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Name a Valid U.S. State #1

Name any of the U.S. states that belong in each selected category.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: October 1, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 6, 2019
Times taken146,374
Average score75.0%
Rating4.90
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Valid States
that borders Canada
Alaska | Washington | Montana | North Dakota |
Minnesota | Idaho | Michigan | Ohio | Pennsylvania |
New York | Vermont | New Hampshire | Maine
that borders Mexico
California | New Mexico | Arizona | Texas
with a population of at least 20 million
California | Texas | Florida
that doesn't border any other state
Alaska | Hawaii
with a Disney theme park
California | Florida
with an X in its name
New Mexico | Texas
whose capital contains the word "city"
Missouri | Nevada | Oklahoma | Utah
bordering the Great Lakes
Illinois | Indiana | Michigan | Minnesota | New York |
Ohio | Pennsylvania | Wisconsin
with 5 or more National Parks
Alaska | California | Utah
where at least 30% of the population
are African-American
Mississippi | Louisiana | Georgia
where at least 7% of the population
are Native American
Alaska | New Mexico | South Dakota | Oklahoma
whose capital touches the Atlantic Ocean
Maryland | Massachusetts | Rhode Island
where at least 80% of the land is used for agriculture
Nebraska | South Dakota | North Dakota | Kansas | Iowa
where at least 75% of the land is forested
Maine | New Hampshire | West Virginia | Vermont
that was once an independent country
Hawaii | Texas | Vermont
where fewer than 27% of adults are obese
Colorado | Hawaii
that appears rectangular on a Mercator projection map
Colorado | Wyoming
with an average elevation of 100 feet or less
Delaware | Florida | Louisiana
was named for a queen
Maryland | Virginia | West Virginia
where at least 5 U.S. Presidents were born
New York | Ohio | Virginia
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Level 59
Feb 6, 2019
Great quiz!
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Level 85
Feb 28, 2019
Idaho touches Canada but no credit was given.
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Level 68
Feb 28, 2019
Fixed!
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Level 70
Mar 1, 2019
I thought California was an independent country for a month or so.
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Level ∞
Mar 1, 2019
That one is going on an April Fools quiz in the future. A handful of people declared themselves a republic, controlled an area of land smaller than Sonoma county, picked out a flag, and then dissolved. If that's independence, we're going to have to add a lot more countries to our current list. Sealand has better claims to statehood.
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Level 43
Mar 23, 2020
Bear Flag Revolt!
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Level 90
Mar 1, 2019
Vermont as a country is pretty sketchy. I guess it might be technically true but it was more of a no man's land that broke away after the revolution started. The colonies of New Hampshire and New York had bigger things on their plates. At various times Vermont aligned with the British with the hope that after the rebellion was squashed they would be an independent colony and as a 14th state of America. There founding documents refer to itself as a state and commonwealth and the leader as governor. No other country recognized it as an independent state.
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Level ∞
Mar 1, 2019
You're probably right. The complaining if we left it off would be too much though. I'm sure 99% of people will just answer Texas for that one.
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Level 52
May 17, 2021
i thought florida was a country though, west florida
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Level 67
May 20, 2021
I put Vermont! I always learned California, Vermont, Texas, and Hawaii were independent countries.
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Level 72
May 20, 2021
Vermont was my first guess. Just keep it.
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Level 71
May 20, 2021
I said Vermont too. I learned the same thing as jmellor from my APUSH class, and since I used Vermont for the previous clue (75% forested), it was the first thing that came to mind.
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Level 78
Oct 17, 2022
Are you more than 99% sure? ;)
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Level 79
Mar 1, 2019
Got all with 0:09 remaining (from Malaysia, living in China)
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Level 76
Mar 2, 2019
A minute more would be nice.
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Level 86
Apr 8, 2019
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Level 88
May 20, 2021
Can confirm, I enjoyed both quizzes a lot.
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Level 77
Apr 16, 2019
Annapolis is on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Level 66
Apr 20, 2019
Which is part of the Atlantic Ocean if I’m not mistaken.
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Level 20
Dec 9, 2019
The Chesapeake Bay feeds into the Atlantic. That doesn't make it part of the ocean. The Mississippi River feeds into the Gulf of Mexico, that doesn't make every city on the river part of the Gulf also
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Level 58
Oct 2, 2020
A bay is different from a river. You're saying Maryland and Virginia are landlocked? Or Ontario and Manitoba?
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Level 38
May 21, 2021
Maryland does border the Atlantic on the Eastern Shore.
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Level 57
Apr 16, 2019
grrrr can't believe Phoenix is accepted for X IN it's name... great quiz anyway tho
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Level 66
Apr 16, 2019
This is about states, not cities...
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Level 73
Apr 16, 2019
as someone who has an entire side of his Ohana from Hawaii, that is BS that fewer than 25% of adults are obese. The islands are FULL of obese folks.
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Level 82
Apr 16, 2019
Think about what that says about the rest of the country!
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Level 67
Apr 16, 2019
I have never been to Hawaii, but I was surprised by Hawaii too because I know that Pacific Islanders usually rank among the most obese people in the world. Not sure whether that is genetic or the fact that so much of their food is likely filled with preservatives because it needs to be imported so far (probably a combination of both). Either way, the fact that there are only three states in which less than a quarter of the population is obese is horrifying.
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Level 81
Apr 17, 2019
Some sources say about 10-11% are Pacific Islanders, and about 24% are mixed race.

