Trivia

[TCD619]

What is the only state that has its appreviation at the end of its spelling?

[Seanie Mac]

Kentucky

[TCD619]

Nice. was final jeopardy question today and makes ya think

[Seanie Mac]

yea it took me awhile I had to go grab a map to remember some states

[WildKat]

Pretty cool state lol

[huscroft6]

Didnt know cuz I had never heard of an appreviation

[TCD619]

I did. TWM.. (tied w/minnesota) TERRIBLE.

caps shut out sabres

[Seanie Mac]

Originally Posted by huscroft6

Didnt know cuz I had never heard of an appreviation

lmao

[Lukester]

Originally Posted by huscroft6

Didnt know cuz I had never heard of an appreviation

woo-hoo!

[Lukester]

-Why does Delaware have a semicircle for its northern border?

-Why is there a West Virginia but not an East Virginia?

[Kramer]

Where does the word
carat come from in diamond ?

[Gobbler's Knob]

A German man had hiccups for 3 years before he finally stopped them. How did he do it?

[revnecro1273]

Originally Posted by Lukester

-Why does Delaware have a semicircle for its northern border?

-Why is there a West Virginia but not an East Virginia?

my guess on the west virginia is because virginia proper existed and expansion went west

[jrobie79]

Originally Posted by Gobbler's Knob

A German man had hiccups for 3 years before he finally stopped them. How did he do it?

did he die?

or he walked into a bar and asked for a drink, the bartender pulls a gun on him and scared the shit/hiccups out of him

[Lukester]

Originally Posted by revnecro1273

my guess on the west virginia is because virginia proper existed and expansion went west

More or less that's right. (Lots of skirmishes presented themselves after the Revolution and the Civil War in that area, especially the Shenandoah Valley but were voted against by Congress to have it's own independent territory.

The Delaware northern semicircle is unique in any land/territory dispute the world over. Again, terriory disputes between the Dutch and the English at the time. PA had no windown on the Atlantic and was vulnerable to whoever controlled the Delaware Bay. It was all resolved in 1674 when England ousted the Dutch from the last of their North American land.

This is all according to David Stein in his book "How the States got their Shapes". I'll certainly re-read this a second time in the future. Very interesting for all interested in American and Canadian land/territory disputes at the time. It describes all the States shapes during all the Wars (staight lines, size, panhandles, etc.