| Description | Letter | City | % Correct |
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| Most populous city in the United States | N | New York City | 100%
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| Capital of New York | A | Albany | 94%
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| City known for the assassination of William McKinley and a missed field goal | B | Buffalo | 79%
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| Named after the classical Greek city on the Italian island of Sicily | S | Syracuse | 70%
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| New York's fourth-most populous city, located right north of the Bronx | Y | Yonkers | 66%
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| Connected to its Canadian counterpart via the Rainbow International Bridge | N | Niagara Falls | 64%
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| City where Cornell University is located, named for the island Ulysses came from | I | Ithaca | 63%
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| Known as "The Flower City", it's New York's largest city on Lake Ontario | R | Rochester | 63%
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| City in upstate New York named for a Phoenician colony | U | Utica | 59%
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| Headquarters of the U.S. Army academy | W | West Point | 59%
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| Small village that hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics | L | Lake Placid | 54%
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| Home to the Baseball Hall of Fame | C | Cooperstown | 44%
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| It's not the home of George Washington - it just has the same name | M | Mount Vernon | 42%
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| Site of two battles in 1777 that are called the "turning point" of the Revolutionary War | S | Saratoga | 37%
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| Located on the far tip of Long Island | M | Montauk | 33%
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| Where Ichabod Crane was dispatched to | S | Sleepy Hollow | 33%
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| Occupies the northeast corner of the state, namesake of a nearby lake | C | Champlain | 32%
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| Known as the "The Queen City of the Hudson" | P | Poughkeepsie | 29%
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| Where the New York State Constitution was framed by a convention in 1776, (therefore nicknamed "The Birthplace of New York State") | W | White Plains | 13%
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| Site of the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 | B | Bethel | 12%
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