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Can you name the U.S. State Flags?
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U.S. State Flags Quiz
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Limelight05
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Sep 12th, 2008 at 21:00 GMT
36 points
Some of the flags have the state's name on them. :/
alexielrieth
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Sep 12th, 2008 at 21:23 GMT
7 points
Should have thought about maybe photoshopping out the state names on those flags...
yggdrasil
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Sep 13th, 2008 at 04:42 GMT
45 points
The pictures are too small to tell what's on most of the flags.
davidr
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Sep 13th, 2008 at 10:52 GMT
33 points
Higher-resolution images would definitely be helpful. A lot of the dark blue flags look very similar and didn't contain enough detail for me to recognize the ones I knew. Obscuring the state names would be a good idea. Surely it's better to learn to recognize the flags than just read the names from them? (Apropos of nothing, Maryland's is the coolest. :-) )
buiksloot
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Sep 13th, 2008 at 16:13 GMT
13 points
Agree with all above with the flags which explicitly name their states. Can't agree with davidr re: Maryland, respectfully. While Maryland's is striking and one of my favorites, there's something about Iowa's old-timey Americana that is just so...American? :) Also, Ohio always gets bonus points for being the brave loner in a sea of rectangles!
Andrew:
Sep 13th, 2008 at 23:25 GMT
5 points
Re: Coolest flag I don't know about the coolest, but NAVA voted a few years back that New Mexico was the best designed flag. As a member, I agree.
cysion
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Sep 15th, 2008 at 14:16 GMT
4 points
If you'd photoshop out the name of the states, then the game would be: "name the photoshopped US State Flags". Which doesn't make sense obviously...
rheebird
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Sep 15th, 2008 at 17:07 GMT
5 points
Maryland and NM! :) But then I've lived there. Love the game. :)
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revenue
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Sep 16th, 2008 at 06:19 GMT
-17 points
quite hard: would be easier to do it in random order - without the skip button as I'm not american it's mainly guessing - hardly possible in 10 minutes (alphabetic order would be easier but - evidently - stupid not only for all those who know more than the ones with the names written on it)
davidr
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Sep 19th, 2008 at 10:04 GMT
13 points
@Cysion: I think it's more interesting to play "Name the photoshopped state flags" than "Name forty of the state flags and be able to read the names from the other ten". (Eleven if you think you can read "Illinois" but I think I can only read it because I know what it says.) If Sporcle had a quiz of album covers, you'd expect them to erase the names, wouldn't you? So why not for flags? Wouldn't it show more knowledge (and, arguably, respect) to be able to recognize the flags rather just than the words on them?
Gravey
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Sep 25th, 2008 at 02:46 GMT
15 points
Too too too small! Is it possible to upgrade this to actually be able to see the flag? I think everyone should see that my home state's flag (Nebraska) has MOUNTAINS on it. WTF? Worst flag ever. And I can't believe you missed the chance to change all the obvious names to 'sporcle'. SPORCLE REPUBLIC all the way.
davidr
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Sep 28th, 2008 at 03:15 GMT
6 points
@MJ: The Nebraska State Seal is supposed to show `in the background a train of cars heading towards the Rocky Mountains, and on the extreme west, the Rocky Mountains to be plainly in view' (http://www.sos.state.ne.us/seal.html). So I'm not sure why the train seems to be already in the mountains, either. Maybe they're supposed to be the Sand Hills? Also, the NAVA survey that Dynamite mentions says that the Nebraska flag is only the second-worst flag ever. Be proud!
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ZacharyTaylor
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Nov 15th, 2008 at 00:40 GMT
-30 points
This one is way too easy!
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ZacharyTaylor
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Nov 15th, 2008 at 00:45 GMT
-30 points
As I said, way too easy!
cocky
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Nov 28th, 2008 at 17:54 GMT
4 points
david-who has the worst flag? I agree the flags need to be bigger and maybe do something about the state names on the flags. I got 25 and probably would have done better if I'd lived in more than two states in my life and could have made out the deatil on the flags. For simplicity, its hard to top my home state of Alabama's big red X.
Tim95:
Dec 5th, 2008 at 16:12 GMT
8 points
How about adding the District of Columbia?
ojalaque
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Dec 21st, 2008 at 04:01 GMT
0 points
Def. need D.C.! I love Maryland's too. It always made me jealous; there's was so cool, meanwhile Virginia's is terribly lame.
emilkr
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Dec 23rd, 2008 at 15:47 GMT
3 points
Well, if you were to add D.C. wouldn't you also have to include Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico?
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ZacharyTaylor
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Jan 2nd, 2009 at 22:16 GMT
-9 points
hey jess, my mother was born in virginia so poo. also pa was the last flag to come up and thats where i live.
