U.S. Cities Flashcards
$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
Phoenix, Arizona
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alphabetically first among the 150 most populous U.S. cities, it has become the “polymer capital of the world”
Akron
$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
Chicago
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s Haight-Ashbury District emerged in the 1960s as a Mecca of the counterculture scene
San Francisco
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Yes, dear, this insurance center is the largest city in the Connecticut River Valley
Hartford
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace group, is headquartered in this city
Philadelphia
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is a nonfiction book about events in this Georgia city
Savannah
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Texas’ “Sun City”, it’s a sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
El Paso, Texas
$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
New Orleans
$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
San Francisco
$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
Buffalo
$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
Jacksonville
$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
Baltimore, Maryland
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New York State’s second-largest city, it’s the seat of Erie County
Buffalo
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Jestine’s Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera
Charleston
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The roadside attraction called the Cadillac Ranch is in this Texas city whose name is Spanish for “yellow”
Amarillo
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city near San Francisco grew when it became the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad
Oakland
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the biggest city in eastern Washington
Spokane
$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
England
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| If you’re on the Mosquito Coast, don’t forget to visit Atlanta in this country
Nicaragua
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES IN FOREIGN LANDS ||| Ski on Antuco Volcano close to Los Angeles near the Argentine border of this country
Chile
$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
South Africa
$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
Australia
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Mexico artist colony town’s Pueblo was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992
Taos
$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
Philadelphia
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Mormons settled this city in 1855 but thought it was too much of a gamble & abandoned it in 1857
Las Vegas
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Oklahoma city is known for its Art Deco buildings, including the Phillips Oil “Philcade”
Tulsa
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Granite works sprung up in & around this state capital using stone from Barre, a few miles away
Montpelier
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s called “Balmo” or “Balmer” for short
Baltimore
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest North Dakota city was named for a famous businessman
Fargo
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this city that hosts the Colorado State Fair is simply Spanish for “town”
Pueblo
$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
Brownsville
$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
Joliet
$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
Michigan
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New England town’s famous “cottages” are actually lavish mansions such as Belcourt Castle & Marble House
Newport
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital has trolleys & buses called ‘Dillos that take folks to attractions & music clubs
Austin
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 2006 rival cities got crabby when Men’s Fitness magazine named it the fittest city in America
Baltimore
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| President Taft wasn’t a Communist, but he was from this city that’s home to Reds
Cincinnati
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Sternwheel Regatta, a 10-day river festival, is held each summer in this West Virginia capital
Charleston
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Billy Joel could tell you this “town” near Bethlehem, Penn. has the oldest municipal band in the U.S.
Allentown
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Once the starting point for Florida’s Celestial Railroad, this community has a park named for Burt Reynolds
Jupiter
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This “town” on Martha’s Vineyard was named in 1671 for a son of the Duke of York
Edgartown
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 2005, for the tenth straight year, this South Carolina city was voted tops in politeness
Charleston
$2500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Because Malaria was still common in the South, the Communicable Disease Center was established in this city in 1946
Atlanta
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Delaware’s largest city was named for the Earl of this
Wilmington
$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
Laughlin
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The boys from this city could tell you it’s home to the New York State Fair
Syracuse
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its name includes the county of which it’s the seat & the state of which it’s the capital
Oklahoma City
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Texas port is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S.
Houston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its capitol building stands 5,280 feet above sea level
Denver
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Believe it or not, Jerry Springer was once the mayor of this large Ohio city
Cincinnati
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Founded in 1769, this city near the Mexican border is often called “The Birthplace of California”
San Diego
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A campus for the University of Alabama is here, nicknamed “Rocket City, U.S.A.”
