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.
None of the percentages afterward are working. They all just say
#1 town, state – town%
that only happens if you are the first person to play the quiz using that starting city
For anyone who wants to do only Montana towns, the best one is havre, mt. you dont get any towns from other states.
Surprised this is missing Downers Grove IL! Countryside too
wait it is there…just type ‘Downers Grove, IL’ and it should zoom in to it.
Ah I see, I was guessing the closest cities to Chicago and I guess DG just didn’t make the cut. The pink marker shows up if I type it in first to guess DG’s closest cities but on Chicago’s closest cities the marker for Westmont just east of DG shows up but not DG.
Native Utahn, here. I enjoy these USA geography quizzes. For this particular quiz, I chose to name the 100 closest cities to Las Vegas, NV. One of them appears to be “Cedar Highlands, UT”. It doesn’t show up on Google Maps as a legitimate city. The closest geographical town I could find was Hamiltons Fort, UT (which is unincorporated, apparently). Anyway, I hope I am not coming across as rude or critical. I had to compare this map with Google Maps. I kept trying to put in “Hamiltons Fort” but the quiz wouldn’t accept it. So, my point is, there doesn’t appear to be a “Cedar Highlands, UT”. What came up when I entered “Cedar Highlands” were “Cedar Highlands Drive” and “Cedar Highlands Commons Drive” which appear to be landmarks.
looks like they were incorporated and then voted not to be…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Highlands,_Utah
I’ll remove it when I update US cities next before long