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The name of Louisiana’s capital city means “red stick” in French. | Baton Rouge | 98%
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The capital and most populous city of Idaho. | Boise | 98%
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The capital and largest city of Massachusetts. | Boston | 98%
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The most populous city of Maryland, named after an Anglo-Irish nobleman. | Baltimore | 97%
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Alabama’s third most populous city figured prominently in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. | Birmingham | 94%
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The NFL franchise of the second most populous city of New York had championship wins in 1964 and 1965. | Buffalo | 94%
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The ninth most populous city in California is the county seat of Kern County, and a hub for agriculture and energy production. | Bakersfield | 85%
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Home to the oldest campus of the University of California. | Berkeley | 82%
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Montana’s most populous city lies mostly in a canyon carved out by the Yellowstone River. | Billings | 82%
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This college town, home to the flagship campus of the University of Colorado, is the twelfth most populous city in the state. | Boulder | 82%
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The most populous city in Connecticut was the site of the first telephone exchange and of the invention of the AC plug outlet and the modern brassiere. | Bridgeport | 70%
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The eighteenth largest city in Texas sits across the border from (and is adjacent to) Matamoros, Mexico. | Brownsville | 68%
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Sometimes called “The Media Capital of the World,” this California city is the location of production studios or headquarters for Warner Bros. Entertainment,The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and others. (Think “Beautiful Downtown …”) | Burbank | 67%
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The name of Arizona’s largest city by area is also the state nickname of Ohio. | Buckeye | 65%
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The name of Oklahoma’s fourth largest city describes a feathered shaft that has been severed. | Broken Arrow | 63%
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This Oregon city started out as a logging town, is known as a gateway for outdoor sports, and is the location of the last Blockbuster video rental store (as of 2023). Its name describes something a river or a road might have. | Bend | 57%
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This Texas city near the Louisiana border lies within one of the most polluted urban regions in the U.S. | Beaumont | 55%
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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in this Washington city. | Bellevue | 52%
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The sixth largest city in Massachusetts once had a thriving shoe industry and in 2020 became the first New England city with a majority-Black population. | Brockton | 32%
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