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.)
Tag: los angeles
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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1) What over-the-top F/X drama, set in Miami for its first four seasons, moved its characters to Los Angeles for the fifth?
2) What LA punk band with a very short name released the album Los Angeles in 1980 and had their highest-charting album with 1983’s Under the Big Black Sun?
3) What series of conflicts between sailors and young Mexican-Americans was used in the James Ellroy novel The Black Dahlia and immortalized in a 1997 song by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies?
4) What’s the electricity-themed name of Los Angeles’s WNBA team?
5) What former LA Lakers cheerleader regularly appears on a reality show that airs on the Fox network?
6) What landmark Seattle building was designed by the same genius architect who designed LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall?
7) What LA-born musician, also known as Makaveli, is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s best-selling rap artist?
8) There are two daily newspapers based in LA that cover the film and entertainment industry. Name one of them.
9) Los Angeles mounted a bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, but the United States Olympic Committee chose to back what other major city?
10) According to MSN.tv, L.A. Law featured one of TV’s most shocking deaths when Rosalind Shays, a character viewers loved to hate, did what?
Average score, 17 teams: 7.65
1) Which US state comes last alphabetically?
2) Who has had the most square miles of the earth’s surface named after him or her?
3) What’s the popular name for the intersection at Broadway and Seventh Avenue in New York City?
4) The community of White Center in unincorporated King County is being considered for annexation by Seattle as well as what other city?
5) As of 2005, which city had the busiest Amtrak station west of the Mississippi? (most passenger traffic to and from)
6) Which of these is longest: the second-longest river in Africa, the second-longest river in Asia, the second-longest river in North America, or the second-longest river in South America?
7) What’s the official state religion of Bhutan?
8) The US was the first country to detonate a nuclear weapon. The Soviet Union was second. Which country was third?
9) What state capital, named for a US president, is the city with the greatest number of Flickr users per capita?
10) If you’re at the spot exactly opposite Seattle on a globe, what ocean are you in?
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