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U.S. Cities Flashcards

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Of the top 10 cities in population within city limits, this one of 1.4 million is the only state capital

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Phoenix, Arizona

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alphabetically first among the 150 most populous U.S. cities, it has become the “polymer capital of the world”

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Akron

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle

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Chicago

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s Haight-Ashbury District emerged in the 1960s as a Mecca of the counterculture scene

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San Francisco

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Yes, dear, this insurance center is the largest city in the Connecticut River Valley

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Hartford

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace group, is headquartered in this city

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Philadelphia

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is a nonfiction book about events in this Georgia city

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Savannah

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Texas’ “Sun City”, it’s a sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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El Paso, Texas

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Between 2000 & 2007, this city lost half of its 484,674 people; Hurricane Katrina had something to do with it

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New Orleans

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s Golden Gate Park was built on sand dunes in the late 19th century by architect John McLaren

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San Francisco

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city on Lake Erie in Upstate New York was the last stop on the Underground Railroad in the 19th century

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Buffalo

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Florida city was first called Cowford but was renamed in 1822 for a man who would soon become president

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Jacksonville

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You’ll find exhibits pertaining to the War of 1812 at the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House in this city

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Baltimore, Maryland

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New York State’s second-largest city, it’s the seat of Erie County

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Buffalo

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Jestine’s Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera

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Charleston

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The roadside attraction called the Cadillac Ranch is in this Texas city whose name is Spanish for “yellow”

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Amarillo

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city near San Francisco grew when it became the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad

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Oakland

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the biggest city in eastern Washington

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Spokane

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| Denver’s windmill has been restored, so take the A10 in Norfolk County to visit it in this country

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England

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| If you’re on the Mosquito Coast, don’t forget to visit Atlanta in this country

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Nicaragua

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| Ski on Antuco Volcano close to Los Angeles near the Argentine border of this country

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Chile

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| Orlando in this country does not have Disney World, but nearby Soweto is becoming a tourist destination

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South Africa

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| In Victoria, the town of Portland is an ideal spot to visit the southern coast of this country

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Australia

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Mexico artist colony town’s Pueblo was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992

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Taos

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| If you’re feeling a little “Rocky”, run up the stairs to visit <a>this</a> city’s museum at Benjamin Franklin Parkway

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Philadelphia

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Mormons settled this city in 1855 but thought it was too much of a gamble & abandoned it in 1857

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Las Vegas

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Oklahoma city is known for its Art Deco buildings, including the Phillips Oil “Philcade”

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Tulsa

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Granite works sprung up in & around this state capital using stone from Barre, a few miles away

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Montpelier

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s called “Balmo” or “Balmer” for short

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Baltimore

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest North Dakota city was named for a famous businessman

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Fargo

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this city that hosts the Colorado State Fair is simply Spanish for “town”

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Pueblo

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| One of the last Civil War battles took place near what is now this “colorful” city at Texas’ southern tip

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Brownsville

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Perhaps to sound more macho, the town of Juliet, Illinois “explored” new names & came up with this one in 1845

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Joliet

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| With a name from the Chippewa for “on the summit”, Ishpeming is a top ski center on the upper peninsula of this state

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Michigan

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New England town’s famous “cottages” are actually lavish mansions such as Belcourt Castle & Marble House

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Newport

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital has trolleys & buses called ‘Dillos that take folks to attractions & music clubs

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Austin

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 2006 rival cities got crabby when Men’s Fitness magazine named it the fittest city in America

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Baltimore

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| President Taft wasn’t a Communist, but he was from this city that’s home to Reds

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Cincinnati

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Sternwheel Regatta, a 10-day river festival, is held each summer in this West Virginia capital

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Charleston

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Billy Joel could tell you this “town” near Bethlehem, Penn. has the oldest municipal band in the U.S.

