Statistics for State Etymology #1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
From a Native American tribe whose people were called "Albaamaha"	Alabama	98%
From the Choctaw phrase "Okla humma", meaning "red people"	Oklahoma	98%
Named in honour of the first President of the United States	Washington	98%
French writers called its namesake river "Ouisconsin"	Wisconsin	98%
From the Shoshoni Indian exclamation "Ee-dah-how"	Idaho	97%
Named after the Kansa Native American tribe	Kansas	96%
From the Ojibwe word "misi-ziibi", meaning "Great River"	Mississippi	96%
From the Anglo-Norman surname "de La Warr"	Delaware	95%
Believed to be named after Queen Calafia, ruler of the fictional Black Amazons	California	93%
Named in honour of King George II	Georgia	92%
Named after two Sioux Native American tribes, one being Lakota	North Dakota/South Dakota	92%
From the Otoe words for flat water: "Ñí Brásge"	Nebraska	90%
Spanish for "mountain"	Montana	88%
From the french words for "Green Mountains"	Vermont	85%
Named in honour of King Charles I	North Carolina/South Carolina	71%
Spanish for "ruddy", referring to its namesake river's silt from the mountains	Colorado	68%