Statistics for U.S. States by Namesake or Name Meaning

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Named For	Answer	% Correct
first American president	Washington	97%
William Penn	Pennsylvania	92%
the Kansa tribe	Kansas	91%
"land of Maria" in English	Maryland	89%
"land of the Indians"	Indiana	88%
King Louis XIV	Louisiana	86%
King George II	Georgia	84%
"mountain" in Spanish	Montana	79%
Queen Elizabeth I	Virginia	70%
the Ioway people	Iowa	64%
"homeland" in Proto-Polynesian	Hawaii	61%
"dry land" in Spanish	Arizona	60%
"green mountains" in French	Vermont	60%
"flowery land" in Spanish	Florida	59%
northern English city	New York	57%
"flat water" in Omaha	Nebraska	55%
country to the south	New Mexico	54%
"people of the mountains" in Ute	Utah	53%
"the great land" in Aleut	Alaska	48%
"great river" in Ojibwe	Mississippi	45%
"ruddy color" in Spanish	Colorado	42%
"snow-covered" in Spanish	Nevada	41%
island off Normandy	New Jersey	40%
southern English county	New Hampshire	37%
King Charles I	the Carolinas	37%
"large lake" in Ojibwe	Michigan	34%
"great river" in Iroquois	Ohio	23%
Tipi Sapa clan of the Sioux Nation	the Dakotas	22%
"clouded water" in Dakota	Minnesota	19%
"red people" in Choctaw	Oklahoma	14%
governor of Virginia	Delaware	11%
a Cherokee village	Tennessee	10%
"long tidal river" in Algonquian	Connecticut	6%
"those with canoes" in Sioux/Illini	Missouri	6%
"friends" in Caddo	Texas	6%
name for the locals in Muskogean	Alabama	5%
a valley in Pennsylvania	Wyoming	5%
"downriver people" in Quapaw	Arkansas	4%
"by the large hill"	Massachusetts	3%