IHateRegistering
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Jan 9th, 2009 at 01:14 GMT
2 points
Maryland has an interesting design but its not the coolest. The coolest flag is California's- is has a Grizzly Bear on it. I mean what can beat a grizzly bear? I used to not like the New Mexican flag, but after seeing how horrid some others are (I'm looking at you you Connecticut) I really don't mind it
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ZacharyTaylor
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Jan 11th, 2009 at 20:18 GMT
-7 points
i hate regeristing dont forget that pennsylvania's flag is awesome
chambers
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Jan 17th, 2009 at 14:08 GMT
-1 points
not recognised any of them. what were they on when they designed maryland's...?
DrumBum88
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Jan 26th, 2009 at 15:32 GMT
5 points
Marylands flag is a combination of the Calvert and Crossland family crests. Cecil Calvert founded Maryland as an Enlish colony in 1634. The black and gold parts are the Calvert family and the red and white is the Crossland family.
schoopdawoop
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Jan 30th, 2009 at 04:37 GMT
1 point
thanks jason. definitely did not know that. it is a cool flag. i also like arizona.
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pbrown
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Jan 31st, 2009 at 18:17 GMT
-6 points
why does Hawaii have the U.K flag on it? The U.S ownes it
The Great Sporcler:
Feb 4th, 2009 at 20:09 GMT
2 points
@I_Hate_Registering - a few years ago I did a school project which involved using the Californian flag, apparently the instruction was to design a flag with a PEAR on it, but the designer misheard and drew a bear :S TBH I much prefer the bear!
thefinestmuffins
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Feb 9th, 2009 at 03:03 GMT
4 points
Agreed that I only got a few of these because the names were on them (I COULD read Illinois!) Being from Ohio, I'm a bit biased towards our fancy-shaped flag, but I also LOVE Maryland's (know it from when I lived in DC-- would have also recognized the district's flag) and New Mexico's. Was a bit surprised by Hawaii's-- I really expected the union jack to be in one of the original colonies. Random, right?
Rhys
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Feb 20th, 2009 at 07:15 GMT
5 points
16/50 for someone who doesn't even live in the country, is alright I think.
BDoug88
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Feb 21st, 2009 at 06:09 GMT
1 point
The only reason I remembered Maryland's flag is because of the episode of Ace of Cakes that featured it. Ha! Go Duff!
ruthie_pee
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Mar 1st, 2009 at 22:14 GMT
8 points
Seems like the southeast has it down--Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and my home state of Tennessee all have the easiest flags to remember. The rest just look like tiny blue rectangles with some pixelated fuss in the middle. Man, there are some boring-looking flags out there!
America
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Apr 16th, 2009 at 02:03 GMT
2 points
Soooo many blue flags... Maryland's is the best, but I'm biased for my own state
JSails
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May 5th, 2009 at 00:47 GMT
-3 points
if you look at a good image of the Kentucky flag, you will see that in the center are two men (a native american and a frontiersman) apparently kissing. "Californian Republic?" why is that on the flag? are they their own country? also, on a more serious note, I thought that the oregonian (?) flag was blue with a gold beaver on it.... and several flags' backgrounds (Minnesota and Connecticut) are shown in a MUCH lighter shade of blue than they are supposed to be
GeoExpert
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May 19th, 2009 at 00:39 GMT
0 points
All of those colonial states flag look so similar. It makes it hard. And how does only 65% of people get Alabama? Must be people from Alabama who got it wrong (joke on my own state)
GeoExpert
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May 19th, 2009 at 00:41 GMT
-4 points
Updated: Less than 50% of people got Alabama. I am liberal and don't mind people making fun of Alabama even though I live there. I even joke about it as well.
GeoExpert
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May 19th, 2009 at 00:42 GMT
8 points
I wonder who the 17% of people who missed Oregon were. It says in big letters "State of Oregon"
torterrakills
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May 25th, 2009 at 15:02 GMT
2 points
@ JSails : The flag of Oregon is double-sided. The front is shown here, and the back is what you described. Interesting tidbit: The flag also has the most obscure proportions at 533:800.
davidr
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May 28th, 2009 at 16:50 GMT
2 points
@GeoExpert: Presumably, the people who missed Oregon missed it because they ran out of time before being asked to name that flag.
win:
Jun 6th, 2009 at 22:25 GMT
5 points
One of Georgia's 3 flags over the past 8 years was at one point voted the the most boring in the USA.
Bartleby
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Jun 23rd, 2009 at 02:25 GMT
0 points
mississippi's flag still incorporates the confederate flag. that's pretty shameful. what kind of backward people are proud of what that represents?
DTNelson
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Jul 10th, 2009 at 18:19 GMT
4 points
The coolest flags are Alaska, Maryland, Indiana, Arizona, and New Mexico. The lamest flags are all those that just show the state seal on a field of some solid color (a many-way tie).
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