Can you name the top crude oil producing U.S. states? by folio1701

Can you name the top crude oil producing U.S. states?

created by folio1701

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Source: US Energy Information Administration
Data is for the production of crude oil by US state in calendar year 2009. Please note that monthly data is available up to Oct. 2010, while 2009 is the most recent data set for annual data.
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Barrels/ year	State
404,694,000
259,270,000
220,434,000
79,736,000
74,545,000
67,018,000
61,146,000
51,333,000

Barrels/ year	State
39,464,000
28,324,000
27,692,000
23,232,000
22,927,000
9,099,000
7,189,000
5,900,000
696,000
455,000
46,000

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Top Oil Producing U.S. States Quiz

by folio1701

Created Mar 1, 2011 in Geography
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	folio1701:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 14:55 GMT	5 points
	May I ask what the low rating was for?

	tahitiwahini:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 17:15 GMT	10 points
	Good quiz. What's not to like? A quiz that's on an interesting topic (and I find most things interesting), that's well implemented from a decent source, contains no uncorrected mistakes, gets no worse than four globes from me. A quiz that meets all those requirements, and I learn something from it I didn't know before gets five globes. This one got five globes. Don't fret unnecessarily about a low rating. Here's the way I look at it. Let's say you do a quiz on the pyramids at Giza. Two people take the quiz. The first is the world's foremost authority on Egyptology, the second person thinks the pyramids were built by spacemen. Their ratings carry exactly the same weight. If you're going to leave a low rating, 1 or 2 globes, it seems to me you should leave an explanation, or at minimum bump up an existing comment that states your reason for doing so. But let's face it, some people give low ratings out of spite, some do so in an effort to make the ratings for their own quizzes look better by comparison, and some leave poor ratings because they aren't happy and don't like themselves very much. Better they leave low ratings here than kick their dog, right?

	folio1701:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 17:57 GMT	3 points
	Ya, I'm not worried. I'm just wondering what I did to p-ss someone off?!

	MisterF:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 23:24 GMT	4 points
	You didn't do anything to make anyone mad. Some people just like to be jerks while hiding behind the privacy of a computer screen. This was an awesome quiz!

	France:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 01:00 GMT	2 points
	I gave you 5 globes. Interesting quiz.

	fly737:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 05:11 GMT	2 points
	Good Quiz!!

	tapioca:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 09:21 GMT	2 points
	Well I gave you five if it makes up for anything. Very interesting.

	folio1701:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 12:28 GMT	0 points
	Thanks to everyone. The first rating someone gave the quiz was a 3. I'm glad everyone has enjoyed it since then.

	mein_caps:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 15:26 GMT	2 points
	I'd rather they kick their dog than leave a low rating on my quizzes. Does that make me a bad person?

	lukebradford:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 15:54 GMT	2 points
	Interesting stuff. Just out of curiosity, what's the general order-of-magnitude difference between these and oil-producing countries in the Middle East?

	folio1701:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 16:37 GMT	2 points
	luke - here are the stats for international oil production: http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=5&pid=53&aid=1

	cocky:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:37 GMT	1 point
	What's wrong with a rating of 3? That's a middle of the road grade. While this was an interesting quiz, it wasn't anything spectacular or anything that required you to do a lot of research or imagination. All you had to do was copy a list off some website.

	BlueOx:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 23:09 GMT	2 points
	Leaving politics and technological issues aside - it would be interesting to contrast this list with a similar one of POTENTIAL oil production (factoring in rules against drilling and emerging sources like oil shale).

	singin185:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 03:21 GMT	1 point
	I'm sure I'll be marked down for this, but I thought I did rather respectably (is that a word) for singing the "fifty nifty" song in my head and typing most of the states (leaving out some I thought were obviously wrong). The only one I didn't get was Wyoming.

	folio1701:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 14:23 GMT	2 points
	singin185: I gave the quiz 2 minutes because I knew that some people would simply guess every state. I couldn't do 1 minute because there are alot of slow typers.

	adamnvillani:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 20:38 GMT	2 points
	People shouldn't have to apologize for a 3 rating. There's been a lot of rating inflation over the past year. I save a 5 for truly original ideas that get my brain juices flowing. 4 is for quizzes I like. This one I thought listed too many marginal states instead of just the top producers. How many people really knew that, say, Utah or Illinois had sizable oil production vs. how many got those right just from guessing? I think this would be better if you just stuck to a top 10 or even a top 8.