Nerd Alert: Ken Fisher’s Super Quiz gets coastlines wrong

Florida has the longest marine coastline in the lower 48 (Image Credit: Wikimedia)

Like many readers of daily newspapers, I enjoy Ken Fisher’s Super Quiz — a syndicated trivia game—but today’s quiz on coastlines is rife with glaring errors and frustrating imprecision. Failing either to educate or entertain, it instead perpetuates geographical ignorance.

All of Fisher’s questions concern state and country coastline lengths. As an example, he asks…