Can you name the US cities* (populations over 250,000) nearest to the previous city (alphabetical order)? by Merijn

First Letter	City	Distance
?		-
Be sure you go to the nearest B-city?		927.99 kilometers/576.62 miles
Can you name the nearest C-city?		495.48 kilometers 307.88 miles
?		145.05 kilometers/90.13 miles
?		2377.88 kilometers/1477.55 miles
Find the nearest F-city?		868.41 kilometers/539.61 miles
Go straight to the nearest G-city?		1385.88 kilometers/861.15 miles
?		377.48 kilometers/234.55 miles
It is a big trip to the next I-city?		2551.24 kilometers/1585.27 miles
?		1125.98 kilometers/699.65 miles
?		1528.65 kilometers/949.86 miles

First Letter	City	Distance
?		259.65 kilometers/161.34 miles
?		541.05 kilometers/336.19 miles
?		1121.56 kilometers/696.91 miles
?		970.24 kilometers/602.88 miles
?		282.34 kilometers/175.44 miles
?		1682.48 kilometers/1045.44 miles
So, what would the nearest S-city be?		1070.97 kilometers/665.47 miles
The nearest city with a T?		580.95 kilometers (km)/360.99 miles
?		1787.27 kilometers/1110.56 miles
?		245.33 kilometers/152.44 miles
	245.33 kilometers/152.44 miles

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US City Trip Quiz

by Merijn

Created Mar 9, 2011 in Geography
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	Onno:	Mar 9th, 2011 at 18:33 GMT	3 points
	I think Tulsa is a bit closer than Toledo. And there are of course some X and Z cities, just not even close of being big enough.

	Merijn:	Mar 9th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT	2 points
	You're right. Tulsa is indeed closer. It is 580 vs 657 km. I must have switched the numbers. As for the X and Z cities. There are none in the top 1000, but if someone have an suggestion for a notable city starting with one of these letters, let me know.

	ambition:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 02:59 GMT	13 points
	The clues could use more...clues.

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	pita:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 03:15 GMT	8 points
	Would be better if you gave the distance as a clue.

	Burtdoggy:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 03:25 GMT	-1 points
	Isn't Baton Rouge closer to Atlanta than Baltimore? A bit of research showed Baton Rouge being 540 miles from Atlanta. Your answer (Baltimore - 576 miles) seems a bit further away.

	rockhopperlad:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 03:57 GMT	1 point
	The best-known X and Z cities are both in Ohio: Xenia and Zanesville.

	Merijn:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 08:51 GMT	3 points
	I could have used the same clue everywhere: go to the nearest A-city, B-city, etc. But I tried to cheer it up a little by having different sentences. By the way, each sentence starts with the corresponding letter of the question. I don't think more clues are necessary, because the idea behind this quiz is to think of the closest city. For most letters there are not many possibilities. @Burtdoggy: You're probably right, but Baton Rouge doesn't make the cut concerning population. More ideas for X or Z cities?

	Onno:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 09:05 GMT	3 points
	The only incorporated places starting with X are both Xenia (the other one in Illinois) but there are a few others with Z like Zion, (IL), Zeeland (MI) and even Zilwaukee (MI). I'm not saying you should use any of these, but it's simply not a correct statement that there aren't any.

	onlyashes11:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT	10 points
	I was surprised that Birmingham doesn't have over 250,000 people

	MisterF:	Mar 11th, 2011 at 01:30 GMT	2 points
	Burtdoggy: Baton Rouge isn't quite big enough to make this quiz.

	ikspuls:	Mar 11th, 2011 at 05:11 GMT	2 points
	I agree with Pita

	sweetT:	Mar 11th, 2011 at 22:29 GMT	3 points
	Birmingham isn't closer than Baltimore?

	chriskotx:	Mar 12th, 2011 at 01:08 GMT	-3 points
	Yes, it's closer sweetT but it doesnt qualify as the answer because of the over-complex and convoluted rules of the quiz. Although Birmingham is the closest large city starting with B to Atlanta it misses the arbitrary requirement of having 250k "city limits" population by less than 10% (20k people)- despite having a metro population of well over 1,200,000. I felt tricked and mislead myself when it was not accepted as the answer and found that Baltimore is what the quiz maker intended as the answer.

	nowaybrah76:	Mar 12th, 2011 at 03:13 GMT	-1 points
	What about Birmingham?

	Onno:	Mar 12th, 2011 at 18:03 GMT	1 point
	Perhaps it would have worked better with metro area populations. Because lowering the population cut-off also means having to add cities like Garland, TX. Idea for a follow-up?

	Q_Pheevr:	Mar 12th, 2011 at 23:19 GMT	3 points
	I don't know if this would be feasible, but I think it would be really cool if you could include bonuses for some of the more obvious wrong answers, with hints telling us either "too small" or "too far."

	midlifecrisis:	Mar 13th, 2011 at 12:43 GMT	4 points
	why do people keep saying Birmingham if it isn't over 250K??

	balatjr:	Mar 13th, 2011 at 15:51 GMT	1 point
	So is the final clue meant to be code?: "nog big enough?"

	MSUKent:	Mar 16th, 2011 at 00:45 GMT	2 points
	Nice game, but hard. Detroit to El Paso? Got completely stuck there.

	Bledsoe:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 02:41 GMT	-2 points
	I quit playing when Birmingham wasn't accepted. What a stupid quiz.

	benbrown1:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 00:07 GMT	0 points
	I 2nd that Bledsoe.

	jjaz:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 20:10 GMT	1 point
	After i stumbled out of the gate the first couple times, it became a pretty easy quiz. I liked it.