2 largest cities/towns in each state without naming the 3rd-5th largest Quiz

Can you name the 2 largest cities/towns in each state without naming the 3rd-5th largest?

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Source: US 2010 Census Factfinder
Name the largest 2 cities in each state based on the US 2010 Census (which uses city proper populations). Naming a #3-#5 city will set off the mine. Mine cities with same name as answer are forgiven.
NOTE - Smallest of these may be categorized as a town.
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State	City	Population
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AK (1)		291,826
AK (2)		31,535
AL (1)		212,237
AL (2)		205,764
AR (1)		193,524
AR (2)		86,209
AZ (1)		1,445,632
AZ (2)		520,116
CA (1)		3,792,621
CA (2)		1,307,402
CO (1)		600,158
CO (2)		416,427
CT (1)		144,229
CT (2)		129,779
DE (1)		70,851
DE (2)		36,047
FL (1)		821,784
FL (2)		399,457
GA (1)		420,003
GA (2)		200,549
HI (1)		337,256
HI (2)		47,698
IA (1)		203,433
IA (2)		126,326
ID (1)		205,671
ID (2)		81,557
IL (1)		2,695,598
IL (2)		197,899
IN (1)		829,718
IN (2)		253,691
KS (1)		382,368
KS (2)		173,372
KY (1)		741,096

State	City	Population
KY (2)		295,803
LA (1)		343,829
LA (2)		229,493
MA (1)		617,594
MA (2)		181,045
MD (1)		620,961
MD (2)		98,895
ME (1)		66,194
ME (2)		36,592
MI (1)		713,777
MI (2)		188,040
MN (1)		382,578
MN (2)		285,068
MO (1)		459,787
MO (2)		319,294
MS (1)		173,514
MS (2)		67,793
MT (1)		104,170
MT (2)		66,788
NC (1)		731,424
NC (2)		403,892
ND (1)		105,549
ND (2)		61,272
NE (1)		408,958
NE (2)		258,379
NH (1)		109,565
NH (2)		86,494
NJ (1)		277,140
NJ (2)		247,597
NM (1)		545,852
NM (2)		97,618
NV (1)		583,756
NV (2)		257,729
NY (1)		8,175,133

State	City	Population
NY (2)		261,310
OH (1)		787,033
OH (2)		396,815
OK (1)		579,999
OK (2)		391,906
OR (1)		583,776
OR (2)		156,185
PA (1)		1,526,006
PA (2)		305,704
RI (1)		178,042
RI (2)		82,672
SC (1)		129,272
SC (2)		120,083
SD (1)		153,888
SD (2)		67,956
TN (1)		646,889
TN (2)		626,681
TX (1)		2,099,451
TX (2)		1,327,407
UT (1)		186,440
UT (2)		129,480
VA (1)		437,994
VA (2)		242,803
VT (1)		42,417
VT (2)		19,587
WA (1)		608,660
WA (2)		208,916
WI (1)		594,833
WI (2)		233,209
WV (1)		51,400
WV (2)		49,138
WY (1)		59,466
WY (2)		55,316
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	ppenguin757:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 04:08 GMT		32 points
	Just learned the hard way San Francisco isn't as big as I thought it was.

	Sally:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 04:10 GMT		62 points
	Can you name the 2 Largest Cities/Towns In Each State Without Naming the 3rd-5th Largest? The answer is simply...No. No I can't.

	NvjdsIsSmart:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 04:10 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz! Always love a minefield quiz!

	MasterPenguin:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 04:20 GMT		38 points
	You know, I REALLY hate it when the first thing I try blows me up. Curse you, Juneau!!!

	pfrijiritr:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 04:28 GMT		3 points
	@ppenguin757: You're probably thinking metropolitan areas. It's almost unfair, because the only reason Los Angeles has such a high population (the same applies to Houston, Jacksonville, and several others) is because the area it comprises is huge—usually by annexation. But that's the way it is for city population.

	EstelleReveille:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 04:45 GMT		3 points
	Damn you, San Francisco! XD

	minneapolitan:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 05:12 GMT		1 point
	The 2nd place MD city's recorded population of 65,239 is incorrect; that count is different from what the 2010 census recorded. In addition, several Census-designated places in MD are larger than what this quiz says the 2nd largest city is (but maybe those have been intentionally left out of the quiz).

	Lprdgecko:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 05:57 GMT		4 points
	Oh, this quiz looks fun, first question: Alaska. Oh, I know! Juneau! (BOOM) Time to try again...

	Akhoya:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 06:41 GMT		3 points
	Haha I love that Juneau kills people, but after getting Anchorage and Fairbanks, I of course went out on the very next try with Mobile! The whole problem is that kids are taught in gradeschool to memorize all the state capitals; no teacher ever talks about city populations.

	Ddrhl:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 08:30 GMT		0 points
	This source does not agree with whatever sources were used for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states%27_largest_cities_by_population For them, Juneau IS listed 2nd in Alaska. In fact, there were 3 discrepancies I found before I quit trying to see why I "kept blowing up."

	Akhoya:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 10:43 GMT		1 point
	Ddrhl - that wiki page was a mess, but thank you for pointing it out, as I worked on finding 2010 census data and tried to clean it up. Ranking Alaska's cities by population is an extremely irritating task for several reasons: There are many locations with high populations that exist only as census-designated places (CDPs) and are not actual cities at all - "College," for example. (Look it up if you're interested.) On the other side of the equation, there are city governments which have merged with borough (county-equivalent) governments, creating huge areas of thousands of square miles whose residents supposedly belong to the same "city." Frankly it's ridiculous, but I suppose the realities of governance trumps any concerns over how easy the statistics are to understand.

	rockgolf:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 11:09 GMT		18 points
	I left, mine hurt, on San Francisco.

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	nickriordan:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 11:40 GMT		31 points
	Did anyone else have a mini heart attack when typing in "Jacksonville"?

	darinh:	Aug 22nd, 2011 at 12:22 GMT		1 point
	@minneapolitan: I just rechecked the census site - this page: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_GCTPH1.ST10&prodType=table - and MD's #2 is listed with that population...don't know what source you are looking at? And yes, CDP's exluded, but had to be included for Hawaii, as that is how all places are classified by the Census.