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#1
12-02-2003, 09:40 PM
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Naming the States, I seem to have ended up with too many. Where have I gone wrong?
There are 50 states right? Tonight, after watching friends (where ross was naming all the states) we decided to have a go. We've managed to end up with 51. So which of the following is not a state? (bear in mind I am not American, and shouldn't be strung up for making this mistake)
Alabama Alaska Albuquerque Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Columbia Conneticut Delaware East Virginia Florida Georgia Hawaii Illinois Indianna Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisianna Maine Maryland Massechusets Michigan Minesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New England New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pensylvania Philadelphia Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennesee Texas Utah Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Witcheta Wyoming 
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#4
12-02-2003, 09:50 PM
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THe Following are NOT states:
Albuquerque Columbia New England Philadelphia Witcheta Really what are they teaching kids these days? New england covers like 6 states, and Columbia is another country 
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#5
12-02-2003, 09:50 PM
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Oops... I only glanced at the list when I wrote that. Wichita is a city in Kansas, Columbia is actually the District of Columbia and isn't a state. Montana is missing, Albequerque is a city in New Mexico and it's West Virgininia. All in all, I am amazed at how many you got considering how abysmal I would do trying to trying to name the (?) counties(?) in your country. Damn your good.
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#6
12-02-2003, 09:51 PM
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The actual list:
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
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#7
12-02-2003, 09:52 PM
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From memory, no less.
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#8
12-02-2003, 09:53 PM
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No teasing here, some days I can't do as well and I'm a born here type citizen.
Columbia is actually District of Columbia, which isn't actually a state though it's where Washington, D.C. is located. East Virginia is actually just Virginia. New England is a region and not a state. It's comprised of a bunch of those East Coast states. Idaho is a state that isn't on your list. Albuquerque is a city in New Mexico.
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#9
12-02-2003, 09:53 PM
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Columbia is not a "state"; it is the "District of Columbia", ruled directly by the US federal government. I think. Also, you left out Virginia and Vermont.
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12-02-2003, 09:53 PM
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#11
12-02-2003, 09:54 PM
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These aren't states, they are cities:
Witchita Philadelphia Albuquerque New England isn't a state, but an area of the country on the eastern seaboard, north of New York. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont are all in New England. Columbia - I think you mean the District of Columbia, also not a state. East Virginia is just Virginia (no East).
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#13
12-02-2003, 09:55 PM
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Albuquerque-- city in New Mexico
Columbia-- capital of South Carolina East Virginia-- it's just Virginia New England-- this is a region including Maine, New Hampshire, and several other northeastern states Philadelphia-- city in Pennsylvia Witcheta-- city in Kansas You're missing Arkansas, New Hampshire, Vermont and Virginia
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#15
12-02-2003, 09:58 PM
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Crap, I just saw you had those. Boy my reading skills are off tonight
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#16
12-02-2003, 10:05 PM
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I myst apoligize, On a lark I tried to name all 50 states, and I got to 30 and had to look at you list Lobsang. I totaly tanked on the DC mistake. We never refer to it as anything other then Washinton DC, or DC for shot. Thats what I get for tryong to be a smart ass. Kudos to you my british friend, as you know more about here then I could ever ho[e to know about there
 Oh and so you knwo DC is between Maryland and Virgina, and the traffic sucks
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#17
12-02-2003, 10:07 PM
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Dang it, Sunspace, I was going to mention the Colombia spelling. A former acquaintance of mine who was a Spanish professor had a dilly of a story about somebody "correcting" her spelling in some paperwork that was handed out at a conference of Spanish teachers...
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#18
12-02-2003, 10:12 PM
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Alberqerque, East Viginia, New England, and Witcheta are not states either. Witchita is a city in Kansas. Alberqerque is a city in New Mexico, and East Virginia should be West Virginia. New England is a name for a group of states. I dunno which ones.
I tried myself and forgot New Jersey. hmmm...
