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| Largest city in the Texas panhandle; name is Spanish for 'yellow' |
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Amarillo |
| Ski resort and year–round outdoor recreation destination in the Colorado Rockies – a former mining town, population 7,004 in 2020; popularised by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and John Denver, among the countercultural youth of the 1970s, as an ideal place to live; said to be the most expensive place to buy real estate in the US; shares its name with various species of trees in the genus Populus |
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Aspen |
| The home of Coca–Cola, since its invention in 1886 |
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Atlanta |
| The tidal portion of the Patapsco River forms the harbour of |
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Baltimore |
City in Michigan (population 52,347 in 2010): best known as the home of Kellogg's
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Battle Creek |
| Opposite the mouth of San Francisco Bay: named after an Irish philosopher (1685–1753); home to the oldest campus of the University of California system (known as the University of California, ...) |
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Berkeley |
| Southend, Brighton, Dorchester and Hyde Park are suburbs of |
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Boston |
| Stands at the mouth of the Charles River | ||
| Home to the world's oldest annual marathon (every year since 1897 – the year after the first modern marathon was run at the inaugural Olympic Games) | ||
| Fenway Park – the oldest park in the USA Major Baseball League (home to the Red Sox) | ||
| Second most populous city in New York state, and nearest city to Niagara Falls – stands at the point where the Niagara River flows out of Lake Erie |
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Buffalo |
| Town on the Monterey Peninsula, California: elected Clint Eastwood as Mayor (1986–8) |
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Carmel–by–the–Sea |
| Third most populous city in the USA (after New York and Los Angeles) |
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Chicago |
| Name is derived from the indigenous people's name for a wild variety of onion or garlic, which grew abundantly in the area | ||
| The Loop is the central district of | ||
| Soldier Field (football – home of the Bears), Wrigley Field (baseball – home of the Cubs) | ||
| Headquarters of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and of the McDonalds Corporation | ||
| Uses 45 pounds of eco–friendly vegetable dye to dye its river green on St. Patrick's Day (since around 1960) | ||
| The Navy Pier, 1,100 yards long, is the most–visited tourist attraction in | ||
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum |
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Cleveland, Ohio |
| 'City' (part of the San José conurbation) where Apple, Inc. has its headquarters |
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Cupertino |
| 6th Floor Museum at the Dealey Plaza (commemorating an historic event of the 20th century) |
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Dallas |
| Florida tourist destination, famous for its hard–packed sand on which you can drive your car |
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Daytona Beach |
| Home of NASCAR (the US National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) | ||
| City in the Detroit metropolitan area: the birthplace of Henry Ford, and the site of the Ford Motor Company's World Headquarters since it opened an assembly plant there in 1917 |
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Dearborn |
| Grew up around Fort Pontchartrain, which was founded in 1701 by French army officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac |
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Detroit |
| Name is French for 'straits' | ||
| Home of the 'Big Three' American motor manufacturers (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler); nicknamed
Motown; also the home of Tamla Motown | ||
| Third–largest city in Arkansas (after Little Rock and Fort Smith), and home to the University of Arkansas |
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Fayetteville |
| Bill and Hillary Clinton both taught at the university, and their home (930 West Clinton Drive) is now a museum | ||
| Texan city, named after a general in the Mexican–American war of 1846–8 |
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Fort Worth |
| Calls itself "Where the West Begins"; also nicknamed Cowtown or Panther City | ||
| Town in Massachusetts, midway between Boston and Providence (Rhode Island): named after a Whig member of Parliament and a staunch supporter of the American Colonies in the years leading up to the War of Independence; best known today as the location of Gillette Stadium, home of New England Patriots (NFL) and New England Revolution (MLS) |
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Foxborough |
| The most westerly state capital
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Honolulu |
| Iolani Palace: official residence of a monarchy overthrown in 1893 – the USA's only royal palace | ||
| Largest city in Texas, and 4th largest in the USA |
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Houston |
| Capital of the Republic of Texas, during its brief existence 1837-45 | ||
| Named after the second president of the Republic of Texas | ||
| Home of the Astrodome – home to the Astros (baseball); also home to the Rockets (basketball) and the Texans (NFL) | ||
