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Heh! I like it. It looks randomised but isn't. It's like a trip through the OP's brain according to the order he/she remembered the states. This now makes me want to ask the question "If you named all fifty states, which are the first five you came up with and which were the last five".
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First five are "Maine, Georgia, Kansas, New York, Utah". Last five are "Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina".
I can name them all instantly without thinking, it takes me about 20 seconds to recite them all. When I had speech therapy lessons to try and get rid of my stutter and lisp, one of the exercises I had to do was read out the 50 states. The states were written down in a table and arranged according to the number of syllables to make them easier to read out, starting with the only single-syllable state, Utah, going through to South Carolina and the other five-syllable states. It was surprisingly catchy, and, because I read it every week for years and years, I learned all the 50 states and I can still recall them now, albeit in a weird order.
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Maybe I really should ask the question on IIN because this is kind of interesting. My friends are competitive geography nuts (which is why I had to learn the capital of every country in the world, American states, Russian oblasts, Canadian provinces, etc). When we play the "state" game, my mind always tends to go for big, important, favoured, or different states so I tend to start with New York, California, Texas, Alaska, Hawaii and without meaning any offence to people I usually end with states like Vermont, Indiana, Rhode Island, Delaware and Wyoming.
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I never done this before so I guess it'll be interesting. I'm thinking the same as I was thinking about the US. Okay, first three are BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia. The last three would probably be the three territories but if it was strictly provinces, umm... Prince Edward Island, Sask (can't spell it) Saskatchewan? And... I might say Alberta for the last because I always forget it. Actually, no, New Brunswick!
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I used to know the national flag and capital of every country in the world. My family used to play a highly competitive, flashcard-based game which involved learning all that information and me, my brother and my dad spent an obsessive amount of time trying to beat each other on school holidays. We knew them all, even the little obscure ones like Vanuatu (capital: Port Vila; flag is red, green, and black with a yellow horn symbol) and Tuvalu (capital: Funafuti; flag is a light blue base with the Union Jack in the top left corner and a group of yellow stars on the right-hand side). Whenever I hear a new country has been formed, like South Sudan was a year or two ago, my first thought is "what is the flag? What is the capital?".
And come to think of it, I have no idea what the answer is.
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When South Sudan was formed, I had a text from my friend the very same day asking me the capital. Annoyingly, I'd seen it and had immediately forgotten.
My friend is also a swine for picking up when countries change their capital. Like Nauru which flipped between Yaren District, Yaren and not having a capital. He also used to pre-empt it and wouldn't accept Kuala Lumpur for Malaysia because he believed Putrajaya was going to be not only the seat of government but the official capital. Then he started looking at countries which change their capital whether it's winter or summer (like Namibia) or countries which just have two or more capitals. Then he went insane and did a quiz where we had to say the capital in a certain year (like the capital of our fair isle in 1095 or the capital of Prussia before Berlin). To be fair, it was actually kind of fun to mix Geography, History and Politics. I think I was the only one who liked it, though. :)
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I did the same thing and followed it around in my head. Then I thought it was weird that I know all the states, the state capitals, other cities in that state, and could identify each one on a map, in a country a third of the world away whereas in the country next door (France) I could probably only name about five of the ninety-five departments, never mind tell you where they are or what their prefectures are.
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I underestimated myself. I just tested myself and got seven out of ninety-five and two prefectures. Still pretty poor, though, for a country only 21 miles from mine.
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Show off. :P
Sometimes I test my state geography skills just for fun. My dad always liked maps and I picked that up from him. Although I don't think I could name all the state capitals. But I could probably name at least one major city in all of them as well as some of the major highways and their scenic alternatives. And I know the Canadian provinces much better than the Mexican states.
My sister had to memorize all the state nicknames and flowers when she was in school and still has many of them in her memory. I live in the Beaver State. And our flower isn't exactly a flower, but a grape.
Sadly I did not retain much of my France geography knowledge but now I feel like pulling out my atlas.
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