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Can you name the US territories and dependents?

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US Territories Quiz

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Created Dec 16, 2008 in Geography
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	DirtyKash:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 18:55 GMT		10 points
	Surprisingly difficult. Well done, good quiz.

	Booger:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:03 GMT		0 points
	Just wondering, could Guantanamo Bay be considered a US possession? I know the US occupies Guantanamo Bay under a perpetual lease (which Cuba claims was procured by treaty illegally), so maybe it is not a possession in the truest sense.

	gopaladins:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:10 GMT		3 points
	and what is all that uninhabited territory for, exactly? nuclear testing?

	PhilSandifer:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:13 GMT		15 points
	Booger - It is no more a US possession than any other US military base or embassy. By international convention, foreign bases and embassies are considered US soil, but they are not US territories.

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	PhilSandifer:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:17 GMT		10 points
	gopaladins - A number of them were claimed under the Guano Islands Act, which allowed US citizens to claim possession of islands with substantial guano deposits, as guano was, at the time, a valued fertilizer. Others were taken for defensive purposes - the MIdway Islands, for instance. Most we keep not because they're useful but because, well, why give them up.

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	Booger:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:27 GMT		16 points
	As for Guantanamo Bay, I looked up the relevant treaty from 1903. It states in part: "the United States recognizes the continuance of the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of Cuba over the above described areas of land and water" but allows the United States to "exercise complete jurisdiction and control over and within said areas" during the "period of the occupation." That's enough evidence for me that it is not a US possession.

	ckbryant:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:35 GMT		13 points
	Good quiz! I do wish we had a map to go with the blanks. The whole area of overseas territories, dependent areas, non-self-governing territories and so forth is a very fruitful one for future quizzes. For example, how about the UN list of non-self-governing territories? British overseas possessions? One of the coolest quizzes I could think of would be the world map from "countries of the world," only this time, naming the 60-odd territorial possessions in the world today (Wikipedia has a list).

	cmkeller:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:44 GMT		5 points
	Shouldn't Washington DC be somewhere here, even if it's a separate category? It's still US sovoreign territory that is not a state. And seeing all those island names reminds me - how about that Most Populous Oceania Cities quiz already?? The other four "most populous cities" quizzes feel like an incomplete set.

	chillicothe20:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:47 GMT		4 points
	Doesn't D.C. count in some way? It's not a state. It's a dependent district or something , right?

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	Booger:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 20:25 GMT		12 points
	chillicothe: Washington, DC is a federal district under the control of Congress. It is not a territory or a dependent.

	A_is_for_Addict:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:56 GMT		11 points
	UK and French territories next please :)

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	fatfifer:	Jan 18th, 2009 at 04:07 GMT		1 point
	damn that was hard! it might of helped if id payed more attention to those WWII battles in school

	jessbowen:	Mar 13th, 2009 at 01:51 GMT		4 points
	The term commonwealth might be misleading - Massachusetts, Virginia, Kentucky, and I think Pennsylvania are all commonweaths technically.

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	newenglander:	Aug 2nd, 2009 at 03:24 GMT		1 point
	catherine F-you should at least know guam, people mention it a lot

	fatcat2:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 20:49 GMT		1 point
	As a US Election 2008 enthusiast, I only got the ones that votes in the Primaries. That's Guam and Puerto Rico am I right?

	BDC241:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 17:02 GMT		17 points
	Wow, you need to know your nuclear testing sites to get this one! I think the Moon should be a bonus answer! We own that sucker!

	jasonc_22:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 18:25 GMT		2 points
	fatcat2: American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands both had Democratic Party & Republican Party primaries, too (Clinton & McCain won in Samoa and Obama & "uncommitted" won in the USVI)

	brianmcp:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 01:20 GMT		3 points
	Thank you Call of Duty.

	icing:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 00:31 GMT		4 points
	I think that this was a good, thought-provoking and important quiz. Can't speak for anyone else, but Americans, we really ought to know these places, since we make claim to them. I did really poorly, and I obviously have a lot to learn.

	PBRthur:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 17:14 GMT		1 point
	I'm really surprised the US doesn't have some sort of claim/territory in Antarctica.

	elchasai:	May 29th, 2010 at 16:30 GMT		-1 points
	johnston atoll no longer has territorial status it is administered as a part of the state of Hawaii

	RaysRule2010:	Dec 11th, 2010 at 13:53 GMT		-1 points
	What about the District of Columbia?

	noobschoolbus:	Jan 21st, 2011 at 21:19 GMT		1 point
	RaysRule2010 - The District of Columbia is not a territory, it's the seat of the government of the United States.

	bigwilly5252:	May 16th, 2011 at 20:35 GMT		1 point
	Got all but Navassa....Good quiz.

	UrbanSpaceman:	Dec 23rd, 2011 at 11:41 GMT		1 point
	I typed "the moon" desperately hoping it wouldn't be a correct answer. Eddie Izzard's "do you have a flag?" comes to mind...

	dipayanban:	Dec 24th, 2011 at 15:44 GMT		2 points
	Didn't get Puerto Rico, but got Kingman Reef. Wonderful, only on Sporcle.

	jwillard:	Feb 5th, 2012 at 20:10 GMT		3 points
	Newt Ginrich wants the moon to be the 51st state.

	ostemanden:	Jul 10th, 2012 at 11:56 GMT		0 points
	should accept Virgin islands :)

	etes97:	Sep 6th, 2012 at 23:01 GMT		1 point
	That was much harder than I expected! The only two I could get were Guam and Puerto Rico........ Great quiz! It just goes to show that you never know what you'll learn when you pay a visit to SPORCLE!!

	etes97:	Sep 6th, 2012 at 23:08 GMT		1 point
	@chillicothe20: Washington DC was the next thing I put down, and once I realized that was incorrect, I ran out of ideas.

	luckylouis91:	Jan 26th, 2013 at 02:14 GMT		1 point
	American Samoa is absolutely beautiful

	Amran:	Feb 13th, 2013 at 15:57 GMT		1 point
	loose_cannon- Iraq is a country

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