US State Mottos Quiz
Some state mottos are famous, some are in Latin and one is in Chinook Jargon. Each prompt is a state’s official motto; tap the state it belongs to.
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How it works
A prompt appears at the top of the screen. Tap the state with this motto. Your first tap scores 3 points and a second try scores 2; miss twice and the answer is shown on the map before the next prompt. Ten prompts, 100 seconds, so a perfect round is 30 points.
It is also one of the categories in the daily geography challenge: one shared round a day, the same for everyone, with a streak to keep.
Every prompt in this quiz (50)
Each round draws ten of these state mottos. The answers are on the map, not here.
Ad astra per aspera (“To the stars through difficulties”), Agriculture and Commerce, Al-ki (“By and by”), Alis volat propriis (“She flies with her own wings”), All For Our Country, Audemus jura nostra defendere (“We dare defend our rights”), Crescit eundo (“It grows as it goes”), Crossroads of America, Dirigo (“I lead”), Ditat Deus (“God enriches”), Dum spiro spero (“While I breathe, I hope”), Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (“By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty”), Equal Rights, Equality before the law, Esse quam videri (“To be, rather than to seem”), Esto perpetua (“Let it be perpetual”), Eureka (“I have found it”), Excelsior (“Ever upward”), Fatti maschi, parole femine (“Strong deeds, gentle words”), Forward, Freedom and Unity, Friendship, Hope, In God We Trust, Industry, L'Étoile du Nord (“The star of the North”), Labor omnia vincit (“Labor conquers all things”), Liberty and Independence, Liberty and prosperity, Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable, Live Free or Die, Montani semper liberi (“Mountaineers are always free”), Nil sine numine (“Nothing without providence”), North to the Future, Oro y plata (“Gold and silver”), Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain, Qui transtulit sustinet (“He who transplanted still sustains”), Regnat populus (“The people rule”), Salus populi suprema lex esto (“Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law”), Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you”), Sic semper tyrannis (“Thus always to tyrants”), State sovereignty, national union, Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono (“The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness”), Under God the people rule, Union, justice, confidence, United we stand, divided we fall, Virtue, liberty, and independence, Virtute et armis (“By valor and arms”), Wisdom, Justice, Moderation, With God, all things are possible