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Great Lakes Quiz

Can you name the 5 Great Lakes of North America?
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: December 6, 2015
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First submittedDecember 6, 2015
Times taken39,900
Average score80.0%
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Lake
Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior
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Level 76
Dec 6, 2015
Needs less time :)
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Level 65
Dec 6, 2015
These are all fast typing quizzes. Anybody get it in 4 seconds or less?
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Level 59
Mar 22, 2016
Yep, I had :56 remaining. Helps that I'm a born and bred Michigander.
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Level 55
Mar 22, 2016
Easily
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Level 58
Feb 9, 2017
I got it in 19 seconds but only because I typoed Michigan and continued on with Erie before realizing the first one didn't take. Had to erase 'em and start the two over.
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Level 72
Jun 13, 2021
Got it in 2 seconds
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Level 44
May 2, 2022
Remember the acronym HOMES and you got this in under seconds.
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Level 75
May 2, 2022
eight seconds, but I was eating a donut.
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Level 63
Oct 17, 2023
3 seconds
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Level 77
Dec 6, 2015
30 seconds would be plenty.
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Level 76
Dec 7, 2015
or 'yellow box option' since there's only 5 answers
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Level 72
Mar 22, 2016
yellow box doesn't make sense for a "name all the..." quiz. it only works when you have clues or some way of identifying which one is which.
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Level ∞
Dec 7, 2015
Not every quiz has to be hard.
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Level 71
Mar 22, 2016
knowledge is not dependant on typing speed, there are plenty of sites on the web for people to speed-type. Jet punk quizzes are about knowledge and learning. it is pathetic to see all the people that base their abilities on how fast they can type.
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Level 92
Dec 7, 2015
Did anyone else find it jarring when the blue turned green, and not the yellow. Yes, I know it's obvious why, just very different from other map quizzes.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2016
Yeah.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2016
There is a tiny area that never turns green.
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Level 88
Mar 22, 2016
That tiny blue area is Lake St. Clair, not one of (or part of one of) the great lakes.
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Level 67
May 2, 2022
I guess that Lake Michigan does turn slightly green on Saint Patrick’s Day.
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Level 61
May 2, 2022
Nope. The Chicago River's flow has been reversed for decades, so raw sewage doesn't flow into the lake anymore.
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Level 31
Dec 16, 2015
I spent way too long trying to spell Erie. I was like "eerie, eiree...?"
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Level 61
Mar 22, 2016
what about lake ohio?
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Level 66
Oct 20, 2018
Erie
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2016
I finished with 0:54, only because I'm a slow typist. It's a shame that actually challenging quizzes are being snubbed from the front page by these extremely easy 5-second quizzes.
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Level 65
Mar 29, 2016
What about this quiz
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Level 62
Mar 22, 2016
I hate these tiny American-centric quizzes. Because so many people get 100%, you can get 0 points for only missing one, which is pretty good for a non-American (or non-Canadian in this case).
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Level 81
Jul 29, 2016
I'm hoping that you meant 'American' as 'North American', since all but one of these lakes is partly in Canada.

Jetpunk is an American website, so some US (or North American) bias is to be expected, I think.

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Level 84
Jun 14, 2017
The pleasure of JetPunk is finding out how much you know, and learning things you didn't. If you're so obsessed with what score you wind up with, just cheat. Problem/angst solved.
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Level 11
Mar 28, 2016
I'm a slow typer got all had 19 secs left
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Level 39
Apr 3, 2016
Being an Aussie and thus having pretty well nothing to do with the lakes, my guiding light is remembering the lyrics to "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Pleased to say that it worked!
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Level 84
Jun 14, 2017
Please accept Veronica.
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Level 76
Mar 10, 2018
Scroll mode, please?
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Level ∞
Mar 10, 2018
Done
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Level 12
Apr 30, 2018
I usually do this quiz by the order in which the glaciers receded and in accordance to which minerals supported life concurrent to the sediments which can be found in striation on each lake bed indicicative to the resulting fossils found in modern day archiological discoveries. . . . Naw, I'm just chewing your gum. I paid attention in geography and spat it back out. Big pat on the back for me. Nerds, the lot of youse.
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Level 61
Aug 4, 2018
Easy peasy when you live smack between three of them!
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Level 65
Feb 16, 2019
Easy as pie,0:49 left.
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Level 65
Feb 16, 2019
oops, mean 0:50
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Level 78
Nov 12, 2019
Small Men Hate Eating Oranges, never failed me!
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Level 55
May 19, 2020
You can also use HOMES:

Huron

Ontario

Michigan

Erie

Superior

That's how I remember it!

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Level 54
May 2, 2022
If you need an acronym to remember 5 easy words, you've got dementia.
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Level 78
Sep 27, 2023
A Cunning Rhetoric Or Name You Make
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Level 76
Feb 25, 2024
@MalyJacus - Yes, yes, we're all very impressed with how smart and witty you are.
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Level 53
Jan 15, 2020
only missed lake huron, darn it
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Level 28
Apr 14, 2020
Easy just remember the acronym HOMES.
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Level 29
Sep 19, 2020
Oh my lord! I always thought it was Eire as in Ireland. My bad
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Level 16
Nov 18, 2020
I got it in 8 seconds
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Level 64
Nov 19, 2020
Raised in Michigan and got it in 3 seconds on 2nd try

I can just type really fast; I've got under 5 minutes on Countries of the World

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Level 67
Apr 5, 2021
Poor lake St Clair :(
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Level 83
May 2, 2022
the poor little kid that's left out :(
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Level 67
Jul 6, 2021
I misread this as a great lakes states quiz which I was convinced of after my first guess of Michigan. Took me about another 30 seconds of confusion before I realized.
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Level 38
Jan 11, 2022
Lake St. Claire: 👀
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Level 47
Apr 25, 2022
11 seconds
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Level 89
May 2, 2022
My fastest is 6 seconds. Don't think I need to beat that.
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Level 66
May 2, 2022
I thought Champlain was the fifth instead of Erie lol
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Level 61
May 2, 2022
I'm really surprised no one has said this yet, but Michigan and Huron are scientifically one lake. They have the same surface level and are connected by the ~5 mi wide Mackinac Strait.
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Level 92
May 2, 2022
Yeah, and Europe and Asia are scientifically one continent. However, for most use cases it's worth considering them as separate bodies.
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Level 51
May 4, 2022
Weird that Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake exist with the names they do and yet 5 lakes without the "great" in their name are called "Great Lakes." Even weirder when they are both bigger than Ontario and Erie. I guess that just comes down to geographical grouping.
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Level 47
May 5, 2022
5 seconds. There should be one with every lake in the US or perhaps the entire world with all the lakes with Great in them.