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Allentown

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Once the starting point for Florida’s Celestial Railroad, this community has a park named for Burt Reynolds

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Jupiter

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This “town” on Martha’s Vineyard was named in 1671 for a son of the Duke of York

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Edgartown

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 2005, for the tenth straight year, this South Carolina city was voted tops in politeness

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Charleston

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$2500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Because Malaria was still common in the South, the Communicable Disease Center was established in this city in 1946

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Atlanta

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Delaware’s largest city was named for the Earl of this

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Wilmington

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Nevada city that was little more than a bait shop on the Colorado River is now a gambler’s mecca

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Laughlin

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The boys from this city could tell you it’s home to the New York State Fair

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Syracuse

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its name includes the county of which it’s the seat & the state of which it’s the capital

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Oklahoma City

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Texas port is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S.

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Houston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its capitol building stands 5,280 feet above sea level

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Denver

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Believe it or not, Jerry Springer was once the mayor of this large Ohio city

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Cincinnati

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Founded in 1769, this city near the Mexican border is often called “The Birthplace of California”

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San Diego

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A campus for the University of Alabama is here, nicknamed “Rocket City, U.S.A.”

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Huntsville

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier

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Cincinnati

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1921 this New Jersey city crowned its first Miss America

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Atlantic City

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Georgia city that’s popular with golfers was named for the mother of George III

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Augusta

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song “I’ve Got A Gal In Bronson”

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Kalamazoo

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A bay & a river bear the name of this city, Alabama’s second largest

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Mobile

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An A to Z list of Ohio cities might run from Aberdeen to this birthplace of a famous western author

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Zanesville

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located 12 miles north of Mexico, this California city was a whaling port in the mid-1800s

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San Diego

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| W.C. Handy wrote some of his blues on Beale Street in this city

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Memphis

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the southernmost state capital

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Honolulu

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Daniel Boone lived for a while in this West Virginia capital

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Charleston

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| John Adams said “the child of Independence” was born in “the old Council Chamber” of this city’s Old State House

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Boston

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Of the USA’s 10 most populous cities, 1 of the 2 that dropped in population from 1990 to 2000

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(1 of) Detroit or Philadelphia

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The game properties in classic Monopoly were named for streets in this city

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Atlantic City

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s easy to recognize <a>this</a> city’s skyline–see the Sears Tower?

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Chicago

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This seat of Indiana University may have been named for its flowers or for an early settler

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Bloomington

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The heart of French Louisiana & the unofficial capital of the Cajun country is this city named for a French patriot

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Lafayette

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$4200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| On a “table” of Arizona’s most populous cities, this one would be listed third

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Mesa

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Named for a slain political figure, Harvey Milk Plaza is in this city’s Castro district

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San Francisco

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An 1861 song urged Maryland to “avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of” this city

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Baltimore

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Springtime is a nice time to visit this Texas city that boasts a 65-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower

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Paris

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This “port” city is the seat of Caddo Parish

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Shreveport

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its nicknames include “The Athens of America” & “The Cradle of Liberty”

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Boston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| When Oregon became a state in 1859, this city on the Willamette River was already the capital

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Salem

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Benjamin Franklin Parkway & The Franklin Institute Science Museum are in this city

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Philadelphia

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| According to a song by Ian Hunter, it “Rocks” (must be why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is there)

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Cleveland

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located in this city’s Garden District, Commander’s Palace features a jazz brunch on weekends

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New Orleans

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Farmers in this state’s San Joaquin Valley ship their stock through Stockton

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California

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Kentucky city was founded in 1775 & named for a battle site in Massachusetts

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Lexington

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In November 2001 this city’s Journal & Constitution newspapers fully merged

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Atlanta

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Rochester, New York grew because of its location on this

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the Erie Canal

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Idaho city, founded in 1861, was named for the co-leader of an expedition that camped there in 1805

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Lewiston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Kurt Vonnegut called it “Skyscraper National Park”

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New York City

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its nicknames include “Home to Walt Disney World” & “Heart of the Sunshine State”

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Orlando

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$1800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The completion of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in this city in 1932 largely ended the threat of floods from the Mississippi

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New Orleans

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Hampshire’s largest city, it was first named Harrytown, then Derryfield; it got its present name in 1810

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Manchester

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Connecticut’s largest city, its Mountain Grove Cemetery has a life-size statue of Tom Thumb

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Bridgeport

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the largest U.S. city in population that’s named for an American individual

