Can you pick the 3-letter words which appear in US state names?

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The object is to click only the words which appear somewhere in the name of a US state. Ex: "tuck" would be correct (Kentucky) but "luck" would not. Not all eligible words were used.
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What's in a Name? (US States) Quiz

by gunthertoody

Created May 24, 2012 in Geography
Featured Oct 30, 2012
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	sal:	Oct 30th, 2012 at 17:41 GMT		-4 points
	Fun quiz. I missed "low" though, because it looks a lot like "Iow" as in the first three letters of "Iowa." Obviously, the fact that all answers are lower case should clarify that, but I didn't think of that while trying to answer as quickly as possible. Maybe consider replacing/removing that one?

	pete32782:	Oct 30th, 2012 at 18:38 GMT		12 points
	"Iow" isn't a word.

	cmkeller:	Oct 30th, 2012 at 20:00 GMT		0 points
	I missed four - Strangely, all four were found in New England states.

	AKappy:	Oct 30th, 2012 at 20:38 GMT		27 points
	I missed nine - Strangely, all nine were found in The United States.

	ktappe:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 02:45 GMT		5 points
	This was a very fun game. But I was left with 8 I could not get...and still do not know what states they came from. I wonder if there is a way after the game is over to find this out?

	bcflorida:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 02:55 GMT		1 point
	@AKappy: are you insinuating this quiz is too US centric? jk

	dcmldcml:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 04:54 GMT		4 points
	@ktappe: You beat me to it! I was wondering that too. A lot of the ones I got, I guessed, and I don't know what states they were- and let's face it, I'm too lazy to go through each one and then go through each state and look for it. Is there any sort of key?

	laschmela:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 07:00 GMT		3 points
	One of few state quizzes where singing "50 Nifty United States" in my head didn't help!

	rcedison:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 07:58 GMT		0 points
	There are at least two other 3-letter words that can be found in the 50 state names. I haven't looked too hard, but did find 'bra' and 'sot'. Yes, bra is short for brassiere, but it's part of the common lexicon. And sot isn't exactly a common word, but it's not archaic.

	shaymatt:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 11:59 GMT		1 point
	Much trickier than it first appears! Good work.

	AKappy:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 16:18 GMT		2 points
	@rcedison, the quiz notes mention "not all eligible words were used."

	charolastra:	Nov 1st, 2012 at 06:39 GMT		1 point
	In the middle of a college campus last year I overheard a crazy religious lady ranting about how Wisconsin was going to hell and everyone should have seen it coming because, as she put it, "Why do you think they call it WisconSIN?!"

	quinkin:	Nov 4th, 2012 at 12:01 GMT		1 point
	She must have been delAWARE of the imminent apocalypse

	Vails:	Nov 5th, 2012 at 21:52 GMT		2 points
	Felt so proud of myself for having six left with no misses and 20 seconds left. So I just guessed at the rest, based on what just sounded right: miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss.