Can I name all the US State Capitals? QUIZ
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It's doubly impressive that you know both the capital cities and the location of the states
I feel like since we have to drive everywhere we have a fairly good grasp of where a lot of states are in general I know where all of the states are way easier than the capitols! Also I feel like growing up in school it was more about the states and their interactions in their region or in the federal government not the capitols or what each state government did in terms of what we learned overall. like the civil war, 3/5ths compromise, the revolutionary war, we learn a lot of things that requires us to pay more attention to geography of the state itself and the reasons they split or were formed at all ect. Growing up you learn about the whole us and the state you live in but other than 4th grade for me you learn the capitols once and move on to other things.
americans learn where the states are lmfaoo
@@rohankhubchandani3694 yeah but tbf a lot of us learn things at school which we then forget. I used to know all of Henry the 8ths wives for example- now I could name maybe 2 or 3 of them
@@katie6384 Well, there's six wives - but only three names!
@@Jim-the-Engineer haha ahh maybe that's why then 😂
I'm more impressed that you were able to remember all these little stories than if you had just known all the capitals by heart
Yeah!
Ditto. Most Americans pick this stuff up in 5th grade, or should, but the mnemonics you learned were interesting. We learned the cities as we studied each section of the country in a methodical order. I.e. you'd cover the six New England states all together and learn their capitals, and important points about what they produced or were known for. Then you moved on across the country, until you learned all 50. As far as learning all the counties in the states? Nah, outside of possibly your own state, and then, maybe not. I would pity the kid from Texas who had to memorize all 250+ counties! Whereas a kid from Delaware would have only 3.
Can you place all of European countries? If that's too easy you can try Eurpean Capitals! Love your content! Best wishes from Portugal
I'd like to see this too 😊✌
*laughs in Balkans*
As someone who can do all of the countries and capitals of the world, I second doing Europe at least, if not the whole world
I am somehow confused, shocked, impressed and amused at the same time
Someone please animate everything that came out of Even’s mouth in this video. I NEED to see these mnemonics come to life
THANK YOU for spelling that out!!
I didn't know this word (non-native english speaker) and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to spell it just from hearing it 😩 (I figured there'd be a silent letter before the n but I didn't know which one 🤦😂)
@@alishak8241 props to you for knowing there was a silent letter. I'm a native english speaker and in my brain was spelling it neumonics lol
Even if I didn't like Evan's content I'd still watch his videos because they're so pretty
hahaha thanks? 😳
I get that
But Evan isn't!
As someone from the UK who for some strange reason decided to learn all the US states and state capitals when I was 12, I am very much looking forward to this!
Same!
Omg saaaaame! Not at 12 though, probably about 15. I dont know them all but i go back every year or so and do the quizzes again. I have my own mnemonics to remember quite a few of them but it's interesting to hear other people's mnemonics for it.
Frankfort for me makes me think of frankfurters, which is food, like kentucky (kfc).
Richmond is a brand of cigarettes and golden virginia is the brand of rolling tobacco 🤣 so that's how i remember that.
Helena is a girls name and i know a girl called montana.
Similar with maryland and annapolis (mary and anna, land and polis are like land suffixs 🤣).
Some i just remember though. Like des moines is where slipknot are from in iowa and i just remember that. Some i remember from movie references
@deadly melody27 I was about 17 when I did this and lol my thing for frankfort was also 'because it's a sausage not chicken'
I memorised all the countries of the world around the same time which is great for those occasional questions on pointless...
Same, only took like a week to know most of them aswell, it's sooo much easier than learning the english counties haha, we don't get songs about ours like they do 😅
@@etmuse oh could have learned all the countries fast af that from Animaniacs too, they did a song on that 😂
as someone who struggles at the best of times to remember where my own country is on a map, your geographical skills honestly terrify me a bit
@@BooksRebound i'm belgian, ngl the internet is made to exaggerate humour, i know where i am on a map, i do confuse france and germany a lot and i'm not good at geography in general so that's that on that i suppose
It's quite literally drilled into us in school. I've had several tests where I've been handed an empty map and been expected to label each state and list its capital 🥲
"can you do this for your home country?" well yes evan, as my country only has one capital city, not to brag or anything
which country?