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Houston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s home to the NFL’s Panthers

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Charlotte

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This large Texas city was named for James K. Polk’s vice president

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Dallas

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| William Saroyan was born & for the most part “raisin” this California city in the San Joaquin Valley

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Fresno

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Wisconsin city with a French name is home to a large Danish population & Johnson Wax

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Racine

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the state where you’ll find Scarborough, Waterville & Kittery

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Maine

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Depictions on this state capital’s seal include Nuuanu Pali & Diamond Head

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Honolulu

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Found on the St. Jones River, this capital of Delaware bears the name of an English seaport

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Dover

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The prestigious Eastman School of Music is located in this city in western New York

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Rochester

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Durham Western Heritage Museum in this Nebraska city is housed in the old Union Pacific depot

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Omaha

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Now the largest city in the Carolinas, it hosted the last full meeting of the Confederate cabinet in 1865

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Charlotte

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Dixieland refers to a style of jazz that originated in this Southern city

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New Orleans

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| There’s a tomb of the unknown soldiers of the Revolutionary War in this N.Y. city that wasn’t built in a day

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Rome, New York

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Jersey city was the birthplace of Frank Sinatra, Michael Chang & Pia Zadora

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Hoboken

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Careful now–it’s the state where you can visit San Diego, Universal City & Jefferson County’s Port Arthur

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Texas

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Vincennes on the Wabash River in this state was the territorial capital from 1800 to 1813

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Indiana

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Founded in 1758, it’s named for a British prime minister who was a noted defender of the American Colonists

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Pittsburgh

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Saltwater taffy originated in this New Jersey resort in 1883

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Atlantic City

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s metropolitan area consists of 6 Missouri counties & 5 Illinois counties

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St. Louis

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The site of the University of Colorado’s main campus, it owns Arapahoe Glacier, from which it gets most of its water

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Boulder

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Served by Blue Grass Airport, this Kentucky city was named for the first battle of the American Revolution

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Lexington

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the easternmost port on Lake Erie

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Buffalo

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A 1960 Grammy went to Marty Robbins for his tune named for this west Texas town on the I-10

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El Paso

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the largest city in population on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay

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Oakland

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| If you want “mo” money, go to this Missouri city, home to the Tenth Federal Reserve Bank

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Kansas City

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Skinner’s Mudhole is a nickname of this Oregon city; it was named for Mr. Skinner

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Eugene

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Mexico town was named for the grave markers of some of its earlier settlers

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Las Cruces

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| On May 24, 1844 Samuel Morse was in this city demonstrating his invention

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Washington, D.C.

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Gateway Arch is part of this city’s Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

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St. Louis

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This capital of South Dakota is named for a French fur trader

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Pierre

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is located near this Ohio city that was home to the Wright brothers

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Dayton

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A gateway to Yellowstone, it’s Montana’s most populous city

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Billings

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nicknamed “Rocket City, U.S.A.”, it served as Alabama’s capital in 1819

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Huntsville

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| To see what’s up at Churchill Downs, head to this city

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Louisville

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| John D. Rockefeller began his oil dynasty in this Ohio city

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Cleveland

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Lancaster, Pennsylvania is on this river, which shares its name with a type of wagon

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Conestoga

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Arlington is located between these third & sixth most populous cities in Texas

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Dallas & Fort Worth

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state’s Medford in the Rogue River valley was named for Medford, Massachusetts

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Oregon

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The 25 hospitals you can choose from in this city include the famous Massachusetts General

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Boston

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This gambling mecca was originally settled by Mormons back in 1855

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Las Vegas

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This coastal city’s name goes back to Louisiana governor Bernardo de Galvez

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Galveston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Women outnumber men in this North Carolina city named for the wife of King George III

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Charlotte

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Site of the 1982 World’s Fair, it was twice capitol of Tennessee

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Knoxville

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A city with this name is the most populous city in both Maine & Oregon

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Portland

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city that’s home to the Naval Academy was capital of the U.S. in 1783 & 1784

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Annapolis, Maryland

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, it was named by Spanish colonists for St. Joseph

