10 fun trivia questions: State geography

“Jeopardy” junkies and pub trivia nerds take note: We’ve put together some fun facts about American geography that’ll surely win you the next round. For the sake of fairness, we’ve limited this to the Lower 48, since, geographically speaking, Alaska and Hawaii have an unfair advantage when it comes to the exceptional.

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brian mcmaster
Nov 5, 2012 12:09PM
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Minnesotans can  not count past 100. That may be why they claimed 10000 lakes. they just knew they had a lot.
HammeringHank
Nov 5, 2012 11:31AM
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I know geography but clearly the people over at MSN do not.....
imamme
Nov 5, 2012 11:30AM
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The Golden State’s Mount Whitney comes in at 14,494 feet, according to the National Park Service, making it the highest peak in the country outside of Alaska’s Mount McKinley.........so actually the state with the tallest mountain is Alaska. This is crappy journalism!!!!!
singlen8tivedude
Nov 5, 2012 11:27AM
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Woodcarver37..  they are talking about saltwater coastlines but when it comes to freshwater coastlines.. you are correct.. Michigan
WoodCarver37
Nov 5, 2012 11:17AM
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The state with the longest coastline is Michigan...3288 miles not Florida, as stated with 1350    OOPS...what happened to the fact checkers...must be one of Romney's fact checkers
Obomination
Nov 5, 2012 11:04AM
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If you really want to learn all the countries in the world, check out  the following site which teaches this in a fun way........    Uncharted.fm    .fm is it, don't put in .com
Uhhuh of course
Nov 5, 2012 11:02AM
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Saturday Night Live teaches America Geography--We now all know that Alaska is nowhere near Russia, afterall, Alaska is a fantasy like the North Pole and Santa Claus.
poorrichard2.
Nov 5, 2012 11:00AM
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wyoming  birds flys upside down when flying throuhg wyoming, nothing to crap to there.
geegeeburr
Nov 5, 2012 10:56AM
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Who wrote this? If the question is supposed to be which of the CONTIGUOUS 48 states has the fill-in-the-blank, then don't say "which state" and then answer, "Outside of Alaska...." Last time I checked, Alaska and Hawaii were part of the United States. It's just stupid.

Jeff Thompson
Nov 5, 2012 10:48AM
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They keep saying "outside of Alaska".  Last I checked, Alaska was a state!!

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