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Challenge your knowledge with the US State Capitals Triplets Blackout Challenge Quiz. Can you identify the top three capitals?

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US State Capitals Triplets Blackout Challenge

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Upon clicking START you will be presented with a 5×5 grid of 25 of the US state capitals.

The object of this quiz is to choose the top 3 in the given category for the capitals shown in the grid. When you begin you’ll be given 25 different capitals plus a category to name the top 3 in, which will display just above the grid. For example, if the category says ‘Top 3 Largest Population’ you are to click on the 3 capitals with the largest population. If it says ‘Top 3 Highest Elevation’ you are to click on the 3 whose elevation is the highest. You can deselect the first or second capital you chose on by re-clicking it, but when you choose the 3rd capital they will be submitted, removed from the grid, and you will get a score from 0-100 based on how close your set of 3 comes to the optimum set of 3 (which will be shown as a ‘Rank’ on top out of the # of possible sets of 3 for the last choice). When you’ve answered all 8 sets of 3 leaving only 1 capital the quiz is over. You get a 100 points bonus for completing the sets making for a total possible score of 2500.

Note: For the ‘Most Recent’ and ‘Earliest’ category, this is referencing the year the city became the capital of the state, not when the capital was founded/established or when the state became a state.

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bg616

4 months ago

Great quiz. For the oldest and newest categories, does that mean (1) when the capital became capital of the state, (2) when the capital’s state became a state, or (3) when the city itself was established?

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darin

4 months ago

Reply to bg616

I’ll clarify in description.

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