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San Jose

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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the state capital where you can cruise Garth Brooks Blvd., or stroll through Will Rogers Park

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Oklahoma City

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| “Health, History, Horses” is the motto of this city in upstate New York

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Saratoga Springs

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| (Hi, I’m Kristoff St. John of “The Young and the Restless”) For many years, this Connecticut city where I grew up was the winter headquarters for the Barnum & Bailey Circus

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Bridgeport

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The site for this state capital was chosen because of its location midway between Pensacola & St. Augustine

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Tallahassee

140
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This California city on San Pedro Bay was originally called Willmore City, but was renamed for its 8 1/2 mile beach

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Long Beach

141
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In addition to being a major seaport for cargo, it’s the world’s largest cruise port

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Miami

142
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city’s Niagara Square

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Buffalo

143
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| At 64 stories the USX Tower in this Steel City is one of the tallest buildings in the eastern U.S.

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Pittsburgh

144
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| City in which the Watergate break-in occurred

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Washington, D.C.

145
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| With a new waterway, this Oklahoma oil center became an inland port in 1971

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Tulsa

146
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The city of Cambridge in this state was the birthplace of spaceman John Glenn

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Ohio

147
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Butte is in Montana; a city named for this similar land form is in Arizona

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Mesa

148
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Dating back to 1772, Bayamon is a suburb of this capital of a commonwealth

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

149
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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The 34 peaks of the roof of this city’s airport represent mountains that are about 30 miles away

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Denver

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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s flag shows 2 rivers joining behind a fleur-de-lis

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St. Louis (at the confluence of the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers)

151
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The names of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th most populous cities in California begin with these 3 letters

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San (San Jose, San Diego & San Francisco)

152
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Walk-In-The-Water, the first steamship on the Great Lakes, ran between Buffalo & this motor city

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Detroit

153
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1799, if you wanted to go to the nation’s capital, you went to this city

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Philadelphia

154
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Texas city’s name refers to a pass or crossing of the Rio Grande

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El Paso

155
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its Chamber of Commerce is located at 3720 Howard Hughes Parkway

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Las Vegas

156
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Stanford students know the name of this California city means “tall tree”, referring to redwoods

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Palo Alto

157
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Solomon Juneau was the first mayor of this largest Wisconsin city

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Milwaukee

158
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| After the Twin Cities & Bloomington, Duluth is this state’s next most populous city

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Minnesota

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Found on Absecon Island, it’s famous for its Boardwalk (& Park Place)

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Atlantic City

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| About 25 miles north of Miami, it was named for a structure built during the 2nd Seminole War

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Fort Lauderdale

161
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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its former mayor William Hartsfield dubbed it the city “Too Busy to Hate”

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Atlanta (airport named for him)

162
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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Among its sister cities are Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Turin, Italy; & Toyota City, Japan

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Detroit

163
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| When football’s Saints go marching in for a home game, it’s in this city

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New Orleans

164
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Oh, the O. Henry house & the Alamo are 2 of the places you can visit in this city

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San Antonio

165
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the seat of the Florida county formerly known as Dade

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Miami

166
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1904 people met at the fair in this city to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase

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St. Louis

167
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Highlights of this small Arizona city include Boothill Graveyard & the O.K. Corral

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Tombstone

168
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A cable TV network is named for this state capital, a hotbed of country music

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Nashville

169
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| At less than 950 feet, Mt. Davidson is the highest point in this “City by the Bay”

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San Francisco

170
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Paul Revere’s house in this capital is the city’s only 17th century building downtown

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Boston

171
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nevada’s second-largest city, it was named for a Union general killed during the Civil War

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Reno

172
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The site of the World’s Fair in 1962, it’s flanked on the west by Puget Sound & on the east by Lake Washington

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Seattle

173
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Michigan city’s civic center has 6 complexes, including the Joe Louis Arena & the Ford Auditorium

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Detroit

174
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this Minnesota city comes from an Indian word for “water” & the Greek word for “city”

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Minneapolis

175
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Areas of this Texas city include Hollywood Park, Castle Hills & Alamo Heights

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San Antonio

176
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s home to the University of Kentucky & to horseracing’s Toyota Blue Grass Stakes

