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.
Why doesn’t Minocqua, WI come up for a city ending in “a”?
It’s a CDP, not a city.
“Hawaii ends in G” was evil. LOL. Hickam Housing was a tough one to find.
One of the boxes I got was capital city south of 30 latitude. There are no cities that match this criteria.
Honolulu does.
oh yeah you right
I used Enterprise, Empire and Eureka, but none worked for Nevada cities start with an E:
Enterprise – Clark County 254,706
Elko – Elko County 20,888
Ely – White Pine County 3,881
East Valley – Douglas County 1,249
Eureka – Eureka County 241
Empire – Washoe County 148
They are unincorporated towns.
Shouldn’t “Greece” work for NY for “Ends with E”?
It’s an unincorporated town.
Can you confirm that? I’m seeing it as meeting all the normal criteria for being an incorporated town. Interested to see what the distinction is if I’m wrong, though.
NY towns are different than towns in other states and not included except on my “All Places” type quizzes. Generally not listed in largest cities quizzes on other sites as well.
I got stuck on “Ends with O” / NJ. Did a Google search and nothing came up. Is there a valid answer?
Marlboro (township) – townships in NJ are different than in other states and counted.
TIL that Towson, MD, population 60k, is unincorporated.
I really don’t like the way the states are showing as out lines now. Makes the grid obnoxiously tall so you have to do a ton of scrolling.
I’ll shrink the state outlines a little.
I refresh every time I do this quiz and Delaware pops up.
Ditto: it seems to key to completing this quiz is to study the towns of Delaware.
It is the same with Germany and Saarland.
My second time playing this quiz, I did not get Delaware as a category.
Is Butte in there as Butte-Silver Bow? Didn’t work for MT Ends With E
Yeah the entity name according to the census is Butte-Silver Bow
Great addition – fun and frustrating (sometimes)!
I wonder how many people who live there, when asked where they live, reply with “Butte-Silver Bow”. LOL