Statistics for 40 American Cities that Everyone Should Know

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Hint	City	% Correct
The largest city in the United States	New York	99%
The capital of the nation	Washington D.C.	99%
Its "Tea Party" in 1773 was a major point in the American Revolution	Boston	97%
The global center of the entertainment industry and the second largest U.S. city	Los Angeles	95%
Major city home to the largest Cuban population in the United States	Miami	95%
Where President John Kennedy was assassinated	Dallas	94%
West Coast city established during the gold rush, home to landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge	San Francisco	93%
Location of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's Mission Control	Houston	92%
City with severe flooding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 due to its elevation below sea level	New Orleans	92%
Willis (or Sears) Tower was the tallest building in the world when it was finished in 1973	Chicago	91%
Center of the American automotive industry	Detroit	91%
Has the busiest airport in the world	Atlanta	90%
Has the second largest casino and gambling industry of any city in the world	Las Vegas	90%
Where Disney World and Universal Studios are located	Orlando	87%
The largest majority Mormon city in the country	Salt Lake City	87%
The first national capital of the United States, from the first Continental Congress to 1800	Philadelphia	85%
Its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level	Denver	84%
The larger of Minnesota's "Twin Cities," where you can find the largest mall in America	Minneapolis	84%
Its metro area includes two of the richest people in the world	Seattle	83%
Its arch is the smallest National Park in America	St. Louis	78%
Where the Battle of the Alamo was fought	San Antonio	76%
Location of a series of witch trials in the early 1690s	Salem	74%
Its steel industry peaked in the early 1900s when it produced over half the nation's supply	Pittsburgh	73%
Banking capital of the United States and the largest city in the Carolinas	Charlotte	72%
The main hub of Silicon Valley and the headquarters of hundreds of tech companies	San Jose	65%
The Star Spangled Banner was written about the assault on Fort McHenry in this city	Baltimore	63%
The site of a 1995 bombing by Timothy McVeigh which killed 86 people	Oklahoma City	63%
Major shipping hub at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers	Portland	63%
Ski resort town in the Rockies where the average house costs $5.4 million	Aspen	62%
Upper class suburb of the above containing the zip code 90210	Beverly Hills	62%
Ski resort and a common entrance point to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks	Jackson	58%
The smallest city to host an NFL team	Green Bay	52%
The site of a supposed UFO crash in 1947	Roswell	52%
Largest city in the south for the first half century of American history	Charleston	49%
Location of the Kennedy Space Center and launch site for several Space Shuttles	Cape Canaveral	42%
The oldest city in the country, founded in 1565	St. Augustine	41%
Home to the United States Air Force Academy and Olympic Training Facility	Colorado Springs	38%
12,000 people died in a hurricane here in 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in US history	Galveston	32%
Home to the largest naval base in the world	Norfolk	32%
The gateway to 3 of Utah's 5 national parks	Moab	17%