Help Me Finish a Quiz Series!!

[citkeane]

Hi all. This might be a bit of an unusual request so I'm curious to see if any of you will be interested. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help me finish a quiz series I started over 2 years ago by making any of the unmade quizzes and contributing them under your own account. The series in question is my "Born in [Insert US State Here]" series of games where players identify a bunch of famous people born in a US state by their picture. I've got a few other series mid stream as it is but this one in particular has been in the works for far too long and any help in finishing it off (or getting it a little closer to finished) would be appreciated.

I will admit that some of the remaining states are a little tougher than most of the ones already made. The completed quizzes range between 15 and 30 people per quiz but I don't know how realistic that lower figure is for some of the smaller states. But maybe some of you might have a home state advantage (here's hoping!)

If you are interest just post the name of the state you want to claim below. Then make the quiz and come back to post the link to the contributed game. It will be first-come, first-served policy (assuming anyone is interested).

Here's a list of the states. The ones in blue have already been made (currently 26 out of 50); mostly by me, expect one by druhutch for his home state of Texas and one by a user called Elasdray for Kentucky. The quizzes for Tennessee, Texas, New York, Michigan and Washington have all been featured on the front page.

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

A more organised quiz maker than I would probably have a spreadsheet with completed lists of famous people for all the unmade states but I usually assemble the list before making the quiz, using sources such as this, this, this. The only trick is double checking that all people were born in the state in question (wikipedia is usually good for this, assuming there's a reliable source).

I just contributed the quiz for North Carolina before posting this thread. This quiz was made in the map format. I've attached the jpeg of the map image if you want to use it as a template. The individual images within the grid are all 130x130 pixels in size.

Thanks, citkeane. 

[JoeBeta]

I herewith claim my homestate of Maine! (and I'm happy to create it.)

[citkeane]

Great! Was hoping a few people would be able to claim their home state. Thanks, Joe.

[guilherme_4]

I got interested in the project and 've randomly chosen New Mexico. I'm not American and I'm not claiming any state in special, so if any Neo-Mexican (no idea how someone born there is called, but Neo-Mexican sounds cool) would like to do it, swapping is okay to me.

[stanford0008]

I'll lay claim to my home-state of Minnesota.

[corndog]

I'll take my home state, Illino -- oh crap, never mind.

In that case, I'll take my current state, Tex -- shoot, also taken.

Instead, I'll pick where I went to undergrad, Michi -- *sigh*.  Sorry citkeane, I can't help you.

[DesertSpartan]

My home state is Michigan, already done, but I consider Nevada my home.  I will not make the quiz, but will help anyone interested.

Here is a start on those born in the Silver State:

http://www.biography.com/people/groups/born-in-nevada

Also the 2002 AL Cy Young Award and the actress that played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island.

[goseaward]

I can take my home state of Iowa.

(Iowa has a lot of state pride.  No lie, I had 3 different history units in school focused just on the state.)

[zaphenath]

I claim the states of Hysteria and Confusion.  Not born there, but visit often.

[goseaward]

Hmm, I suppose I can't use James T. Kirk...

[Quizmaster91]

I definately want to help, but as someone from outside the US I have no preference whatsoever. So I'll just hang back for now and wait until everyone has had a chance to pick their favorite state.

[citkeane]

Thanks for all the interest guys. Whenever you get the quizzes made don't forget to post the link to the thread and I will update the list of states once a few more have been checked off. Looking forward to playing them. If you need any help I'll be happy to chip in.

[JoeBeta]

I finished my quiz - Born In Maine . Thanks to you, citkeane. I'd never made an image quiz before. I now have a greater appreciation for the time required to create one!

[citkeane]

Looks good, Joe. Nice work.

[goseaward]

And here's Born in Iowa.

[Chenchilla]

It seems as though I'm a little to late to take my home state of North Carolina. I'll take Virginia, instead. It's close enough. Is it ok to have founding fathers in the quiz?

[metashades]

I'll take Colorado, my 2nd home

[citkeane]

Yeah, founding fathers should be fine. Also, nice work, goseaward.

[Droxnar]

Since my OCD wants to go alphabetical, but not enough to find 20 famous people from Alaska, I'll take Arkansas. ;)

[iglew]

I grew up in Alaska, so I was tempted to take it, but hardly anyone is born there.  The three most recognizable Alaskans I can think of -- Sarah Palin, Ted Stevens, and Jewel -- were all born out of state.  (Jewel pretty much matches what I did -- born out of state, moved to Alaska as a tot and grew up there, then left again as an adult.)

I think I could still scrape together 15 marginally recognizable people, but I'm not sure I have the image-editing skills to do a picture quiz.  Pictures aren't my thing.

[zaphenath]

A lot of moose were born in Alaska.  Surely some of them must have been famous.

[Chenchilla]

As promised, one Virginia Quiz.   :)

[guilherme_4]

Hey, guys, I made a list with some names of New Mexico people. I was thinking about reducing it to 20 answers for the quiz, so I'd like to know which ones you consider the most obscure. If I forgot any relevant person, please tell me too! Here's the list.