| City in New York state: named after the island in the Ionian Sea of which Homer's Odysseus was king; home to Cornell University |
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Ithaca |
| Headquarters of the CIA ("unincorporated community" in Virginia) |
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Langley |
| Name is Spanish for 'The Plains' or 'The Meadows' |
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Las Vegas |
| MGM Grand – the World's biggest hotel (5,000+ rooms) | ||
| Name shared by a major city in Kentucky, famous for horse–breeding, and the small town in Massachusetts where the first action of the American War of Independence took place in 1775 |
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Lexington |
| Real–life city in Ohio (the setting for the Fox television drama series Glee): named after a
national capital |
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Lima |
| US state capital with the same name as an English county town |
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Lincoln |
| Second most populous city in the USA (after New York) |
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Los Angeles |
| Dolby Theatre (known before 2012 as the Kodak Theatre), Shrine Auditorium, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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| Mulholland Drive (exclusive residential street) | ||
| Rodeo Drive (up–market shopping street) | ||
| Venice (beachfront area) | ||
| Manhattan Beach (affluent seaside suburb) | ||
| Headquarters of KFC |
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Louisville |
| Named after the ancient capital of Egypt |
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Memphis |
| Beale Street – Home of the Blues | ||
| Gracelands (Elvis Presley's last home) | ||
| Sun Studio | ||
| US National Civil Rights Museum | ||
| The world's busiest passenger seaport |
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Miami |
| On the shores of Lake Michigan; famous for meatpacking and brewing – once home to Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst and Miller – only the last now remains |
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Milwaukee |
| The least populous of the 50 US state capitals (7,855 in 2010) |
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Montpelier |
| Home of the Grand Ole Opry |
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Nashville |
| USA's busiest port |
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New Orleans |
| Known as the birthplace of jazz | ||
| Louis Armstrong Park, Jackson Square (National Historic Park; beware – other US cities have Jackson Squares) | ||
| Ponchartrain is a suburb of | ||
| Bourbon Street, Rampart Street, Basin Street
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| Saint Charles Avenue streetcar line is a national historic landmark in (see also
San Francisco)
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| Headquarters of the United Nations |
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New York |
| A Knickerbocker is someone who lives in | ||
| Carnegie Hall (named after Scottish–born philanthropist Andrew Carnegie) | ||
| Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Opera House | ||
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, including the Juilliard School | ||
| Castle Garden (built as a fort in 1807, later a concert hall and immigrant station, now a Federal monument) | ||
| The Bowery – street once notorious for its criminal population and distinctive dialect | ||
| Nebraska's most populous city, and the only city that gave its name to one of the D–Day beaches |
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Omaha |
| Rose Bowl (sporting venue) |
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Pasadena |
| Name means 'brotherly love'; sometimes referred to as the City of Brotherly Love |
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Philadelphia |
| Stands at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill (school–kill) rivers | ||
| The Liberty Bell is housed (in a purpose–built chamber, since 2009) in | ||
| Thomas Jefferson University | ||
| The cheesesteak sandwich is a characteristic street food of | ||
| The USA's fifth most populous city, and (with just over 1.6 million inhabitants in 2016) the only state capital with a population of over a million |
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Phoenix |
| Named after a British Prime minister |
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Pittsburgh |
| Site (in Massachusetts) of the colony founded in 1620 by passengers from the Mayflower (there is no contemporary evidence that they actually used the famous Rock, named after the colony, to step ashore) |
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Plymouth |
| New Jersey town: home of an Ivy League university, and also of the Institute of Advanced Studies (established 1930), one of whose first scholars was Albert Einstein; he died there in 1955 |
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Princeton |
| Founded by English puritan Roger Williams on 4 July 1636 |
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Providence, RI |
| Town at the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts: site of the Mayflower pilgrims' first landfall in America (they were trying to get to Virginia Colony, but were driven back by stong winds) |
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Provincetown |
| Virginia town, home of the FBI Academy and US Marine Corps' Officer Training School |
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Quantico |
| Capital of the Confederacy during the US Civil War |