Lmao same likes states??? There's regions/provinces but that'd be a super vague way of talking about where someone lives; everyone just uses cities.
@@kaylaboland637 no i'm pretty sure they just mean it only has one capital as in it's not a federal country (e.g. france)
In England the equivalent is knowing the County Towns, which is usually easy (e.g. Herefordshire is Hereford), but on occasions can be tricky (e.g. Buckinghamshire is Aylesbury, not Buckingham). There is also the problem of “what is a County”, anyway? Are we going by Ancient Counties or Ceremonial Counties, or, indeed, Administrative HQs? Surrey is the case in point. In 1893, the County Town was officially moved from Guildford to Kingston-upon-Thames. However, Kingston-upon-Thames is now a London Borough, but the Administration of Surrey County Council still takes place from there.
@@zoewich6564 that's also what I'm talking about? My country has only one capital city?
So from what I've gathered from this video is that American Geography classes are purely about memorising place names and locations.
As an American- that’s literally all my geography education was. We memorized and learned to draw the world map and place countries, capitals, and major geographic features and just about nothing else. The final was just drawing a world map from memory.
@@emby3146 I’m from the uk and ohhhh how I wish that’s all geography was here
Now I'm curious what else you learned in geography
@@LiqdPT in UK from my memory of 3 years of classes, we learned about weather extremes, pollution, refugees/immigrants and that's all I remember. We had very little focus on the actual countries after primary school
@@SamWest96 I grew up in Canada where we had a single class called "Social Studies" that incorporated things like geography and history. I just always thought of the term geography as meaning "where is stuff on a map" and maybe basic facts about those places, so was curious what it meant to you.
FunFact: In Germany, mnemonics are called "Eselsbrücken", which literally translates to "Donkey Bridges"
Thanks for clearing that up, I was trying to figure out what mnemonics might be 😅
I know the word "Eselsbrücke", but I never bothered to translate it, not even just for fun. "donkey bridge" sounds hilarious! Looks like I've been missing out on that.
same in dutch :) 'ezelsbrug'
@@supercalifragilisticexpial2293 wow that's interesting. I guess the Indonesian phrase must have come from Dutch since it also translates to "donkey bridge"
Welcome to a man for whom personal validation is riding entirely upon his retention of his elementary education!
@Jamie B **shrug**
@Jamie BI'm sorry, I didn't realize my trying to be grammatically correct would be too much for anyone.
@Jamie B have you met me?
This pretty much sums me up aha ':)
@Jamie B His comment was written with very normal words. There was nothing fancy or pretentious about them. They are about as common to know as the word “the”.
I’d love to see him try to name states/provinces of random countries, like Canada or France. Just to see what he’d do 😂
Id love to see France! When I studied abroad in France, I memorised all the Regions and their capitals. I think they recently restructured so I need to update my knowledge 😅
He could also give Germany a try.
@@Fred2303 with Germany he could try and guess former East German names
Yes, as our next door neighbours, he should be able to do Canada as we only have 10 provinces and 3 territories. However, I really doubt that he can. I did pretty good on the US though! If it was reversed - name the capital of the state - I would have had a harder time though. I don’t know why.
@@nancyrafnson4780 Probably because of the American habit of always saying placenames as 'Des Moines, Iowa' or 'Lexington, Kentucky'. So given a city name (capital or not) it's easy to remember what state it's in. Obviously that doesn't work so well in reverse.
i would recommend looking at the GCSE geography stuff and then you will see why we know basically nothing about places, we learn about earth quakes and other stuff
I did geography at gcse and regretted it as there's very little political geography.