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Lexington

177
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this city at the hub of California’s San Joaquin Valley is Spanish for “Ash Tree”

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Fresno

178
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| One of the Twin Cities, it was named after a man from Tarsus

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St. Paul

179
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This “Crescent City” was acquired as part of the land deal the U.S. made with France in 1803

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New Orleans

180
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The city known for its Mud Hens; it was named for a city in Spain

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Toledo, Ohio

181
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Society of Friends founded this California city in 1887 & named it after an American poet

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Whittier

182
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An Illinois city was named for this “Our country, right or wrong” naval hero

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Stephen Decatur

183
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s Major League Baseball team plays its home games in Chavez Ravine

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Los Angeles

184
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital is near the head of navigation on the Connecticut River

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Hartford

185
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Colorado city is located where the Gunnison & Colorado Rivers meet, hence its name

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Grand Junction

186
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Texas city was named for the Kansas town that Dwight D. Eisenhower once called home

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Abilene

187
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1972 a flash flood in this South Dakota city killed over 200 people

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Rapid City

188
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1963 NASA opened its $8 million Mission Control Center in this Texas city

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Houston

189
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Neil Simon’s Eugene Jerome had the “blues” in this Mississippi city

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Biloxi

190
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Longfellow dubbed this Ohio city the “Queen City of the West”

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Cincinnati

191
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This queen city is home to the Carolina Panthers

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Charlotte, North Carolina

192
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This site of the 1992 America’s Cup races was originally called San Miguel

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San Diego

193
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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This historic city was named for the Bishop of Hippo on whose feast day the area was first sighted

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St. Augustine, Florida

194
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Wyoming capital is home to the annual Frontier Days celebration

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Cheyenne

195
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the only Maryland city not located within a county

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Baltimore

196
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Principal routes through this capital include Ala Moana Boulevard & Pali Highway

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Honolulu

197
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Arizona city’s name comes from Chuk Son, Papago for “Spring at the foot of a black mountain”

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Tucson

198
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Rhode Island resort city is the site of the U.S. Navy Undersea Warfare Center

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Newport

199
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nearly 40% of the people in Washington state live in the metropolitan area of this city

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Seattle

200
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Large hydroelectric facilities were built at this city in New York state in the 1890s

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Niagara Falls

201
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Tennessee port named for an Egyptian city was founded by Andrew Jackson & 2 partners in 1819

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Memphis

202
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this western Wisconsin city on the Mississippi River honors a Native American sport

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Lacrosse

203
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alaska’s largest city, it’s also the state’s commerce & transportation center

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Anchorage

204
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Percival Lowell’s mausoleum is near his observatory in Flagstaff, in this state

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Arizona

205
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| To promote this local product, Crystal City, Texas erected a statue of Popeye

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spinach

206
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The largest Japanese garden in the U.S. is in this city with the largest arch

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St. Louis

207
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital is home to the 4 1/2 acre Roger Williams National Memorial Park

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Providence, Rhode Island

208
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The St. Charles streetcar clamors through the heart of this southern delta city

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New Orleans

209
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Rebuilding Precolumbian irrigation canals in 1867 helped “resurrect” this future Arizona capital

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Phoenix

210
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Cornwallis once referred to this N.C. city as a “hornet’s nest”; today the Hornets play there

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Charlotte

211
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Florida city was named for the general who led the fight to take Florida from the Spanish

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Jacksonville

212
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1806, 100 years after its founding on the Rio Grande, this New Mexico city had only a few thousand people

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Albuquerque

213
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Ranked as the nation’s largest inland port, it’s home to Carnegie-Mellon University

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Pittsburgh

214
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital was originally called Fort Nashborough, for General Francis Nash

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Nashville

215
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The metropolitan area of this Missouri city extends into Illinois

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St. Louis

216
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Petroglyph National Monument near this largest New Mexico city features Indian carvings on lava

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Albuquerque

217
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You can see the oldest continuously used Mormon chapel in a “Trip To” this Utah city

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Bountiful

218
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Hampshire city is New England’s largest north of Boston

