I can't believe I missed Oklahoma. I'm embarrassed, but I guess forty-nine out of fifty isn't too bad.

[Via Paul Hsieh (who I beat by one)]

COLORADO.

How can I freaking forget Colorado?

I missed Connecticut the first time through, and thought the one I'd missed was one of the "M" states.

I still can't believe I missed OK. I tried to be methodical about it, and took a little road trip in my mind, starting in Florida, heading up the east coast, and then moving up and down as I drifted west. I just can't figure out how I missed it.

I, too, missed OK. Still not sure how. I started out west and moved towards the east, where I stumbled over almost all of New England. Almost forgot Connecticut, too, but got it in time.

The links got jumbled together, though, Rand. A direct click on the link body in IE takes you to a 404.

Typo'd Nevada (probably as "Neveda"; I know I typed it, but it didn't show up on the list and I didn't notice that it was missing). Almost left out Vermont and New Hampshire.

It's a lot harder to type the names into a list than to identify them on a map--I'm too used to associating the names with a shape and a position.

Got 'em all with 4:14 to spare. Took about a minute to come up with the last one = Arkansas. I'm sure there is something significant about that!

Of course, it didn't hurt that yesterday, my son and I were playing with a puzzle map of the US.

Not exactly the same thing, but this site:

http://www.purposegames.com/geoquiz

Has a lot of other interesting geography quizzes, as well as a method of adding your own.

Almost forgot Utah with 48 seconds remaining. I spent the last five minutes remembering that and Missouri.

Spent over 2 minutes trying to remember Minnesota!

With 1:07 to go I finally remembered Idaho. Got the other 49 with more than 4 minutes to go.

Massachusetts. And I lived there for 5 years.

[Hangs head in shame.]

Massachusetts. And I lived there for 5 years.

I know people who used to live there, who wish they could forget it.