Statistics for U.S. Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions

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Description	City	% Correct
Nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet)	Denver	91%
The location of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, when Al Capone sent men to gun down members of a rival gang	Chicago	83%
The busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines	Miami	82%
Founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England	Boston	75%
Named after King Louis XVI of France	Louisville	73%
It stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico-United States border from Ciudad Juárez	El Paso	68%
The second-largest music production center (after New York) in the United States	Nashville	68%
Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, its population has declined by more than 60 percent	Detroit	65%
The most remote city of its size in the world	Honolulu	63%
The largest city within the greater Mojave Desert	Las Vegas	57%
The number one beer producing city in the world for many years	Milwaukee	52%
Almost entirely burned to the ground in General William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea	Atlanta	46%
Located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers	Pittsburgh	46%
Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, Ogden Nash, and H. L. Mencken	Baltimore	44%
An important city in U.S. presidential politics; as the state's capital, it is the site of the first caucuses of the presidential primary cycle	Des Moines	44%
The cultural center of the Valley of the Sun	Phoenix	43%
The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in the city from 1837 until 1861	Springfield	43%
The largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea	Dallas	42%
Known for its cool summers, fog, and steep rolling hills	San Francisco	42%
In 1770, the city's 11,000 inhabitants - half slaves - made it the 4th-largest port after Boston, New York, and Philadelphia	Charleston	34%