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However, a lot of state capitals are nearer to the center of the state than the largest city would be.


Talahassee is way out on the panhandle! Orlando's in the center of the state!

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States of Mexico

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27/50 (ugh. Though, if I were to do it again tomorrow, I'd probably be back up to the high 30's, there was a lot of /facepalm going on today)
10/13 (I'm amazed I spelled Saskatchewan first try. Kicking myself on PEI and New Brunswick, no regrets on missing Nunavut)
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40/47 (and damn that's harsh on Bosnia)

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27/50 (ugh. Though, if I were to do it again tomorrow, I'd probably be back up to the high 30's, there was a lot of /facepalm going on today)

I think I was more like 12/50 myself. (See above)
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10/13 (I'm amazed I spelled Saskatchewan first try. Kicking myself on PEI and New Brunswick, no regrets on missing Nunavut)


That's impressive. 13/13 here, but Canadians have it easy for geography, it's easy for us to memorize 10 provinces and 3 territorie, though there were only 2 territories when I went to school. Nunavut was created not that long ago.

It is an interesting place, historically, though. Nunavut is an Inuktitut word, and is basically the only remaining native american population that was never kicked off their land. The measly population of about 30,000 people in the entire massive territory is over 80% Inuit.

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I forget my total, here. I think it was also 3/31, but if you actually KNEW those three, you know mexico better than I do. The only province I knew for a fact was Jalisco (the only place in the world that tequila is made.) The others i guessed by plugging in mexican place names I'd heard of until some of them stuck.

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40/47 (and damn that's harsh on Bosnia)

You beat me! 39/47. But I count it as 40, and you should count yours as 41.

The fact that I typed "Bosnia," "Herzegovina," and "Bosnia & Herzegovina" never got me credit for "Bosnia and Herzegovina." That was bloody ridiculous.

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Talya wrote:
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New Hampshire


New Hampshire is why I only got 49 out of 50 on the "name the states" quiz Mook linked. I couldn't remember for the life of me what was beside Vermont.


Now, the state capitals are another matter. We don't learn those in school in Canada (seeing as they aren't our states)... and state capitals are almost always little backwater villages you'd never hear of. I mean, I know Florida fairly well, and can name just about every city and town alongside Interstates 75 and 95, in addition to the Orlando area, even such insignificant places as Bradenton and Cape Coral. I could even approximately place most of them on a map without preparation.

But I had to look up, "Where the **** is Tallahassee?"

Most states seem to be this way. I can understand if the most populous or famous city is not your state capital. The capitals were set many, many years ago, and cities change. But it's like the states intentionally picked places nobody would ever hear of to be their administrative centers. For every Denver, Boston, Nashville or Indianapolis, there's a couple like Lansing (and I knew that one!), Springfield, Olympia, or Frankfort.



There was a big movement in the 18th and 19th century to make state capitals something other than the largest city in the state, for fear of concentration of power. That's why Albany is the capital of New York State, when by most measures it should have been New York City. It was a rebellion against cities like London and Paris, which hogged all the political power.

Didn't know there were quizzes involved in this thread, lemme go take one.

Edit: Well, I got 147 out of 197 countries of the world. I suspect I know all of them when I'd see the names, and I got stumped a little bit on spellings. It was nice of them to correct East Timor to Timor-Leste for me, but I couldn't get the right format for something like Democratic Republic of Congo. Caribbean island-nations stump me, too. Thank goodness my daughter is taking World History and Geography; I've learned a lot of West African countries in the past couple of months. Not bad, all in all.

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Talya wrote:
Diamondeye wrote:
However, a lot of state capitals are nearer to the center of the state than the largest city would be.


Talahassee is way out on the panhandle! Orlando's in the center of the state!


Sort of. Florida is kind of a special case.

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Aethien wrote:
There was a big movement in the 18th and 19th century to make state capitals something other than the largest city in the state, for fear of concentration of power. That's why Albany is the capital of New York State, when by most measures it should have been New York City. It was a rebellion against cities like London and Paris, which hogged all the political power.

Didn't know there were quizzes involved in this thread, lemme go take one.