[iglew]

I'm probably not a typical Sporcler, so take these data points for whatever they're worth.

Of the names on your list, the ones I think I would recognize from a picture are: 6, 7, 13, 16, 19, 24, 25.

These ones are names I know, but I wouldn't know from a picture: 3, 14, 17, 20.

And finally, #22 I wouldn't recognize from a regular picture, but if I saw a picture of someone in an astronaut suit, I'd be able to guess, since I remember his name as the NM senator who is a former astronaut.  I also would definitely recognize Pete Domenici, who was a prominent senator throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

[citkeane]

guilherme, I'd recognise and probably be able to name pictures of 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 17, 19, 24, 25. #14 is more of a "known the name but the face is only somewhat familiar". If anyone has a little more insight on anyone of the Big 4 athletes and their level of fame that would be useful. 

[Quizmaster91]

As a non-American, I'd probably recognise # 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19.

[Droxnar]

Alrighty.  Here's Born in Arkansas.

I tried to find pics with small clues for some of the ones that aren't instantly recognizable.  If y'all think some of them are too obscure, let me know and I'll change 'em out. :)

[citkeane]

Updated list:

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado  [Claimed]

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota   [Claimed]

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico   [Claimed]

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Up to 30/50 completed. Not bad! Thanks to everyone who made a quiz and is in the process of making one. Still 17 left if anyone else is interested. 

[HPGirl]

I'll make one for Indiana

[Quizmaster91]

OK, I'll participate now. Completely randomly, I have chosen Arizona.

[HPGirl]

Here's the Born in Indiana quiz!

[Quizmaster91]

The Arizona quiz has been born!

[DesertSpartan]

Although the birthplace of the man in  the 13th picture is in Arizona today,  he was born in Mexico.  I think he is one of the most recognizable of the people, but so far is poorly guessed.

[citkeane]

I think if his place of birth is in modern-day Arizona he's a valid inclusion, although maybe a note wouldn't hurt. Maybe Cesar Chavez and Gabby Giffords would have been worthwhile inclusions.

[guilherme_4]

Thanks citkeane, iglew and Quizmaster91 for helping! :)

[Tom007]

I'll try to throw a few together for Vermont.

[Quizmaster91]

OK, I've added the information in the game note. I also added Chávez and Giffords (instead of DuBois, who no-one had guessed yet, and increasing the total from 15 to 16). Thanks for the input!

[Tom007]

Here's the Vermont quiz. Only 16 because, well, it's Vermont.

[Mic747]

I'll make one for Oklahoma

[Mic747]

And here is the Oklahoma quiz, 

Please tell me if some of the answers are too obscure or if I've left out some very obvious celebrities.

[guilherme_4]

Born in New Mexico

[citkeane]

Up-updated list:

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New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

 

Now at 35/50 completed. Thanks again. Some tough ones remaining but definitely a couple left where at least 15 is a possibility, without getting super obscure. Any brave soul want to attempt Wyoming. ;)

[iglew]

I'm ready to claim Alaska now.  I didn't before because I was extremely busy at work and I have no experience with making an image quiz, but now the work deadline is past and I'm ready to be educated about image editing.

What sort of software do you guys use for editing the image?  I assume I need to find my component images, size and crop them, and then paste them onto the template image citkeane provided.  What tool do I need to do that?  I've got an old MacBook at home (OS 10.6.8).  At work I've got a Windows machine with all the office basics, but I wouldn't be allowed to download any new software to it.

[citkeane]

I use paint.net but there isn't a version for mac. Any basic image editing software should do the trick. I've actually used the standard MS paint to make image quizzes before and it does the trick. So if no one has a suggestion for mac, that could be a fall back if you want to do it on your work machine. The only functionality required is crop (the select function): to produce a square image; and then resizing: to get it to 130x130px so you can copy it into the template I provided.

[Bazmerelda]

Even if you've not done much image editing before, I would always recommend finding software with layer handling capabilities. It takes a little longer to learn how to navigate but it will make everything so much simpler and quicker in the long run.

GIMP is free and there should be a Mac version in the download files somewhere. It's crude compared to Photoshop but it does the job.

[Droxnar]

I use a site called pixlr.com

It's like a simplified version of Photoshop. I use it for all my image needs. :)

[metashades]

How do I reduce the image size? I'm just working in Paint, uploaded to Imgur. My finished map is 760 kb and it's not supposed to be over 400. 

[guilherme_4]

I had the same problem, when I changed from .bmp to .jpg (or .jpeg, haha, not very sure), it worked.

[citkeane]

jpeg is a compressed image format so it is generally a little lighter in terms of file size. One feature of paint.net that comes in handy is that when saving the image it allows you to adjust the resolution of the image and thereby reduce the image size to with a given limit.

[beisaa]

I can put one together for my neighboring state of West Virginia unless someone else feels strongly about it.

[beisaa]

Here is the quiz for West Virginia.

