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Events by U.S. State #1

Can you guess the states where these famous events happened?
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First submittedFebruary 2, 2019
Times taken19,891
Average score68.8%
Rating4.29
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1. 1848: Gold is discovered, triggering a massive gold rush
Alaska ✓
California ✓
Colorado ✓
Maine ✓
2. 1620: The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
California ✓
Delaware ✓
Massachusetts ✓
North Carolina ✓
3. 1776: Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Massachusetts ✓
New York ✓
Pennsylvania ✓
South Carolina ✓
4. 1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Alabama ✓
New York ✓
Tennessee ✓
Texas ✓
5. 1969: Apollo 11 launches
Florida ✓
Illinois ✓
New Mexico ✓
Texas ✓
6. 1836: Battle of the Alamo
Alabama ✓
Arkansas ✓
Arizona ✓
Texas ✓
7. 1809: Abraham Lincoln born
Kentucky ✓
Illinois ✓
Michigan ✓
Pennsylvania ✓
8. 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus
Alabama ✓
Georgia ✓
Maryland ✓
Minnesota ✓
9. 1814: Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Connecticut ✓
Kentucky ✓
Maryland ✓
New Hampshire ✓
10. 1968: Riots at the Democratic National Convention
Illinois ✓
Louisiana ✓
Oregon ✓
Virginia ✓
11. 1995: Terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Mississippi ✓
North Dakota ✓
Oklahoma ✓
Ohio ✓
12. 1879: Edison invents the light bulb
California ✓
Michigan ✓
New Jersey ✓
South Dakota ✓
13. 1969: Woodstock music festival
California ✓
New York ✓
Texas ✓
Wisconsin ✓
14. 1970: National guardsmen kill four protestors at Kent State University
Georgia ✓
Missouri ✓
Ohio ✓
Washington ✓
15. 1513: Juan Ponce de León leads the first European expedition in the continental U.S.
Florida ✓
Louisiana ✓
North Carolina ✓
Virginia ✓
16. 1975: Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa last seen alive
Idaho ✓
Michigan ✓
Nebraska ✓
New Jersey ✓
halpie
+10
Level 77
Feb 3, 2019
Great quiz to bring me to level 69! Thanks again Quizmaster for this awesome website.
TwoWheels
+3
Level 58
Mar 30, 2019
Well done
QatariFerrari
+1
Level 89
Feb 3, 2019
Only 58% know that Lincoln was born in Kentucky? That's surprisingly low.
cpgatbyu
+9
Level 85
Feb 3, 2019
Not so surprising when Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln.
redsplat
+1
Level 74
Feb 5, 2019
And not so surprising for us non U.S. peeps.
TwoWheels
+2
Level 58
Mar 30, 2019
Yup, I'm a Scottish 13 y/o
buck1017
+3
Level 77
Feb 6, 2019
I live in Illinois and I had to pause for a second. It's kind of a trick question. Lincoln is synonymous with Illinois, but not very many people know that he wasn't born here.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Mar 31, 2019
Illinois didn't treat him that well - he ran for state legislature but lost, (ran again and won, but lost the attempt to become speaker,) lost his attempt to become an elector, ran for Congress and lost, ran again and won but lost again in a re-election attempt, ran for US senator and lost, tried to be the VP candidate and lost, ran again for US senate and lost, and then was elected US president - maybe someone was trying to tell him something?
pkerr116
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Level 73
Aug 28, 2021
Yeah, what a loser. He was also a compromise candidate for president, a former one-term Whig congressman, who was basically an unknown and wasn't even on the ballot in the 10 slaveholding states. William Seward from all-powerful NY state was the front-runner in 1860, and Lincoln then had to overcome his in-state rival, Stephen Douglas. Lincoln's victory was the catalyst for the secession of seven states, despite the official party platform not to interfere with slavery, and four more left the union prior to his inauguration, when he had to be snuck into Washington, D.C. due to death threats. I sure wouldn't put a bet on this guy!!!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Mar 30, 2019
I almost answered Illinois, too. Then remembered hearing about him being born in a log cabin in Kentucky back in 5th grade or something.
WackyAnagramDude
+6
Level 63
Aug 28, 2021
That's impressive that he was born when he was in the 5th grade.
Quizzyquizzed
+1
Level 28
Mar 30, 2019
Now it’s 45%. (Btw I said Illinois too just cuz I had no idea.)
Bdubz
+1
Level 43
Jul 6, 2019
People think he was born in Illinois
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Mar 30, 2019
Got everything except for the Hoffa question. I guessed New Jersey.
cranbeckh
+1
Level 68
Apr 18, 2019
Supposedly he was buried under the goalposts at the old Meadowlands Giants Stadium.
kinjapan
+1
Level 72
Aug 31, 2021
Me too. It is just one of those things you'd just assume happened in New Jersey. Like, if you hear that a guy on meth attacked a convenience store worker with an alligator, you would just assume it was in Florida. A shady union leader who pissed off the mob disappeared? New Jersey, right?
Pearl2270
+1
Level 79
Feb 7, 2023
This was my exact thought process before I landed on New Jersey lol
Baltimorean
+1
Level 67
Mar 30, 2019
Lincoln's representatives in Kentucky claimed him as a native son when they campaigned for him there in 1860 (where he finished a galactically distant fourth, with less than one percent of the vote). They did the same for him in Indiana (where he won).
beanaboutchili
+3
Level 78
Apr 2, 2019
I'd like to thank Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for their help on this quiz.
busby
+1
Level 60
Dec 17, 2020
Learnt some new stuff today!
Ranntern
+3
Level 57
Jul 1, 2021
Tennessee isn't a state....
ItzIngenious
+4
Level 60
Jul 19, 2021
Are u serious
kingjerry
+2
Level 43
Aug 28, 2021
And I assume you think puerto rico is a country?
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 28, 2021
Ikr
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 28, 2021
USA isn't a country
colins04
+1
Level 54
Sep 2, 2021
Pfft, you believe in Tennessee?
geophile
+3
Level 69
Aug 28, 2021
This quiz would have been more interesting if in some cases states nearer the answer had been choices.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 28, 2021
but then it would've been harder :/
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 14, 2023
Difficult is already sufficient.
TwinVincible
+1
Level 26
Aug 29, 2021
kinda hard, actually. i shouldve known where mlk died im ashamed of myself
bigbob123
+1
Level 79
Dec 9, 2021
i would like to thank "the irishman" for my jimmy hoffa knowledge. i'd always heard about him, and there were all those bloomsbury cartoons i read as a kid which i never understood that were always mentioning him, but i had no concept of who he was til the irishman.

edit: i realized i combined two comic strips into one, "doonesbury" by garry trudeau and "bloom county" by berkeley breathed. i never could tell them apart as a kid anyway

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