No ****? After more than twenty years, I am vindicated.

When I was learning state capitals in the fourth grade, I didn't believe Boston was the capital of Massachussets, because every other state capital was some tiny little bullshit podunk city nobody gave a rat's *** about. There was a pattern to the state capitals. A definite trend. I've been right all this goddamn time!

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Corolinth wrote:
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There was a big movement in the 18th and 19th century to make state capitals something other than the largest city in the state, for fear of concentration of power. That's why Albany is the capital of New York State, when by most measures it should have been New York City. It was a rebellion against cities like London and Paris, which hogged all the political power.

Didn't know there were quizzes involved in this thread, lemme go take one.

No ****? After more than twenty years, I am vindicated.

When I was learning state capitals in the fourth grade, I didn't believe Boston was the capital of Massachussets, because every other state capital was some tiny little bullshit podunk city nobody gave a rat's *** about. There was a pattern to the state capitals. A definite trend. I've been right all this goddamn time!


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Denver sort of breaks the pattern, as does Indianapolis. Phoenix too.

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Diamondeye wrote:
Denver sort of breaks the pattern, as does Indianapolis. Phoenix too.

Right, because by the late 19th century, the tendency was to once again go with the largest, most important city. Not quite sure how Indianapolis got in there, however. But when we visited Tucson last year, it was pretty funny - there are apparently a not-insignificant number of people there who believe that Tucson should really be the capital, and not Phoenix.

Edit: Interesting. Only 17 states have their largest city as capital. Indianapolis is the third-largest state capital city, behind Phoenix and Austin.

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Diamondeye wrote:
Sort of. Florida is kind of a special case.


The further north you go, the further south you get.

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This. You go so far south you run out of south and roll back around to north.
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Mookhow wrote:
Since we're discussing geography knowledge:

US States
US Capitals
Canadian Provinces and Territories
States of Mexico

Countries of Europe
Countries of Africa
Countries of Asia
Countries of North America
Countries of South America

Countries of the World

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States: 50/50
State Capitals: 48/50 (Iowa, Wisconsin)
Canadian Provinces and Territories: 8/13 (Nunavut, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick)
States of Mexico: 1/50 (I actually typed in “Mexico” and got one)
Countries of Europe: 46/47 (Kosovo? Is that official?)
Countries of Africa: 53/54 (Right – “south sudan” – I need to remember current events)
Countries of Asia: 48/49 (Palestine – COME ON….)
Countries of North America: 23/23
Countries of South America: 12/12
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Countries of the World: Now that I know to include Kosovo, Palestine, and South Sudan, I got 195/197. I left out Ukraine and Madagascar. If the map was larger, grumble grumble....
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Arathain Kelvar wrote:
Countries of the World: Now that I know to include Kosovo, Palestine, and South Sudan, I got 195/197. I left out Ukraine and Madagascar. If the map was larger, grumble grumble....

In ten minutes? Fast typing, man, well done.

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Countries of the World: Now that I know to include Kosovo, Palestine, and South Sudan, I got 195/197. I left out Ukraine and Madagascar. If the map was larger, grumble grumble....

In ten minutes? Fast typing, man, well done.


It gives you 15. But yeah, there's not a lot of time to stop and think. Geography's just a hobby. I "know" all of the capitals, too, but if tested would forget a bunch (Africa) and would misspell a bunch I'm sure.
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http://www.sporcle.com/games/dumbgai/national-capitals-of-the-world-redux

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Arathain Kelvar wrote:
Aethien wrote:
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Countries of the World: Now that I know to include Kosovo, Palestine, and South Sudan, I got 195/197. I left out Ukraine and Madagascar. If the map was larger, grumble grumble....

In ten minutes? Fast typing, man, well done.


It gives you 15. But yeah, there's not a lot of time to stop and think. Geography's just a hobby. I "know" all of the capitals, too, but if tested would forget a bunch (Africa) and would misspell a bunch I'm sure.

I'd swear I only got ten minutes the first time I did it. Still that's pretty impressive. I start falling down on the capitals. I bow to you, sir.

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