Can You Name All 50 States in 10 Minutes
 

I came across this fun site. 50 States

My time left was 8:47. I do have an advantage over most adults. I am not only a teacher, but a 5th grade teacher (you know, the year you have to learn the 50 states). I used my ABC order song to help me complete this pretty quickly. I did somehow skip the verse with the "I"s and had to go back and think about those a moment.

Have fun!

the spelling killed me.

I did much better than I expected. With 6:30 left, I had 44. By 4:00 left, I had 47. I ended up with 49, but it turned out I had doubled up on deleware, so 48. I missed Maryland and Missouri. So many damned M's!

Wow. Couldn't do it. Sat here for 10 minutes and I missed SEVEN. :blush: I don't want to go on that show and admit I'm not smarter than a fifth grader.

Missed Iowa and Minnesota and one other "M" state

5 minutes, 35 seconds.

About 4 minutes to get the first 49 and then 90 seconds of mental agony trying to realize I missed Connecticut.

OK, time me.

I missed Illinois and Indiana. Bah!

Finished!

Yes! 10 minutes!


Wait, what was I supposed to be doing again?

I went over to Perezhilton.com and got lost in the glamour of Hollywood.

As a teacher to a fifth-grader, I know better than to go on that show. I'd get my ass kicked.:rolleyes:

I missed Wyoming - but my spelling was even worse

I'm not even going to try. It would take me way longer than ten minutes.

What scares me is if I ever get pulled over {not that I would but if I ever did....} and they ask me to recite the alphabet backwards...no way. Do they even really ask this? I think we saw it on a movie or something and Hubster and I were like 'Who can really do this???'

And, hell, I probably couldn't even walk a straight line.

Stupid Delaware.
:D

LOL, I know them all - only because of the ABC states song. I just wonder how quickly I could type them.

here goes!

Haha! 5:15 - screwed up with my New ____s. Admittedly, three glasses of wine haven't helped...

Dammit, stupid F-ing east coast podunk states. Stupid norther border frontiersman middle-of-nowhere states.

I had all but 13 done in the first 4 minutes. Had all but 7 in the first 7 minutes.

You forgot: Delaware, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Wyoming,

No. :rolleyes:

...but I can name all of Australia's 6 states and 2 territories in 15 seconds.

That's something I can do as fast as I can say it forward. When my daughter was a baby, I would lay her down for bed after feeding her in the middle of the night and if I could get through saying the alphabet backwards, I felt comfortable enough to snooze away. But if she cried out before that, I would tend to her and then start over. Oddly enough, my daughter can now also recite the alphabet backwards.

The key is to do it in 3's. You know the first zyx, then wvu, tsr, qpo etc.

You find that there are groups of letters that come naturally and that makes it easier. Then all of a sudden you're at fedcba and ta-da - you know the alphabet backwards.

Just one of my many talents! :cheers: :p

I missed Illinois, North Carolina, Oklahoma. I had the States song going though my head, but it quit about 3/4 of the way though.

I can't believe I missed Rhode Island..........:blush:

I got typed them all with 7:49 left. And in alphabetical order! Anybody who ever learned the "50 Nifty United States" song gets to cheat on this one.

(Of course, I guess it's not really cheating since, in essence, we did learn and remember them when we were young. But still.)

Fifty nifty United States from thirteen original colonies! Shout 'em, spout 'em, tell all about 'em, one by one...

That's the one I remember, mostly...

I've been to every state but five on various road trips so for me it wasn't so much an exercise in remembering the states as remembering the trips.

Olympic soccer, 1992 - Washington, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illionois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut (which I forgot), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Pennsylvania again, Ohio, Indiana again, Illinois again, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington again.

Retrieve Lani, 1998 - Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington

6-week Sabbatical, 2004 - California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California.

Walt's 100th birthday in Marceline, 2001

etc....


It's all in the mnemonics.

I do it in clusters, geographically. I get jumbled in the middle sometimes, but we've played this on road trips to pass time. Name all the states, then find license plates from them.

I got all of them in 5:50, wish there were an "I'm done" button though.

Bloody Arkansas!!!


(actually, at 4:06 elapsed, I had named 47. It took me till the two minute mark to realize Alaska and Hawaii were never going to appear on my mental map of the "lower 48" that I kept scanning in my head. Turns out Arkansas' not there in my head ... and maybe that's a good thing.)

I was actually doing pretty well- I had 4 states to go at 4:30 mins, but I got hung up on spelling Massachusetts and then decided a glass of wine was a more attractive alternative.

No, I can't.

What is this song some of you are talking about? I've never heard of it.

Me neither. I was feeling I got a substandard 5th grade education.

I sucked at this, I can't spell anything. If you could use the postal abreviations I would have rocked.

