Re: [OT] Brits try to identify the 50 US states on a map

On 2/5/2025 9:46 AM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-02-05 10:21 AM, suzeeq wrote:

On 2/5/2025 5:57 AM, Rhino wrote:

If you're in the mood for a bit of a laugh, you might like this video. Several teams of two Brits are given a map showing the 50 US states and are then given 10 minutes to label all of them. (They are also given a list of the states). They made some surprising guesses.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GNf51_NvU [9 minutes]
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Several other videos in the same vein show up on my recommended list. I also saw one where Americans tried to pronounce British place names (NOT the easy ones like "London"), and another where Brits tried to pronounce American place names (again, NOT the easy ones). They're all in good fun.
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I like to think I could label quite a lot of the US states correctly but I know I'd have trouble with some. Then again, I'm not sure if most Americans would get them all correct either ;-)

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I'd have a hard time placing all the English shires in the correct place, or even larger cities like Leeds and Birmingham. And I've looked up some of them on google maps.

 You'd do better than me then! I can point to a few places that I've been but if you asked me where Lincolnshire is or what was in it, I'd have to look all of that up. Mind you, I understand the shires have no political significance at all: they don't function like states with their own governments. There are really just two levels of government, the federal government and local "councils" whose boundaries are not based on the shires.
 What about the 50 states? Could you label all of them correctly given a blank map? I think we're from the generation that actually had geography in school and learned that kind of thing but I have reason to doubt that the current generation of school children - and maybe the previous generation or two as well - got that same information.
 

Yes I could do all 50 easily, though I might have to think about a couple of them. I actually read maps like a newspaper or magazine, as if I were planning a road trip or two.