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March 26, 2005
Grab A State
Cop Car led me to a geography quiz that she she got from a friend. I started with Utah and placed it within 79 miles of its actual location. I found this to be a great victory because I don't even think I've ever been to Utah. I managed to place 40 states (80%) of the states accurately. My average miss was by 52 miles and I placed them within 563 seconds.
The states that gave me the worst headaches were Iowa and Rhode Island. RI was the first eastern state that I drew and I managed to place it a couple hundred miles south of its real location (sorry I misplaced you Jim!). Then Iowa came up and, stupid me, I was thinking Ohio, so was just a tad off there as well. the other states that I missed, I just did so by 20-70 miles (which for the scale of things, I don't think was too bad).
Just for fun, I tried the quiz again (for the first 5 states) and drew Colorado first. Woohoo, I dropped it perfectly as I did for North Dakota, Missouri, Oregon (easy) and Utah (easy again because I already had Colorado in place).
Posted by Bogie on March 26, 2005 at 05:44 AM in Quiz | Permalink
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Well done, Bogie. You and Buffy beat me all to heck!
Posted by: Cop Car at Mar 26, 2005 6:16:57 AM
I thought my scores were lower than yours on all counts.
Posted by: bogie at Mar 27, 2005 5:47:38 AM
Too much fun, thx Bogie. We scored really close (88%, 29miles, 518s) A good break from work. :)
Posted by: tim at Mar 31, 2005 3:28:14 PM
Shame on you Tim - doing this at work, I'm shocked!
Posted by: bogie at Apr 1, 2005 4:23:24 AM
Obviously, your math is better than mine, Bogie. I don't know where my head was! (Now, now, that wasn't a nice thought, Bogie!)
Posted by: Cop Car at Apr 3, 2005 9:07:45 AM