Huntsville
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier
Cincinnati
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1921 this New Jersey city crowned its first Miss America
Atlantic City
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Georgia city that’s popular with golfers was named for the mother of George III
Augusta
$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”
Kalamazoo
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A bay & a river bear the name of this city, Alabama’s second largest
Mobile
$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
Zanesville
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located 12 miles north of Mexico, this California city was a whaling port in the mid-1800s
San Diego
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| W.C. Handy wrote some of his blues on Beale Street in this city
Memphis
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the southernmost state capital
Honolulu
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Daniel Boone lived for a while in this West Virginia capital
Charleston
$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
Boston
$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
(1 of) Detroit or Philadelphia
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The game properties in classic Monopoly were named for streets in this city
Atlantic City
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s easy to recognize <a>this</a> city’s skyline–see the Sears Tower?
Chicago
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This seat of Indiana University may have been named for its flowers or for an early settler
Bloomington
$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
Lafayette
$4200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| On a “table” of Arizona’s most populous cities, this one would be listed third
Mesa
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Named for a slain political figure, Harvey Milk Plaza is in this city’s Castro district
San Francisco
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An 1861 song urged Maryland to “avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of” this city
Baltimore
$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
Paris
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This “port” city is the seat of Caddo Parish
Shreveport
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its nicknames include “The Athens of America” & “The Cradle of Liberty”
Boston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| When Oregon became a state in 1859, this city on the Willamette River was already the capital
Salem
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Benjamin Franklin Parkway & The Franklin Institute Science Museum are in this city
Philadelphia
$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)
Cleveland
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located in this city’s Garden District, Commander’s Palace features a jazz brunch on weekends
New Orleans
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Farmers in this state’s San Joaquin Valley ship their stock through Stockton
California
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Kentucky city was founded in 1775 & named for a battle site in Massachusetts
Lexington
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In November 2001 this city’s Journal & Constitution newspapers fully merged
Atlanta
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Rochester, New York grew because of its location on this
the Erie Canal
$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
Lewiston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Kurt Vonnegut called it “Skyscraper National Park”
New York City
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its nicknames include “Home to Walt Disney World” & “Heart of the Sunshine State”
Orlando
$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
New Orleans
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Hampshire’s largest city, it was first named Harrytown, then Derryfield; it got its present name in 1810
Manchester
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Connecticut’s largest city, its Mountain Grove Cemetery has a life-size statue of Tom Thumb
Bridgeport
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the largest U.S. city in population that’s named for an American individual
Houston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s home to the NFL’s Panthers
Charlotte
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This large Texas city was named for James K. Polk’s vice president
Dallas
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| William Saroyan was born & for the most part “raisin” this California city in the San Joaquin Valley
Fresno
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Wisconsin city with a French name is home to a large Danish population & Johnson Wax
Racine
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the state where you’ll find Scarborough, Waterville & Kittery
Maine
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Depictions on this state capital’s seal include Nuuanu Pali & Diamond Head
Honolulu
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Found on the St. Jones River, this capital of Delaware bears the name of an English seaport
Dover
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The prestigious Eastman School of Music is located in this city in western New York
Rochester
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Durham Western Heritage Museum in this Nebraska city is housed in the old Union Pacific depot
Omaha
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Now the largest city in the Carolinas, it hosted the last full meeting of the Confederate cabinet in 1865
Charlotte
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Dixieland refers to a style of jazz that originated in this Southern city
New Orleans
$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
Rome, New York
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Jersey city was the birthplace of Frank Sinatra, Michael Chang & Pia Zadora
Hoboken
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Careful now–it’s the state where you can visit San Diego, Universal City & Jefferson County’s Port Arthur
Texas
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Vincennes on the Wabash River in this state was the territorial capital from 1800 to 1813
Indiana
$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
Pittsburgh
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Saltwater taffy originated in this New Jersey resort in 1883
Atlantic City
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s metropolitan area consists of 6 Missouri counties & 5 Illinois counties
St. Louis
$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
Boulder
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Served by Blue Grass Airport, this Kentucky city was named for the first battle of the American Revolution
Lexington
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the easternmost port on Lake Erie
Buffalo
$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
El Paso
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the largest city in population on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay
Oakland
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| If you want “mo” money, go to this Missouri city, home to the Tenth Federal Reserve Bank
Kansas City
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Skinner’s Mudhole is a nickname of this Oregon city; it was named for Mr. Skinner
Eugene
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Mexico town was named for the grave markers of some of its earlier settlers
Las Cruces
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| On May 24, 1844 Samuel Morse was in this city demonstrating his invention
Washington, D.C.