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Manchester

219
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Principal streets in this Utah capital include North Temple, South Temple & West Temple

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Salt Lake City

220
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Elfreth’s Alley in this Pennsylvania city dates back to the time of William Penn

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Philadelphia

221
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located in the heart of Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region, it was named for a Massachusetts city

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Lexington

222
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New York city’s largest employer is Eastman Kodak, with about 34,000 employees

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Rochester

223
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alaska’s second-largest city, it was founded shortly after gold was discovered there

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Fairbanks

224
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s French Quarter encompasses 70 blocks

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New Orleans

225
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest Nevada city was first settled by Mormons who maintained a colony there 1855-57

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Las Vegas

226
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This West Virginia capital was named for Colonel George Clendenin’s father, Charles

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Charleston

227
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Pier, which juts almost a half mile into Tampa Bay, is the center of this city’s tourist life

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St. Petersburg

228
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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this N.Y. city may be derived from a mispronounciation of “Beau Fleuve”, or “Beautiful River”

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Buffalo

229
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Jersey capital is also the seat of Mercer County

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Trenton

230
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Thomas Jefferson formulated the bill moving the Virginia capital to this city

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Richmond

231
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Pennsylvania city’s Civic Arena or “Igloo” has a retractable roof

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Pittsburgh

232
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Henry Flagler developed this fashionable Florida resort famous for the chic shops on Worth Avenue

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Palm Beach

233
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Haven & this city were twin capitals of Connecticut from 1701 to 1875, when it became the sole capital

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Hartford

234
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1904 a fire in this largest Maryland city nearly destroyed the entire downtown section

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Baltimore

235
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Bern, one of North Carolina’s oldest cities, is named for this country’s capital

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Switzerland

236
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In late June to early July you can attend Civil War Heritage Days in this Pennsylvania town

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Gettysburg

237
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Surveyors in Ohio named a Cleveland suburb for this Greek “Father of Geometry”

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Euclid

238
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The famous Tournament of Roses Parade was first held in this California city in 1890

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Pasadena

239
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Utah city originally had the word “great” in its name, like the body of water

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Salt Lake City

240
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Kansas City, Kansas is the twin city of Kansas City in this state

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Missouri

241
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Mississippi city is home to the Elvis Presley Park & Memorial Chapel

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Tupelo

242
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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| From Spanish, the name of this Texas city refers to the yellowish banks of a nearby stream

A

Amarillo

243
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| At least 3 1/2 miles of skyways link the downtown buildings of this Minnesota capital

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St. Paul

244
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Boeing’s military airplane division is in this Kansas city, home to Cessna & Glen Campbell’s lineman

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Wichita

245
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| St. Petersburg is home to Florida’s annual tournament in this game popular on shipdecks

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Shuffleboard

246
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city in the center of the Valley of the Sun is home to the Arizona Hall of Fame Museum

A

Phoenix

247
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Montana city was founded in 1882 by the Northern Pacific Railroad & named for its president

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Billings

248
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Of Creek origin, the name of this Florida capital means “Old Town”

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Tallahassee

249
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| One of New Jersey’s annual rites of summer is the crowning of Miss America in this city

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Atlantic City

250
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Coinciding with the World’s Fair, the first Olympic Games in the U.S. opened in this city May 14, 1904

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St. Louis

251
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nicknamed the “Christmas City”, this Pennsylvania city is famous for its steel

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Bethlehem

252
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You can visit Ethan Allen’s grave in this city, Vermont’s largest

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Burlington

253
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Seattle’s “gem” of a nickname, or Dorothy’s destination

A

The Emerald City

254
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Wax Museum of Witches And Seafarers opened in this New England city in 1993

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Salem, Massachusetts

255
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Alabama city known for its Azalea Trail should have been Alexander Calder’s favorite

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Mobile

256
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| If you recall the first words spoken on the moon, you’ll know Tranquility Park is in this city

A

Houston

257
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this city, twice the capital of W. Va., may have come from an Indian word meaning “Place of the Head”

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Wheeling

258
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1790 it succeeded Charleston as South Carolina’s capital

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Columbia

259
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Steamboat builder & operator Henry M. Shreve has a city named for him in this state

