City
|
Population
|
State
|
High Point
|
111,513
|
North Carolina
|
St. Petersburg
|
263,255
|
Florida
|
Indianapolis
|
863,002
|
Indiana
|
Thornton
|
136,978
|
Colorado
|
Orlando
|
280,257
|
Florida
|
Durham
|
267,743
|
North Carolina
|
Olathe
|
137,472
|
Kansas
|
Des Moines
|
217,521
|
Iowa
|
Sandy Springs
|
106,739
|
Georgia
|
Cedar Rapids
|
132,228
|
Iowa
|
|
City
|
Population
|
State
|
Modesto
|
214,221
|
California
|
Knoxville
|
187,347
|
Tennessee
|
Jersey City
|
270,753
|
New Jersey
|
Tempe
|
185,038
|
Arizona
|
North Charleston
|
110,861
|
South Carolina
|
Hillsboro
|
106,894
|
Oregon
|
Chesapeake
|
240,397
|
Virginia
|
Santa Ana
|
334,136
|
California
|
Macon
|
152,663
|
Georgia
|
Green Bay
|
105,116
|
Wisconsin
|
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All cities above 100k population were included, then any with less than 200k in Florida, Texas or California were removed, thus preventing a bias to these states. Furthermore if two remaining cities had the same name they were removed, except where one city was much larger than the other, then only the smaller was removed.
Think of it like this; When rolling a dice 100 times, you would not expect to see an alternating Head-Tails pattern. In fact, with 100 you're much more likely to see strings of 4 or 5 heads or tails in a row then to get a consistent HTHTHTHT. That's just the nature of randomness.
Moral of the story, 6/20 being California is totally within expectation, given the number of people taking the quiz.
Also, I don't know how many give-away answers are in there, but I got two in mine, Oklahoma City and New York City. Those might be the only ones and I just got both.
Also there are only 6 giveaways (3 containing part of the state rather than City) but also 1 red herring.