Can you name the Great Lakes?

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Great Lakes Quiz

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Published: February 20th, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 188,736

Tags: lake, great, Great Lakes

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	Oakenshield:	Oct 9th, 2008 at 17:06 GMT	10 points
	absolutely not

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	nearlyextinct:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 02:22 GMT	2 points
	They should make it more difficult by forcing you to name them in order, just my opinion.

	nba4life1009:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 17:54 GMT	27 points
	there is no way that someone could possibly type all 5 names of those lakes in 1 second total, im not believeing it

	Sheepy712:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 01:12 GMT	36 points
	we learned in school to think: HOMES thats still how i remember it to this day

	davidr:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 11:28 GMT	2 points
	@nearly: Wouldn't make it that much harder. Worst case, you'd still only have to type fifteen words, even if your last guess was correct each time. Still trivially doable in a minute.

	davidr:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 11:29 GMT	2 points
	Rob: Most likely, somebody wrote a script to fill in the names.

ckbryant:

Dec 24th, 2008 at 12:38 GMT

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Can we get a bonus answer for Lake St. Clair? Anywhere else in the country, it would be a Really Big Lake! In any case, I want to thank you for going to the trouble to do a map for this quiz. The geography quizzes are so much better with maps--teaches you more about where things are and how they relate to each other, as opposed to just rattling off a list of names.

	davidr:	Dec 26th, 2008 at 21:13 GMT	1 point
	@ckbryant: laugh I used the feedback form to suggest that Lake St Clair be added as a bonus, maybe two days before you suggested it here. :-) Great minds and all that. ;-)

	jessbowen:	Jan 7th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	5 points
	Jenna - I remember them in order by She Made Harry Eat Onions.

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	Mike:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 03:07 GMT	11 points
	If there was going to be a bonus answer it would have to be Lake Champlain which was a Great Lake briefly from March 6, 1998 to March 24, 1998.

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	SporcleFan:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	1 point
	I used the H.O.M.E.S. Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior. Great quiz

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Jan 28th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	10 points
	How can you tell someone did it in a second?

	davidr:	Feb 22nd, 2009 at 01:01 GMT	10 points
	@Nuclear K.: Until fairly recently, the results page used to include the fastest time. It doesn't any more, presumably because people were just writing scripts to fill in the answers in a couple of seconds.

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	Extramental:	May 1st, 2009 at 03:38 GMT	8 points
	A much-appreciated confidence booster

	Kaytayyyyyyy:	May 15th, 2009 at 01:36 GMT	8 points
	Too easy for us people from the area... :-)

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	GeoExpert:	May 20th, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	5 points
	@The Abriter: The Great Bear lake is in Canada. In the Northwest Territories.

	cocky:	May 25th, 2009 at 13:48 GMT	6 points
	This has to be the easiest quiz on here. You only need five and most people know the acronym HOMES, although I'm not familiar with the onion eating Harry one.

	Beks:	May 26th, 2009 at 17:11 GMT	2 points
	cocky: onion eating harry? ha ha, I think its harry eating onions. But the former is way funnier! Katie: too easy even if you aren't from that area. Pretty much easy if you attended elementary school.

	Octoman:	May 27th, 2009 at 01:49 GMT	5 points
	@GeoExpert I just know them too. But I still learned them using the HOMES method.

	czechman:	May 31st, 2009 at 03:28 GMT	0 points
	easiest quiz ever. I never use HOMES, mainly because I was never taught it.

	qwertyuiop:	Jun 19th, 2009 at 01:11 GMT	3 points
	HOMES!!!! that makes it so easy

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	rockgolf:	Sep 14th, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	2 points
	How about Lake St Clair (not a Great Lake, but shown on the map between Huron & Erie) as a bonus??

	AtlasSighed:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 22:08 GMT	7 points
	I still stand by that they should have named one "Lake Inferior".

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	tnty4life:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 01:30 GMT	1 point
	@nearlyextinct. theres an order?

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	flixuk:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 13:21 GMT	7 points
	why are borders drawn on the map for the US States, but not for Canadian provinces?

	Stephano:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 22:01 GMT	-4 points
	I've seen four of five (except Superior)..and I got five in this one! And yes, Saint Clair should be on here!