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Louisiana

260
Q

$1500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Florida city was named by a railroad official for his boyhood home in Russia

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St. Petersburg

261
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Since 1907 this Oregon city has hosted an annual Rose Festival

A

Portland

262
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest North Dakota city lies across the Red River of the North from Moorhead, Minnesota

A

Fargo

263
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$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Designed locally & cast in Japan, a peace & friendship bell was dedicated in this Tennessee city in 1996

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Oak Ridge

264
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis is within the metropolitan area of this city

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Baltimore

265
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| in 1985 Xavier Suarez became this Florida city’s first Cuban-born mayor

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Miami

266
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this second-largest Arizona city is from a Papago Indian term for “Spring at Foot of Black Hill”

A

Tuscon

267
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Around 1720 this Mississippi port became the capital of France’s Louisiana territory

A

Biloxi

268
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Pennsylvania city was founded in 1741 & named on Christmas Eve of that year

A

Bethlehem

269
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The cities of Highland Park & Hamtramck are surrounded by this Michigan city

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Detroit

270
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Midwest city is home base to Cardinals, Rams & Clydesdales

A

St. Louis

271
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The U.S. Air Force Museum is located near this city, home of the Wright Brothers

A

Dayton, Ohio

272
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Hamar, Norway is a sister city of this largest North Dakota city

A

Fargo

273
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1799 this city became the seat of Kennebec County; 33 years later, it became a state capital

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Augusta, Maine

274
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Illinois city’s lakefront on Lake Michigan is over 25 miles long

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Chicago

275
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| On August 11, 1683 William Penn issued a warrant to lay out this Delaware capital

A

Dover

276
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Museum of Flight, south of this major city, features the Red Barn, Boeing’s first plant building

A

Seattle

277
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A fountain at its Point State Park symbolizes the confluence of the Ohio, Monongahela & Allegheny Rivers

A

Pittsburgh

278
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Before a new facility was built, Love Field was this Texas city’s main airport

A

Dallas

279
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Colleges in this city include Harold Washington, Malcolm X & Richard J. Daley

A

Chicago

280
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| 171-foot-wide Canal Street runs from Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River in this city

A

New Orleans

281
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s metropolitan area has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world

A

New York City

282
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Paterson, in this state, was once known as “America’s Silk City”

A

New Jersey

283
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Giant Springs, one of the world’s largest freshwater springs, is located at this “great” Montana city

A

Great Falls

284
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 181 the N.Y. Central, Delaware & Hudson R.R. opened, linking New York City with this, the state capital

A

Albany

285
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Cabildo in this city was the headquarters of the Spanish rulers of Louisiana

A

New Orleans

286
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| G. Washington helped lay out this city’s streets in 1749; it’s across the Potomac from Washington, D.C.

A

Alexandria

287
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Over twice as many people live in this most populous Missouri city as in the city that shares its name in another state

A

Kansas City, Missouri

288
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Beaverton in this state is the home of Nike Athletic Shoes

A

Oregon

289
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alaska’s most populous city; it was founded in 1914 as a construction base for the Alaska Railroad

A

Anchorage

290
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The husbands of Ann Allen & Ann Rumsey named this Michigan city for their wives

A

Ann Arbor

291
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| 12 miles NW of downtown Miami, this Florida city is famous for its thoroughbred racetrack

A

Hialeah

292
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You’ll find W.C. Handy Park & Elvis Presley Plaza near Beale Street in this city

A

Memphis

293
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| White granite from quarries near this New England capital was used in the Library of Congress

A

Concord, New Hampshire

294
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778, this Kentucky city was named for a French monarch

A

Louisville

295
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Nevada city calls itself “the biggest little city in the world”

A

Reno

296
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Virginia port is headquarters for the Navy’s Atlantic fleet

A

Norfolk

297
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s “the nation’s oldest city”

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St. Augustine(, Florida)

298
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest city in Kansas is the world’s top producer of general aviation aircraft

A

Wichita

299
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Though not founded until 1791, this city has the most historic places listed in the National Register

A

Washington, D.C.