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#19
12-02-2003, 10:17 PM
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there is a great game to test your knowledge of states and stuff at yahooligans . Just go down to 'test your knowledge'. i used to play this at work, and to get ready when my kids start studying that stuff.
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#20
12-02-2003, 10:18 PM
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Holy crap! That was fast!
Thanks guys. On looking up I see I am missing at least New Hampshire (never would have guessed that one) and Vermont (nor that one). Looking up further, to Airman Door's post I also missed Idaho, Montanna and Virginia (assumed it was two states, east and west) Funnily enough I would do much worse naming English Counties. Especially now that my head is swimming with US states. Off the top of my head there's Lancashire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Birmingham, Lancaster. The ones in the middle I am not sure about, and I am not sure if Devon is a county, or if Cornwall is a county, or if one is inside the other etc..
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#23
12-02-2003, 10:52 PM
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#24
12-02-2003, 11:22 PM
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You guys forgot the other states:
Confusion Intoxication Denial Arousal Sheer Panic Antici- (wait for it) pation Disrepair you know, the ones we really live in.
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#27
12-02-2003, 11:57 PM
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And now, the fifty provinces of Spain, <torch song trilogy>which I did completely from memory...</torch>
Álava Albacete Alicante Almería Asturias Ávila Badajoz Balears Barcelona Burgos Cáceres Cádiz Cantabria Castellón Ciudad Real Córdoba A Coruña Cuenca Girona Granada Guadalajara Guipúzcoa Huelva Huesca Jaén León Lleida Lugo Madrid Málaga Murcia Navarra Ourense Palencia Las Palmas Pontevedra La Rioja Salamanca Santa Cruz de Tenerife Segovia Sevilla Soria Tarragona Teruel Toledo Valencia Valladolid Vizcaya Zamora Zaragoza (checks) And I got them all right!
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#28
12-03-2003, 12:09 AM
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Alright, Lobsang, that was very impressive!
But, I just have to wonder, why Wichita? I mean, I can understand using a big city name as a state (there are a couple that are both), but Wichita? Why, for the love of god. Please don't tell me that Wichita is considered some sort of American Cultural Mecca!
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#30
12-03-2003, 12:25 AM
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Bravo, matt_mcl!
:: claps :: I'd say something about naming the provinces and territories of Canada, but there are only 13 of them, so it's not nearly as impressive. OTOH, for impressiveness, there's always naming the states of India, Mexico, or Brazil, and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (and I have no idea what they're called).
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#31
12-03-2003, 01:20 AM
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Hm. 51 seems right though. You know, with Canada being a new addition and all, people just forget about it...
I am, of course, JOKING!!
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#32
12-03-2003, 05:52 AM
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Tally ho! tally ho! tally ho!
Are we on our way to Nottingham? To Brittingham, to Buckingham? Or any hammy hamlet by the sea? No! And now we're on our way to Devonshire To Lancashire to Worcestershire The jolly old road that goes to Plymouth Ho! We're merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Merrily on our way To nowhere in particular We're merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Merrily on our way Though the roads are perpendicular We're always in a hurry We have no time to stall We've got to be there! Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall County of London Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire
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#33
12-03-2003, 06:01 AM
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*applause*
Okay, these lists are shorter, but for completeness' sake: Autonomous communities of Spain: Andalusia (Seville) Aragon (Zaragoza) Asturias (Oviedo) Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca) Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz) Canary Islands (Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas) Cantabria (Santander) Castile-La Mancha (Toledo) Castile-Leon (Valladolid) Catalonia (Barcelona) Extremadura (Mérida) Galicia (Santiago de Compostela) Madrid (Madrid) Murcia (Murcia) Navarre (Pamplona) La Rioja (Logroño) Valencia (Valencia) Provinces and territories of Canada, in order of joining Confederation (just to make it more challenging): New Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario Quebec (original four) Manitoba Northwest Territories British Columbia Prince Edward Island Yukon Alberta Saskatchewan Newfoundland and Labrador Nunavut
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#34
12-03-2003, 06:04 AM
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#37
12-03-2003, 06:40 AM
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Yes, a good effort ShibbOleth, but I'm sorry to report that Huntingdonshire and Middlesex don't officially exist any more.
