Can you name the only still-unnamed US states that fit the clues? by cthulhu

Can you name the only still-unnamed US states that fit the clues?

created by cthulhu

Enter a state in the box below
Correctly named states will show up below
Click any empty Clue or State to answer for that location
Successive clues only apply to 1 US state that has not already been guessed. Ex.: If the first answer is 'Virginia' and a later clue is 'Starts with V,' 'Vermont' is the only possible answer.
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Clue	State	Eliminated Answers
Belonged to Russia		(Don't guess these again!)
Extends north of the 49th parallel (N)		AK
Shares the northernmost state border formed by the Mississippi		MN
Borders Lake Superior		MN, WI
Was admitted in 1959		AK
Fought in the 'Toledo War'		MI
Birthed at least 5 presidents		OH
Ceded land to the District of Columbia		VA
Borders Manitoba		MN
Occupies the Delmarva Peninsula		MD, VA
Has 5 or fewer county-level divisions		DE
Is smaller than Israel		DE, RI
Is currently represented by an Independent senator		CT
Was itself an unclaimed, sovereign nation		HI, VT
Had more than 5 Declaration of Independence signers		VA
Contains 3 of the 10 most populous US cities		TX
Contains a city named 'Texarkana'		TX
Produces more peaches annually than Georgia		CA
Does not exceed 500 feet above sea level		DE
Begins with 'C'		CA, CT
Fields a Western Conference, Pacific Division NBA team		CA
Houses a US Military Academy		CO, CT, MD
Is a quadrilateral		CO
Has only straight-line borders		CO, WY
Has an Alpha World City		CA, NY

Clue	State	Eliminated Answers
Has an ocean coastline less than 40 miles long		DE, MD, RI
Contributes one of the 'Four Corners'		AZ, CO, UT
Has a flag that is more than half yellow		NM
Has an Ivy League University		CT, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI
Ends in 'S'		AR, IL, MA, TX
Once housed a capital of the Confederacy		VA
Has more than 15 electoral votes		CA, FL, IL, MI, OH, NY, PA, TX
Has hosted the Olympic Games		CA, GA, NY, UT
Is a Commonwealth		MA, PA, VA
Was one of the 13 Colonies
Was a slave state that fought for the Union		DE, KY, MD, MO
Is named with a cardinal direction		NC, ND, SC, WV
Has 4 different vowels in its name		CT, GA, MN, PA, RI, SC
Lies entirely within the Mountain Time Zone		AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY
Is named after a real person		DE, GA, LA, MD, NY, NC, PA, SC, VA, WV
Has any Great Lakes coastline		IL, MI, MN, OH, NY, PA, WI
Has any Gulf Coastline		AL, FL, LA, TX
Has any Atlantic Coastline
Has any Pacific Coastline		AK, CA, HI, WA
Has 5 letters in its name		ME, TX
Has a capital named after a president		MS, MO, WI
Has a panhandle		AK, CT, FL, ID, MD, NE, TX, WV
Allows same-sex marriage		CT, MA, NH, NY, VT, WA
Is named by a common Spanish word		CO, FL, MT
Yielded by process of elimination		Volunteer State Victory!

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US States by Process of Elimination Quiz

by cthulhu

Created Jul 8, 2011 in Geography
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	cthulhu:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 19:57 GMT	1 point
	I'm considering forcing answers in order, but I'm not sure if this will make it too hard. Please let me know about any errors you find, because that may mean I have to reorder and change questions entirely. Good luck!

	jackson0424:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 20:00 GMT	1 point
	good quiz!

	gowhere:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 20:10 GMT	3 points
	One problem - your clue "was itself an unclaimed, sovereign nation - applies to at least two un-named states at the point where you ask it - your answer and Vermont. The only countries which could legitimately claim Vermont after the declaration of Independence were the UK and the US. The UK's claim was extinguished by the Treaty of Paris, and the US claim (from the state of New York) was effectively extinguished by the fact that New York acknowledged that Vermont could join the US as a separate state in 1787, thereby establishing that there must have been some territory of the Vermont Republic which was not considered part of New York. While territorial disputes did remain, that is also true of the other candidate which had territorial disputes during its entire existence with its southern neighbor.

	FretfulP:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 20:12 GMT	2 points
	This is a really fun quiz, but hasn't Missouri also hosted the Olympic games (St. Louis, 1904)?

	MisterF:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 20:47 GMT	3 points
	I really enjoyed this, however I would suggest moving the question about coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to a spot before the question about coastline on the Atlantic, since the Gulf can be considered a part of the Atlantic. It would eliminate some confusion and wouldn't have any effect on the rest of the quiz.

	cthulhu:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 21:02 GMT	2 points
	Gulf, independent nation, and Olympics bugs should be fixed now. Thanks for the help: it's pretty easy when moving things around in this format to make mistakes.

	Chocolatl:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 22:47 GMT	3 points
	Although the slave state answer is technically correct, it's a little bit questionable, since the state of West Virginia was actually established by seceding from Virginia during the war itself. I know that it's considered a border state, but it wasn't a slave state before the war because it didn't exist then, and as part of Virginia in 1861 and 1862 actually did fight for the South as well. Maybe that's splitting hairs, but I thought I'd point it out.

	cthulhu:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 00:17 GMT	3 points
	My thinking was that West Virginia at some point concurrently held slaves and fought for the Union. I think it's pretty accepted that the transmontaine counties never would have seceded in the first place were they not tied to Richmond.

	codejlandt:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 03:27 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. One question though: Where in Missouri is there a U.S. Mint? According to the Mint's website, it operates facilities at Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point (NY), a bullion depository at Fort Knox (KY), plus its headquarters in D.C. See http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/.

	cthulhu:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 04:01 GMT	2 points
	@codejlandt: Congratulations, you're the first one to make me actually need to change out a question. My first source must have assumed one of the 2 MO Fed branches was a Mint or something. It was indeed wrong.

	BombaySapphire:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 04:09 GMT	1 point
	@codejlandt: You are correct; MO has never had a Mint. @cthulhu: If you wish an applicable question on a similar theme, perhaps consider that MO is the only state to have two Federal Reserve Banks.

	WindSword:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 20:31 GMT	1 point
	This is a great quiz! I hope this format really takes off.

	Sjoerd:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 21:54 GMT	1 point
	when I didnt know one of these, I did the next and the answer showed up in the 'Eliminated answers'-column