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Gateway Arch is part of this city’s Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
St. Louis
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This capital of South Dakota is named for a French fur trader
Pierre
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is located near this Ohio city that was home to the Wright brothers
Dayton
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A gateway to Yellowstone, it’s Montana’s most populous city
Billings
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nicknamed “Rocket City, U.S.A.”, it served as Alabama’s capital in 1819
Huntsville
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| To see what’s up at Churchill Downs, head to this city
Louisville
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| John D. Rockefeller began his oil dynasty in this Ohio city
Cleveland
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Lancaster, Pennsylvania is on this river, which shares its name with a type of wagon
Conestoga
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Arlington is located between these third & sixth most populous cities in Texas
Dallas & Fort Worth
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state’s Medford in the Rogue River valley was named for Medford, Massachusetts
Oregon
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The 25 hospitals you can choose from in this city include the famous Massachusetts General
Boston
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This gambling mecca was originally settled by Mormons back in 1855
Las Vegas
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This coastal city’s name goes back to Louisiana governor Bernardo de Galvez
Galveston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Women outnumber men in this North Carolina city named for the wife of King George III
Charlotte
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Site of the 1982 World’s Fair, it was twice capitol of Tennessee
Knoxville
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A city with this name is the most populous city in both Maine & Oregon
Portland
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city that’s home to the Naval Academy was capital of the U.S. in 1783 & 1784
Annapolis, Maryland
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, it was named by Spanish colonists for St. Joseph
San Jose
$1500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the state capital where you can cruise Garth Brooks Blvd., or stroll through Will Rogers Park
Oklahoma City
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| “Health, History, Horses” is the motto of this city in upstate New York
Saratoga Springs
$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
Bridgeport
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The site for this state capital was chosen because of its location midway between Pensacola & St. Augustine
Tallahassee
$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
Long Beach
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In addition to being a major seaport for cargo, it’s the world’s largest cruise port
Miami
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city’s Niagara Square
Buffalo
$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.
Pittsburgh
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| City in which the Watergate break-in occurred
Washington, D.C.
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| With a new waterway, this Oklahoma oil center became an inland port in 1971
Tulsa
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The city of Cambridge in this state was the birthplace of spaceman John Glenn
Ohio
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Butte is in Montana; a city named for this similar land form is in Arizona
Mesa
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Dating back to 1772, Bayamon is a suburb of this capital of a commonwealth
San Juan, Puerto Rico
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The 34 peaks of the roof of this city’s airport represent mountains that are about 30 miles away
Denver
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s flag shows 2 rivers joining behind a fleur-de-lis
St. Louis (at the confluence of the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers)
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The names of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th most populous cities in California begin with these 3 letters
San (San Jose, San Diego & San Francisco)
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Walk-In-The-Water, the first steamship on the Great Lakes, ran between Buffalo & this motor city
Detroit
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1799, if you wanted to go to the nation’s capital, you went to this city
Philadelphia
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Texas city’s name refers to a pass or crossing of the Rio Grande
El Paso
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its Chamber of Commerce is located at 3720 Howard Hughes Parkway
Las Vegas
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Stanford students know the name of this California city means “tall tree”, referring to redwoods
Palo Alto
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Solomon Juneau was the first mayor of this largest Wisconsin city
Milwaukee
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| After the Twin Cities & Bloomington, Duluth is this state’s next most populous city
Minnesota
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Found on Absecon Island, it’s famous for its Boardwalk (& Park Place)
Atlantic City
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| About 25 miles north of Miami, it was named for a structure built during the 2nd Seminole War
Fort Lauderdale
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Its former mayor William Hartsfield dubbed it the city “Too Busy to Hate”
Atlanta (airport named for him)
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Among its sister cities are Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Turin, Italy; & Toyota City, Japan
Detroit
