Can you name the highest point of each US state (plus D.C.)?

State	Highest Point	Elevation
1. Alaska		6,194m / 20,320ft
2. California		4,418m / 14,495ft
3. Colorado		4,399m / 14,433ft
4. Washington		4,393m / 14,411ft
5. Wyoming		4,207m / 13,804ft
6. Hawaii		4,205m / 13,796ft
7. Utah		4,123m / 13,528ft
8. New Mexico		4,012m / 13,161ft
9. Nevada		4,005m / 13,140ft
10. Montana		3,901m / 12,799ft
11. Idaho		3,859m / 12,662ft
12. Arizona		3,851m / 12.633ft
13. Oregon		3,426m / 11,239ft
14. Texas		2,667m / 8,749ft
15. South Dakota		2,208m / 7,242ft
16. North Carolina		2,037m / 6,684ft
17. Tennessee		2,025m / 6,643ft
18. New Hampshire		1,917m / 6,288ft
19. Virginia		1,746m / 5,729ft
20. Nebraska		1,653m / 5,426ft
21. New York		1,629m / 5,344ft
22. Maine		1,606m / 5,268ft
23. Oklahoma		1,516m / 4,973ft
24. West Virginia		1,482m / 4,861ft
25. Georgia		1,458m / 4,783ft
26. Vermont		1,339m / 4,393ft

State	Highest Point	Elevation
27. Kentucky		1,262m / 4,139ft
28. Kansas		1,231m / 4,039ft
29. South Carolina		1,083m / 3,554ft
30. North Dakota		1,069m / 3,506ft
31. Massachusetts		1,063m / 3,488ft
32. Maryland		1,024m / 3,360ft
33. Pennsylvania		979m / 3,213ft
34. Arkansas		839m / 2,753ft
35. Alabama		733m / 2,405ft
36. Connecticut		723m / 2,372ft
37. Minnesota		701m / 2,301ft
38. Michigan		603m / 1,978ft
39. Wisconsin		595m / 1,951ft
40. New Jersey		550m / 1,803ft
41. Missouri		540m / 1,772ft
42. Iowa		509m / 1,670ft
43. Ohio		472m / 1,549ft
44. Indiana		383m / 1,257ft
45. Illinois		376m / 1,235ft
46. Rhode Island		247m / 812ft
47. Mississippi		246m / 806ft
48. Louisiana		163m / 535ft
49. Delaware		135m / 442ft
49½. District of Colombia		125m / 410ft
50. Florida		105m / 345ft

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States' Highest Points Quiz

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Created Jul 19, 2009 in Geography
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	GeoExpert:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:30 GMT		9 points
	Difficult but good. Kicking myself for missing Mt. Hood and Mauna Kea. Guessed Capitol Hill for DC!

	IWANTMY2DOLLARS:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:30 GMT		10 points
	Very few people are going to be able to get more than 8 correct without cheating. The scoring system should be changed to create more separation between people who get 8 or less correct.

	Iceberg:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:34 GMT		20 points
	High Point. Very original there, New Jersey.

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	zalagreensbury:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:37 GMT		11 points
	If you don't get the Alaska one just stop. I'm seriously helping you out lol.

	Kicking222:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT		10 points
	I didn't know jack on this quiz- literally Alaska and Jersey, and that's it- but I love that my state's highest point is "High Point". It's so brilliant.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:41 GMT		8 points
	I don't like these days when Sporcle only publishes 3 games rather than 5. Always look forward to the 5 games each day, but 2 days out of 7 comes a day with only three. And bsd987, I like weekends.

	chikka2:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT		0 points
	For Kansas I imagine a sea of sunflowers with one rather short mountain standing proudly...I had no chance on this quiz but enjoyed it

	Leeny:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:48 GMT		16 points
	Isn't the Washington Monument 555 ft high? "highest point" doesn't specify that it has to be natural.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT		-4 points
	@Leeny: Well that why, the highest point is the Capitol Building. There is a law in DC that states that nothing than rise higher than the Capitol Building. Thats why I guessed Capitol Hill.

	DonnyB:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT		25 points
	Oh Illinois ... you know a state is flat when its highest point is a "mound."

	bsd987:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT		-3 points
	@GeoExpert - they only publish 3 on the weekends and 4-5 during the week, hence my comment.

	smreidy113:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 18:07 GMT		6 points
	Wow, us DC folks are only worth .5?

