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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsYour state trivia questions for today.
1. What is the official state vegetable of Georgia? Please be specific.
2. What state is closest to Bermuda?
3. Which state or states (besides Alaska and Hawaii) borders the fewest number of other states?
4. Which state or states borders the greatest number of other states?
5. Which of the Great Lakes is/are entirely within the USA?
Give it your best shot, and as always No Googling!
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. Rednecks?
2. North Carolina
3. Maine
4. ?
5. Lake Michigan
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)2,3, and 5 are correct! You get a 60%.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Two of them are tied for bordering the most states. Go farther west.
Moondog
(4,833 posts)1. Vidalia Onion
4. Utah
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)#4 is wrong.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Missouri. It borders 8 states.
Add: I lived there for 33 years and we had to study it.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)There are two states patriotic Missourians that stick with their history do not mention much. And that is one of them. But it s not as bad as "That State". hehe
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)CrazyOrangeCat
(6,112 posts)The number is 8.
Do you remember doing a Missouri Notebook in, I believe, the 3rd grade?
I still have mine . . . found it when my folks moved.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I also remember all the pictures we did of Dogwoods. The whole classroom looked like a dogwood forest! And the three reports we had to write. One on What it meant to be a Missourian, the other on a native animal of our choice. and the last was on Harry S.Truman.
CrazyOrangeCat
(6,112 posts)So cool.
An enjoyable project. Methinks skool started to go downhill not long after . . .
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)The rest I'll leave for others!
#3 is correct.
Danmel
(4,908 posts)North Carolina, Vidalia Onion,Maine, Tennessee, Michigan
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Tennessee and Missouri are tied for bordering the most states.
You win a virtual date with any celebrity of your choice!
Edit: Here's the link to the answers except #1. I lost the link but you'll just have to trust me it's the vidalia onion.
http://www.jimloy.com/puzz/usa.htm
Danmel
(4,908 posts)thanks!
whistler162
(11,155 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,603 posts)1. What is the official state vegetable of Georgia? Please be specific.
OK, not a clue.
2. What state is closest to Bermuda?
North Carolina.
3. Which state or states (besides Alaska and Hawaii) borders the fewest number of other states?
South Carolina
4. Which state or states borders the greatest number of other states?
West Virginia
5. Which of the Great Lakes is/are entirely within the USA?
Lake Michigan
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)#1 is the vidalia onion.
#3 is Maine.
#4 are (tied) Missouri and Tennessee.
Good guesses though!