40 American Cities that Everyone Should Know - Statistics

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Hint	City	% Correct
The largest city in the United States	New York	100%
The capital of the nation	Washington D.C.	99%
Its "Tea Party" in 1773 was a major point in the American Revolution	Boston	97%
Major city home to the largest Cuban population in the United States	Miami	95%
The global center of the entertainment industry and the second largest U.S. city	Los Angeles	94%
Where President John Kennedy was assassinated	Dallas	92%
Center of the American automotive industry	Detroit	92%
Location of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's Mission Control	Houston	91%
West Coast city established during the gold rush, home to landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge	San Francisco	91%
Has the busiest airport in the world	Atlanta	90%
Willis (or Sears) Tower was the tallest building in the world when it was finished in 1973	Chicago	90%
Has the second largest casino and gambling industry of any city in the world	Las Vegas	89%
City with severe flooding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 due to its elevation below sea level	New Orleans	89%
Where Disney World and Universal Studios are located	Orlando	87%
The largest majority Mormon city in the country	Salt Lake City	85%
The first national capital of the United States, from the first Continental Congress to 1800	Philadelphia	84%
Its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level	Denver	82%
The larger of Minnesota's "Twin Cities," where you can find the largest mall in America	Minneapolis	82%
Its metro area includes two of the richest people in the world	Seattle	81%
Where the Battle of the Alamo was fought	San Antonio	76%
Its arch is the smallest National Park in America	St. Louis	74%
Banking capital of the United States and the largest city in the Carolinas	Charlotte	73%
Its steel industry peaked in the early 1900s when it produced over half the nation's supply	Pittsburgh	71%
Location of a series of witch trials in the early 1690s	Salem	70%
The Star Spangled Banner was written about the assault on Fort McHenry in this city	Baltimore	60%
Upper class suburb of the above containing the zip code 90210	Beverly Hills	60%
Major shipping hub at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers	Portland	60%
The main hub of Silicon Valley and the headquarters of hundreds of tech companies	San Jose	60%
Ski resort town in the Rockies where the average house costs $5.4 million	Aspen	58%
The site of a 1995 bombing by Timothy McVeigh which killed 86 people	Oklahoma City	58%
Ski resort and a common entrance point to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks	Jackson	55%
The smallest city to host an NFL team	Green Bay	48%
The site of a supposed UFO crash in 1947	Roswell	47%
Largest city in the south for the first half century of American history	Charleston	44%
Location of the Kennedy Space Center and launch site for several Space Shuttles	Cape Canaveral	36%
Home to the United States Air Force Academy and Olympic Training Facility	Colorado Springs	36%
The oldest city in the country, founded in 1565	St. Augustine	34%
Home to the largest naval base in the world	Norfolk	30%
12,000 people died in a hurricane here in 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in US history	Galveston	28%
The gateway to 3 of Utah's 5 national parks	Moab	15%