Do you know your US capitals?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/uscapitals

Okay. I'll admit I cheated on New Hampshire. Everyone else I got.

[Nye Bevan]

1. Yeah, state capitals are great trivia questions,

because they hardly ever seem to be the most prominent city in each state (Boston and Honolulu being the exceptions to this that spring to mind).

[Enrique]

11. Phoenix is another one

it almost doesn't seem right, it seems like it should be Tucson or something.

[unblock]

12. i've heard it said that state capitals are often made near the center of the state

to be convenient to the people who must travel there and back home. don't know how true that is generally, or if it's just something they said in ohio, where i grew up (in the state capital, close to the geographic center of the state).

anyway, it would explain why new york city isn't the capital of new york, for instance.

[gvstn]

2. I can't even bring myself to try...

Geography is one part of my education that is sorely lacking. I just read this basic U.S. geography quiz yesterday and was afraid to try it (and many Europeans remarked in the comments that they got 13/15 with no problem.) http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjkiebus/how-well-do-you-know-basic-us-geography

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. 14 out of 16.

I missed the second smallest state--Delaware, not Connecticut.

I missed which has more people--Alaska, not DC.

[gratuitous]

3. Easy peasy, the capital of Vermont . . .

Is "V". Go ahead, ask me another.

[jberryhill]

4. Beat me to it

I don't know why people have trouble with this.

Do you know the capital of Florida?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Tallahassee

While people now claim that Tallahassee is remote compared to much of the state's population, it was originally chosen as the state capital in the early days of Florida when the only heavily settled portion of the state was the north. The two major population centers were St. Augustine and Pensacola, and Tallahassee was roughly half way in between.

That's far more than you wanted to know in response to your question.

[jberryhill]

7. Wrong!

The capital of Florida is "F".

[cloudbase]

5. 50 of 50

with 3:22 to spare. It took a long time to remember Jefferson City.

I had to memorize them back in third grade.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. If you're *really* up for a challenge, try listing them by population.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/walt/capitals_population

I mustered 21 of them before my 10 minutes expired.

[kentauros]

9. I will state right off the bat, that no, I don't know them.

I will also admit my view on this topic: How important is this knowledge in my everyday life?

Now, before everyone decides I'm the one to jump on for not caring enough, I view tests like this as more about creating a pecking order. "I'm smarter than you are!" Okay. Still don't care. It's a strong interest of yours, and not one of mine. Just as I wouldn't expect most people to have a strong interest in sacred geometry as I do, because it doesn't have much of an everyday use or importance

Yes, I know this is probably just some fun little test to do, but as I know my score will be abysmally low, I'm not going to torture myself

[Xyzse]

10. No, I don't.

I am a naturalized citizen who memorized that for a little while and forgot most of it already.

[Blue_Tires]

14. Child's play...This one is for men...

Do the world capitals/flags on this one:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/629856

[Earth_First]

15. Women need not apply?

[Blue_Tires]

19. I should have said it was for 'grownups'

or at least those confident of their geography skills, regardless of age...

And you'll be absolutely shocked at how many countries have the EXACT same flag, with the only difference being a small star or a color being a shade different, or something...

[laundry_queen]

16. Ugh, I'm terrible.

My excuse is that I'm Canadian and have never studied this (nor have I been to very many states). I got 14/50, LOL. I'd have been better if I'd have had more time - I knew a few more but just needed time to remember the names. If they would've had a list of all the cities in each state, I probably could've picked the right one...for me, my recall on names sucks and that caused my score to suck.

[FarCenter]

17. Useless to know these days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States

OTOH, can you pronounce them correctly, e.g. Pierre, South Dakota.

[alp227]

18. Got everything but New Hampshire (I guessed Nashua and Manchester) nt

[Initech]

20. I got 48 out of 50 (missed Missouri and South Carolina). Not too shabby.