In what will be the last US based quiz or game for a little bit, I put up the Name the U.S. States quiz. It has the map, and you just have to fill in the states. Same timer and some nice feedback while you are filling them in.
Also, a quick shout out to Ironic Sans, who originally put together a version of this a few months back. I mainly published this one because I got so many people who played the State Capital game asking me to do a state one. Enjoy.
After all the interest in the President Quiz, I decided to spruce up a State Capital game I wrote a while ago. I got the interest to learn the State Capitals a year or so ago after they kept coming up on Jeopardy. I’ve got to admit, there were a quite a few capitals I had never heard of before.
Once you take the quiz yourself, you can see which state capitals are the most known and unknown, as well as the average amount of capitals that those taking get right. The game has been live for a couple days, and currently, nearly 25% of those guessing get all the capitals right.
Take the quiz now. Enjoy.
Well wow. It would appear over 40 thousand other people also found the idea of trying to name the U.S. Presidents an interesting challenge. The most forgettable presidents statistics are fairly interesting. Understandably the most remembered are the recent presidents, as well as Washington and Lincoln. I’m kinda surprised actually that Andrew Jackson only got a 77% remembrance rate, given his prominence on the $20 bill.
Also out on the 4th was a Rasmussen poll that details the popularity and recognizability of various U.S. Presidents throughout history. In general, it would appear that the results of their poll on recognizability fall similarly in line with the statistics from those taking the President quiz. However, at the bottom of the charts on sporcle were Hayes and Arthur, and the Rasmussen poll didn’t mention them at all. Perhaps they forgot to include them in their questions!
Here’s a shout out to Digg for all the attention, as well as the post on OneMoreLevel.com, and all you other blogs and forums out there. Also thanks to my hosting provider, Forbesoft. You held up to getting Dugg. Well done.
This past weekend, I got on a kick to complete a little project I’ve been wanting to do for a while. Being a regular Jeopardy fan, I strive to learn little tidbits of information from time to time. I spent a week learning and memorizing all the state capitals, and then tried to move on to world capitals. Let me tell you though, there are a lot of those. I petered out before I could learn them all.
I’ve recently noticed another knowledge area that would help one answer a lot of the questions, Presidents! Knowing the names, order and even Vice Presidents would come in awfully handy. I then realized I could barely name half our Presidents. So taking a break from sports for a moment, I put together a little web based game that I could play now and then to help me learn the Presidents.
With U.S. Independence day rapidly approaching, figured it was a good time to test that U.S. history knowledge. Enjoy.