Causes of obesity in Polynesia probably is a combination evolutionary strategies to survive famine, more cultural acceptance of fat people, supplying Native populations with cheap carbohydrates and other processed foods by the colonizing governments while suppressing native traditional food, (pounding poi was just recently legalized in Hawaii.) car culture.

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Level 66
Jun 28, 2023
I've always seen island populations as having higher obesity rates due to their lifestyle choices. Not much incentive to go outdoors or do manual labor
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Level 66
Apr 16, 2019
I'm loving these "Name any Valid..." quizzes! It's a really neat idea,and they're a lot of fun to take!
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Level 68
Apr 16, 2019
Glad to hear it! There's a similar style quiz I made called Category Elimination - Countries where it's somewhat similar except each answer must match every category above it as well, not just it's own.
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Level 65
Apr 16, 2019
4 seconds left and all correct. Not being an american I feel proud.
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Level 20
Apr 16, 2019
Good quiz but I didn't understand the Disney land question irate 4 stars
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Level 68
Apr 16, 2019
Some states have a theme park owned by Disney using the Disney brand. E.g. Disney World in Florida or Disneyland Resort in California.
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Level 66
Apr 16, 2019
Could do with a little more time.
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Level 49
Apr 17, 2019
Nice Quiz!
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Level 19
Apr 18, 2019
85%! Yay!(I missed the 3 most-missed ones)

Also, nice quiz

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Level 51
Apr 19, 2019
I'm from the Southwest. A few more accepted spellings of "Massachusetts" would be helpful.
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Level 69
Jul 5, 2019
And yet, when I lived in Massachusetts I managed to learn how to spell Mississippi, Oklahoma, and even Tucson, Arizona. This site’s about learning, not dumbing down, right? Consider it an opportunity.
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Level 66
Aug 20, 2019
For the states with fewer than 25% obesity, Massachusetts is no longer valid https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Obesity/state/HI

Massachusetts dropped down to nr 7. First (lowest percentage of obese people) is Colorado with 22.6%, second Hawaii with 23.8%, and runner up with 25.1% is California>

Most obese is West-virginia with 38.1% of adults.

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Level 68
Aug 20, 2019
This has been fixed, thanks!
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Level 57
Sep 16, 2019
Just FYI, Massachusetts is still accepted as an answer, even though it doesn't show up anymore.
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Level 68
Sep 16, 2019
Whoops! I forgot to remove the typein too, fixed now. Thanks :)
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Level 72
Dec 1, 2019
Providence isn’t on the Atlantic, it’s on the Providence River (which flows into Narragansett Bay with them connects to the Atlantic). Boston Mass is the only capital city that actually sits on the Atlantic.
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Level 20
Dec 9, 2019
Maryland and Rhode Island should be removed from the "Whose capital touches the Atlantic." Providence and Annapolis do not have shores on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Level 78
May 21, 2021
I would argue that Annapolis being on the Chesapeake should be kept but Providence being on a river should be removed. Dover, DE is closer to the Atlantic (2 miles) than Providence is (~5 miles).
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Level 75
Feb 12, 2020
This might seem like an odd request, but is there any way to create a link that will randomly generate a quiz made by a specific user?
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Level 68
Feb 12, 2020
It would be possible to add as an inbuilt feature of the site, but it wouldn't be possible (easily at least) to do it from a user side.
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Level 75
Feb 12, 2020
Good to know, thanks
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Level 55
Apr 2, 2020
Maybe ask Quizmaster? It would be a really nice addition to JetPunk.
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Level 55
May 20, 2021
Now it's added! :)
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Level 68
May 20, 2021
It's added using the super tables on a user's quiz page, but there's still not a single link to do this though, as Hines wanted.
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Level 74
Jun 8, 2020
I made a quiz in this style about naming any president who was from a given state here. The problem is, no stats show up after the quiz is completed. Is there any easily-fixable solution to this?
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Level 72
May 20, 2021
This would be a pretty cool quiz in inverse - where you have to name every state that fits each category.
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Level 72
May 20, 2021
According to 2019 estimates, Maryland is 31.1% "African American alone" and likely higher when counting biracial people.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/MD

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Level 72
Apr 7, 2023
Now up to 31.4%:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MD/PST045222

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Level 68
May 20, 2021
New York STATE has a population of 20m
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Level 62
May 20, 2021
It does appear this is true; the state had <20m in 2019 but based on estimates, has just passed the 20m mark now.
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Level 76
May 20, 2021
100% with 10 seconds left, good quiz
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Level 59
Sep 8, 2021
I don't know how the forested question is the least guessed, that was the easiest.
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Level 49
Feb 4, 2022
could you add california to the question of former countries? it was for a brief period a independent country during the mexican american war.
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Level ∞
Jan 31, 2023
No, see above.
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Level 32
May 11, 2022
19/20 (i only missed the 100 feet or less one) amazing quiz!!! :]
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Level 43
Jan 1, 2023
Got it!

I kept thinking Colorado or Utah for the forested, but guess dont fit.

I couldnt figure out less than 100 feet, youd think Hawaii cause an island so last 10 seconds said florida and got it.

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Level 67
Apr 10, 2023
2:14
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Level 38
Aug 22, 2023
You're forgetting that Oregon was a country