Name a Valid U.S. City over 100,000

For each category, name any U.S. city with a population over 100,000 that fits in that category.

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First submitted	August 6, 2020
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Name a valid U.S. city ...	#	Cities
with an elevation over 5,000 feet	12	Denver \| Albuquerque \| Colorado Springs \| Aurora \| + 7 more
that has hosted the Summer Olympics	3	Los Angeles \| Atlanta \| St. Louis
NOT one of the 10 biggest cities in its state	110	Santa Ana \| Riverside \| Stockton \| Irvine \| + 106 more
sharing its name with an official English city	8	Lincoln \| Durham \| Birmingham \| Worcester \| Lancaster \| Cambridge \| Westminster \| Manchester
with a population density greater than Chicago	8	New York \| Jersey City \| Paterson \| San Francisco \| Boston \| Daly City \| Newark \| Miami
with a four-letter name	6	Mesa \| Reno \| Cary \| Waco \| Kent \| Bend
in Puerto Rico	5	San Juan \| Bayamón \| Carolina \| Ponce \| Caguas
whose name begins with the letter V	8	Virginia Beach \| Vancouver \| Visalia \| Victorville \| Vallejo \| Ventura \| Vista \| Vacaville
in the Phoenix Metro Area, other than Phoenix itself	8	Mesa \| Chandler \| Scottsdale \| Gilbert \| Glendale \| Tempe \| Peoria \| Surprise
whose city center is within 25 miles of the Great Lakes	8	Chicago \| Detroit \| Milwaukee \| Cleveland \| Toledo \| Buffalo \| Rochester \| Green Bay
with a higher latitude than Seattle	4	Anchorage \| Spokane \| Everett \| Spokane Valley
within 200 miles of the geographical center of the lower 48 states	4	Omaha \| Wichita \| Lincoln \| Topeka
in the Carolinas, on the Atlantic coast	2	Charleston \| Wilmington
that was a capital of the U.S. before Washington D.C.	2	New York \| Philadelphia
with a University of California campus	6	Los Angeles \| San Diego \| San Francisco \| Riverside \| Irvine \| Berkeley
whose name begins with FORT	4	Fort Worth \| Fort Wayne \| Fort Lauderdale \| Fort Collins
in Indiana, other than Indianapolis	4	Fort Wayne \| Evansville \| South Bend \| Carmel
on the Missouri River	5	Kansas City \| Omaha \| St. Louis \| Kansas City \| Independence
that receives less than eight inches of precipitation annually	8	Las Vegas \| Bakersfield \| Henderson \| Reno \| North Las Vegas \| Lancaster \| Palmdale \| Victorville
whose population today has declined by more than 50% since 1950	5	St. Louis \| Detroit \| Cleveland \| Pittsburgh \| Buffalo

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48 Comments

Level 91

Aug 7, 2020

Good stuff. Challenging, too; I barely made it with 14 seconds left.

+18

Level 90

Aug 7, 2020

The first quiz on which "Fort Wayne" is the answer to TWO questions!

Level 78

Aug 7, 2020

Does Edinburg (Texas) not count for a city sharing its name with a UK city? It has 100k people according to Wikipedia.

+17

Level 77

Aug 7, 2020

The Scottish city has an H on the end, but I'll change it to English city to remove any ambiguity

Level 95

Aug 8, 2020

Portsmouth in the UK is an official city (since 1926) and Portsmouth in the USA is a city. Why isn’t it allowed?

Level 77

Aug 8, 2020

According to the source linked in the description, Portsmouth, Virginia no longer has 100,000 people, coming in at 94,398. Portsmouth, New Hampshire is below that too.

Level 65

Aug 9, 2020

Was hoping that Pawnee, Indiana had 100k people...

Level 81

Aug 12, 2020

How did I forget Las Vegas? 🤦‍♂️😂

+19

Level 92

Aug 12, 2020

Maybe you learned about Las Vegas while you were in Las Vegas, and when you left that knowledge had to stay there?

Level 47

Aug 15, 2020

I'm sitting here in Las Vegas... and it's the 5th answer I tried.

Level 71

Aug 12, 2020

At the risk of being too technical, the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers happens just north of the city limits of St. Louis city proper, and therefore it shouldn't be a valid answer as a city along the Missouri River

Level 26

Aug 12, 2020

Why 4 minutes ? Not enough time.

Level 79

Aug 12, 2020

Screaming at my computer "Why won't it accept Fort Bend?!?!".......................ooooohhhh.

