American Geography with Increasing Difficulty - Statistics

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No.	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1	State whose name means "snow-capped" in Spanish	Nevada	100%
2	Most populated city on the Missouri River	Kansas City	88%
6	Northernmost borough of New York City	Bronx	79%
4	Complete the chain: Columbus, Cleveland, C______	Cincinnati	79%
3	Flattest state (lowest avg. elevation)	Delaware	79%
5	State with the largest percent of forest coverage	Maine	79%
7	Least densely populated state after Alaska	Wyoming	79%
9	U.S.-Mexico border city opposite of Ciudad Juárez	El Paso	59%
8	Most frequently visited national park (2024)	Great Smoky Mountains	59%
10	Tallest mountain in the contiguous U.S.	Mount Whitney	56%
11	A.K.A. "The City of Brotherly Love"	Philadelphia	56%
13	The Ambassador Bridge links Windsor, Canada to this city	Detroit	50%
12	Largest Indian reservation by area (27k sq. mi.)	Navajo	50%
14	River that forms the West Virginia-Maryland border	Potomac River	50%
16	The only Great Lake which does not touch Michigan	Lake Ontario	47%
15	First U.S. city to have a Chinatown (est. 1848)	San Francisco	47%
18	Archipelago that constitutes the U.S.'s westernmost land territory	Aleutian Islands	44%
17	Largest U.S. city with an Indigenous-derived name	Chicago	44%
19	Most isolated major metropolitan area (most distance from other large cities)	Honolulu	35%
20	Hawaii's tallest peak (highest point of any U.S. island)	Mauna Kea	35%
22	Collection of eleven vertically long lakes in upstate New York	Finger Lakes	32%
21	Largest U.S. city named after an individual	Houston	32%
23	The U.S.'s westernmost major city (pop. 500,000+)	Portland	29%
24	Most common U.S. county name	Washington	26%
25	Desert claiming western Texas and southern New Mexico	Chihuahuan Desert	21%
26	Oldest city in Florida (est. 1565)	St. Augustine	21%
29	Massachusetts city home to Harvard University, the oldest in the U.S.	Cambridge	18%
32	Island territory where the Chamorro language is predominantly spoken	Guam	18%
30	Largest man-made lake (formed by construction of the Hoover Dam)	Lake Mead	18%
28	Largest freshwater lake that isn't a Great Lake	Lake of the Woods	18%
31	Maine is the only state to border this Canadian province	New Brunswick	18%
33	State with the most geographical names of Dutch origin	New York	18%
27	River that forms the border between Georgia and South Carolina	Savannah River	18%
36	Only U.S. city to have an atomic element named after it	Berkeley	15%
34	Boston, MA was settled along the mouth of this river	Charles River	15%
35	Large, narrow lake dividing upper New York and Vermont	Lake Champlain	15%
37	Least populated state capital (pop. 7,915)	Montpelier	15%
41	Windiest state capital by avg. MPH per day	Cheyenne	12%
39	Nebraskan landmark vital to the Oregon Trail and Pony Express	Chimney Rock	12%
38	The longest bridge in the U.S. crosses this lake	Lake Pontchartrain	12%
40	Atlantic Ocean bay dividing New York and Connecticut	Long Island Sound	12%
42	Largest lake by volume entirely within Minnesota	Red Lake	9%
43	Madison, WI and this city are the two largest built on an isthmus	Seattle	9%
47	Mountain chain that forms the Montana-Idaho border	Bitterroot Range	3%
48	Largest peninsula within Michigan's Upper Peninsula	Keweenaw Peninsula	3%
44	State whose seal features a natural landmark that no longer exists	New Hampshire	3%
49	Capital city of the now-dissolved Indigenous confederacy of Tecumseh	Prophetstown	3%
46	Most populated city in the Nebraskan Panhandle	Scottsbluff	3%
45	Jonesborough is this state's oldest city, founded 17 years before statehood	Tennessee	3%
50	Largest city starting with the letter X (hint: in Ohio)	Xenia	3%

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