What’s the most populous city in the United States with a name derived from French?
Tag: cities
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on March 3, 2009
Average score: 7.5/10 (14 teams)
Each correct answer is a US city.
1) If you want to gorge on museums and visit the Carnegie Science Center, the National Aviary, and the Andy Warhol Museum, where do you need to go?
2) If you want to hear some blues on Beale Street, stop by the historic Sun recording studio, and catch an NBA game in the FedEx Forum, where should you go?
3) To take in the Diamond Head State Monument, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, and a genuine royal palace located in the US, you need to head where?
4) To visit the Rice Eccles Olympic Stadium and Temple Square, then slather some fry sauce on your fries, where do you need to go?
5) If you’re in the Duke City to visit the National Atomic Museum and see the Isotopes play baseball, where are you?
6) If you want to see Ansel Adams photographs at the Center for Creative Photography, check out the Titan Missile Museum, and get to Saguaro National Park, what city should you visit?
7) If you’re visiting the American Jazz Museum and take the Hallmark Cards tour in the City of Fountains, where are you?
8) If you fly in to Mitchell International Airport to attend the Summerfest music festival and stop by the Bronze Fonz, where are you?
9) If you want to listen to the Kotzschmar Organ, take the Lucky Catch Lobster Cruise, and see the Sea Dogs play AA baseball, what city do you need to visit?
10) If you take TriMet to get married at Voodoo Doughnuts before visiting the Expose Yourself to Art statue, you’re in Little Beirut, better known as what city?
What city comes next in this sequence
San Francisco
Atlanta
Houston
San Diego
Los Angeles
(If you know the next one, you can probably also figure out the preceding one — this sequence extends back further than San Francisco.)
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on June 3, 2008
Average score: 3.38/10 (16 teams)
So, yeah, this round’s a little too difficult.
1) None of the United Nations member states start with the letter X — or what other letter?
2) What’s the most populous country in the world where Spanish is a national language?
3) Name one of the two largest islands in Washington’s Island County.
4) 37 towns share the most popular place name in the US. Which founding father inspired most of them?
5) After the breakup of the Soviet Union, what country became the world’s leading producer of potatoes?
6) Put these three places in order of total area, from smallest to largest: the city of Juneau, Alaska; King County, Washington; and the state of Rhode Island
7) Maracaibo, Valencia, Barquisimeto, and Mérida are cities in what South American country?
8) Which US city contains the world’s largest population of Iranians outside of Iran?
9) Birthplace of Goethe, Bach and Nietzsche, what was the second-most-populous city in East Germany?
10) After the 1861 unification of Italy, two cities were capitals before Rome. Name one of them.
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From Mental Floss: Name the 10 Most Populous U.S. Cities in 2 Minutes.
I managed 8 out of 10. (Spoilers after the jump.) Good quiz idea, Jenny Brown.
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Berlin, Germany; Bristol, Virginia; Fukuoka, Japan; Hollywood, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; London, England; Munich, Germany; San Francisco, California; Stockholm, Sweden
Amsterdam
Barcelona
Houston, TX
Oslo
Paris
Pittsburgh, PA
Santa Fe, NM
St. Petersburg, FL
Need a hint? Try adding Stockbridge, Massachusetts to the list.