Name a Valid U.S. City

Name any U.S. city with a population of at least 100,000 that belongs in each selected category.

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Name a valid U.S. city ...	Cities
with an elevation over 5,000 feet	Denver \| Albuquerque \| Colorado Springs \| Aurora \| + 7 more
that has hosted the Summer Olympics	Los Angeles \| Atlanta \| St. Louis
that is NOT one of the 10 biggest cities in its state	Santa Ana \| Riverside \| Stockton \| Irvine \| + 106 more
sharing its name with an official English city	Lincoln \| Durham \| Birmingham \| Worcester \| + 4 more
with a population density greater than 5,000 / km²	New York City \| San Francisco \| Jersey City \| + 4 more
with a four-letter name	Mesa \| Reno \| Cary \| Waco \| Kent \| Bend
in Puerto Rico	San Juan \| Bayamón \| Carolina \| Ponce \| Caguas
whose name begins with the letter V	Virginia Beach \| Vancouver \| Visalia \| Victorville \| + 4 more
in the Phoenix Metro Statistical Area * Other than Phoenix itself	Mesa \| Chandler \| Scottsdale \| Gilbert \| Glendale \| +3 more
whose city center is within 25 miles of a Great Lake	Chicago \| Detroit \| Milwaukee \| Cleveland \| Toledo \| + 3 more
with a population decrease of at least 5% between 2010 and 2019	Detroit \| San Juan \| St. Louis \| Toledo \| Shreveport \| + 5 more
north of Seattle, Washington	Anchorage \| Spokane \| Everett \| Spokane Valley
within 200 miles of the geographical center of the lower 48 states	Omaha \| Wichita \| Lincoln \| Topeka
with a University of California campus	Los Angeles \| San Diego \| San Francisco \| + 3 more
whose name begins with FORT	Fort Worth \| Fort Wayne \| Fort Lauderdale \| Fort Collins
on the Missouri River	Kansas City \| Omaha \| St. Louis \| Kansas City \| Independence
in the Carolinas, on the Atlantic coast	Charleston \| Wilmington
that has been the U.S. capital since 1776 * Excluding Washington, D.C.	New York City \| Philadelphia \| Baltimore
in Indiana, other than Indianapolis	Fort Wayne \| Evansville \| South Bend \| Carmel
that receives less than eight inches of precipitation annually	Las Vegas \| Bakersfield \| Henderson \| Reno \| + 4 more

Level 88

Aug 7, 2020

Good stuff. Challenging, too; I barely made it with 14 seconds left.

+14

Level 87

Aug 7, 2020

The first quiz on which "Fort Wayne" is the answer to TWO questions!

Level 74

Aug 7, 2020

Does Edinburg (Texas) not count for a city sharing its name with a UK city? It has 100k people according to Wikipedia.

+12

Level 75

Aug 7, 2020

The Scottish city has an H on the end, but I'll change it to English city to remove any ambiguity

Level 73

Aug 7, 2020

Are there two different cities named Scottsdale in Phoenix?

Level 74

Aug 11, 2020

Same with Kansas City & the Missouri Q ... although are they considered separate cities each side of the state boundary?

Level 75

Aug 11, 2020

Yes, they are separate cities

Level 75

Aug 12, 2020

Maybe one of the Scottsdales should be Glendale?

Level 88

Aug 8, 2020

Portsmouth in the UK is an official city (since 1926) and Portsmouth in the USA is a city. Why isn’t it allowed?

Level 75

Aug 8, 2020

According to the source linked in the description, Portsmouth, Virginia no longer has 100,000 people, coming in at 94,398. Portsmouth, New Hampshire is below that too.

Level 63

Aug 9, 2020

Was hoping that Pawnee, Indiana had 100k people...

Level 79

Aug 12, 2020

How did I forget Las Vegas? 🤦‍♂️😂

+15

Level 88

Aug 12, 2020

Maybe you learned about Las Vegas while you were in Las Vegas, and when you left that knowledge had to stay there?

