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Fabulous Facts about the Fifty States
Fabulous Facts about the Fifty States | Wilma S. Ross
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Presents maps and facts about the population, size, flower, tree, bird, history, points of interest, geography, and main products of each state.
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DebinHawaii
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Late but I had to join in this #TakeThreeThursday because I play Statele everyday & have gotten really good about knowing the shapes of the states (except for Colorado & Wyoming which when you see them one at a time look exactly the same to me.🤷🏻‍♀️)

Anyway, I blew my first attempt & missed 3 because of my fat fingers & the tiny Eastern states so I zoomed way in on my second try & got 100%! 🎉

MemoirsForMe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
Sargar114 You mean you can‘t tell the two squares apart??? lol 1mo
dabbe #bravo! I messed up with my fat fingers, too! Plus all the states that look like squares--especially the ones in the middle ... yikes! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🧡🍁♥️ 1mo
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kelli7990
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I decided to retake the 50 states quiz for #takethreethursday 4 more times.

dabbe Getting better each time! Look at how much more you're retaining! #wootwoot 💙🇺🇸🤍
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AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳🇺🇸💖🇺🇲. 1mo
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Amiable
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Fun! (Super fiddly to navigate on my phone, though.) I‘ve always been a map geek —when I was a kid, I wanted to be a cartographer once I learned what that word meant.

#TTT #TakeThreeThursday

dabbe Excellent!!! I knew you'd knock it out of the ballpark! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🧡🍁🤎 1mo
Amiable @dabbe A lot of people get tripped up by our tiny little New England states! It‘s easier when you live in said tiny states. 😀 Although sometimes I have to stare at the map and really think, “ok, which of those square states is Wyoming, again?” 1mo
kspenmoll Congratulations!!! 🎉 1mo
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BookmarkTavern Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
dabbe @Amiable Oh, yes! The square states! Too many to count! And does Nebraska go above Kansas or the other way around? Gets me every time. 🧡🍁🤎 1mo
BkClubCare @dabbe - (pssst! Just like North Dakota is above South Dakota, Nebraska is NORTH of Kansas. Does that help? The N!! For north…) 1mo
dabbe @BkClubCare Excellent mnemonic assist! Thank you! ♥️🍁🤎 1mo
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Kshakal
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My 8th graders were just doing this in social studies a few weeks ago and they made me take it! I only got 4 wrong… the small east coast states trip me up!

#ttt @dabbe

Ruthiella Me too! It‘s the little states I can‘t recognize by shape. 😂 1mo
dabbe Exactly! Me, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
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OriginalCyn620
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Not too bad! It was fun to exercise my brain for a few minutes! #ttt #takethreethursday

dabbe #wootwoot to you! The middle states and the New England tiny states get me every time! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
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kelli7990
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Here‘s my results for #takethreethursday. I took World Geography in high school. I passed World Geography and I don‘t know how I did it because it was hard. This quiz was hard because I can‘t remember where all 50 states are. I‘m Autistic. Autism affects the way I learn information. I‘m not stupid. I just learn differently than everyone else and sometimes, it takes me a while to learn things. It‘s been that way for me my whole life.

dabbe I hope with all that I am that you don't feel stupid after taking this!!! You know, you can take it more than once and keep improving your score; that's what I did! I finally got to 50/50 in under 5 minutes, but it took a few quizzes! Give that a try! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
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dabbe
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#TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe

It was getting harder and harder to keep this fun activity to just lists, so ... a new name! #TakeThreeThursday is a way for you to take three seconds or minutes to do whatever the activity is and to share whatever you‘d like to share––or not share. Please tag me so I can share in the fun! 🤩

Tagging a few to get the ball rolling. Link to quiz: https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states