Also, if you're going to include West Midlands you'd have to add the other metropolitan counties – Avon, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cleveland, Tyne & Wear and Humberside. Yorkshire is divided into South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire; Sussex is divided into East and West; Herefordshire and Worcestershire are combined into "Hereford and Worcester" these days. Personally I can only manage 49 US states every time I try to list them from memory, and for some reason it's a different 49 every time.
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#38
12-03-2003, 06:57 AM
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#39
12-03-2003, 07:41 AM
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And now, something completely different... the twenty Italian regions! In Italian!
Valle d'Aosta Piemonte Lombardia Veneto Trentino-Alto Adige Friuli-Venezia Giulia Liguria Emilia-Romagna Toscana Umbria Marche Lazio Abruzzi Molise Campania Puglia Basilicata Calabria Sicilia Sardegna Well, you did put in English shires, Canadian provinces and American states, right?
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#40
12-03-2003, 07:42 AM
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I did a pub quiz on my own the other entirely because one of the questions was a map of the US and you had to name the states and get them in the right order.
In 15 minutes or so I named 45 of them and got 24 in the right place. Next best score was 7. I won enough money to make it a free night out I did one a long time ago for the English counties and scored 3 (Cornwall, Devon and Kent)
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#41
12-03-2003, 07:52 AM
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#43
12-03-2003, 09:06 AM
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What about Wales, Scotland and NI - are we not part of the UK?
as far as I can remember, the last time I was in Wales the list was (they keep changing them you see): Anglesey Breconshire Caernarvonshire Cardiganshire Camarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire Glamorgan Merionethshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire Radnorshire would struggle with Scotland and NI though (and England thinking about it)
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#44
12-03-2003, 09:42 AM
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#45
12-03-2003, 09:43 AM
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"A Moment In Time," a radio program heard on NPR and produced by a professor at the University of Richmond, here in myfaircity, just covered the split between Virginia and "that other place."
The counties that now make up "that other place" were generally settled by Scotch-Irish, Welsch, and German immigrants, who, for a variety of reasons, had fewer, if any, slaves. The residents felt shortchanged by the government here in myfaircity and held a long simmering animus toward their Tidewater brothers. In 1861 (IIRC) representatives from "that other place" held a constitutional convention and elected to separate themselves from the Commonwealth. Lincoln was struck between a rock and a hard place, as the Constitution required that any new states created from old states had to have an affirmative vote of the legislature from the parent state. Knowing that the creation of WVA couldn't be done according to the tenants of the Constitution, Lincoln said "Well, VA is acting extra-Constitutionally in thining it can leave the Union, I'll act extra-Constitutionally and sign the law creating West Virginia." And we continue to thank him to this day.
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#46
12-03-2003, 12:36 PM
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Maybe we should choose any US state the size of England or larger, and attempt to name it's counties.
Here's an off the top of my head attempt to name some/most/all the German states: Westphalia Hessen Bayern Berlin Niedersachsen Sachsen Baden-Württemberg Bremen Hamburg Thuringia Brandenburg I know there's a few missing there (there's another Saxony that I'm drawing a blank on...)
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#49
12-03-2003, 03:55 PM
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plnnr -- My wife and I visited "that other place" on vacation some years back, and heard an extra chapter to the history you gave: The non-slaveholding counties west of the Appalachian mountains economically relied on rail and road routes over the mountains. Though the residents of the counties in that area (Pendleton, Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson?) sympathized with the Confederacy, and had no desire to secede from Virginia, they were controlled by the Union, and Lincoln made them part of the package to ensure the new state's viability. Does that jibe with what you know?
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#50
12-03-2003, 04:10 PM
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