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| When football’s Saints go marching in for a home game, it’s in this city
New Orleans
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Oh, the O. Henry house & the Alamo are 2 of the places you can visit in this city
San Antonio
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the seat of the Florida county formerly known as Dade
Miami
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1904 people met at the fair in this city to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase
St. Louis
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Highlights of this small Arizona city include Boothill Graveyard & the O.K. Corral
Tombstone
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A cable TV network is named for this state capital, a hotbed of country music
Nashville
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| At less than 950 feet, Mt. Davidson is the highest point in this “City by the Bay”
San Francisco
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Paul Revere’s house in this capital is the city’s only 17th century building downtown
Boston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nevada’s second-largest city, it was named for a Union general killed during the Civil War
Reno
$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
Seattle
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Michigan city’s civic center has 6 complexes, including the Joe Louis Arena & the Ford Auditorium
Detroit
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this Minnesota city comes from an Indian word for “water” & the Greek word for “city”
Minneapolis
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Areas of this Texas city include Hollywood Park, Castle Hills & Alamo Heights
San Antonio
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s home to the University of Kentucky & to horseracing’s Toyota Blue Grass Stakes
Lexington
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this city at the hub of California’s San Joaquin Valley is Spanish for “Ash Tree”
Fresno
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| One of the Twin Cities, it was named after a man from Tarsus
St. Paul
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This “Crescent City” was acquired as part of the land deal the U.S. made with France in 1803
New Orleans
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The city known for its Mud Hens; it was named for a city in Spain
Toledo, Ohio
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Society of Friends founded this California city in 1887 & named it after an American poet
Whittier
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An Illinois city was named for this “Our country, right or wrong” naval hero
Stephen Decatur
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s Major League Baseball team plays its home games in Chavez Ravine
Los Angeles
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital is near the head of navigation on the Connecticut River
Hartford
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Colorado city is located where the Gunnison & Colorado Rivers meet, hence its name
Grand Junction
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Texas city was named for the Kansas town that Dwight D. Eisenhower once called home
Abilene
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1972 a flash flood in this South Dakota city killed over 200 people
Rapid City
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1963 NASA opened its $8 million Mission Control Center in this Texas city
Houston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Neil Simon’s Eugene Jerome had the “blues” in this Mississippi city
Biloxi
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Longfellow dubbed this Ohio city the “Queen City of the West”
Cincinnati
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This queen city is home to the Carolina Panthers
Charlotte, North Carolina
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This site of the 1992 America’s Cup races was originally called San Miguel
San Diego
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This historic city was named for the Bishop of Hippo on whose feast day the area was first sighted
St. Augustine, Florida
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Wyoming capital is home to the annual Frontier Days celebration
Cheyenne
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s the only Maryland city not located within a county
Baltimore
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Principal routes through this capital include Ala Moana Boulevard & Pali Highway
Honolulu
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Arizona city’s name comes from Chuk Son, Papago for “Spring at the foot of a black mountain”
Tucson
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Rhode Island resort city is the site of the U.S. Navy Undersea Warfare Center
Newport
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nearly 40% of the people in Washington state live in the metropolitan area of this city
Seattle
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Large hydroelectric facilities were built at this city in New York state in the 1890s
Niagara Falls
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Tennessee port named for an Egyptian city was founded by Andrew Jackson & 2 partners in 1819
Memphis
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this western Wisconsin city on the Mississippi River honors a Native American sport
Lacrosse
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alaska’s largest city, it’s also the state’s commerce & transportation center
Anchorage
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Percival Lowell’s mausoleum is near his observatory in Flagstaff, in this state
Arizona
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| To promote this local product, Crystal City, Texas erected a statue of Popeye
spinach
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The largest Japanese garden in the U.S. is in this city with the largest arch
St. Louis
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital is home to the 4 1/2 acre Roger Williams National Memorial Park