Cant explain how a river does random shit etc
I thought I would do bad, but getting the capitol name and then picking the state is SO MUCH easier than having the state and naming the right city.
I remember Cheyenne, Wyoming and Boise Idaho as: “little Shy Anne from Wyoming. Why was she shy? Because of those noisy Boysies in Idaho, that’s why.” It also really helped me remember where on the map they were
The way he says "Nevada" is making my eye twitch every time he says it lol
As an American who had to memorize all the state capitals, these mnemonics would have been so helpful... instead of trying to memorize them. Still remembered them all these years later tho
Right, I don't remember any of them except where I live.
The best I ever did was 11 wrong, but we had a point for the state, the capitol, and the spelling for both
Just do the song bro :P
@@robyntheslytherin never learned a song, just told to “memorize” lmao
I feel like they would be helpful for some, but for me it's just easier to pair them with the state name. 🤷
A man who knows where the states are AND the capitals. What a heartthrob!
Evan is American.
@@marydavis5234 yes it was sarcasm, I know he is american!
Okay this was HIGHLY entertaining. I’m a little sad I missed out on all the weird mnemonics since I was homeschooled. Thank you for sharing lol
I don’t think they taught those in all public schools. I went to public school until the end of 3rd grade and had to learn all the the capitals but just through memorizing them on their own.
Not to worry. I went to public School in Illinois and did not learn all of those mnemonics. I did learn a fun little song though about how to sing them all in alphabetical order
when you were going through them I was just yelling out random states because they were in films or books, got a few right from it lmao
I think coming up with the names of the cities is harder, so if that's the way you learned it, props!
But surely it’s harder to remember all the mnemonics than just remembering city names?!
Yup seems like waaay more effort and stuff to remember to me haha! I definitely find it easier to remember stuff just through rote memorisation unless it’s a really short mnemonic
It is for some people and not for others. People who are naturally good at memorizing facts will do better just memorizing. However, if you’ve ever watched those kids who are in Mensa memorize a deck of cards, the mnemonic devices are more efficient if your brain works that way. Something in the word will trigger your memory to tell the story. There’s no real effort involved. However, like I said it only works for people who have the natural ability.
I can tell you that the US Air Force makes people test for rank and I use mnemonic devices because there’s like 2000 pages of content that questions can come from. I’ve always tested in the top 5%. The people I know who try to rote memorize often do badly and struggle to make rank because of it.
It is way harder to remember all the mnemonics, but they stick. For years and years. You can learn the capitols in 30 minutes for a quiz but you'll only remember 20-30% of them the next day and the ones you remember are triggered by some subconscious movie reference or something like that. It's about tricking the brain into storing this "useless" information in long-term memory and building a way to trigger that memory years later
While I am very impressed by Evan still knowing pretty much all of the capitals and the mnemonics it also kind of terrifies me. It just seems like such a typical American patriotism thing to drill this into little kids' heads. Tbh I am proud if I can name all of Gernany's states and I even I with that.
On the other hand I was stunned to know that there are state capitals named Frankfurt and Bismarck, I guess the Germany settlers had some influence there :D
Have you seen the Animaniacs song about state capitols? It's hysterical 🤣😂
My 3rd grade class sang that song at a school performance. I will never forget state capitals. Burned in my brain.
Am disappointed Evan didn’t sing it for this video
@@atllauren I’m British and I know all the US states and Capitals... thanks animaniacs
I'm impressed. Extra points for knowing location too!
Id love to see a video of Evan putting UK cities on a map 😂
Glad to see I’m not the only one obsessed with Seterra
If you can't remember which state is New Hampshire and which state is Vermont, just remember that Vermont is shaped like a V.
Yep! That's how I remembered it.
I was never required to learn the capitals in school, but just playing along as an American, I got 32 and I’m pretty impressed with that
As someone from Scotland who had atleast heard of most of these city's it shows to me just how much American media/culture is apart of our lives in the UK.
