Cities in U.S. History #2 - Statistics

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Hint	City	% Correct
Where protestors dumped tea into the harbor to protest new taxes	Boston	100%
One of the first words said from the surface of the moon	Houston	95%
City whose Great Fire was blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow	Chicago	93%
When Brigham Young arrived in 1847, he said "this is the right place"	Salt Lake City	90%
After 1963, a book depository and grassy knoll in this city became objects of national interest	Dallas	89%
Originally a 10 mile by 10 mile square, it lost some of its territory to Virginia in 1846	Washington D.C.	86%
Produced about 10–20% of the world's steel in the early 20th century	Pittsburgh	84%
Burned to the ground by General Sherman on his "March to the Sea"	Atlanta	79%
The fourth largest city in the United States in 1898, when it merged with New York	Brooklyn	78%
Has hosted the Grand Ole Opry radio program since 1925	Nashville	76%
Massachusetts island which Captain Ahab called home in "Moby-Dick"	Nantucket	72%
In 1893, the queen living here was overthrown	Honolulu	67%
Mobster Bugsy Siegel helped develop this city's tourism industry	Las Vegas	66%
City in Alabama which has celebrated Mardi Gras since 1703, longer than any other place in the United States	Mobile	66%
Where Harry Truman had his winter White House and Ernest Hemingway kept six-toed cats	Key West	65%
Where the world's first rock and roll concert took place in 1952	Cleveland	61%
Where William McKinley was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz	Buffalo	50%
The fourth largest city in the United States in 1900, but today only 80th	St. Louis	50%
Site of the shootout at the O.K. Corral	Tombstone	47%
On Christmas night, George Washington crossed the Delaware River to attack Hessian mercenaries garrisoned here	Trenton	40%

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