How well do you know the 50 US states? Take our July 4 quiz to find out
It is - as you may already have noticed, if you own a diary, or a calendar, or a smartphone, or any sort of awareness about time and date - July 4. Which is also - as you may already have noticed, if you are American, or have heard of America, or have been to America, or you are alive - Independence Day on the other side of the Atlantic.
What? Oh, you know, the big event which happened in 1776, and has been celebrated on the fourth day of the seventh month ever since. Philadelphia. The United States 1 Great Britain 0 (Goal: George Washington, 89 minutes; Red Card - George III, 90 minutes). "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ..." Ringing any bells yet, Liberty Bells or otherwise? Shall we add a fireworks display. Yes, penny drops..
So how to mark this momentous annual occasion? Why, with a giant quiz, of course. But not just any quiz. A quiz about every single state in the USA. Yes, all 50 of them.
The process is simple. There is a half-century of questions below. Each state is the correct answer to one of them, and one alone. Yes, even Nebraska (but not Puerto Rico, because Puerto Rico is not yet a state). So if you get to question six, and you've already answered New York five times, you're doing it wrong. Got it? Ace. Let's start.