As someone who thought the "prove it" but kept it to myself, yeah you impressed me.
im pretty much traumatized by state capitals because my 5th grade teacher decided to teach capitals instead of math. when I transferred to a different school I had the whole year of math work to make up. yes they made me do every single thing I had missed from the old school :(
As someone from a state capital (Olympia), it would be so nice to know people know who we are.
I’m impressed with the pneumonic devices, I just had to memorize them or create my own ways to remember which were never as good
Enjoyed this quiz! I got 19/50 even though I’ve never been to the US. Just through watching TV and movies!
Easy way to remember the states and capitals of the U.S there is a song called “tour the states” it is catchy and fun and it really helped me.
Hey Evan! As a fellow New Jersey native, we were taught to recite all of the counties of NJ to the tune of Yankee Doodle in our elementary school. I don't know whether or not I am embarrassed to say that I still use it to this day, but if you can recite them without singing the tune you can mildly impress your friends if the situation ever arises.
You should try Canada next! Also the lighting looks really cool!
Now this is my kind of video, learning states/countries is one of my fave pastimes for some reason 😂
I'm not American and I got 100% on this. Don't need any mnemonics, I just learn shit like this so when I have an anxiety attack or can't sleep I can recite them to calm down. Helps focus the mind.
holy shit this blows my mind... the way you memorize mnemonics AND the capitals AND where the state is is amazing... i'm so damn impressed
I'm from States but I never had to memorize state capitals. But Evan you crushed it!
Moral of the story is don't be cocky. However you did extremely well Evan. Well done, very impressed
Lighting is looking sharp, flattering and professional
As he started, I knew ALL of the visuals he was referring to, because so many of them were in this book "Yo, Sacramento!" that I had as a child. I wonder if he also had this book, or learned the mnemonics another way?
I should include: My favorite that wasn't said is something like this, The honey truck does loopty loops on the high way. Honolulu, Hawaii.
I'm so impressed by the fact that you knew both the capitals and the locations of all the states!
I literally went on this website for 3 hours after the last video lmao
As a person from Kentucky I got thrown off for half a second when the Louisville Slugger bat was used for Louisiana 😂
Impressed you knew one of the ZIP codes for Boston as 02134! (That’s right, by the way. It’s in Allston.)
This is fab. Your memory is crazy! I always think it is sad we don’t learn a lot about the geography of our own country here in the UK. I’m not sure about going that far, where we have to majorly memorise stuff but personally I didn’t even learn about other counties or major cities (apart from London) in school. Then again I have been out of school for 16 years, it may be different now but I doubt it.
I got 100% on that English Counties quiz you did, with myself being from Bedfordshire. US states on a map i can get 100% too but not the capital cities. I got 43%. Fascinating all the little phrases you have drilled into you from education to remember these.
That’s still impressive. I can find most states on the map, but probably don’t know many of the capitals, and couldn’t name one county in the UK
Vermont looks like a V, that's how we were always taught. Also, love the saying for Nebraska.
Whenever I need to figure out where Jackson is, I hear Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, "Jackson Mississippi! If we show up, we gon' show out
Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy"
I see why you remembered so many of these: there're SO many bad puns
The Zoom reference made me happy.
Only 1 wrong is pretty damn good
I'm a Brit and I have learned all the state capitals expressly for pub quiz purposes, also using similarly ridiculous devices to remember them: Helena Montana is Like Hannah Montana, "Frankforters" and KFC are both fast foods. etc. While we're talking about Kentucky, it's brilliant that it is shaped like a bit of fried chicken.
I'd forgotten two! Love your mnemonics 😀 I create similar ones for all sorts of things, for example when learning languages (Memrise even lets you make your own and share them with others), geography, biology etc.
My notebooks used to be full of tiny drawings, even cartoons, and weird words that helped me remember stuff. Teachers would sometimes complain about me not listening, because they just saw me drawing things they couldn't connect to the subject. Little did they know.
