Can you name the most populous U.S. cities that begin with the same letter as the state they're in? by Onno

Can you name the most populous U.S. cities that begin with the same letter as the state they're in?

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Correctly named cities will show up below
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Source: US Census Bureau (2010 census)
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Rank	City	Population
1		8,175,133
5		1,526,006
11		820,445
31		579,999
39		437,994
41		426,388
48		382,578
53		337,256
59		305,704
64		291,826

Rank	City	Population
68		277,140
77		243,916
94		216,961
144		165,521
157		153,888
162		152,374
168		145,786
211		122,067
214		120,623
242		109,960
262	109,960
281	109,960
(132,502)	109,960

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U.S. cities with state alliteration Quiz

by Onno

Created Nov 28, 2009 in Geography
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	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 18:57 GMT		10 points
	This was a really good idea. Thumbs up!

	zzyzx501:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT		7 points
	Love this quiz. Thought for sure there was gonna be some "T" city in Texas that I'd left off, but evidently not.

	bwood1957:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 02:18 GMT		3 points
	Damn you Sioux Falls! When in doubt for US cities-guess Sioux Falls & for countries Papua New Guinea!

	JayHankEdLyon:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 07:52 GMT		3 points
	Not to nitpick (even though I will) but alliteration isn't having the same first letter, it's having the same first phoneme. Ch isn't the same sound as C, so Chula Vista and California aren't an alliterative pair. I'd either change the title to steer clear from the a-word altogether or drop Chula Vista and add the next-biggest. Great concept and execution, but even if it's a singular flaw it matters.

	elnok:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 14:35 GMT		2 points
	@jayhank is kinda right... alliteration is usually associated with a similar sound group. if you do take his advice, you'd also have to remove Philadelphia. However, a secondary definition of alliteration is exactly what you have-- just starting with the same letter. (As per dictionary.com)

	JayHankEdLyon:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 16:44 GMT		1 point
	http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alliteration. Could you find that for me, because I have to say I'm stumped. Sure, it says two or more words in a word group that start with the same letter, but first off, the example uses all 'a's and isn't definitive on exceptions like 'ch' versus 'c', and second off a word pair isn't a group of words, it's a pair of words.

	andrea:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 22:27 GMT		2 points
	I totally misunderstood this quiz -- I thought it was "name the cities that are the most populous in their state and also start with the same letter as the state", gave up, and then hit myself in the forehead

	Onno:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 11:44 GMT		4 points
	I was aware of the definition of alliteration. But I thought the word 'alliteration' would describe this quiz in the shortest way. However, the quiz question is correct, as far as I can tell.

	jiminymatthew:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 13:15 GMT		8 points
	You cannot have this quiz without Walla Walla, Washington. You just cannot.

	Sinistercharlo:	Jan 4th, 2010 at 17:06 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz; challenging without being completely unreasonable. I have a similar quiz, except it's state-by-state. I thought I had a really original idea until I saw yours. ;)

	coulraphobic123:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 01:46 GMT		4 points
	@bwood1957...I'm from Sioux Falls and guess what the last city I had left to guess was? Yup...fricken Sioux Falls haha. It wasn't until I looked at the population figure given that I though to myself "wow, that number looks VERY familiar" haha.

	jefrunner:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 19:43 GMT		2 points
	I was really hoping to see Walla Walla, Washington on here.

	diving:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 00:54 GMT		2 points
	You should take the word "City" out of New York because it is only needed to differentiate the city from the state and isn't needed when the city is listed as New York, New York. Unlike Kansas City and Oklahoma City, New York's name is just New York which is why in the source, "city" is lowercase and included after every name (creating interesting phrases like "Oklahoma City city, Oklahoma" and "Kansas City city, Kansas")

	FreakyFlyBry:	Jan 28th, 2011 at 03:40 GMT		1 point
	Damn, I missed Honolulu and Anchorage! That's what I get for geographically going through the lower 48, I end up forgetting Alaska and Hawaii!