{"id":24721,"date":"2022-11-18T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:08:39","slug":"how-many-american-states-can-you-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/new-zealand\/how-many-american-states-can-you-name\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW MANY AMERICAN STATES CAN YOU NAME?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PostFull__header\">\n<h3 class=\"right-side\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>After watching a video of a bunch of American Zoomers (Generation Z, born 1997 &#8211; 2012 &amp; currently aged 10-25) who were totally unable to answer incredibly simple questions like &#8220;Can you name five American states? (some couldn&#8217;t manage two!) I started wondering how many I could name.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PostFull__body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/50a2bfd8f89d1ae16154e1d1ea816583d4a80eec.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youtube embedded player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2oMv93EUpY?enablejsapi=0&amp;rel=0&amp;origin=https:\/\/blurtlatam.intinte.org&amp;start=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Despite living on the other side of the globe (I&#8217;m not sure how that works for flat earthers) even here in New Zealand we are constantly exposed to all things American, so I thought I could do a lot better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/de93eb002d789e2ac56f4afe06f1d91cfbba804c.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How many states could I name? Straight off, only 20, and even after having a think about it for a few minutes I only came up with another five, so rather appallingly I could only name half the 50 American states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/7af6dfa805b2457315aa2287d4df7469fa9dba08.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then having a crack at Canada I only managed two of the 13 provinces &amp; territories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/a201ffd838d0cae0a2269a2c4e36d1ff715ba774.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For a real challenge I tried Germany but could only name one of the 16 states, and that was a lucky guess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/6d08b54325ee81f27d69aee3215072ff4c3dac2c.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I did a lot better on New Zealand, naming 12 of the 16 regions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/3d0d945f3d5d59cc0ac70ed7649475ea6faa06e7.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Australia was also a lot easier, but I only managed six out of seven states, totally forgetting Victoria. (Australia is actually more confusing that that, because they have both states and territories, so officially there are only six states, but I&#8217;ll call Northern Territory a state here for simplicity)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/d09d438b521af96584f7b8ffd1c7af4c4c041161.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/660128c5a1a724219ec6ef903810a53a41beee85.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.kiwi_.footer.800x100-500x63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.kiwi_.footer.800x100-500x63.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.kiwi_.footer.800x100-200x25.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.kiwi_.footer.800x100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching a video of a bunch of American Zoomers (Generation Z, born 1997 &#8211; 2012 &amp; currently aged 10-25) who were totally unable to answer incredibly simple questions like &#8220;Can you name five American states? 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I started wondering how many I could name. &nbsp; Despite living on the other side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[54,40],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/gen-z.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24724,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions\/24724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}