U.S. City Name Etymologies

Can you guess these U.S. cities based on what they are named for?

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Last updated: January 14, 2018

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Clue	Named for ...	City
Major city	"Brotherly Love" in Greek	Philadelphia
	Mythical bird that rises from its own ashes	Phoenix
	Duwamish tribal chief	Seattle
State capital	Apostle who spread Jesus's teachings to the Gentiles	Saint Paul
	Englishman who tried to colonize Virginia	Raleigh
	French for "red stick"	Baton Rouge
	Author of the Bill of Rights	Madison
	Seventh President of the U.S.	Jackson
City in Georgia	Plato's home town	Athens
College town in New York	Greek island, home to Odysseus	Ithaca
Suburb of D.C.	City in Egypt	Alexandria
City in Arizona	A geographical formation, Spanish for "table"	Mesa
Suburb of Chicago or Denver	Roman goddess of dawn	Aurora
Suburb of Chicago	Rome's greatest orator	Cicero
City in Texas	Spanish for "yellow"	Amarillo
	"Body of Christ" in Latin	Corpus Christi
	Spanish for "the pass"	El Paso
City in New Hampshire	The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution	Manchester
City in northern California	Greek expression yelled by a person making a discovery	Eureka
City in upstate New York	Greek colony on Sicily, home to Archimedes	Syracuse

JoshPen

level 73

Feb 11, 2018

Syracuse and Ithaca in the same quiz? Is the author from Upstate NY?

KevinF

level 43

Feb 11, 2018

Should have added Attica and Troy too.

junkenglish31

level 37

Feb 11, 2018

Steamed hams aplenty.

cobraaahhh

level 61

Feb 11, 2018

Not in Ithica, no, it's an Albany expression.

communisteggplant

level 71

Feb 11, 2018

Cicero could have been clued as the Syracuse suburb just to make it even more upstate-centric

BlackJohn

level 58

Feb 11, 2018

Pretty easy if you're Greek.

mikeyp

level 48

Feb 12, 2018

Yea it was all Greek to me.

vmajzlik

level 57

Feb 11, 2018

I think perhaps you should clarify the birthplace of the industrial revolution question......Are you referring to the American Industrial revolution, or the UK one? If it is the UK one....surely it is Ironbridge, whereas Manchester is considered the "powerhouse" of the revolution, not the birthplace (imo)

sihollett

level 63

Feb 14, 2018

Indeed - I knew there was a Manchester in NH, but that couldn't be right as the English city never is referred to as the 'birthplace'. I tried Ironbridge and Telford (whose signs declare it, due to Ironbridge now being inside its borders) which market themselves on this claim, before trying Manchester just because I assumed that the quiz author had done the research.

someone2018

level 62

Jul 7, 2018

Too Duwamish centric.