Statistics for U.S. Cities by Letter - D-E

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Clue	D or E?	Answer	% Correct
The third most populous Texas city is known for its NFL franchise and their 8 Super Bowl wins.	D	Dallas	100%
“The Mile High City” is the most populous in Colorado.	D	Denver	100%
The most populous city in Michigan is known for its place in automotive history and for the Motown sound.	D	Detroit	98%
This Texas city lies across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Its name can be translated from Spanish as either “the pass” or “the step.”	E	El Paso	98%
The capital and most populous city of Iowa. Its name means “of the monks” in French.	D	Des Moines	96%
The second largest city in Oregon is home to both the University of Oregon and Bushnell University. It shares its name with the nerdy character in the musical Grease.	E	Eugene	87%
The fourth most populous North Carolina city is home to Duke University and has a name that is a homophone of a class of wheat.	D	Durham	82%
The fourth most populous city in New Jersey shares its name with two British queens regnant.	E	Elizabeth	80%
Ohio’s sixth largest city is where the Wright brothers built their Wright Flyer airplane, although they flew it in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.	D	Dayton	78%
This New Jersey township is named after its most famous resident, who lived in the township’s Menlo Park section. Any light bulbs going on in your head?	E	Edison	78%
If you add an “h” to the end of this Texas city’s name, it will look like the capital of Scotland.	E	Edinburg	73%
The name of this Florida city sounds like a nickname for “David.”	D	Davie	71%
This Texas city is home to the University of North Texas. Its name has two syllables. The first is also a word that means “a wild animal's lair or habitation.” The second syllable looks like a unit of weight.	D	Denton	64%
Henry Ford established the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company in this Michigan city.	D	Dearborn	60%
The Boeing 767 was built in Washington’s seventh most populous city. The city’s name was also the given name of the late Senator Dirksen (d. 1969) from Illinois.	E	Everett	58%
The third largest city of Iowa. Its name sounds like an article of furniture: either a compact desk or a type of sofa.	D	Davenport	53%
This California city was the birthplace of the Apollo space program. It shares its name with an actor who has played the role of Iron Man in several films.	D	Downey	53%
Healthcare, finance, and education are the largest industry sectors for the third largest city of Indiana.	E	Evansville	53%
The name of this San Diego area city in California means “hidden” in Spanish.	E	Escondido	49%
The sixth largest Illinois city shares the spelling of its name (but not the pronunciation) with a former cathedral city in Moray, Scotland.	E	Elgin	47%
The first word in this California city’s name is a homophone for a word that means “every day.” The second word confirms what type of place it is.	D	Daly City	42%
The name of this California city sounds like it refers to a small wood where wapiti gather.	E	Elk Grove	38%
The name of this California city, at the end of the Santa Fe Trail, means “the hill” in Spanish.	E	El Monte	22%
Although it has lost the acute accent over its “o,” the name of this California city means “the box” in Spanish, a reference to the boxed-in nature of the valley in which the city sits.	E	El Cajon	20%