300
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne named this Ala. city after the Maubila Indian tribe

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Mobile

301
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Mexico city that got its name from the crosses on the graves of ambushed travelers

A

Las Cruces

302
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Eisenhower was nominated for his second term as president in the Cow Palace in this city

A

San Francisco

303
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This 2nd largest Oregon city is named for 1 of its settlers, a certain Mr. Skinner

A

Eugene

304
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The graves of O. Henry & Thomas Wolfe are in this N.C. city where Wolfe was born

A

Asheville

305
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Colorado resort city was named for a type of poplar tree growing in the area

A

Aspen

306
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This South Dakota capital was named for a French fur trader

A

Pierre

307
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In population it’s the second-largest city on the Pacific Coast

A

San Diego

308
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Oliver H. Perry’s flagship, the Niagara, can be seen on the lakefront of this Pennsylvania city

A

Erie

309
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Michigan City is not in Michigan but in this state to the south

A

Indiana

310
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this Iowa city commemorates the powwow Lewis & Clark held with area Indians in 1804

A

Council Bluffs

311
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Massachusetts city named for an industrialist whose family included several poets & an astronomer

A

Lowell

312
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Pierre Laclede named this Missouri city after not 1 but 2 French kings

A

St. Louis

313
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Though Nashville is the capital, this is Tennessee’s largest city

A

Memphis

314
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Sherman’s famous march to the sea ended 18 miles inland at this city

A

Savannah

315
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This is the largest U.S. city with “Fort” in its name

A

Fort Worth

316
Q

$1400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Alaskan city was named after a senator from Indiana who became vice president

A

Fairbanks

317
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s tidal basin is ringed by some 3,000 Yoshino cherry trees donated by the mayor of Tokyo in 1912

A

Washington, D.C.

318
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The final battle of the War of 1812 was fought in 1815 in & around this city

A

New Orleans

319
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Georgia city is the site of the Masters golf tournament

A

Augusta

320
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1805 Zebulon Pike bought land from the Sioux that’s now this Minnesota capital

A

Saint Paul

321
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Southern city’s Herald prints a separate newspaper in Spanish

A

Miami

322
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Called the German Athens in the 19th century, this Wisc. city is a leading center of German culture in the U.S.

A

Milwaukee

323
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Survey Sampling, Inc. calls this Iowa capital the No. 1 city for market research

A

Des Moines

324
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An early visitor found Hohokam Indian ruins here & predicted a new city would rise from the ashes

A

Phoenix

325
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city that earned its own song in “The Music Man” was named for an executive of U.S. Steel

A

Gary, Indiana

326
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You had to send the earliest Kodaks back to this city to have the film inside developed

A

Rochester, New York

327
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The 1985 Live-Aid concert for African relief was held simultaneously in London & this U.S. city

A

Philadelphia

328
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Montana city is called “a mile high & a mile deep” for its elevation & its mine shafts

A

Butte

329
Q

$700 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Once the westernmost outpost of the Pony Express, it became a state capital in 1854

A

Sacramento

330
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Standing 55’ high, the statue of Vulcan in this southern city is largest cast-iron statue in world

A

Birmingham (Alabama)

331
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Wright-Patterson AFB, largest air force research field in U.S. is near this 6th-largest Ohio city

A

Dayton

332
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Ice cream cones & iced tea were both introduced at this Missouri city’s 1904 world’s fair

A

St. Louis

333
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Hollywood features dog racing & a beach boardwalk

A

Florida

334
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Columbia, capital of this southern state, had no paved roads until 1908

A

South Carolina

335
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| “Home” of the Air Force Academy, it has over 300 days of sunshine yearly

A

Colorado Springs

336
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| During WWI, Germany torpedoed U.S. ships within sight of this, Virginia’s largest resort

A

Virginia Beach

337
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The larger Kansas City is in this state

A

Missouri

338
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Alamo is in the downtown of this city

A

San Antonio

339
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Via St. Lawrence Seaway, ships from Europe can reach this largest Minnesota port

A

Duluth

340
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s California’s 2nd largest in population

A

San Diego

341
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Cuyahoga River has been known to catch <a>fire</a> in this industrial city:

A

Cleveland

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