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Can you name the U.S. State Flags? Enter a state in the box below Correctly named states will show up under each flag below You can click any flag to guess that flag, or hit the skip button for a random flag You have 10 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 15324 Top Food Chains (US) 11155 States by Capital 9897 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 8087 1-100 4419 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 4293 And more...
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	Limelight05:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 01:00 GMT	10 points
	Some of the flags have the state's name on them. :/

	alexielrieth:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 01:23 GMT	-2 points
	Should have thought about maybe photoshopping out the state names on those flags...

	yggdrasil:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 08:42 GMT	22 points
	The pictures are too small to tell what's on most of the flags.

	davidr:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 14:52 GMT	17 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:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 20:13 GMT	7 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 14th, 2008 at 03:25 GMT	4 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:	Sep 15th, 2008 at 18:16 GMT	3 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:	Sep 15th, 2008 at 21:07 GMT	7 points
	Maryland and NM! :) But then I've lived there. Love the game. :)

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	davidr:	Sep 19th, 2008 at 14:04 GMT	8 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:	Sep 25th, 2008 at 06:46 GMT	12 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:	Sep 28th, 2008 at 07:15 GMT	5 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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	cocky:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 21:54 GMT	3 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.

	Tim99:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 20:12 GMT	3 points
	How about adding the District of Columbia?

	Jess:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 08:01 GMT	-1 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.

	Emil:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 19:47 GMT	2 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?

	ZacharyTaylor:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 02:16 GMT	-3 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:	Jan 9th, 2009 at 05:14 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

	ZacharyTaylor:	Jan 12th, 2009 at 00:18 GMT	-2 points
	i hate regeristing dont forget that pennsylvania's flag is awesome

	chambers:	Jan 17th, 2009 at 18:08 GMT	-1 points
	not recognised any of them. what were they on when they designed maryland's...?

	DrumBum88:	Jan 26th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT	2 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:	Jan 30th, 2009 at 08:37 GMT	1 point
	thanks jason. definitely did not know that. it is a cool flag. i also like arizona.

	pbrown:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 22:17 GMT	-1 points
	why does Hawaii have the U.K flag on it? The U.S ownes it

	The Great Sporcler:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 00:09 GMT	3 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:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 07:03 GMT	3 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:	Feb 20th, 2009 at 11:15 GMT	3 points
	16/50 for someone who doesn't even live in the country, is alright I think.

	BDoug88:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 10:09 GMT	2 points
	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:	Mar 2nd, 2009 at 02:14 GMT	4 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:	Apr 16th, 2009 at 06:03 GMT	1 point
	Soooo many blue flags... Maryland's is the best, but I'm biased for my own state

	JSails:	May 5th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	1 point
	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:	May 19th, 2009 at 04:39 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:	May 19th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	0 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:	May 19th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	1 point
	I wonder who the 17% of people who missed Oregon were. It says in big letters "State of Oregon"

	torterrakills:	May 25th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	1 point
	@ 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:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:50 GMT	-1 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 7th, 2009 at 02:25 GMT	1 point
	One of Georgia's 3 flags over the past 8 years was at one point voted the the most boring in the USA.

	Bartleby:	Jun 23rd, 2009 at 06:25 GMT	1 point
	mississippi's flag still incorporates the confederate flag. that's pretty shameful. what kind of backward people are proud of what that represents?

	DTNelson:	Jul 10th, 2009 at 22:19 GMT	2 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).