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Hard US state thing

Started by Josquius, November 18, 2009, 10:56:51 AM

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Josquius

This is damn hard.
Why do you people use such obtuse spellings?

http://www.sporcle.com/games/states.php

The European one is easier and more doable.
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Grey Fox

They are native names.

Also, British names are more obtuse.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

garbon

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DisturbedPervert

The hardest thing about that test was the typing

Syt

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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Alcibiades

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OTOH, if you think that a Jew actually IS poisoning the wells you should call the cops. IMHO.   - The Brain

Syt

This one's pretty hardcore:
Can you name A&E's 100 most influential people of the last 1,000 years?

14 minutes. I managed 50 out of 100, but with all solutions revealed I was, "Ah, him/her/them!" in many cases.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Grey Fox

This is killing me productivity ten fold.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

DGuller

Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2009, 11:13:41 AM
Hard? :huh:
Same.  The only difficulty was trying to spell Massachusetts.

Zanza

Quote from: Syt on November 18, 2009, 12:59:25 PM
This one's pretty hardcore:
Can you name A&E's 100 most influential people of the last 1,000 years?

14 minutes. I managed 50 out of 100, but with all solutions revealed I was, "Ah, him/her/them!" in many cases.
I got 47 and 3 that I wrote different from how they wrote it.

Josquius

#13
Quote from: Zanza on November 18, 2009, 01:54:35 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 18, 2009, 12:59:25 PM
This one's pretty hardcore:
Can you name A&E's 100 most influential people of the last 1,000 years?

14 minutes. I managed 50 out of 100, but with all solutions revealed I was, "Ah, him/her/them!" in many cases.
I got 47 and 3 that I wrote different from how they wrote it.

They've some weird choices. No Erasmus or Calvin? Stephenson or Brunel? Lincoln and Washington but no Gladstone, Disraeli or Cromwell? So few royals? Churchill but no Ghandi? And no Babbage but no Baird? TV is rather important...
And princess Diana!?!?
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DGuller

#14
There was Ghandi there (actually, there wasn't, but there was Gandhi).