Level 48

Aug 15, 2020

I'm sitting here in Las Vegas... and it's the 5th answer I tried.

Level 69

Aug 12, 2020

At the risk of being too technical, the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers happens just north of the city limits of St. Louis city proper, and therefore it shouldn't be a valid answer as a city along the Missouri River

Level 58

Aug 12, 2020

Great quiz. Doesn’t Wichita fall within 200miles of the centre point?

Level 27

Aug 12, 2020

Why 4 minutes ? Not enough time.

Level 76

Aug 12, 2020

Screaming at my computer "Why won't it accept Fort Bend?!?!".......................ooooohhhh.

Level 53

Nov 27, 2022

No South Worth??

Level 75

Feb 14, 2023

You mean South Wayne

Level 60

Aug 12, 2020

I'm pretty sure Wichita, Kansas is within the 200 mile radius of the geographic center. Might need to add that.

Level 59

Aug 12, 2020

its in the quiz

Level 90

Aug 12, 2020

First time my hometown and my current city of residence are both answers. Happens to be the same question. Thank you Texas urban sprawl.

Level 56

Aug 12, 2020

Wichita is also within 200 miles of the US geographical center.

Level 63

Aug 12, 2020

Wichita is at least 199 miles from the center to downtown, so please update?

Level 63

Aug 12, 2020

Wow, we commented at the same time...

Level 44

Aug 12, 2020

Wtf? There's a Vancouver USA too? Well this is news to me lol.

Level 75

Aug 12, 2020

Yep, it's in Washington state, right across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon

Level 54

Aug 12, 2020

Gary is a city in Indiana as is Terre Haute. They should have been added.

Level 75

Aug 12, 2020

Neither of them have a population above 100,000

Level 66

Aug 13, 2020

Gary had 100k before everyone left...

Level 75

Aug 13, 2020

I just decided to make a quiz for that. Try it here: U.S. Cities that Formerly Had 100,000 People

Level 47

Aug 14, 2020

So Myrtle Beach SC - are you saying its not a city or not on the coast?

Level 75

Aug 14, 2020

Myrtle Beach is not big enough

Level 79

Aug 16, 2020

Too many questions about imperial measurements, yet some still used metric measurements.

Level 75

Aug 25, 2020

This is a quiz about the United States, so it uses imperial measurements for the most part.

Level 76

Oct 22, 2020

What about Boston for the UK cities?

Level 75

Oct 22, 2020

Not an official city

Level 59

Feb 25, 2021

Is Gary no longer in Indiana?

Level 75

Feb 25, 2021

Nope. It migrated to Wisconsin last October.

Level 59

Mar 11, 2021

That's right, it's just outside VICKSBURG

Level 65

Apr 11, 2021

Uhhh...isn't Vancouver in Canada? If I'm wrong, than that completely changes my mindset on that city.

Level 75

Apr 11, 2021

The one you are thinking of is indeed in Canada, however, there is a much smaller Washington city across the Columbia River from Portland that is also named Vancouver.

Level 88

Feb 13, 2023

Oh, this is a good quiz, @HinesBrothers—very challenging for an Aussie sheila!

I’d like to suggest rewording this question:

"that has been the U.S. capital since 1776”

to:

"that has at some time since 1776 been the U.S. capital”

The way it reads now implies that the city has been the U.S. capital *continuously* since 1776. I realise that’s not possible but it threw me off for a while.

Thanks, Nadine

Level 70

Feb 15, 2023

How exactly are you considering Spokane north of Seattle? I guess, in a technical sense, it is north, but only by 0.05 of a degree. It's pretty much 280 miles due east of Seattle. Just a little confused on that point.

Level 64

Feb 20, 2023

North as in latitude, which does put Spokane technically above Seattle, even though it's to the right of it

Level 31

Feb 15, 2023

VALDOSTA, GEORGIA should have counted.

Level 53

May 14, 2023

Only has 55k people