First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 1 degrees latitude, Intermediate 0.5 degrees, Advanced 0.25 degrees, and Expert 0.1 degrees. Then, enter 5K+ population cities (see NAMING NOTE below) and all 5K+ population cities within that latitude will automatically fill in. AK and HI are not included as you can’t complete them with the 48 states.

HOWEVER – for this quiz you can enter any 5K+ city for your first choice, but successive cities must be already within a blue band for you to answer them, so you must ‘expand’ the blue area in the north and south directions, you can’t start a new blue band with a gap away from a currently blue shaded area.

NAMING NOTE: to name cities for this quiz, enter the city name followed by state abbreviation followed by a ‘.’ – i.e. ‘newyorkny.’ or ‘chicagoil.’

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.