I've spent an unhealthy amount of time in Sporcle geography just for fun, and at some point or other have memorised all the countries in the world (the quiz requires you to type them, not just click, so places like Kyrgyzstan and Czech Republic take some concentration, although there are some shortcuts like CAR for Central African Republic), all the capitals, US states and their capitals, all official flags, biggest cities of some countries, the oceans etc. One of the worst was US states without borders, where you have to just click in the right place on a totally blank map and hope you hit the state. (Luckily states can be skipped, so it's possible to start from easier ones like Florida and Texas and work your way towards the harder ones as the correct ones change colour. It's also a minefield, so one wrong click and it's game over.) Can't stop, please send help 😂
Hooray for mnemonics! I'm an American, but I was born and raised overseas, so my US geography is terrible. I remember the "50 Nifty" song for the states, but all I got for the capitals was a list to memorize. I honestly don't know how many I remember ... probably not enough to do even remotely as well as Evan. I'm pretty sure I can accurately place all the states on a map, though. Definitely solid on the eastern half and the coastal states, but anything west of Missouri in that middle-ish area gets squiffy.
The way I just do this quiz for fun sometimes. Fastest time so far is 1:32 with 100%. Also I can still sing the song I was taught to remember them all. Borrowed it over the weekend from my 5th grade teacher. Anyway, this is 100% the relatable content I follow Evan for.
The fact that you know the location of each states is amazing not to mention knowing at the state capitals.
How do you think you would have done if it were a list of states and you had to type in the capital from memory?
I knew all of these in this format, but I think if I had just been asked off hand what the capital of Vermont is I would have been like “uhhhh, Ben & Jerry’s?”.
That was a lot of fun, and yes, you did very well. However, I was also happy to see that I still know most of them. When I was a child, I had a map with plastic pieces of the states that you fitted into the puzzle and there were little markers in the shape of a capitol with the names on them that you placed in holes in the plastic pieces. After putting together the map, you placed the capitals (yes, I know the difference between “capital” and “capitol”). Me being an obnoxious little boy who liked to show off how much he knew, I quickly learned how to do both parts of the puzzle, and it has stayed with me all these years as part of the (generally) useless trivia I know.
Now, name the 16 German states and THEIR capitals!
You're mnemonics would be too hard for me to remember! I just memorized states and capitals as a kid. I loved geography and being an Army brat, I moved around a lot, so it just came naturally.
I am honestly super impressed! And I'm not sure how long you spent color-grading but it was worth it! The natural lighting looks so nice too. **gives two thumbs up**
Also, I weirdly love that cool, new transition to your end scene you used! haha
The first “a” in Nevada is pronounced as in “have” and the second one is a hard “a”. This is important to its natives.
Its funny how you learned the States and the capitals, i just liked history and geography but also bc in my school it was drilled into us we had coloring sheets in elementary and middle school plus we had to draw and pin point the States and the capitals then in high school we had to basically call it out from memory and write it down on paper.
I waited the whole time for the Maryland capital since I often feel like we are the most forgotten state. Annapolis baby!
I'm Canadian, and I knew Sacramento, Montgomery, Austin, Atlanta, Phoenix, Boston, Honolulu, and Columbus
Me, in Iceland, screaming WISCONSIN at my screen
For Vermont vs New Hampshire identification, I was told-once you found those two-to find the one that is thinner at the bottom and wider at the top, forming a “V” shape. That V-shaped one is Vermont (matching the “v”s, basically).
The Boston mass 02134 reference is from PBS shows kids could write in to be read on air and the studio is in Allston MA which is now sadly closed and converted to a hotel
Have a go at the European capitals.
By the way, every time I look at the US state capitals, it surprises me that most of them aren’t the biggest city in the state.
I’ll give you an A for effort. The mnemonic devices gave you the edge because I never had those so that was impressive. My friends and I use with that site or a similar and compete for time. When I was in school it the capital and largest city of different.