Providence, Rhode Island
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The St. Charles streetcar clamors through the heart of this southern delta city
New Orleans
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Rebuilding Precolumbian irrigation canals in 1867 helped “resurrect” this future Arizona capital
Phoenix
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Cornwallis once referred to this N.C. city as a “hornet’s nest”; today the Hornets play there
Charlotte
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Florida city was named for the general who led the fight to take Florida from the Spanish
Jacksonville
$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
Albuquerque
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Ranked as the nation’s largest inland port, it’s home to Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This state capital was originally called Fort Nashborough, for General Francis Nash
Nashville
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The metropolitan area of this Missouri city extends into Illinois
St. Louis
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Petroglyph National Monument near this largest New Mexico city features Indian carvings on lava
Albuquerque
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You can see the oldest continuously used Mormon chapel in a “Trip To” this Utah city
Bountiful
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Hampshire city is New England’s largest north of Boston
Manchester
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Principal streets in this Utah capital include North Temple, South Temple & West Temple
Salt Lake City
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Elfreth’s Alley in this Pennsylvania city dates back to the time of William Penn
Philadelphia
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Located in the heart of Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region, it was named for a Massachusetts city
Lexington
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New York city’s largest employer is Eastman Kodak, with about 34,000 employees
Rochester
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alaska’s second-largest city, it was founded shortly after gold was discovered there
Fairbanks
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s French Quarter encompasses 70 blocks
New Orleans
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest Nevada city was first settled by Mormons who maintained a colony there 1855-57
Las Vegas
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This West Virginia capital was named for Colonel George Clendenin’s father, Charles
Charleston
$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
St. Petersburg
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this N.Y. city may be derived from a mispronounciation of “Beau Fleuve”, or “Beautiful River”
Buffalo
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This New Jersey capital is also the seat of Mercer County
Trenton
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Thomas Jefferson formulated the bill moving the Virginia capital to this city
Richmond
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Pennsylvania city’s Civic Arena or “Igloo” has a retractable roof
Pittsburgh
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Henry Flagler developed this fashionable Florida resort famous for the chic shops on Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Haven & this city were twin capitals of Connecticut from 1701 to 1875, when it became the sole capital
Hartford
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1904 a fire in this largest Maryland city nearly destroyed the entire downtown section
Baltimore
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Bern, one of North Carolina’s oldest cities, is named for this country’s capital
Switzerland
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In late June to early July you can attend Civil War Heritage Days in this Pennsylvania town
Gettysburg
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Surveyors in Ohio named a Cleveland suburb for this Greek “Father of Geometry”
Euclid
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The famous Tournament of Roses Parade was first held in this California city in 1890
Pasadena
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Utah city originally had the word “great” in its name, like the body of water
Salt Lake City
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Kansas City, Kansas is the twin city of Kansas City in this state
Missouri
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Mississippi city is home to the Elvis Presley Park & Memorial Chapel
Tupelo
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| From Spanish, the name of this Texas city refers to the yellowish banks of a nearby stream
Amarillo
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| At least 3 1/2 miles of skyways link the downtown buildings of this Minnesota capital
St. Paul
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Boeing’s military airplane division is in this Kansas city, home to Cessna & Glen Campbell’s lineman
Wichita
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| St. Petersburg is home to Florida’s annual tournament in this game popular on shipdecks
Shuffleboard
$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
Phoenix
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Montana city was founded in 1882 by the Northern Pacific Railroad & named for its president
Billings
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Of Creek origin, the name of this Florida capital means “Old Town”
Tallahassee
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| One of New Jersey’s annual rites of summer is the crowning of Miss America in this city
Atlantic City
$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
St. Louis
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Nicknamed the “Christmas City”, this Pennsylvania city is famous for its steel
Bethlehem
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You can visit Ethan Allen’s grave in this city, Vermont’s largest
Burlington