JenlovesJT47 96% 1mo
OriginalCyn620 Thanks for the tag! 😊 1mo
LiseWorks As a Canadian, I have an excuse for only having 26 % Ask me about Canada now! 🇨🇦 1mo
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ElizaMarie Ha!!! 74!!! I used to know all the states and the capitals. Now - lost! Also I missed some of the states I had even worked in!!! Wow! 1mo
TheKidUpstairs I'm actually surprised that I was able to get 70% - all the middle states are a jumble to me (I'm Canadian, so I'm pretty happy with this result!) 1mo
Librarybelle Full transparency: I scored 94%. However, for 2 of the 3 I “missed,” my finger hit an adjacent state (I know where PA is on the map! I swore I touched the state). So, it‘s more of a 49/50. Not easy to do this on my phone. 😂 1mo
TheAromaofBooks I did get all the states 🎉 But know that I would 100% fail if this was a map of Europe 😂 1mo
dabbe @JenlovesJT47 #wootwoot! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @OriginalCyn620 YW! 🧡🍁♥️ 1mo
dabbe @LiseWorks I wonder if that same link has a Canadian quiz? I'll have to check it out! And kudos for 26%! I don't know how poorly I'd score on Canada, but it'd be pretty low! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @ElizaMarie The middle of our country and the New England area gets me every time! Especially the little states! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @TheKidUpstairs Wow! That's an amazing score! The middle states get me every time, too, and I live here! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @Librarybelle Oh yeah, trying to not touch the tiny ones when you want a big one is really tough on the phone! All those little states in the northeast! Yikes! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @TheAromaofBooks OMG, so would I. Hmm, that might be a fun future quiz to do! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
Susanita I should have gotten 50 but I blame my fat fingers for my 45 score. 1mo
ImperfectCJ I rock the US States, in part because I've lived in so many of them and have done road trips through all areas but the upper Midwest. So, 100%, and I mostly do the Sporcle quiz for time (my teen and I challenge each other). I'm also decent with Canadian provinces and South American countries, but I'm not as great at European countries (the Balkans get me). I wouldn't do well on Mexican states, either, I don't think. 1mo
ImperfectCJ @dabbe Sporcle has a bunch of different quizzes (Canadian provinces, countries on different continents, etc). My teen used to challenge me on them (after he'd practiced them multiple times). 1mo
BookmarkTavern *cracks knuckles* I got this. 1mo
AnnCrystal Thanks for tag 🥳👍🏼💝. 1mo
Bookwormjillk I got 92% but I only got Maryland wrong because my fingers are too fat and I accidentally touched Delaware. 1mo
AmyG I can‘t do it….keeps freezing and won‘t let me continue. 🙁 1mo
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I am terrible on geography 1mo
Jari-chan I got 36% by sheer luck 🤣😅 And then there was an add telling me to become orange? 🤨🍊 1mo
dabbe @Susanita I'm with ya! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @ImperfectCJ Ooh, thanks for letting me know. Seems like we can have a lot of fun with the Sporcle quizzes. Kudos to your son for doing them! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @Bookwormjillk Yep! Been there done that ... more than once! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @DrSabrinaMoldenReads I hear ya! Especially anywhere outside of this country! 🤣 1mo
dabbe @Jari-chan Yikes! Here's an ad-free link, and yay for 36!!! https://www.bls.gov/k12/games/geography-quiz/ 1mo
mcipher I got 70%, mostly br process of elimination — I apparently know the coasts but NOT the middle 😅 1mo
dabbe @mcipher I hear ya! Thanks for playing and sharing! 💙🇺🇸🤍
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Dilara I got 24. My excuse is that I am not American. However, since I still had to learn them in geography class at school (we weren't tested on them, but we were told to memorise them 😋), it isn't much of an excuse... So I'll blame my lack of sleep instead 😁. I mainly failed on the states in the middle. 1mo
thebacklistbook I used easy mode it took me 260 clicks to get them all. 1mo
AmyG I missed rhode island but only because it‘s so tiny…and my fingers are too big. 🤣 1mo
dabbe @Dilara We all do. They're all boxes for the most part! Thanks for playing and sharing! 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @thebacklistbook Yay for getting all of 'em! Thanks for playing and sharing! 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
dabbe @AmyG IKR? Bigger than the state! Thanks for playing and sharing! 💙🇺🇸🤍 1mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 88% but 2 of the 6 missed were because they're tiny & even my stylus was too big to touch the right spot. There are a few I always mix up and chose wrong each time! 🤣 1mo
dabbe @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Me, too! Nebraska & Kansas, Vermont & New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Delaware ... the list goes on! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🧡🍁♥️ 1mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Alabama & Mississippi, Wyoming & Utah, and Missouri & Kansas. I'll remember them for about 2 months and then promptly forget again. All states I've never visited yet. 1mo
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Verity
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What possessed me to decide mid year to try and read a book from every state (and D.C. and Puerto Rico) by the end of the year?!

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Abe
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Great book about the 50 states!