I like the Animaniacs song. That's got the states and the capitals. :D

So where would one find these songs, I have a 4th grader ;)

Edited to add: Never mind, there's quite a list if you do a search for 50 states in iTunes. I just don't know which ones of these you're talking about

I learned it in elementary school. I went to school here locally in southern california. Here's a link to the lyrics. I'm not sure if it was standard issue for all california schools or not.

Considering that I'm Canadian, I'd say 48/50 is a really good score.

I'm still kicking myself over missing Arkansas and Colorado, though. :blush:

Is this it? If so, how do I manage to save it to play on the iPod in the van for the kids?

That's the one. I'm not sure how to save it

To save it, right click on the link in your post and select save as, that should save the .wav file, then in iTunes, select File->Add File to Library, and point to the file you just saved.

Okay, this is just sad. I tried it again. In 4 minutes I came up with 49. Then I blanked for 2 minutes before I came up with Indiana. And then I discovered that I had doubled up on Alabama and missed Nebraska. Grrrrrr.

Thanks! The kids will be thrilled! ;)

3 minutes exactly and also in alphabetical order.

Yes! The Fifty Nifty United States song. Ah, 6th grade did teach me something after all.

Fifty, nifty stars in the flag that billows so beautifully in the breeze...

That's how I did it.

The lyrics are a little different in the final verse, but that is the one we sang for our assembly last year. Careful, it will drive you insane after awhile.

That is the song Brigitte, but as far as I know, it is not Schoolhouse Rock.

I started from the West and headed east,
missed Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio.

But I can list all seven Dwarfs in 7 seconds:
Happy Sleepy Sneezy Bashful Grumpy Dopey Doc

No.

I only missed Kansas. The irritating thing is I got Arkansas and didn't write down Kansas. How can you get Arkansas and not Kansas????

See? Your obsession with Clinton paid off!;)

But his love for Bob Dole didn't.

Oh sniggity snaps!

I was pissed off that I couldn't get all 50, so I went back and did it again. Had 49 with about 3-1/2 minutes to go and it took me until about 20 seconds left to remember Mississippi.

Mississippi? How the heck could I forget that state?

Got 'em all with 6:04 left. Stupid Illinois took about a minute.

Wow!! I am impressed!! :snap:

Okay click here for a game called "Can You Pass the 3rd Grade?" where you have a map of the continental states and you have to match their names to their state shapes. It's pretty fun.
:)

The US States and their capitols.
 

And then there's Wakko's America sung to the tune "Turkey in the Straw":

Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho.

Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know.

Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
You've got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.

Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul.

Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in Nebraska
And it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.

Here's Honolulu; Hawaii's a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin' and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.

Salem in Oregon; from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa's got Des Moines
Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.

That's all the capitals there are!

And here is the video of the Animaniacs' episode it's from.
:)

I mentioned it above, but thanks for linking to the YouTube video. :)

It's hard to place some of the smaller NE states properly. I had a particularly hard time with Delaware. I usually do fairly well with identifying the states ny shape/location. The two that I always confuse are Vermont and New Hampshire - I can never remember which is which.

Vermont looks like a "V" (narrow bottom, wide top). Some of my students also say New Hampshire looks like a lower case "n", but that is a little more of a stretch.

My lil' bro always watched Animaniacs and he would sing that song endlessly. Thanks GC!

OK, I failed the test but only because I can't click and drag fast enough with this stupid touchpad mouse. I just took a bath so my fingers are all pruney and won't slide easily. I'm gonna do it again later.

Visually placing them is easier and I just need to remember three things:

1. Maine is the only state with one adjacent state and it is New Hampshire.
2. Connecticut is a suburb of New York.
3. People in Rhode Island sound more like people from Boston.

So that keeps Vermont and New Hampshire correctly sorted and Connecticut and Rhode Island sorted. This makes the placement of the also small Delaware easy by exclusion.

Queensland, Victoria, ummmm, Sascatchewan, errrrr, New Zeland.....ummm, Outback Steak House...

Damnit, 5 minutes already, I better pick up the pace!

Doing well, GD... don't forget Forsters and Barbie....

With 7:20 to go I had all but 2.

With 10 seconds to go I finally remembered Nevada(yeah, I know)

I forgot about Massachusetts:blush:

Now lets see if I can do Australia....

Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Quensland, Western, Northern...am I forgetting any?

Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane, Perth, and Darwin...I think.

No wonder foriegners are better at geography....they don't have to spend so much time learning 50 states and capitols;)

States: Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia.

Territories: Northern Territory & Australian Capital Territory.

:D

South Australia...that's the one I was forgetting.

Adlelaide?

I’ve always wondered why it’s New South Wales, not just New Wales. Why just South Wales? Didn’t they like the rest of the country?

No, Adelaide :p


JW: Not sure, I think New South Wales just had a better ring to it :blush:

Is Portland in that State?

Sure Is :snap:

There are only 2 states that matter - Conscious, Unconscious...

But Nova Cambria would have sounded cool too.

Thanks for the link...that's awesome. "The Town that built Sydney"