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Seattle’s “gem” of a nickname, or Dorothy’s destination
The Emerald City
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Wax Museum of Witches And Seafarers opened in this New England city in 1993
Salem, Massachusetts
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Alabama city known for its Azalea Trail should have been Alexander Calder’s favorite
Mobile
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| If you recall the first words spoken on the moon, you’ll know Tranquility Park is in this city
Houston
$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”
Wheeling
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1790 it succeeded Charleston as South Carolina’s capital
Columbia
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Steamboat builder & operator Henry M. Shreve has a city named for him in this state
Louisiana
$1500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Florida city was named by a railroad official for his boyhood home in Russia
St. Petersburg
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Since 1907 this Oregon city has hosted an annual Rose Festival
Portland
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest North Dakota city lies across the Red River of the North from Moorhead, Minnesota
Fargo
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Designed locally & cast in Japan, a peace & friendship bell was dedicated in this Tennessee city in 1996
Oak Ridge
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis is within the metropolitan area of this city
Baltimore
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| in 1985 Xavier Suarez became this Florida city’s first Cuban-born mayor
Miami
$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”
Tuscon
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Around 1720 this Mississippi port became the capital of France’s Louisiana territory
Biloxi
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Pennsylvania city was founded in 1741 & named on Christmas Eve of that year
Bethlehem
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The cities of Highland Park & Hamtramck are surrounded by this Michigan city
Detroit
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Midwest city is home base to Cardinals, Rams & Clydesdales
St. Louis
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The U.S. Air Force Museum is located near this city, home of the Wright Brothers
Dayton, Ohio
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Hamar, Norway is a sister city of this largest North Dakota city
Fargo
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1799 this city became the seat of Kennebec County; 33 years later, it became a state capital
Augusta, Maine
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Illinois city’s lakefront on Lake Michigan is over 25 miles long
Chicago
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| On August 11, 1683 William Penn issued a warrant to lay out this Delaware capital
Dover
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Museum of Flight, south of this major city, features the Red Barn, Boeing’s first plant building
Seattle
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| A fountain at its Point State Park symbolizes the confluence of the Ohio, Monongahela & Allegheny Rivers
Pittsburgh
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Before a new facility was built, Love Field was this Texas city’s main airport
Dallas
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Colleges in this city include Harold Washington, Malcolm X & Richard J. Daley
Chicago
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| 171-foot-wide Canal Street runs from Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River in this city
New Orleans
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This city’s metropolitan area has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world
New York City
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Paterson, in this state, was once known as “America’s Silk City”
New Jersey
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Giant Springs, one of the world’s largest freshwater springs, is located at this “great” Montana city
Great Falls
$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
Albany
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Cabildo in this city was the headquarters of the Spanish rulers of Louisiana
New Orleans
$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.
Alexandria
$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
Kansas City, Missouri
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Beaverton in this state is the home of Nike Athletic Shoes
Oregon
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Alaska’s most populous city; it was founded in 1914 as a construction base for the Alaska Railroad
Anchorage
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The husbands of Ann Allen & Ann Rumsey named this Michigan city for their wives
Ann Arbor
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| 12 miles NW of downtown Miami, this Florida city is famous for its thoroughbred racetrack
Hialeah
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You’ll find W.C. Handy Park & Elvis Presley Plaza near Beale Street in this city
Memphis
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| White granite from quarries near this New England capital was used in the Library of Congress
Concord, New Hampshire
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778, this Kentucky city was named for a French monarch
Louisville
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Nevada city calls itself “the biggest little city in the world”
Reno
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Virginia port is headquarters for the Navy’s Atlantic fleet
Norfolk
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s “the nation’s oldest city”
St. Augustine(, Florida)
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This largest city in Kansas is the world’s top producer of general aviation aircraft
Wichita
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Though not founded until 1791, this city has the most historic places listed in the National Register
Washington, D.C.
