100 Biggest Metro Areas in the U.S. Quiz by DandyDan17

State or States	Metro area	2010 Population
New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania-Connecticut		18,897,109
California		12,828,837
Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin		9,461,105
Texas		6,371,773
Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware-Maryland		5,965,343
Texas		5,946,800
DC-Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia		5,582,170
Florida		5,564,635
Georgia		5,268,860
Massachusetts-New Hampshire		4,552,402
California		4,335,391
Michigan		4,296,250
California		4,224,851
Arizona		4,192,887
Washington		3,439,809
Minnesota-Wisconsin		3,317,308
California		3,095,313
Missouri-Illinois		2,812,896
Florida		2,783,243
Maryland		2,710,489
Colorado		2,543,482
Pennsylvania		2,356,285
Oregon-Washington		2,226,009
California		2,149,127
Texas		2,142,508
Florida		2,134,411
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana		2,130,151
Ohio		2,077,240
Missouri-Kansas		2,035,334
Nevada		1,951,269
California		1,836,911
Ohio		1,836,536
North Carolina-South Carolina		1,758,038
Indiana		1,756,241

State or States	Metro area	2010 Population
Texas		1,716,289
Virginia-North Carolina		1,671,683
Rhode Island-Massachusetts		1,600,852
Tennessee		1,589,934
Wisconsin		1,555,908
Florida		1,345,596
Tennessee-Mississippi-Arkansas		1,316,100
Kentucky-Indiana		1,307,647
Virginia		1,258,251
Oklahoma		1,252,987
Connecticut		1,212,381
Louisiana		1,167,764
New York		1,135,509
North Carolina		1,130,490
Alabama		1,128,047
Utah		1,124,197
New York		1,054,323
Arizona		980,263
Hawaii		953,207
Oklahoma		937,478
California		930,450
Connecticut		916,829
New Mexico		907,755
New York		870,716
Nebraska-Iowa		865,350
Connecticut		862,477
Ohio		841,502
California		839,631
California		823,318
Pennsylvania-New Jersey		821,173
Louisiana		802,484
Texas		800,647
Massachusetts		798,552
Texas		774,769

State or States	Metro area	2010 Population
Michigan		774,160
South Carolina		767,598
North Carolina		723,801
Ohio		703,200
Florida		702,281
Arkansas		699,757
Tennessee		698,030
Massachusetts		692,942
California		685,306
New York		670,301
South Carolina		664,607
New York		662,577
Ohio		651,429
Colorado		645,613
South Carolina		636,986
Kansas		623,061
Florida		618,754
Idaho		616,561
Florida		602,095
Iowa		569,633
Wisconsin		568,593
Ohio-Pennsylvania		565,773
Pennsylvania		563,631
Georgia-South Carolina		556,877
Pennsylvania		549,475
Utah		547,184
Florida		543,376
Mississippi		539,057
Tennessee-Georgia		528,143
Utah		526,810
Pennsylvania		519,445
California		514,453

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100 Biggest Metro Areas U.S. Quiz

by DandyDan17

Created Jan 15, 2012 in Geography
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	DandyDan17:	Jan 15th, 2012 at 23:23 GMT		7 points
	I think this an important quiz. Metro areas show where people really live; city populations in this day and age can be misleading. It's interesting to see how many largish areas have grown without having a historically big city, and how much some of the formerly big cities compare.

	Dralcoffin:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 01:16 GMT		5 points
	Please remove the short hand answers for cities like "atl" for Atlanta and "cinci" for Cincinnnati, since having an answer vanish halfway through typing it is pretty jarring.

	DandyDan17:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 02:37 GMT		-4 points
	I think people doing it for speed will enjoy having the abbreviations. Plus they get a smile if they guess the right ones.

	cuendillar:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 06:02 GMT		3 points
	It actually takes longer time to notice and remove the remaining letters than to type out the city names in the first place. Especially as it makes the quiz taker watch the answer field much more carefully and thus type slower. I was just annoyed by it, but if you want shorthands, make it ones that won't trigger en route to a real answer, like Philly or NYC.

	DandyDan17:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 09:27 GMT		2 points
	In all the places where I used a short hand answer, I also permitted the standard name. ATL is acceptable, so is Atlanta. Cinci is acceptable, so is Cincinnati. NYC is acceptable, so is New York. I'm surprised people feel this strongly about it; I see lots of quizzes where some city abbreviations are alternate correct answers.

	DandyDan17:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 09:40 GMT		2 points
	OK, I've removed all the ones that are shortened same-spell versions of correct answers - like "Chi" for "Chicago" - to eliminate the typing-extra-letters-and-having-to-take-them-out problem. I've left a few abbreviations in there, but you won't spell them accidentally and if you don't intend to use them they'll have no effect on your game.

	sabresfan:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 16:46 GMT		1 point
	You need to accept all cities listed in the MSA. Like Fort Myers, Thousand Oaks, etc.

	DandyDan17:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 19:46 GMT		1 point
	In some cases the metro areas are pretty long. I do have Ft. Myers, but, really, do I spell it Fort Myers, Ft. Myers or Ft Myers? I need at least two of those if I'm trying to be all inclusive. Also, for a lot of them - for Houston, I have to let someone answer "Baytown"? Please. I actually live in the you-never-heard-of-it suburb included in one of these metro names, and I didn't include my own town.

	conradmcmasters:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 20:44 GMT		1 point
	I think you should accept Winston Salem for the Greensboro-High Point area...

	DandyDan17:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 21:23 GMT		1 point
	OK