By Daniel Rigney
Serious studies show that American citizens who don’t know all 50 U.S. state capitals, birds, trees and flowers are often woefully ignorant of other important civic and historic facts as well, including the official mottoes that guide each U.S. state toward its unique destiny.
What’s your Civics Literacy Quotient?
Find out now by taking this quick quiz, testing your knowledge of distinctive state mottoes. Here's your challenge: There’s one imposter in the list. Can you spot it? Scroll below for answers.
1.1 1. North to the future
2. 2. God enriches.
3. 3. To the stars through difficulties
4. Manly deeds, womanly words
5. 5. If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you.
6. 6. Valor and arms
7. 7. Gold and silver
8. 8. It grows as it goes.
9. 9. To be rather than to seem
10. 10. Labor conquers all things.
11. 11. She flies with her own wings.
11. 12. Friendship
13. 13. Industry
14. 14. By and by
15. Mountaineers are always free.
16. Justice for all
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Answers:
1. 1. Alaska
2. 2. Arizona
3. . Kansas
4. Maryland
5. Michigan
6. 6. Mississippi
7. 7. Montana
8. 8. New Mexico
9. 9. North Carolina
10. 10. Oklahoma
11. 11. Oregon
12. Texas
13. 13. Utah
14. 14. Washington
15. West Virginia
1 And the decoy?
16. This is the official motto of Washington, D.C., which was not yet a state as of 2011.
Source: TIME For Kids Almanac 2012, the almanac for busy people who don't have time to read an entire grownup almanac. 
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