Statistics for U.S. States by Wikipedia Descriptions #1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
If it were a country, it would be the fifth-largest economy in the world	California	95%
Ponce de León spotted and landed on the peninsula on April 2, 1513	Florida	89%
Widely known as the center of the U.S. automotive industry	Michigan	89%
Spoken languages: English 69.7% Spanish 28.5% Navajo 3.5%	New Mexico	84%
The most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states, its biggest city is Newark	New Jersey	83%
The only U.S. state that lies entirely above 1,000 meters elevation	Colorado	81%
Is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, coal, and bluegrass music	Kentucky	79%
The State Constitution of 1812 gave English official status in legal proceedings, but use of French remained widespread	Louisiana	75%
McCain's running mate was Sarah Palin, the state's governor	Alaska	73%
Founded on mining and refounded on sin - beginning with prizefighting and easy divorce a century ago and later extending to gaming and prostitution	Nevada	72%
The USGS considers Mt. Rainier the most dangerous volcano in the Cascade Range	Washington	71%
The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state	Maryland	69%
Played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch	Missouri	68%
The 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union	Arizona	62%
Nickname(s): Big Sky Country, The Treasure State	Montana	60%
George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, grew up in Greenwich	Connecticut	55%
The first presidential caucus in the country	Iowa	55%
Abolitionists John Brown and Sojourner Truth lived in Springfield and Northampton, respectively	Massachusetts	42%
Major land runs, including the Land Run of 1889, were held for settlers where certain territories were opened to settlement starting at a precise time	Oklahoma	39%
Hydraulic fracturing technologies enabled mining companies to extract huge amounts of oil from the Bakken shale rock formation	North Dakota	37%