Level 54

Nov 27, 2022

No South Worth??

Level 81

Feb 14, 2023

You mean South Wayne

Level 93

Aug 12, 2020

First time my hometown and my current city of residence are both answers. Happens to be the same question. Thank you Texas urban sprawl.

Level 45

Aug 12, 2020

Wtf? There's a Vancouver USA too? Well this is news to me lol.

Level 77

Aug 12, 2020

Yep, it's in Washington state, right across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon

Level 53

Aug 12, 2020

Gary is a city in Indiana as is Terre Haute. They should have been added.

Level 77

Aug 12, 2020

Neither of them have a population above 100,000

Level 69

Aug 13, 2020

Gary had 100k before everyone left...

Level 77

Aug 13, 2020

I just decided to make a quiz for that. Try it here: U.S. Cities that Formerly Had 100,000 People

Level 56

Aug 14, 2020

So Myrtle Beach SC - are you saying its not a city or not on the coast?

Level 77

Aug 14, 2020

Myrtle Beach is not big enough

Level 80

Aug 16, 2020

Too many questions about imperial measurements, yet some still used metric measurements.

Level 77

Aug 25, 2020

This is a quiz about the United States, so it uses imperial measurements for the most part.

Level 76

Oct 22, 2020

What about Boston for the UK cities?

Level 77

Oct 22, 2020

Not an official city

Level 61

Feb 25, 2021

Is Gary no longer in Indiana?

Level 77

Feb 25, 2021

Nope. It migrated to Wisconsin last October.

Level 61

Mar 11, 2021

That's right, it's just outside VICKSBURG

Level 71

Apr 11, 2021

Uhhh...isn't Vancouver in Canada? If I'm wrong, than that completely changes my mindset on that city.

Level 77

Apr 11, 2021

The one you are thinking of is indeed in Canada, however, there is a much smaller Washington city across the Columbia River from Portland that is also named Vancouver.

Level 87

Feb 13, 2023

Oh, this is a good quiz, @HinesBrothers—very challenging for an Aussie sheila!

I’d like to suggest rewording this question:

"that has been the U.S. capital since 1776”

to:

"that has at some time since 1776 been the U.S. capital”

The way it reads now implies that the city has been the U.S. capital *continuously* since 1776. I realise that’s not possible but it threw me off for a while.

Thanks, Nadine

Level 31

Feb 15, 2023

VALDOSTA, GEORGIA should have counted.

Level 54

May 14, 2023

Only has 55k people

Level 61

May 15, 2025

What city named Westminster has over 100,000 people? The closest I could find was Westminster, CA with 90,911.

Level 79

May 15, 2025

Westminster, Colorado has a population of around 115,000.

What's weird is that I had never heard of this city until a few days ago. Most people seemingly don't know about it either. Did it recently spawn in?

Level 23

May 15, 2025

Vancouver is in CANADA not US

Level 68

May 15, 2025

Womp, womp. There's also a city named Vancouver in WASHINGTON in US. It's on the southern border of the state, just north of Portland, Oregon. Population over 100,000. Would have taken you five seconds to google that.

Level 87

May 15, 2025

Answer to the Phoenix Metro Area question should say "Surprise" not "Surpise" I think

Level 54

May 15, 2025

Great quiz. I somehow missed the four-letter city question but continued to answer Mesa and Reno to the Phoenix metro area and precipitation questions.

Level 87

May 16, 2025

Shouldn't Baltimore also qualify for a city that was capital of the US? In the earliest days after the DoI, Congress was on the run from the British, and a number of places briefly served as capital - in Baltimore's case, it was December 1776 to February 1777. (Trenton also fits, but the population is slightly below 100k.)

Level 37

May 16, 2025

Grand Rapids Michigan is missing from your list

Level 71

Jun 3, 2025

It says "Kansas City" twice on the "on the Mississippi River" question.

Level 77

Jun 3, 2025

Kansas and Missouri

Level 68

Aug 3, 2025

I wrote Mesa for the four letters one, but I didnt remember it for Phoenix. :/

Level 76

Nov 1, 2025

I got below average but proud I got Charleston (and Anchorage is nearly as low by % but more well known I think), well actually quite proud of all the ones I got :) (did not do random guesses, some I knew, some were educated guesses/strong inklings and others logical deduction)

Very informative quiz. Though I'll probably forget everything haha. I found the elevation question the most interesting I think. It is not something you can see on an average map, so I had no idea.