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Test your knowledge of North American cities with our interactive quiz! Double-click on each location to earn points and challenge your friends.

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Yes. Most quizzes allow common abbreviations, alternate spellings, and short forms. Try typing just the first few letters — if it matches, it will autofill.

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North America 100 Cities Locator

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Double-click on the location of each of the 100 largest North American cities. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100).

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GermanWater

2 months ago

isn’t san jose costa rico bigger than san jose in California?

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darin

2 months ago

Reply to GermanWater

No, city proper population it is a bit smaller.

porkmanshrekys

1 year ago

impossible challenge: play this game without yelling hurry up at the screen

decafdave

2 years ago

This quiz doesn’t work. Clicking Mexico City gives me points for NYC. Each city is wrong.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to decafdave

you will get a small number of points if you guess far away from where you are supposed to click…it’s working fine for me.

istvan13

5 years ago

Just a note that Kingston is also the name of one of Canada’s bigger cities.

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darin

5 years ago

Reply to istvan13

true – but putting the country would be a bit of a hint, so it needs to known which Kingston is quite a bit bigger than the other to be in the top 100.

jdk

5 years ago

I took the quiz once, and it lists me in “your scores” as having taken it 30 or times – looks like it may be recording a new score with each city.

Fergenaprido

5 years ago

Reply to jdk

Same. I think it’s when you keep guessing after time runs out.

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darin

5 years ago

Reply to Fergenaprido

this bug should be fixed now.

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