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

Rhino wrote:

On 2025-02-05 1:04 PM, suzeeq wrote:

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.

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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.
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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.
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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.

 
Excellent! I'm a fan of maps too. They're cool :-)
 

Ditto! I've got a nice collection of state, city, and
a few country maps I've gathered over the years, plus
if someone I know is travelling. I ask them to pick up
a state/local map (freebie ones from visitor centers are
perfect) whenever they can for me.

When I'm reading a book set in an area I don't know well,
I like to get out a map of the area and get a feel for
the area. It makes the book more memorable (and sometimes
more understandable for history books).

Nyssa, who prefers her easily referenced paper maps to
online ones too