# Oh My! I failed 3rd grade! (USA) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181 "2004-05-20T14:20:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/21 "2004-05-20T17:21:19Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > It’s multiple choice, not a clickable map, but: > [Capitals & Provinces](http://www.canadainfolink.ca/quiz2.htm) 75%. I think that’s quite good considering I knew literally zero of the answers. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/22 "2004-05-20T17:35:31Z")
I got 48 out of 48, too, with time to spare. > [@dwc1970](#): > > The easy way to remember which is which is that Vermont is roughly in the shape of a V. This has helped me to distinguish them more easily. That’s how I finally figured out which one was which, too. > [@](#): > > … on a Commodore 64 (showing my age)… :rolleyes: I could show my age, and admit the only ones allowed to use _the one computer_ when I was in school were the geeks. And a Commodore 64 was something they only dreamed of. And I walked uphill in the snow - both ways! ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/23 "2004-05-20T18:36:06Z")
How come it doesn’t color all of Michigan? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/24 "2004-05-20T19:08:04Z")
I got 0/48! :mad: I clicked “play”, went to the map screen, and literally 2 seconds later it told me I had failed and the short bus was coming for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/25 "2004-05-20T19:14:58Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Since when is Newfoundland called Newfoundland Labrador? Since [November 2001](http://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2001/exec/1119n11.htm), (or shortly thereafter). The new name is “Newfoundland and Labrador”. See: www.gov.nl.ca ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/26 "2004-05-20T21:15:42Z")
48/48 here, but my head hurts from it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/27 "2004-05-20T21:24:45Z")
I got 45/48 on the states…stupid because several times I thought I was picking up a state name and got the wrong one. But I guess if it had been a real test I would have gotton those wrong. I’m pretty pleased at myself for scoring 90% on the provinces/capital quiz…I’m not Canadian, nor did I ever get any sort of Canadian history in school. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/28 "2004-05-20T21:44:48Z")
I’m at work so didn’t try this quiz, but I did succesfully name all 50 states in 5 minutes without a map to look at (as featured on a quite entertaining _Friends_ episode). ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/29 "2004-05-20T22:17:54Z")
> [@wolfstu](#): > > Since [November 2001](http://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2001/exec/1119n11.htm), (or shortly thereafter). The new name is “Newfoundland and Labrador”. > > See: www.gov.nl.ca Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/30 "2004-05-20T23:43:43Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Anyone notice that it doesn’t regard the upper peninsula of Michigan as being Michigan? “X”/boing. > > 48 of 48 with room to spare. Hey, us yoopers are just happy to get on the map. Half the time the entire UP is left off, I’m not gonna start complaining about not getting colored in. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/31 "2004-05-21T00:27:23Z")
37/48, and that was only with a LOT of guessing. I suck. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/32 "2004-05-21T00:51:22Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I’m at work so didn’t try this quiz, but I did succesfully name all 50 states in 5 minutes without a map to look at (as featured on a quite entertaining _Friends_ episode). Can you do it in alpabetical order? I can, in approximately 30 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/33 "2004-05-21T01:22:50Z")
Sigh, I got 83% (9/14) on the Canada quiz. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/34 "2004-05-21T01:23:12Z")
Without guessing I knew 37 of them (I can never remember the great lakes states) but with trial and error I got all 48 before time ran out. I only got 60% on the Canada quiz, though ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/35 "2004-05-21T01:38:55Z")
48/48 but man, do I hate those little New England states. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Eyed_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/36 "2004-05-21T02:29:17Z")
48/48, I kept wanting to do click on name, then click on state, had to read through the directions again. How many of you started with the state you live in first then worked you way out? Or did the big easy recognizable states (California, Texas, Ney York, etc.)? Second time through I did it alphabetically. GES ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/37 "2004-05-21T02:44:36Z")
I got all 48 but I have to admit I guessed on a few of the midwest states (I’m a canuck though, we didn’t learn american geography until grade 7). I managed all 14 on the canadian quiz thank goodness although I will have to admit I get the capitals of Yukon and NWT mixed up so that was a little bit of a guess. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/38 "2004-05-21T03:51:38Z")
> [@Green Eyed Stranger](#): > > How many of you started with the state you live in first then worked you way out? Or did the big easy recognizable states (California, Texas, Ney York, etc.)? Second time through I did it alphabetically. I do it geographically by sections. I can create a map of the U.S. in my head pretty easily. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, … I didn’t even try the U.S. test; sorry, but it’s just not challenging at all to me. The test **dwc1970** mentioned - identify a state just by its outline - that sounded interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/39 "2004-05-21T11:23:58Z")
32 out of 48. I suck at the East Coast. I can, however, name all 50 U.S. states and their capitals, but only if I sing them to the tune of “Turkey in the Straw.” Yep. Love me some Animaniacs. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181/40 "2004-05-21T12:11:03Z")
8 right. But since I’m scottish that’s not too bad - is it? I thought I knew New England but evidently not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-i-failed-3rd-grade-usa/246181.md?page=3)