Can you name the U.S. Cities with these nicknames?

Nickname	City
Gateway to the West
The Biggest Little City in the World
Sin City
Alien Capital of the World
Chocolate Capital of the World
The Steel City
Music City
Live Music Capital of the World
The Emerald City
City of Angels
The Golden Gate City

Nickname	City
The Mile-High City
The Big Apple
City of Brotherly Love
The Big Pineapple
The Windy City
The Big Easy
Beantown
The Motor City
City of Lakes
Alamo City
Brew City

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U.S. City Nicknames Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: December 21st, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 174,890

Tags: City Quizzes, US Cities, nickname

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	tiganeman:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:20 GMT	7 points
	"City of Angels" isn't triggered when you type in just the city name.

	mokos:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:20 GMT	8 points
	For some reason, you need to type in las angeles to get los angeles.

	Ben:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:22 GMT	5 points
	fixed my bad

	davidr:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:24 GMT	2 points
	I was about to complain about that but it had been fixed by the time I tested it again. :-) Nice quiz.

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	Havok3595:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:41 GMT	4 points
	"Saint" should be an acceptable alternate for "St."

	amy:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:46 GMT	1 point
	its the spelling that always gets me on these quizzes. i knew brew city and could not spell milwaukee. still did very well

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	agrigator717:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:24 GMT	6 points
	For Alamo City, I kept thinking about the car rental company :)

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	mungar:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:48 GMT	0 points
	Cool quiz, even for a Canadian, as I got 100%. Got 21/22 easily, then just guessed a bunch of random large cities until I got Austin lol. I'm surprised Reno is the 2nd least answered question, thought that one was common knowledge.

	ruffnerj:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:05 GMT	10 points
	I got all but Live Music Capital...while I'm sitting here with "Slacker" playing on my television...and it's the end, where they're at a bar...watching live music. No kidding.

	Father_Time:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:15 GMT	-4 points
	if you ever make a sequel you have got to include the porn capitol of the u.s.

	Jerm:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:42 GMT	31 points
	As a lifetime resident of Honolulu, I've never heard it called "The Big Pineapple".

	bsd987:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:12 GMT	9 points
	Have never heard of "The Big Pineapple" as Honolulu and a google search confirms that this is very obscure and very unofficial at best. Google "Big Pineapple" Honolulu and you'll get 372 results. This one needs to go.

	Antithesys:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:32 GMT	8 points
	Should have Scranton as the "Electric City" for Office fans. One big miss was Portland, the "City of Roses".

	beckleyman:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:38 GMT	2 points
	You must've done something wrong. I typed in the same thing in a search and got over 200k results. I knew it was the Big Pineapple from my grandmother who I've never met, she sent me a postcard once and it said 'The Big Pineapple' on the front of it. Obscure how you'll find help in all kinds of places.

	davidr:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:53 GMT	4 points
	@beckleyman: If you include quotes around "Big Pineapple", you only get three hundred and some results. You get a lot more without the quotes. OTOH, the nickname isn't mentioned on the wikipedia pages for either Big Pineapple or Honolulu.

	Ben:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 00:15 GMT	1 point
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_city_nicknames_in_the_United_States

	stephanieb:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 00:32 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz! and a welcome break since I've been attempting to conquer the 'Countries of the World" quiz for the past 45 minutes. I only got "The Steel City" because of the Pittsburgh Steelers and "The Brew State" because of the Milwaukee Brewers. lol

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	loose_cannon:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 01:23 GMT	7 points
	21/22 I had never heard of the "Live Music Capitol of the World". Learn something new everyday. Good quiz.

	bsd987:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 01:42 GMT	1 point
	Doesn't change the fact that it is very obscure and unofficial. Heck, the only other one people don't seem to know, Austin's, that title is listed on the city's official webpage. If anything, this title is a joke that a few citizens have put on it that is anything but widespread knowledge, judging by other responses, including someone who lives in Honolulu.

	TallKool1:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 04:15 GMT	2 points
	I thought Portland, OR would make the list as I thought its nickname was pretty well known..but eh, wait for round 2

	ElDavo:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 04:31 GMT	-1 points
	I should've gotten the Chocolate one and almost guessed the Live Music one but didn't. 15/22 isn't bad, I guess.

	Father_Time:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 04:32 GMT	1 point
	@Booger Reminds me of Colbert talking about adding something to the entry on elephants to read "the population of elephants has tripled in recent years thanks to Stephen Colbert"

	drsnidely:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 04:59 GMT	18 points
	Honestly, is it that big a stretch to think a city called The Big Pineapple might be Honolulu? I've never heard of it either but I still got it on the first guess.

	BlueEyedAlien:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 05:04 GMT	-2 points
	Good quiz but there is a difference between official, well-accepted nicknames and those put forward by the chamber of commerce hoping to stick. Some I expected to see: Portland (Rose City, as noted); Hartford, Insurance City; Atlanta, the Big Peach; Cincinnati, Queen City; Memphis, Birthplace of the Blues.

	Sneuticles:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 05:29 GMT	13 points
	Am I the only one who does this? I got 21 bang-bang-bang, skipping only Austin. Then I spent 4-5 minutes just typing in EVERY TOWN/CITY I could think of. I was beginning to sweat when my brain finally got to Texas w/ 1:14 on the clock, after trying such musically-challenged cities such as Hartford, Albuquerque, and Dover. FUN QUIZ.

	davidr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 09:29 GMT	5 points
	@Booger: If you look at the Wikipedia article in question, you'll see two reliable citations (a Honolulu newspaper and a local magazine) for the term "Big Pineapple". Yes, anyone can put anything on Wikipedia but vandalism is usually removed quickly and its very hard to fake reliable citations.

	shel99:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz. Got all except the Live Music capital.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 14:29 GMT	2 points
	Where's Baltimore (Charm City)?

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	Sheepy712:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 17:58 GMT	4 points
	great quiz! and sports teams definetly helped me on a couple of them

	DrumBum88:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 00:13 GMT	8 points
	Roswell is where there was supposedly a UFO crash long ago. They claim the government covered it all up and now everyone there is alien crazy. Thus making it the alien capital of the world.

	beckleyman:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 00:43 GMT	1 point
	@ BlueEyedAlien-the problem with the nickname 'the Queen City' is that there are more than one that uses it. I know Cincy does, as well as Charlotte.

	beckleyman:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 00:44 GMT	1 point
	@Bakeoke-do you live in the US? If you do, I'm not sure how you could miss Roswell. I mean, it had a TV show named after it.

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	boston bully:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 20:42 GMT	-3 points
	jenna, your logo is Dope where did you get it?

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