I did it on the 3rd try

LOL  Thanks a lot, Beth!!!     About ten tries b/c I was having trouble with some of the smaller states in the northeast but not bad for a Canuck.

Actually, Beth, this was quite informative.  I can now put the states in order fro A - W and W - A, without making a single mistake!  What's that you say?  Too much free time on my hands......Uh huh 

fro - from

Never had geography in school so I'm geographically illiterate.

 

But it's a good learning device!

You never had geography in school?  Really?  Sorry, don't mean to put you on the offensive, but it was a requirement for me right through grade 12.  That's why I love these tests.  I learn, and what's better than that?  OK.....some things.......

three times..that was hard

Took me 2 times - doing it the hard way the first time.

Kathy:  I think the UP should secede to Wisconsin!

August -- No, I never had Geography.  I had to teach a lot of these things to myself because at one time I wouldn't have been able to find any countries on the map if my life depended on it.  I often don't have any idea where a certain state is located, or where a certain country is located, and sometimes I never even heard of a place that someone is visiting.  I never studied the state capitals or anything else that people study in school.  I'm really not sure why we were never taught any of that.  I actually don't feel that I had a good education, if I look at the whole of it.  And the funny thing is, I went to the school district in NYC that has been rated #1 for decades.  However, according to my admittedly biased memory, most subjects were taught in a kind of lame style -- where no one really cared if you learned or not.  Just pass the test and be on your way.  So when History was taught, I was mostly daydreaming.  It bored me.  And the way it was taught was boring.  Spanish?  I took semester after semester and when I got to visit Spain, I couldn't speak more than a few words.  Science?  I didn't like it and I got a 65 and that was a passing grade, so that was good enough for me.  I think I had a good English education but that's because I was in Honors English so I was already doing a lot of Shakespeare in High School, not just one play.  Sooooo.... I only know where the major states are -- the easy ones like California, Florida and Texas and Maine.  But I played with this test for a few hours yesterday and I think I've learned a few things.  I can probably identify more states than I could before I took the test.  So it's been a great learning tool for me.  (Thanks Beth!)

Diane - I learned a lot from this test, too.  I also was only really  sure of where the bigger states were.  I was a lot like you in school.  Always interested in English but the rest of the courses depended on how interesting the teacher was.