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Statistics for States Of The South USA (With Hints)
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General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 20 times
- The average score is 15 of 17
Answer Stats
| Answer | A little hint | % Correct | |
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| Florida | A Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, called this area (in Spanish!) 'The Land of Flowers'. | 100%
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| Georgia | This was the last of the 13 original colonies to be established. It was named for the king, George II. | 95%
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| Maryland | This state is named after King Charles I's wife, Henrietta Maria. | 95%
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| North Carolina | You'd think this state was named after a woman, but the name actually relates to the Latin version of Charles (the First, that is). It is bordered on its south by the state mentioned below. | 95%
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| South Carolina | You'd think this state was named after a woman, but the name actually relates to the Latin version of Charles (the First, that is). It is bordered on its north by the state mentioned above. | 95%
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| East South Central | Alabama | One group of the indigenous people living here referred to themselves as 'Alabaamaha'. | 89%
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| West South Central | Arkansas | In the Algonquian language, the Quapaw people here were called 'Akansa'. | 89%
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| Kentucky | The Iroquoian name for this region meant 'on the prairie' or 'meadow' ('kenhtà:ke' in the Mohawk language). | 89%
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| Tennessee | Spanish explorer Juan Pardo recorded passing through an American Indian village called 'Tanasqui' in 1567. | 89%
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| Texas | In the Caddo language (now critically endangered, with only 25 native speakers), 'taysha' means 'friends'. | 89%
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| Virginia | I always believed this state was named after the unmarried Elizabeth I, but there's also the suggestion that it could have been after a Secotan chief called Wingina. But he resisted the European encroachment. So who knows... | 89%
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| Louisiana | This state was named after the French king who reigned from 1643 to 1715. Its suffix, 'ana', means 'relating to'. | 84%
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| Mississippi | European settlers named the state after the river on its western boundary: 'misi-ziibi' ('great river') in the Ojibwe language. | 84%
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| Oklahoma | The name of this state comes from a Choctaw phrase meaning 'red people': 'okla humma'. | 84%
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| West Virginia | This state lies to the west of the state mentioned two clues above. | 84%
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| South Atlantic | Delaware | Thomas West, the 3rd Baron De La Warr, was the ruling governor nearby when Europeans named the large river here. | 79%
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| Washington / District of Columbia | This isn't a state and it's not in any state. It's the capital and in part named after the first president of the United States. The other part of its name is a feminine version of 'Columbus' (and how the US was poetically known). | 68%
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