First choose any US city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any US city in each 100 mile circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice, trying to name SECOND LARGEST city in each circle. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.
PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the largest one will be counted.
You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named in relation to the second largest city in the circle. A smaller city’s point total will be the ratio of its population to the largest, so if you name a city of 75K people and the largest city has 100K, you get 75 points. Naming the largest city will get you points based on the ratio of the 2nd largest city's population to the largest city's.
When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring’s 2nd largest city at right (under ‘Answer Stats’ by your coordinates).
For example, if you choose ‘Chicago’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 miles centered at Chicago. Naming any city in this circle (including Chicago) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 miles to appear outside that circle, however - you will want to try naming the SECOND LARGEST city you can to get more points. After completing that circle, you now need to name any US city in the new ring (but not within any previous circles/rings), again trying to name the 2nd largest city. If there are not two cities within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until two cities fall within it.
Weird little bug – when time expired – the #51-100 page went almost completely blank – all I could see where the index numbers 1 through 50 (the #1-50 page behaved “normally” – showing my answers (or empty values when I missed the answer) – and the percentage of test-takers who got that specific item correct – and the 20 Missed and 20 Hardest pages also showed the correct information – only problem was on the second “answer” page.)
fixed this, thanks.
Really wish this was longer. Would enjoy being able to think through these instead of rushing to get all the current wants in for the sake of added time.
*current ones
I agree. The time is way too short. These quick timed quizzes are more about testing your typing skills rather than knowledge. That is why I have gravitated away from this site more and more.