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.
This says 71% of people found Ankeny, IA. I have a feeling that the number of people who actually knew about Ankeny, IA before they started this quiz is a little lower than 71%…
I found some ‘A’ Places that Cityquiz.io takes that this one doesn’t – i.e Attu Station, AK (though it does technically have a population of 0) and Angola on the Lake, NY (which is accepted separately from Angola NY on cityquiz, and even appears as a separate location on google maps) – also are the NJ and PA Townships (i.e Aberdeen Township and Aston Township) just accepted under Aberdeen and Aston, respectively?
May be good to cross-reference with Cityquiz.io to ensure you didn’t miss any places for other letters as well
Those are CDP’s/hamlets/etc not cities – not on my city quizzes.
Oh I see – So they’re not incorporated? Some I’ve found this one to be missing are quite large – like tens of thousands in population – well, I dunno – your quiz, your rules, I suppose lol
Just trying to help – not that I’m a geographer… just find these quizzes interesting on what one quiz counts as valid that others don’t
Yeah a lot of places actually aren’t ‘cities’ in the sense they aren’t incorporated. This includes townships in most states, towns in most states, etc.
Confusing stuff if you ask me lol. And yet something about discovering place names is almost addicting
On the Y-quiz it shows two cities within the 100-250K range which don’t exist(?)
Yonkers and Yuma. I see them on the map.
Must have blacked-out or something
Did you forget Texarkana, AR for the letter “T”?
Nope – I just tried it and it took.
Weird. I just tried it earlier and only Texarkana, TX showed up.
Weird issue for L i think, everything seems to be doubled on the stats bar. For example, it says 0/100 states completed and the total number of cities for every amount (i.e. 1M+,500K-1M,…) is listed as twice as much as their actually is.
hmm can’t reproduce this – try just reloading the quiz. it’s working fine for me for “L” and other letters.
This whole quiz could be ruined if somebody founds a city called “Alldone.”
Such as if Aldan, PA were to name itself “Alldone, Pennsylvania” as a joke. ^^
On the D quiz, is “Deer Lodge, MT” actually Anaconda-Deer Lodge? If so, that’s sneaky, Darin.
no – Deer Lodge is a separate place, then ‘Anaconda-Deer Lodge’ is under the A’s.