STATE OF PLAY I

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2021

Christopher Magan

 

1. How did Virginia get its  name?

2. How did Vermont get its name?

3. Which three states have "panhandles"?

4. What state's name ends in its own postal abbreviation?

5. What state has three different pairs of repeated letters?

6. What state capital ends with its state's 2-letter abbreviation

7. What state's first and last letters make up its postal abbreviation?

8. What are the three states that have only four letters in their names?

9. Why are the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the state of Nevada so named?

10. What's the only one-word state that has the name of another state within it?

Answers:

 

1. After Queen Elizabeth I - The Virgin Queen

2. After the French words meaning "green mountains"

3. Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida

4. Kentucky

5. Tennessee

6. ALBANY

7. IOWA

8. Iowa, Ohio, and Utah

9. After the Spanish word for snow - Nieve

10. ARKANSAS