Is there be an urban-extent version of this quiz coming? The problem with "city proper" quizzes is that you have no idea which cities some clown of a bureaucrat has drawn a red line through its middle and decreed that one side or the other isn't a proper part of the city. (Which seems to have happened here with Honolulu and Salt Lake City at least).
I don't think some bureaucratic clown decided to divide Salt Lake City in two. I think people decided to live in suburbs, which grew until they filled the valley surrounding the city, and the suburbs had no desire to be annexed by the city.
Exactly. I barely comprehend the complaint. Take Boston for instance. The "city proper" is a political unit. Metropolitan Boston includes dozens of other political units, cities and towns and villages, that are in close proximity to the city proper. The designation of what is and is not "Metropolitan Boston" is what is arbitrary and changeable (I mean people regularly commute from as far away as Providence, RI and Manchester, NH), not the designation of what is Boston proper, which has very clear borders and a definite population.
You're jumping to a lot of conclusions. Usually when you have city propers that really small relative to their metropolitan areas it's because a bunch of settlements were made in close proximity to one another, and as the population of the area grew the gaps between towns closed until they eventually began to run together as one city.
Atlanta is home to 6.5 million people. The reason they aren't included in this is because many of them live in suburbs, which aren't included in this list.
For the most part sites were chosen to move it towards the center of the state. Most large cities are on the ocean or on large rivers which also happen to be the borders of a lot of the states and not in the center of the state. Also a lot of times smaller cities were chosen on purpose to limit the extent of large cities and powerful interests.
Don't think so. The only usual accepted type-in's are Oklahoma City and OKC. Like Kansas, simply Oklahoma is more synonymous with the state as opposed to the city
I've used "Oklahoma" for Oklahoma City in other quizzes and it was accepted, just as "Mexico" is for "Mexico City", etc. In quizzes that are specifically asking for city names, this kind of shortcut should be accepted. When it didn't accept Oklahoma, I assumed I was wrong and moved on.
Is there a way to track first time takers? Top 10 list in terms of speed for each quiz? For a lot of these quizzes I think people look things up (google).