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Name the US capital by description. Random order

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Description	Capital
1) Aka Beantown	Boston
2) Named for the president who lived at Monticello	Jefferson City
3) Named for the great body of saline water its on	Salt Lake City
4) Also the namesake of a popular type of grape jelly	Concord
5) Named for a famous fronteirsman during the Freemont expedition	Carson City
6) Named for the first German chancellor	Bismarck
7) Popular male name in France	Pierre
8) Named after the 16th president of the US	Lincoln
9) Translates to red stick in French	Baton Rouge
10) The Music City	Nashville
11) Another name for God, or divinity	Providence
12) Named for the sacred fire bird that rose from its ashes	Phoenix
13) Also the namesake of the witch trial town in Mass	Salem
14) Translates to Holy Faith in Spanish	Santa Fe
15) Popular boys name beginning with A	Austin
16) Small boulder	Little Rock
17) The Mile High city	Denver
18) The Thunder play here	Oklahoma City
19) Home to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the busiest in the world	Atlanta
20) Namesake of the Italian explorer who discovered parts of the Americas	Columbus
21) Misunderstood translation by the French to be "of the monks" for native tribes	Des Moines
22) Also the name of the town the Simpsons live in	Springfield
23) Derived from the Lakota name šahiyena, also a girls name beginning with C	Cheyenne
24) Translates to "the woods" in French from fur trappers who explored the area	Boise
25) Calls itself the Insurance capital of the world	Hartford

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26) Shares a name with the hometown of the Masters tournament for golf	Augusta
27) It is also the home of the US Naval Academy	Annapolis
28) It holds the title as the least populated US capital	Montpelier
29) Its capital is within the research triangle of prestigious universities along with Durham and Chapel Hill	Raleigh
30) Derives from the Kansa-Osage meaning of "a place to dig potatoes"	Topeka
31) Common female name beginning with H	Helena
32) Named for the ancient Greek mountain where the gods lived	Olympia
33) Named for the Christian rite of sacrament	Sacramento
34) From the Seminole/Creek meaning of "old town" or "old fields"	Tallahassee
35) Translates to sheltered bay or protected harbor in its native language	Honolulu
36) Shares a name with the white cliffs town in England	Dover
37) Has the state name with polis at the end	Indianapolis
38) Replaced Detroit as the capital in 1849	Lansing
39) Its part of the collective twin cities metro area	St Paul
40) Situated on an isthmus between lake Mendota and lake Monona	Madison
41) The Confederacy had its capital here	Richmond
42) Named for the father of George Clendenin, who founded it in 1794	Charleston
43) Also the name of a South American country	Columbia
44) Has the word fort at the end	Frankfort
45) Common boy name beginning with J	Jackson
46) Rosa Parks stance on the bus sparked the Civil Rights movement in this city	Montgomery
47) Is close to the western border of Mass	Albany
48) Named for the frontiersman who founded the town in 1780s as a trading post	Harrisburg
49) Named for the famous gold prospector from Quebec	Juneau
50) George Washington crossed the river near this town to surprise the British in 1776	Trenton

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