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Richmond, Virginia |
| City in Kent and port in New York State |
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Rochester |
| Founded 1847 by Brigham Young and his Mormon followers; the church still has its headquarters there, and almost half of the population are Mormons |
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Salt Lake City |
| Second largest city in Texas (by population), and sixth largest in the USA; The Alamo |
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San Antonio |
| California's third most populous city (after Los Angeles and San Diego), and the USA's tenth: shares its name with a Central American capital |
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San Jose |
| Candlestick Park |
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San Francisco |
| Headquarters of Levi Strauss | ||
| Fisherman's Wharf (centre for tourist attractions) | ||
| Lombard Street (famous for its series of hairpin bends) | ||
| Devastated by an earthquake and subsequent fire, in 1906 | ||
| Largest population of ethnic Chinese people outside Asia | ||
| Cable cars are a national historic landmark
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| Pier 39, with its leisure facilities and and the sea lions that "haul out" on it, are a major tourist attraction in | ||
| California city, about half–way between Los Angeles and San Francisco, described by Oprah Winfrey (among others) as "the happiest city in America"; became the first to ban smoking in public places, in 1990 |
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San Luis Obispo |
| Boeing was founded (1916) in (its HQ, but not manufacturing, moved to Chicago in 2001) |
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Seattle |
| Home to Amazon and Starbucks; Microsoft is based in Redmond, 16 miles away | ||
| Birthplace of Jimi Hendrix, and centre of the 1990s grunge genre | ||
| The Space Needle (built in 1962 for the World's Fair)
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| Missouri's largest city – at the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri |
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St. Louis |
| Baseball and football teams have the same name (Cardinals) | ||
| Gateway Arch (a.k.a. Gateway to the West) – at 630 ft (192 m), the USA's tallest monument and the world's tallest arch; completed in 1965 | ||
| The first city outside Europe to host the Olympics (1904) | ||
| The "city" of Maplewood – home to the 3M Company (an American multinational) since 1962 – is effectively a suburb of |
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St. Paul, Minnesota |
| City in New York State, named after a Sicilian port |
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Syracuse |
| Second largest city in Arizona (after Phoenix): home to the University of Arizona, and also to Jo–Jo in The Beatles' Get Back |
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Tucson |
| Headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
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Washington DC |
| Smithsonian Institution – the world's largest museum and research centre | ||
| Headquarters of the DuPont chemicals company (now DuPont de Nemours, following a merger in 2017), since its foundation in 1802 (largest city in Delaware) |
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Wilmington |
| 'Steel City of Canada' |
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Hamilton, Ontario |
| Venue of the first British Empire Games (1930) | ||
| The world's second–largest French–speaking city (i.e. second greatest number of French speakers); largest city in Quebec province, second largest in Canada, and ninth largest in North America; built (originally and still mainly) on an island at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers |
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Montreal |
| Expo '67 was held in | ||
| Champlain Bridge, Jacques Cartier Bridge | ||
| Hotel de la Reine – scene of John & Yoko's 'bed–in', 26 May 1969 | ||
| Overlooked by the Plains of Abraham
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Quebec |
| Canadian state capital, established in 1882 in a place previously known as Pile–o'–Bones; named in honour of Queen Victoria (by her daughter, Princess Louise, whose husband – the Marquess of Lorne, later the 9th Duke of Argyll – was Governor–General of Canada at the time) |
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Regina |
| Canada's largest city and financial centre, home to its Stock Exchange; fourth largest city in North America (2011 population 2,615,060) |
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Toronto |
| CN Tower – the world's tallest man–made freestanding structure, from its completion in 1976 until 2007 | ||
| Skydome – multi–purpose sports centre, opened 1989, renamed 2005 the Rogers Centre | ||
| Largest city in British Columbia, and in Western Canada; third largest in Canada |
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Vancouver |
| Granville Island, False Creek, English Bay and Coal Harbour are coastal features of | ||
| The Lions Gate Bridge, officially known as the First Narrows Bridge – financed by the Guinness brewing family and opened in 1939 by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth – is a suspension bridge that facilitated the development of this city on the northern side of Burrard Inlet | ||
| Canada's southernmost city – south of Detroit – other side of the Detroit River |
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Windsor, Ontario |
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