As we Americans know, Election Day will  be here in 4 months (at last) and I thought a Quiz naming  our 50 states and their Capital cities, would be apropos but not easy..
Each person can name 5 states and how they are in alphabetical order along with their capitals...This should be interesting....

I would have liked a list by date of statehood, but here goes. I am familiar with these because mine is among them.

Alabama   Montgomery
Alaska      Juneau
Arizona     Phoenix
Arkansas   Little Rock
California  Sacramento

All correct Angel...good start...Continue with the remaining 45 states

Colorado - Denver
Connecticut - Hartford
Delaware - Dover
Florida - Tallahassee
Georgia - Atlanta

Correct Marilyne...Continuing with 40 more states to be named...

To Marilyne and Angel: you can name as many of  all the remaining states and their capitals you want along with everyone else..

Hawaii - Honolulu
Idaho - Boise
Illinois - Springfield
Indiana - Indianapolis
Iowa - Des Moines

I hope others come in and name the remaining states.

All Correct Marilyne... To you and all: you can name as many as you wish or as few as you wish

Kansas. Topeka
Kentucky Frankfort
Louisiana. Baton Rouge
Maine. Augusta
Maryland  Annapolis

Right you are Junee.. and especially when you come from a different country...You and everyone are welcome to join in in naming some more

Massachusetts.  Boston
Michigan.  Lansing
Minnesota. St Paul
Mississippi. Jackson
Missouri. Jefferson

Junee...O.K for. all your states except you left the word "City"  out after the capital city, "Jefferson City Missouri"...

Continue on.. all...

Chia, that was careless because that one I knew without Mr Google.

Junee..As we would say here in the United States, "No Big Deal" ''Continue if you prefer.....

Montana. Helena
Nebraska. Lincoln
Nevada. Carson  city
New Hampshire.  Concord
New Jersey. Trenton

Junee..Right again..Proceed if you care to...

New Mexico - Santa Fe
New York - Albany
North Carolina - Raleigh
North Dakota - Bismarck
Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma   Oklahoma City

Oregon       Salem

Pennsylvania Harrisburg

Rhode Island  Providence

South Carolina  Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre
Tennessee - Nashville
Texas - Austin
Utah - Salt Lake City
Vermont - Montpelier

so many I had never heard of! 
I pity the kids who have to learn all that by heart for their geography lessons.
But then we did that for all the European countries

Not only states and capitals, Bubble, but gross state products as well. I used to know all that, could spit it out any time as well as draw a simple map, not any more.....

You are reminding me of how we had to know products and agriculture crops of European countries in grade 3. For Italy I mentioned fields of spaghetti!!! 

Correct Answers Bubble and Angel....Just 5 more states to be named...Any and all can  name them now...

Virginia - Richmond
Washington - Olympia
West virginia - Charleston
Wisconsin - Madison
Wyoming - Cheyenne

We also had to learn and memorize the states and capitals, in elementary school. I think it was in about 6th grade? This included the major industries in each state.  I recall that at the time, the major industry in Michigan was automobile manufacturing.  I don't think that's true anymore?  Being as I lived in California, we mostly studied the industry here.  At that time it was ship building and airplane manufacturing, plus citrus growing and other fruits and veggies.  Southern CA, where I lived, was mostly orange, lemon and grapefruit orchards back then.  Now all long gone, and replaced by housing tracts and huge sprawling cities and freeways.   
It would be interesting to read how each state has changed since then.

Correct answers Marilyne...and this ends the quiz naming all 50 American states and their capitals...
Thanks to Marilyne,Angel, Junee, and Bubble for their contributions and especially great were Australia and Israel represented
Here is my appreciation for all your answers...

Marilyne, I think we had fishing, timber, and tourism. I know in the fifties and sixties, there was much more homesteading and lots of Asian and Russian immigrants as well as tourism. The University has nine state campuses and an icebreaker in their system, so a lot of folks from India and East European countries came here to study.

It used to be more of an agricultural campus and then it went to land use, sciences and when they got the super computer, it developed more like a deep space, microwaves, and communications university. Oil and the pipeline were huge for awhile but that is not as important now, or maybe just more widespread?

Bubble, spaghetti? I bet they had many willing labours!   

Thank you Chia!

Thank you Chia!  I remembered most from my school days, but some I had forgotten, like Montpelier, VT!!  Not a city that you ever hear mentioned?

Patricia - California is completely changed now.  Citrus is now grown and processed in Florida.  Airplane and ship building now in Washington.  Here in Northern California, our major industry now is High Tech companies like Apple, Google, and all the others. Southern CA is now mostly the entertainment industry . . . television, movies, and music.  Things are constantly evolving and changing.  I wonder what it will be like in another 50+ years? 

Who knows Marilyne? Our area has been evolving just in my sixty plus years. We went from usually forgotten by the Americans, traveled and settled by East European and adventurous Australian and New Zealanders to companies bringing in more American tourists.

We had much more small villages and far-flung small towns before the late sixties, early seventies. FDR sent many Dust Boul refugees here during the thirties, and we had the Japanese invade during WWII, you can still see artifacts from that time, pillboxes and tank tracks in the tundra.

There have been periodic attempts to build a full state highway and road system, but it never comes to fruition because the Native block is totally against it and they have political power in the state. They have seen too many unappreciative rescues of ignorant folks, criminals, and others they don't want on their land, and the extensive forest fires have also turned them against travelers.

Instead of reservations back in the day, the state purchased and gave local land to native tribes who developed corporations and local tribal councils with full authority in their area, so they now have branched out into their tribal run companies of just about everything from firefighting, construction, to computers and fishing.

So in this state, you have local government, borough government, tribal government and  federal government. Sometimes you have to navigate through all of them! 

I remembered this  joke of so long ago when Middle Eastern immigrants came to this country and trying to become Citizens had to  answer questions about our states..

When a student told the teacher that there were 2 extra  states other than those mentioned: starting with the letter "v": Vermont and Virginia, was asked to name those extra 2 states and his answer was "VISCONSIN AND VYOMING"...

 

I always knew there were many States in the USA bu t did not know all those names or capitols.  So when the time came for me to visit your great country I bought a large map, 6 ft by 3 and put it up on my wall.  Since then have marked my travels and  so easy to go see where folks I meet live when I meet them on S & F.

My country in size is about 3/4 size of The States but our population compares about the same as Florida and we live mostly round the coast. Only 7 states so a lot less to learn when at school.
When I was in school the population of Australia was 6 million!
Thanks for the quiz, Chia, nothing like learning about other countries.