Then you would just be able to guess any state you were missing. Also it originally had 50 but I didn't know what the yellow box was at the time so I deleted half of them.
Not really the same thing. Colorado Springs literally has "Colorado" in its name. San Diego may be well-known, but it doesn't have "California" in its name.
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I would recommend that the populations of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio be analyzed. Houston has been the fourth-largest city in the US. Dallas and Fort Worth are catching up in population and have more residents than San Antonio. Austin might be examined too since we've been having a population boom in Central Texas.
In terms of city proper San Antonio passed Dallas between the 2000 and 2010 census. The DFW metropolitan area is about 3 times that of San Antonio's but less than 20% percent of the population is in Dallas and less than 15% is in Fort Worth. Conversely about 80% of the San Antonio metro area lives in the actual city limits. Although Austin has grown a lot in the past 20 years, a lot of the growth has been outside the city limits.
I did that anyway. I didn't know the two least guessed and I just started typing random states. I'm another one who would prefer to see 50 on this quiz, because it's fun and the more the merrier!
Good stuff! Didn't know too many (I'm not American, and a lot of these places aren't that familiar to many non-Americans) but always good to learn new stuff.
Really liked the quiz. I would thing the opposite quiz would be infinitely harder, where you are given the state and have to guess the second largest city. 10 to 15 of the cities would not have been my first or second guess. In the current format Aurora and Meridian were the only ones that I didn't know immediately and that was because I kept wanting to put Colorado and Mississippi.
I did the same thing with Aurora and Meridian, but as they were the only two I was missing it was easy to just guess the states which were still missing from the list.
I got Aurora right - but only because of Wayne's World! Plus, I didn't think that Aurora was the 2nd biggest in Illinois. I guess maybe I thought it would be Springfield or Champaign-Urbana
Every time I see Aurora, my brain involuntarily plays in my head a commercial for the casino in Aurora that took a Sinatra song and changed the lyrics to lines like, "Aurora, Aurora, that Hollywood town..."
The ads were so ubiquitous that the NY Times used them for a lede to this article about casino gambling in Illinois:
Good quiz. 13/30. Not bad for a Brit....Smiled at the mention of Rapid City....30 years ago this summer did east to west and back again on the greyhound and remember being marooned in the bus station there one night!
Five weeks: NYC, Niagra, Chicago, Minneapolis (for some reason), Yellowstone, San Fran, San Diego, Las V, Grand Canyon, San Antonio, New Orleans, Orlando, Charleston, NYC! Was amazing. Thanks for the quiz mate
Got Vermont with 0:02 seconds to spare. I had no idea on some so just guessed and happened to get them right but had to go through 10 states before getting Vermont.
Idaho was my guess for Lewiston. Somehow I've never heard of Meridian, but looking at the map I know I've been through there many times. I think it's just close enough to Boise, that people driving through just refer to the whole area as Boise. :(
As a native of Meridian, I'm stoked to see it used in a quiz. And just so that everyone knows, Meridian is only getting bigger as California pours into it more and more daily.
The ads were so ubiquitous that the NY Times used them for a lede to this article about casino gambling in Illinois:
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/business/in-a-bid-for-casinos-chicago-comes-up-with-snake-eyes.html
I typed in: Saupold.