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne named this Ala. city after the Maubila Indian tribe
Mobile
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| New Mexico city that got its name from the crosses on the graves of ambushed travelers
Las Cruces
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Eisenhower was nominated for his second term as president in the Cow Palace in this city
San Francisco
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This 2nd largest Oregon city is named for 1 of its settlers, a certain Mr. Skinner
Eugene
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The graves of O. Henry & Thomas Wolfe are in this N.C. city where Wolfe was born
Asheville
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Colorado resort city was named for a type of poplar tree growing in the area
Aspen
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This South Dakota capital was named for a French fur trader
Pierre
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In population it’s the second-largest city on the Pacific Coast
San Diego
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Oliver H. Perry’s flagship, the Niagara, can be seen on the lakefront of this Pennsylvania city
Erie
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Michigan City is not in Michigan but in this state to the south
Indiana
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The name of this Iowa city commemorates the powwow Lewis & Clark held with area Indians in 1804
Council Bluffs
$None ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Massachusetts city named for an industrialist whose family included several poets & an astronomer
Lowell
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Pierre Laclede named this Missouri city after not 1 but 2 French kings
St. Louis
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Though Nashville is the capital, this is Tennessee’s largest city
Memphis
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Sherman’s famous march to the sea ended 18 miles inland at this city
Savannah
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This is the largest U.S. city with “Fort” in its name
Fort Worth
$1400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Alaskan city was named after a senator from Indiana who became vice president
Fairbanks
$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
Washington, D.C.
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The final battle of the War of 1812 was fought in 1815 in & around this city
New Orleans
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Georgia city is the site of the Masters golf tournament
Augusta
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| In 1805 Zebulon Pike bought land from the Sioux that’s now this Minnesota capital
Saint Paul
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Southern city’s Herald prints a separate newspaper in Spanish
Miami
$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.
Milwaukee
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Survey Sampling, Inc. calls this Iowa capital the No. 1 city for market research
Des Moines
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| An early visitor found Hohokam Indian ruins here & predicted a new city would rise from the ashes
Phoenix
$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
Gary, Indiana
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| You had to send the earliest Kodaks back to this city to have the film inside developed
Rochester, New York
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The 1985 Live-Aid concert for African relief was held simultaneously in London & this U.S. city
Philadelphia
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Montana city is called “a mile high & a mile deep” for its elevation & its mine shafts
Butte
$700 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Once the westernmost outpost of the Pony Express, it became a state capital in 1854
Sacramento
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Standing 55’ high, the statue of Vulcan in this southern city is largest cast-iron statue in world
Birmingham (Alabama)
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Wright-Patterson AFB, largest air force research field in U.S. is near this 6th-largest Ohio city
Dayton
$100 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Ice cream cones & iced tea were both introduced at this Missouri city’s 1904 world’s fair
St. Louis
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| This Hollywood features dog racing & a beach boardwalk
Florida
$300 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Columbia, capital of this southern state, had no paved roads until 1908
South Carolina
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| “Home” of the Air Force Academy, it has over 300 days of sunshine yearly
Colorado Springs
$500 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| During WWI, Germany torpedoed U.S. ships within sight of this, Virginia’s largest resort
Virginia Beach
$200 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The larger Kansas City is in this state
Missouri
$400 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Alamo is in the downtown of this city
San Antonio
$600 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| Via St. Lawrence Seaway, ships from Europe can reach this largest Minnesota port
Duluth
$800 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| It’s California’s 2nd largest in population
San Diego
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. CITIES ||| The Cuyahoga River has been known to catch <a>fire</a> in this industrial city:
Cleveland
