Biggest Cities in New York State

If you did not get New York City you are a fail.

So far that's 0% of the people who took the quiz.

Now it is 1%.

Maybe they though it was like Washington state.

Also, fail is not a noun.

Well.... technically: fail - noun 1: failure —usually used in the phrase without fail 2: a failure (as by a security dealer) to deliver or receive securities within a prescribed period after purchase or sale

...but obviously Brickster wasn't attempting either of those usages. So, yeah.

You go the dictionary to prove whether something is a noun or not? All you have to is look at his usage. If it's used as a noun, then it's a noun.

In what universe would that be true? If I said "You are a technically," or "I am the by," that does not automatically make "technically" and "by" nouns. It just makes the sentences nonsense.

In short, he means: It's a stupid thing to say.

I feel ashamed. Got only New York. I'm from Europe though.

I'm from upstate NY so I ended up getting all but 6.

Lived in SI, NY all my life, & I still found this difficult.

So basically with out NYC all the other cities are not famous and boring and below 1 million?

Buffalo has 2 pro sports teams and is responsible for popularizing buffalo wings. Niagara Falls is home to the largest waterfall (by volume) in the world, often considered one of the wonders of the modern world. Syracuse is home to an elite-level NCAA basketball team. Rochester is home to the University of Rochester, and Troy is home to RPI - both institutions are routinely ranked amongst the top 50 universities in the US. Just because they're not huge cities doesn't make them completely inconsequential.

Also Albany is the State Capital

And Buffalo actually is over 1 million with Metro Area

Syracuse also has an AHL Team, The Syracuse Crunch, who has been the affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning since 1992. Binghamton has had 2 AHL teams as well, the Binghamton Senators, affiliate of the Ottawa Senators before relocating to Belleville, ON in 2017, as well as the Binghamton Devils, affiliate of the New Jersey Devils since 2017. The Binghamton Devils also used to play in Albany from 2010-2017.

So basically what you're saying is that you only got one right answer?

Schenectady is such a strange name, but it sticks. Had to look up the spelling though, but I sware I knew it!

Some leeway for the spelling there might be warranted. I only got it right because I just saw the Bradley Cooper movie that takes place there so the correct spelling was fresh in my mind.

Was surprised not to see Poughkeepsie since it occurs in print fairly often due to its historical interest, but after looking it up I see why it was omitted - only around 30,000 population.

I tried Po'Town too. And Peekskill and Kingston and Ossining. But no. Missed Schenectady and Niagara.

I got all but Hempstead, but I was so close! As I was typing it at the last second time ran out.

Hempstead was one of the few that i did get, but that was because i made a quiz about new york city suburbs recently.

Is Yonkers not a suburb of NYC? What is an 'incorporated city'?

Incorporated cities have their own government. Yonkers is a suburb of NYC, but it is incorporated and has its own mayor and city council.

I think theres an issue in this quiz. New York is not the largest city in New York, it is actually Pittsburgh that takes that claim. New York City is simply a small hamlet nestled in the Adirondacks. (Hopefully you get the sarcasm)

I thought it was Pittsburg (no h)

Only gone NYC, Buffalo, and Albany. But then again, I think almost everybody who never lived in New York only got those!

Could you accept misspellings of Binghamton and Niagara Falls? (Maybe just Niagara, even, as it's often referred to as)

Knew of New Rochelle because that's where Don McLean ("American Pie") grew up. While I was at it, gave Rye, NY a shot, since he mentions in the song ("...them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey in Rye") but to no avail. Went to the well once too often. :-(

I always remember New Rochelle as the setting for the Dick Van Dyke show.

That's how I got it!

I was just going to make this comment myself. Hempstead is a village (which is itself located in the town of Hempstead, which contains many villages and is home to around 700,000 people). It is definitely not a city. I am sure of this. I grew up in the town of Hempstead. Never once have I heard anyone call either the town or the village a "city."

Agree with both of you. Instructions should be updated to "incorporated cities and villages only". These are the 2 types of incorporated municipalities in NY. A village takes over some government functionality from the town or towns it overlays but is not fully independent. A city is fully independent of any other town or city and is the sole local government below the county for its residents.

Proud to be a new yorker:)

Missed White Plains and Mt Vernon.

Please accept "Binghampton"