[metashades]

Thanks, guys. I changed it from .png to .jpg and the size decreased from over 700kb to 200kb. I wish I would have know this earlier, it would have saved me a lot of cropping and cropping and cropping to get my previous quizzes under the size limit :)

Here it is:

Born in Colorado

[citkeane]

That list again:

Alabama 

Alaska  [claimed by iglew]

Arizona  [by Quizmaster91]

Arkansas [by Droxnar]

California

Colorado [by metashades]

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana  [by HPGirl]

Iowa  [by goseaward]

Kansas

Kentucky  [by Elasdray]

Louisiana

Maine  [by JoeBeta]

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota  [claimed by standford0008]

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico  [by guilherme_4]

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma  [by mic747]

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas  [by druhutch]

Utah

Vermont  [by Tom007]

Virginia  [by Chenchilla]

Washington

West Virginia  [by beisaa]

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Might as well give you guys some credit for making these quiz. Currently up to 37/50. States in blue have been completed. States in green have been claimed. States in red have neither been completed or claimed. Thanks to the 13 of you guys who have finished a state since I posted the thread (and iglew and stanford for claiming - there no deadline so feel free to take your time). 

[SproutCM]

I'm a native NH person, living in NH. I'll work on that.

Chris/SproutCM

[stanford0008]

Finally got around to making that Minnesota quiz. The only thing that proved troublesome was trying to pick one term to describe Jesse Ventura...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Stanford0008/born-in-minnesota

[citkeane]

Figure I'd give this thread a bit of a bump. Here's the list again:

Alabama 

Alaska  [claimed by iglew]

Arizona  [by Quizmaster91]

Arkansas [by Droxnar]

California

Colorado [by metashades]

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana  [by HPGirl]

Iowa  [by goseaward]

Kansas

Kentucky  [by Elasdray]

Louisiana

Maine  [by JoeBeta]

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota  [by standford0008]

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire [claimed by sproutcm]

New Jersey

New Mexico  [by guilherme_4]

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma  [by mic747]

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas  [by druhutch]

Utah

Vermont  [by Tom007]

Virginia  [by Chenchilla]

Washington

West Virginia  [by beisaa]

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Some tricky states (and a couple no-so-tricky) remaining for anyone looking to make a quiz but fresh out of original ideas ;) . I figure this thread will be around a while so feel free to take as long as you want to make the quiz.

[Cutthroat]

I can try to make one about Montana, if no one else wants it.

[citkeane]

Go ahead! See what you can come up with.

[Cutthroat]

Here we go, seems like there were a couple more known faces from Montana than I feared. Not that I'd have gotten all of them before making the quiz, some I'd heard the name of, but couldn't connect to a face, some the other way around, and there were some who were strangers to me.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Cutthroat/born-in-montana

[SproutCM]

Hi All,

Sorry, the new job (back in the State of New Hampshire) took me away from finishing this, but it is done now. I was really disappointed to find that many of the people I associate with being from NH (Adam Sandler, Seth Myers, Steven Tyler, Ken Burns, Robert Frost) grew up here but moved here when they were very little, so I couldn't use them.  So, I decided to make it more of a history quiz to make it playable. I hope you like it.

Born in New Hampshire

Chris/SproutCM

[gotcha]

I like a challenge. I'll claim North Dakota.

[gotcha]

I just made the North Dakota quiz and set it to private. My thinking was that I could share it here, get some feedback and tweak it a bit, then convert it to public. That may have been a mistake, as it doesn't look like there's a way to convert a private quiz to a public quiz. If so, I may need to make a duplicate version of this and resubmit.

Take a look and give me your thoughts.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/gotcha/born-in-north-dakota

[Cutthroat]

Don't worry, quizzes set to private can be switched to public by admins and editors. Maybe curators as well?

As for the quiz, I didn't get many at all, but playing it on my phone was a bad choice, made the pictures a bit hard to make out. I'll try again on a computer, see what it looks like then.

[needapausebutton]

@gotcha:  When you are ready to have it made public, let us know, and an administrator or moderator can do so. You can do that in one of the long-running private-to-public threads (where the request will probably stand out or may be noticed by more of them), or probably here just as well.

[gotcha]

It's been about a week since I put the link up and nobody's brought up any glaring errors or problems, I think it's ok to make it public. If one of the admins can do that for me, I'd appreciate it.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/gotcha/born-in-north-dakota

[needapausebutton]

@gotcha: OK it's set to public now.

[gotcha]

Thank you.

[Willie G]

I'll take Rhode Island, if no one else wants it.

[Willie G]

Here's the Rhode Island quiz:  http://www.sporcle.com/games/WillieG/born-in-rhode-island

[citkeane]

I've been a little inactive lately but figured I'd update this in case anyone else is interested. Thanks again to everyone who made a game:

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana [by Cutthroat]

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire [by sproutcm]

New Jersey

New Mexico  [by guilherme_4]

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota [by gotcha]

Ohio

Oklahoma  [by mic747]

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island [by WillieG]

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

[hbrianne]

My home state of Washington has already been done, so I'll try my hand at Oregon!

[hbrianne]

Here's the Oregon quiz! 

http://www.sporcle.com/games/hbrianne/oregonians