 on July 24th, 2006, 8:03 pm
I found out that only 25% of Americans can name all the capitals and states without using a map at all.(within a Half Hour)It gets really hard at the end because you dont know what states you have missing. Your score is out of a Hundred so u count every state, and capital as a separte point.



I got a 98

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Postby Jackluver18 on July 24th, 2006, 9:46 pm
I can do the states from west to east without a map

Alaska Juneau
Hawaii Honolulu
Washington Olympia
Oregon Salem
California Sacromento
Idaho Boise
Nevada Carson City
Arizona Phoenix
Montana Helena
Wyoming Cheyenne
Colorado Denver
Utah Salt lake City
New Mexico Santa Fe
North Dakota Bismark
South Dakota Pierre
Nebraska Lincoln
Kansas Topika
Oklahoma Oklahoma City
Texas Austin
Minnasota St Paul
Iowa Des Moines
Missouri Jefferson City
Arkansas Little Rock
Louisana Baton Rouge
Wisconsin Madison
Illinois Springfield
Mississippi Jackson
Indiana Indianapolis....

you get the gest
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 24th, 2006, 9:56 pm
I used to be able to do that. It was all about the animaniacs song.
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Postby Jackluver18 on July 24th, 2006, 10:25 pm
Yep, everyone laughs at me but i don't care
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Postby shockwave guy mark on July 24th, 2006, 10:30 pm
and why would I want to kill time doing this... I already suck in social studies.
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Postby Sedir on July 24th, 2006, 11:19 pm
25% seems like a lot actually.
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Postby w00dland on July 25th, 2006, 1:03 am
25%? No way. Seems WAY more than I would expect, most people I know could never do that, hell they probably couldn't get half way.

I really hate stats though, I feel like way too many of them are made up.

But seriously, did you know that 54% of ACErs have actually eaten a full course meal on a single hyper coaster lift hill?
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Postby ITMS-Gradchick on July 28th, 2006, 1:28 pm
I remeber when I was in 4th Grade our whole class had to memorize the the states in alphabetical order and there capitals but we used a song to help us memorize them. So I know alot of people that know all of the states and capitals, and in alphabetical order too.
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Postby Aero737 on July 28th, 2006, 1:44 pm
It's true, I'm a meteorology major and I'm always looking at maps. I tried to do all 50 states in 5 min and missed 1 with about 3 min remaining. You get so frustrated that it's hard to think. Screw you Deleware, get out of my country!
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Postby Do I Know You on July 28th, 2006, 11:45 pm
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, under 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.

Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know.

Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
You've got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.

Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul.

Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in Nebraska
And it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.

Here's Honolulu; Hawaii's a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin' and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.

Salem in Oregon; from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa's got Des Moines
Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.

That's all the capitals there are!


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Postby RagingBullLover1543 on July 29th, 2006, 10:17 am
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