Most Guessed U.S. Cities

I was expecting these cities to be very populous or extremely touristy, but San Antonio, Jacksonville, San Jose, and Columbus all have huge populations but are all missing. I am surprised!

Most people incorrectly include Oakland and San Jose as part of "San Francisco." Especially if you aren't from California. San Antonio isn't really a city that I think most people think of when thinking about Texas (even if they do remember the Alamo). I'm more surprised by the omission of Austin. Despite somehow Jacksonville being more populous than Miami, it's not exactly on people's mind when talking about Florida. I think of Panama City and Tampa before I think of Jacksonville. And Columbus is in Ohio...'nuff said there ;-)

But you're probably right about them being very touristy. As a European who has only been to two of these I know them all and obviously so do a lot more people.

As a proud San Antonian, sadly I'm not surprised it's not here. It may be the seventh biggest city but it's the 31st biggest media market and really only remembered for one tiny church that sits in the middle of downtown. I'm pretty surprised about Austin, Nashville, and Tampa not being on there.

In parallel, Atlanta itself is not very touristy but is the gateway to more touristy stuff for many people on the East Coast thanks to its massive (and memorable) airport. And logically people first type in the places they remember most. The ants on the ceiling probably helped people remember them. Those were...interesting.

I've been in the Atlanta airport dozens of times and cannot think of anything that is memorable about it. Is that what your "ants on the ceiling" comment is referring to?

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missed Boston and Washington

Portland completely threw me off. Didn't even think of Oregon

It's strange how one can remember all the tough ones and somehow blanks out on one particular in-your-face kind of very obvious answer. If it's any condolences I missed New Orleans :)

to be fair, the city lost close to 255k after katrina.

255k what? people?

Phew! Got all of them with only two seconds left!

*hurricane irma* also i thought of Cape Verde when I tried to think of New Orleans o.O

It's alright, I thought of St. Vincent

Aw man, Indianapolis isn't on there. Then again, larger and more important cities aren't either. I was surprised Minneapolis wasn't on there, because when I tell people where I'm from, that's what they hear.

Not really any "flyover country" representation. No KC, St. Louis either, though Denver did just squeak in.

Time for the most guessed most guessed US cities quiz!

A "Least Guessed U.S. Cities" quiz would be interesting. The moment anyone correctly guessed one of the cities on the quiz, it would have to be removed.

The only person I have ever met from Michigan was from Kalamazoo, so it's up there for me.

What Kalamazoo is quite a well-known city in Michigan. I've never been to the U.S. but heard of this city from the Glenn Miller song '(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo'.

Is anyone else depressed that only 88% of takers got the nations capital?

Basically just the biggest sports teams plus Las Vegas and Austin, surprised Austin made it over some others though

Funny how your mind can go blank on this type of quiz - missed some really obvious ones though I'm not sure I'd have come up with Portland even if I'd had 20 mins to answer