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Which state is the birthplace of Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg?
Massachusetts
Which state was Jimmy Carter born in?
Georgia
Which state shares its name with a country in Asia?
Georgia
Which state is home to the Mall of America?
Minnesota
What is the last state, alphabetically?
Wyoming
The state of Kansas has been called "flatter than a pancake", but according to researchers it is only the 7th flattest state. Which state is the flattest?
Florida
Which state plays hosts to the Masters golf tournament each April?
Georgia
What is known as the "Cornhusker State"?
Nebraska
Which state was visited by explorer Vitus Bering in 1741?
Alaska
Which state is home to Stanford University?
California
Which state did Ray Charles famously sing about?
Georgia
Which state can be spelled without using any of the letters in "mackerel"?
Ohio
In which state would you find the cities of Natchez and Biloxi?
Mississippi
Which state has the lowest population?
Wyoming
Which state produces the most crude oil?
Texas
Which state's capital was founded by the Spanish in 1610?
New Mexico
What is the biggest state by land area?
Alaska
What is the only state that has a Z in its name?
Arizona
Which state is most strongly associated with Bourbon whiskey?
Kentucky
Which state is divided into parishes instead of counties?
Although it can be fun to take the quiz a few times with different questions, I'd rather it be a series of non-random quizzes so there's more opportunity to earn points.
Despite being a Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders is actually from New York. You could rephrase the question to be like the Mitt Romney question in order to keep the answer the same.
Kansas was also a best-selling band ("Dust in the Wind") whose name was a state, young'un! ~~•~~ Also, I could have *sworn* I typed in "Alabama" (after I realized Kansas was getting no love), and it wasn't working. It could have been my mistake, but would you double check? :-}
The ultra pedantic view of Alaska having the most eastern point is a typically American smarty pants bit of b.s. when it's included in every reference source to the point of excluding the common sense most western point. It is quite an expedition to find out where is the last point you would wind up if travelling in a westward direction in the Aleutian Islands. All reference materials act as if suddenly a person would turn around and start travelling east at the thoroughly imaginary, man made 180° line. Common sense says that little ledge off Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point and the westernmost is the first point to be reached going east from Russia.
So you missed that one? I would have gotten it. Worst comment I've seen all day. If you don't know something you don't know something. "Common sense" doesn't make something right. "Common sense" tells most people that if you dangle two strips of paper in parallel next to each other and blow air between them they will move outward. But try it and see what happens. Don't whine to us about the laws of physics being typical pedantic American smarty pants BS when it's not what you expected, though.
I'm from Maine. I've been hearing that revisionist Antimeridian reasoning since someone pulled it out of their backsides a couple of decades ago. Maine is still the easternmost to any sense of logic.
As somebody who's done a lot of navigating for a living, claiming that Amatignak Island's 179°8′55″W is the westernmost point, only a few nautical miles EAST of Semisopochnoi Island's 179°46′23″E longitudinal mark is total horse hockey.
I would still go west from there to get to Attu Island at 172°54'34"E, not around the globe. Coincidentally, from West Quoddy Head (ironic name I know) in Maine I would never in a million years set an easterly course to get to Semisopochnoi, the "easternmost" point.
Maybe in a million years, they'll change the totally arbitrary, man-made divide of East / West to Missouri.
I've been to Quoddy Head, been to Attu. I've been around the globe many times, but never eastbound with a destination of Alaska from Maine.
You can't get any clearer than knowing that somewhere that's 179E is very easterly, and somewhere that's 179W is very westerly. If you do a lot of navigating for a living that should be plainer to you than it is more most quizzers.
I think the question needs to be more specific. If you don't specify the reference point, then Maine should also be an acceptable answer. Trick questions really just serve to make people feel stupid, and to make others feel superior because they recognize the "trick". I didn't have this question when I took the quiz, but I would have gotten it wrong as well. I would have assumed that the reference was the center of the US. Since the reference point was not clarified, all you can do is assume.
Of course you're right, someone. Calling Alaska the easternmost point of the US isn't clever - it just shows that the person doesn't know the difference between the east, which is a cardinal direction that's always relative and thus changes according to the topic at hand, and the "eastern hemisphere".
Obviously, to any sane person, Maine is the easternmost US state.
So you got it wrong, too? It's not clever. It's factually correct. Do "sane" people believe that New Caledonia is the Westernmost territory of France, because you can get there going in a Westwardly direction from Paris? And if you leave from French Guiana going west you'd get to it sooner than if you left from Cannes going east. Are you really going to try to insist that this is the only sane and correct way to think of New Caledonia? Or are you going to use double standards as usual to suit your own biases while hurling unfounded insults at those who are more correct but disagree with you?
Iowa holds the first caucus. New Hampshire holds the first primary. The caucus functions a little differently than the primary in terms of voting process, although both serve the same purpose. The difference isn't that significant, functionally speaking, but New Hampshire makes a really big deal out of always having the first primary. It's even written into New Hampshire law that the primary has to be a week before any other state primary.
"What state had a referendum in 2010 to consider dropping the words "and Providence Plantations" from its official name, but decided to keep them?" This question should be altered because the name was recently changed.
"What state can be spelled without any letters in the word 'mackerel'?" You put the answer as Ohio, which is true, but Idaho and Iowa are also correct.
As somebody who's done a lot of navigating for a living, claiming that Amatignak Island's 179°8′55″W is the westernmost point, only a few nautical miles EAST of Semisopochnoi Island's 179°46′23″E longitudinal mark is total horse hockey.
I would still go west from there to get to Attu Island at 172°54'34"E, not around the globe. Coincidentally, from West Quoddy Head (ironic name I know) in Maine I would never in a million years set an easterly course to get to Semisopochnoi, the "easternmost" point.
Maybe in a million years, they'll change the totally arbitrary, man-made divide of East / West to Missouri.
I've been to Quoddy Head, been to Attu. I've been around the globe many times, but never eastbound with a destination of Alaska from Maine.
Can't get any clearer than that.
Obviously, to any sane person, Maine is the easternmost US state.
You're hypocrisy is legendary my good man, I bow to you
Why Kansas doesn't count?
2) What is the largest state east of the Mississippi (by land area)?
It's Michigan. Not Georgia.
2) Georgia: 57,513 square miles
Michigan: 56,538 square miles (source: USAToday)