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Category Elimination - U.S. States #2
In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
Yeah the Census Regions can be a little odd. This is why I chose to say "not in the Northeast Region" as opposed to "in the South Region", because Maryland is definitely not south.
Maryland is certainly not northeast. I would go with mid-Atlantic, but being south of the Mason-Dixon line, I would classify it as a southern state before I would call it northeast.
virginia, maryland, delaware, dc, and maybe west virginia are definitely all outliers of being northern or southern. i would personally place them in the south but they definitely deserve their own region.
Mid-Atlantic would be the most accurate word, and historically Maryland has been associated with the South as it was a slave (technically border) state, but I'd say today Maryland (and indeed all of the Mid-Atlantic other then Virginia maybe) is culturally part of the North-East.
me too. Ironically I had typed Maryland for the first 3 answers, then tried to guess other states with high population density as I assumed Maryland was in the northeast region.
I feel like if you get the answer from the first clue, it should fill in all of them.
Question on the population density-- according to 2015 data, no state is over 500/km2. New Jersey's the highest at 470. Did you mean per square mile? The count holds if you change to over 200 km2.
While I did eventually get it - I do have to gripe a tad about the "coastal" clue. The final answer of that section does indeed have a coast - albeit a lake one. Perhaps changing the definition to "is not on the ocean coast" or something to that effect would be helpful.
Nice quiz! The Maryland as north-east or mid-atlantic was slightly confusing, but I got it. US States are better quizzes than countries because there are 196 countries and only fifty states. Consider this suggestion.
For non-Americans, the cesus regions clues are something that give little information. Maybe try to avoid them in future installments? Anyway, I learnt something out of this quiz
Yes I won't be using them after this one. The goal was to provide a way of differentiating states physically geographically, but the Census regions are too arbitrarily defined for that.
I agree. I can see that it's useful to have rigidly defined geographical zones, but it comes across as a bit of a cop-out since nobody outside the US will be aware of it at all. Great quizzes in this series though, we appreciate your hard work!
The only reason I didn't finish and get them all was because I misread "contain the letter s" as "DON'T contain the letter s." I even thought, "it has to be Illinois, right? But that has 's' in the name..." lol
I got confused by the "west" part, so, in desperation, I started typing states that within and westards from the Dakotas /Nebraska/ Kansas line. It never occoured to me that the "west" states would also be as far east as Illinois.
I feel like if you get the answer from the first clue, it should fill in all of them.
Liked the idea though, would like to see this format in something a little bit easier/general knowledge.
Great quiz though! Really enjoyed it!