MOTTO: Do you know Pennsylvania’s state motto?

Only 1 in 5 people do, according to SolitaireBliss.com.

For future reference, it is “Virtue, Liberty and Independence.” We would understand if you could remember some of the last few the state has been through, like “Pennsylvania: Pursue Your Happiness” or “The State of Independence” or “You’ve Got A Friend in Pennsylvania.”

It was a multiple choice question in this survey. It revealed that fourteen percent thought the motto was ‘Integrity, Liberation and Freedom’; while 2% guessed ‘Vigor and Virtue’. A further 2% thought the motto was ‘Difficulty is a miracle in its first stage’, a famous Amish saying!

Pennsylvanians were the 6th most clued up nationally when it comes to knowing their state motto.

New Hampshire residents took first place, with 99% knowing their motto of “Live Free or Die.” North Carolinians had the lowest overall score: only 13% of respondents could correctly identify their motto: ‘To Be, Rather Than to Seem’, which is the English translation of the Latin words ‘Esse Quam Videri’. The results revealed that a staggering 84% of respondents thought their official state motto is ‘First in Flight’, however, this is the phrase that appears on the state’s license plates – a tribute to the first successful controlled airplane flights operated by the Wright brothers.

One in 10 Kentuckians thought their state motto was ‘Land of Succulent Poultry’. Unsurprisingly, they were wrong. It is “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.”

Less than half (48%) of Floridians guessed their state motto was ‘In God We Trust’ (which is the same as the national motto). Nearly 1 in 10 (9%) thought it was ‘Our State of Snowbirds’ – presumably they selected this option as approximately 1,000 people move to Florida each day: mainly retirees.