Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 5-degree grid, hard is a 2.5-degree grid. Then, try to name the LARGEST city in each grid square which fits the category label for each square. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period). You are given a score from 0 to 100 based on your answer's population compared to the largest city accepted in that square (100 being you named the largest city).
LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 50-100K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).
AK and HI are NOT included in this quiz as they often have grid squares with only one answer for this quiz.
At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each unanswered square, and for those answered the largest city will be listed if you didn't answer it.
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Needs an update to correct the gulf of america misprint. it’s the gulf of mexico. I don’t care what the orange man says.
Sorry it’s hardcoded into Google Maps, nothing I can do 🙁
I was bored and went the morbid curiosity route on beginner; only got as far as October 17, 1978 (Lanett, Alabama) but I got a score of 20744/21397 and fully covered 32 states. Which is both higher than I expected and lower than I feared. Probably would have gotten closer if I had more time and could have gotten all the way to the present. I don’t think I would have gotten Hawaii or Alaska fully covered
wdym in what order did you cover
Got all but 14
we need one that includes the territories cities
this quiz needs a custom option
Is it possible to complete the state of Alaska by covage?
The quiz is not working anymore?
working fine for me – trying reloading it.
i somehow got adak, alaska but not roseau, mn. im still happy with getting 21272
Is it possible to get Alaska? There’s a lot of towns that are not working
everything that’s incorporated should work fine for AK. unincorporated areas are generally not included in my quizzes.
20k /21k in intermediate… so close. Fun quiz!
Thanks Darin, fun quiz.
I got 16867 just by naming europian capitals and countries, pretty cool!
You can get a surprisingly long way by just typing European capitals
I believe it should be possible to exceed 20k points rather easily if you expand it to European city names in general. The amount of German/UK/historical city names found in the US is insane. Look at number of places called Heidelberg, Florence or Newcastle for example..
add in a few presidents and Springfield too 😛
Can the scores on this be reset? The amount of cities seems to be decreased.
i’ve lowered all the scores by the difference in amount of cities. I have less now as I was counting towns in some states that shouldn’t have been on this quiz.
the list needs to be updated last update was in 2015 weve had a us census since than
this actually is updated with 2020 census figures. i don’t mark every single US quiz that uses the same database each time I update the database.
its really hard to get all of the small alaskan towns might want to consider dropping some off the list i even write them down thinking i have enough in the radius but i don’t in the end for beginner
They’re real places, same as small towns in Idaho or Kentuck or Saskatchewan! Leave them in!