	Gordo:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 18:10 GMT		10 points
	GeoExpert - there is not such law in DC, that's an urban myth (there was such a law in the late 1800's, but it's been gone for a century). There is a law stating that no building can be more than 20' taller than the street is wide that the building is on.

	MRD:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 18:28 GMT		4 points
	Hah, 49½.

	Psycho:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 18:47 GMT		6 points
	I had no freakin' idea about any of these...

	sox_fan1468927:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 19:06 GMT		14 points
	Wow, I've been on roller coasters higher than Florida's highest point.

	Jordan117:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 19:16 GMT		21 points
	@Leeny: The tallest structure in each state would make for an interesting quiz...

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	Morbo:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 19:42 GMT		6 points
	What on earth is an "azimuth"? Quit throwing around those fancy words, Delaware!

	bmo1616:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 19:58 GMT		8 points
	@sox_fan, kind of funny you would say that, because the highest "mountain" in Florida is Splash Mountain in Disney lol.

	Skydog:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 20:34 GMT		0 points
	@Donny Why thank you, we get places faster on flat land :)

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	ppenguin757:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 21:09 GMT		1 point
	I got 3...and only because after guessing "Capitol Hill" for DC, I tried Washington and got it for New Hampshire. I should have known Rainier...but had no idea about Illinois (though I did know it was a "mound").

	NoVan:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 22:00 GMT		4 points
	Do any of these mountains straddle a state boundary? If they did, we might see two states with the same highest point, and there aren't any of those. I'd be surprised if they didn't though- state boundaries often follow mountain crests.

	btroup1:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 22:23 GMT		5 points
	It's sad that I got the DC one correct, but not my home state. And I'm sure there's a Peppermint Patty joke that can be made from New York's highest point. I'm just not the man for the job.

	HollywoodLeo:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 22:25 GMT		8 points
	@Geordie, I wasn't aware that the level of geographically based knowledge someone possesses was indirectly proportional to the amount of time they "get out". Interesting, I learn something new everyday.

	davidr:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 23:19 GMT		7 points
	@NoVan: There's a map at http://www.peakbagger.com/list.aspx?lid=12003#ListMap As far as I can see, the highest points of South Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland and Connecticut are on their borders with NC, NC, WV and MA, respectively. Many other states have their highest point very close to their borders. Connecticut's highest point is not actually the highest point of that mountain, which is a couple of hundred yards outside the state.

	bsd987:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 23:21 GMT		-3 points
	i love how everyone votes down my first comment on this thread b/c the post i was responding through was deleted.

	CraigR:	Jul 19th, 2009 at 23:31 GMT		5 points
	yay for britton hill!! that's about 340 feet taller than the majority of florida

	maniacalclown:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 00:56 GMT		2 points
	In reference to the DC answer, according to summitpost.org, "Washington, D.C. is considering officially naming the HP as 'Point Reno.' This name ('Point Reno') is already shown on the newer disk/marker that was created by the D.C. Association of Land Surveyors and the Highpointers Club in 2007." I think that's a pretty fair argument that it should be an acceptable alternate answer.

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	Biohazard:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 01:24 GMT		15 points
	If a pancake were scaled to be Kansas-sized, I bet it would be more mountainous.

	cmkeller:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 01:52 GMT		2 points
	I'm very surprised that Missouri is so low, with the Ozarks in the southern part of the state.

	thedpr:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 01:54 GMT		11 points
	Kansas doesn't go down all the way to sea level - far from it, in fact - so I think that argument fails.

	gracie:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 02:02 GMT		2 points
	i only got alaska and my own state. well, and new hampshire, but that was by accident because i tried to guess "washington monument" for DC.

	TIMTEBOW15:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 02:09 GMT		-4 points
	Only in tennessee would you name a mountain a "dome"

	shoredude2:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 02:23 GMT		9 points
	@GeordieGuitarist: Maybe the reason that I got more than 5 is that I do get out and have actually visited some of these place. Hopefully would like to do all 51 (have 3 down).

	weizenugb:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 02:30 GMT		14 points
	Kansas IS flatter than a pancake. It's just located higher up on the continent than the eastern states are. As you move west from the Mississippi towards the continental divide, the whole entire continent gradually rises. In terms of vertical rise from the surrounding land, there is nothing in Kansas that looms as large over the surrounding areas as the Appalachians.

	squid_pro_quo:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 03:06 GMT		6 points
	I bet this will soon become one of the top 10 hardest quizzes on Sporcle.