The way you make those little eselsbrücken into stories is so entertaining and also feels so familiar. My grandpa has a very similar way of telling stories and jokes :)
Evan: It doesn’t take brain surgery.
Me: it’s that easy? Ok, I’ll try. Oh! Kansas City. That should be easy…
As a British person I was really impressed with myself when I learnt all the state capitals by redoing a quiz. But only that same quiz with the states in the same order 😂😂 I do remember some of the less obvious ones though
I also I like to pronounce Des Moines like Deez (nuts) Moines (like Noice in B99. S at the end included) 😂😂
I'm French and i've learned the placement on each state plus their capital for fun because i'm a nerd. Most of my mnemonics are really personal and only make sense in my brain though, or they relate to stuff and people i know, or logical weird links. like i had a friend named Paul who spent a year in Minnesota; Maryland is the land of Mary, and it's capital is the city of Anna - Annapolis; Bismark was called like this to attract German settlers to North Dakota because it was up North and very empty... i remember most of them this way!
everyone who’s learning this in school rn should be required to watch this
This is also how I studied for everything and I’m insanely impressed you remember it all holy crap
I love how much your production quality has gone up, and you can tell how much love and attention you put into your videos. Keep it up! Have been a long time fan
I am literally so impressed. Even that you could spot the actual states on the map without their names there. Maybe it's because I'm Canadian and have no clue.
"Des Moines Iowa sounds gross."
Judges you in Iowan.
OMG! I say "Boston Mass 02134 - send it to Zoom!" every time someone says boston! And I'm a Canadian !! (we had cable)
Im impressed... but also terrified of the American schooling system... and Nation. Glad you expanded your world a bit!
As a current North Carolinian who was originally from Charleston WV... I enjoyed that lol
I (non american) actually just learned the locations of all the us states from a quiz similar to that but i don't know if I could do all the capitals so good job!
That was impressive. I knew more capitals than I thought, but I wouldn't know where the states were located.
Also I really love the quality of your videos ^^ it's so pretty to watch :)
CB slang for Sacramento is Sack-of-Tomatoes, which grow in abundance in the more rural central part of California
Omg Im legit impressed XD I thought I knew these myself but no lol.
I'm more impressed that I was able to follow along. Thanks 5th grade for drilling all 50 states and capitals into my skull
some like Atlanta or Cheyenne or Salt Lake City are generally easier to remember than a city Salem because they're the most talked about city unlike most other capitals
What evan thinks is the impressive part: knowing the state capitals
What I find the impressive part: knowing where the states are.
What I find weird: remembering these stories instead if just remembering the capitals to each state
I think it is pretty damning of the US history education that you need a mnemonic for Little Rock.
right? but then again, i doubt they would teach young kids about that sort of thing.
Send it to Zoom! Oh my god, Evan, that took me back.
I live in Harrisburg and I love that pneumonic device. I’m glad I new more of these capitals than I thought I did. My school focused on states.
It’s difficult because often these state capitals are quite obscure and small and their states have far bigger and more famous cities in them.
The state capitals I do know are literally because of Supernatural episodes 😅 I was a sad teenager with too much time on my hands 🤣
I remember someone said capital of New York is Huntington Station and I laughed 😂. But I think you were mixing up Charleston, West Virginia with Charleston, South Carolina, but I got all of them right being that I came from the UK to the US
I’m sure I also had to learn these. I do not remember them. I don’t even remember the poem?? For the 13 colonies- Georgia the Jersey cow.
I am in fact quite impressed.
The new hamster chewed the cord - Concord New Hampshire! :D I’m glad other people came up with silly stories to remember all of those...
I honestly can’t tell if he’s absolutely amazing at improvisation or absolutely amazing at memory. He’s either making all this up on the spot or he’s just a computer.
The visual quality of this vid is next level mate, well done :)