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Some US states have a "north" and "south" (like the Carolinas and the Dakotas), and one even has a "west" (Virginia). What is the only state in the US that ever had an "east"?
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Which US State is farthest South? North? East? West?
Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska, Alaska. Alaska crosses the 180 degree longitude line, meaning parts of it are as far west as west longitude is measured, and other parts are as far east as east longitude is measured.
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Would it be cheating to go to a Boston Coffee and look at the Trivial Pursuit cards (assuming you don't have the game)?
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Texas an Hawaii were both indisputably independent countries. Both were absurdly insignificant as countries go, but both had diplomatic recognition. (Texas from France, the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands, I believe. I am not sure about Hawaii.)
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You might try browsing through Ask the Editors on Infoplease. (Confession of bias: I fielded a lot of those.)
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Do they all need to be geography questions?
What about asking for little-known details about your local (town, state, whatever) history? Also, questions with numbers as the answer are always fun to throw in for variety - then people can just guess wildly if they want to instead of thinking about it.
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quote:Originally posted by PrometheusBound: Texas an Hawaii were both indisputably independent countries. Both were absurdly insignificant as countries go, but both had diplomatic recognition. (Texas from France, the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands, I believe. I am not sure about Hawaii.)
My U.S. history teacher once asked what one had to do to be named Ambassador from France to a log cabin in Texas.
Texas I would dispute, not necessarily just because they were only a country for ten years, but because during the whole of that time they were under constant attack from Mexico, and had almost zero means to defend themselves against the regular Mexican army.
Hawaii may have been insignificant, though I don't know why that really matters, in the history of what has made a nation a nation, significance hasn't been any requirement that I know of, but they were still an independent nation, part of the world economy, for something like 80 years before the US annexed them.
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In addition to Texas and Hawaii, California also had a very brief stint as an independent nation..
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AFAIK the Texas flag is the only state flag that should fly as high as the US flag. Is this also true of Hawaii?
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"Texas I would dispute, not necessarily just because they were only a country for ten years, but because during the whole of that time they were under constant attack from Mexico, and had almost zero means to defend themselves against the regular Mexican army. "
Dude, Texas had a Navy (well only four ships) and an army/gendarmerie. The later still survives, although its function has changed. Yep, that's right the Texas Rangers. The fact of the matter is that Mexico was not sucessful in their attempts.
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