| Hint | Extra Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Hometown of President Jimmy Carter. | (Pop. 525) | Plains, GA | 91%
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| Site of John Brown's raid on a federal armory in 1859. | (Pop. 263) | Harper’s Ferry, WV | 88%
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| Gateway to a national park that is the only location where aligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild. | (Pop. 396) | Everglades City, FL | 84%
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| Crash site of United Airlines flight 93 on September 11, 2001. | (Pop. 190) | Shanksville, PA | 81%
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| All property siezed by emminent domain due to underground coal fire burning since 1962. Remaining residents allowed to remain until death. | (Pop. 4) | Centralia, PA | 78%
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| Former hunting camp on the Outer Banks - now a vacation hotspot. | (Pop. 742) | Duck, NC | 78%
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| Home to a Marine Corps base that houses the FBI Training Academy. | (Pop. 591) | Quantico, VA | 78%
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| Located at the confluence of three states, and near a mountain pass that played a critical role in the westward expansion of the country. | (Pop. 313) | Cumberland Gap, TN | 75%
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| Home to over 3,000 businesses, but very few residents. | (Pop. 256) | Industry, CA | 75%
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| Located less than 2.5 miles from Russian territory. | (Pop. 81) | Diomede, AK | 69%
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| Founded by French trappers, it has a local ordinance prohibiting the use of all motor vehicles in the city. | (Pop. 613) | Mackinac Island, MI | 69%
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| Remote city where nearly all residents live in a single condominium building. | (Pop. 253) | Whittier, AK | 69%
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| Home of the "World's Largest Ball of Twine" - located near the geographic center of the lower 48 states. | (Pop. 462) | Cawker City, KS | 66%
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| Island town known as the "Galapogas of the North." Also, a critical hub for fishing and crabbing fleets. | (Pop. 439) | St. Paul, AK | 59%
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| Home to an iconic (and liberally advertised) tourist-trap drug store. | (Pop. 672) | Wall, SD | 59%
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| Home to the “The Happiest Place on Earth.” | (Pop. 25) | Lake Buena Vista, FL | 56%
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| Location of the bloodiest single-day battle in the Civil War. | (Pop. 561) | Sharpsburg, MD | 56%
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| Home to a majority of Mormons in the 1840s, before they were violently expelled and trekked west to Utah's Salt Lake Valley. | (Pop. 910) | Nauvoo, IL | 53%
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| After 95% of the town was destroyed by an EF-5 tornado in 2007, it was rebuilt as an environmentally-friendly city. | (Pop. 731) | Greensburg, KS | 47%
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| Real town that was the fictional setting of "The Blair Witch Project." | (Pop. 145) | Burkittsville, MD | 44%
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| Site of a deadly shootout/massacre in 1920 during the "Coal Wars." | (Pop. 374) | Matewan, WV | 44%
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| Setting of the "Little House on the Prairie" TV show, and real-life home of the Wilders during the time featured in "On the Banks of Plum Creek." | (Pop. 733) | Walnut Grove, MN | 41%
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| Known as "Trail Town USA," it sits at the convergence of the Appalachian Trail and several other regional hiking trails. | (Pop. 790) | Damascus, VA | 34%
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