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Test your knowledge of US city skylines with this photo quiz. Can you name the cities shown in 50 random skyline photos?

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US City Skylines By Photo

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As quickly as possible, name the US cities shown in each of 50 random skyline photos chosen among about 100 of the largest US cities (all over 100K population).

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darin

9 months ago

Updated this with brand new images – also there are 3 different images per city now (you will only get a city one time during the quiz though) and some new cities have been added.

cal.vino

8 months ago

Some strange things going on with the quiz the past couple of days.
1) Quiz now stops any time you run out of time on a photo without a correct answer. It doesn’t continue for the full 10 minutes.

2) Getting cities multiple times in the quiz (they should only be shown once per quiz). I got Houston a couple of times on a single quiz this weekend, and I actually got San Jose twice in a row in my latest round.

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to cal.vino

Fixing these now 🙂

cal.vino

8 months ago

Reply to darin

Hi @darin It keeps reverting back to the bad rules. Can you take a look again?

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to cal.vino

Should be good now

sammyg01

11 months ago

@Darin, Hoping it’s time to update this quiz!! I’ve both memorized a lot of the photos over the years plus some of the skylines have changed considerably since the photos!

bnabreaker

1 year ago

I’m sort of a skyline nerd and knew all but one of them, which wasn’t even a skyline… literally just a suburban parking lot studded town in the desert lol… probably a suburb of Phoenix or something.

wolfwiles

1 year ago

Some of these skyline photos are taken at quite horrific angles. Leaving out iconic buildings and almost having a generic quality to them. I’ve never seen a photo of the SF skyline without the Salesforce building or the Transamerica building or the Bay Bridge or the Golden Gate. Sheesh.

Organist45

2 years ago

Would it be possible for it to show what the city was if we missed it? Like, if I am typing in answers and it’s not accepting the answers and time runs out before I put in the correct answer, could it be made to show what the city I missed was? Hope that made sense.

leggs77

3 years ago

others to add – Madison, Columbia SC, Mobile, Grand Rapids, Sioux Falls, Worcester, Richmond?

DylanJenkins

5 years ago

I’ve traveled to many cities in this country — this quiz is devilishly difficult and I respect the hell out of that.

mj4cy

7 years ago

Should add Des Moines to this. Has an amazing skyline and better than a decent amount of the cities used in this quiz. Also would be hard to get right if not from the midwest.

soundscape

7 years ago

Reply to mj4cy

I got Des Moines