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Test your knowledge with the US Great Circle States Challenge Quiz and discover fun facts about US geography.

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US Great Circle States Challenge

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You begin the quiz with 25 different routes between cities listed in the table. The routes are chosen randomly from among all possible pairs of the 50 largest US cities plus the largest city in each state. No route will have less than 5 total states.

You are to name the states (using state abbreviations) in order you cross over when flying from the first city to the second. City routes are from the city centers NOT the airports. You are answering the states in order of first to last based on when you FIRST fly over them (occasionally you may fly over a state, then another, then the previous state again, do NOT list the first state twice). Each state therefore is only answered once. The first state is always the state you depart from. The last state is generally the destination state, but not always (as you may have crossed over it previously then another state, then back over it to land).

You get 5 seconds added for each state you guess correctly. If you enter an incorrect state or a state not in the right order, the game will end.

DC is NOT included, only the 50 states.

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Lotte

8 months ago

Any chance of a world version for this?

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to Lotte

Yes coming soon with World Capitals, takes a while to get all the data ready.

BenNemo

8 months ago

Great concept, but I don’t understand the rush. Since you can’t just guess randomly without ending the quiz, there is no need to have such short time.

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to BenNemo

Mostly to prevent people from pulling up a map and looking over the route 🙂

Edit: I’ve bumped it up a bit. And you do get 5 seconds per correct answer.

Last edited 8 months ago by darin

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