Sandy and Kara
The 5pm Quiz: Borderlands
by Sandy and Kara - December 15, 2009 - 5:00 PM

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While traversing America’s highways, it’s interesting to watch the signs when you leave one U.S. state and enter another. Some states offer billboards and welcome stations, making a huge production out of the fact that you’re now within their sacred borders. Others display only a tiny “state line” sign that you might miss if you’re not paying attention. Here are ten U.S. state pairs that may or may not lie next to one another. Can you identify whether or not these states share a common border? It’s tougher than you think!

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Comments (6)

  1. Harder than I thought. Now I’m going to have to go pull out my atlas!

    7 out of 10

    posted by Michael on 12-15-2009 at 7:47 pm

  2. 8 out of 10… I still think Texas and Kansas share a corner somewhere… lol…

    posted by ann on 12-16-2009 at 4:30 am

  3. 10/10 I guessed at 2 (nevada to Oregon and georgia to NC) and got a little lucky (although they were relatively educated guesses).

    posted by Ian from Baltimore on 12-16-2009 at 8:48 am

  4. Only one wrong (Nevada and Oregon)….probably helped that I went on a 15-state road trip this past summer!!

    posted by Carol on 12-16-2009 at 12:34 pm

  5. 10/10. Thought it’d be easy but there were a few thinkers in there. I have crossed all those odd borders except the NV/OR one!

    posted by Zach from Mississippi on 12-16-2009 at 3:03 pm

  6. When Tennessee is one of the choices the odds are in your favor to say “Possible”

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 12-16-2009 at 4:11 pm

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