Can you name the American cities based on anagrams of their names?Drag cursor over clues to reveal States? by rockgolf

Can you name the American cities
based on anagrams of their names?
Drag cursor over clues to reveal States?

created by rockgolf

Enter a American city in the box below
Correctly named cities will show up below
Click any empty Anagram or City name to answer for that location
All cities are among the 100 most populous in the United States. Names get longer as you go. HINT: Reveal State abbreviation by dragging over that field.
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Anagram	City name	St.
Seam		AZ
All Ads		TX
So Pale		TX
Nerved		CO
Sob Not		MA
Counts		AZ
Looted		OH
Had Rum		NC
Reload		TX
Worn Key		NY
Ooh Nuts		TX
Hip oxen		AZ
SOS Jean		CA
Dottier		MI

Anagram	City name	St.
Hempism		TN
Let's Eat		WA
Hire Gal		NC
Rod Loan		FL
Domains		WI
Diagnose		CA
Sumo Club		OH
Salvages		NV
Darn Plot		OR
Knot Cost		CA
Glee Land		AZ
Clot Hater		NC
Labor Time		MD
Weak Ileum		WI

Anagram	City name	St.
Bench Goal		CA
Long Train		TX
Side River		CA
Next Lingo		KY
Organ Ache		AK
Tuna Pails		MN
Neon Herds		NV
Faery Town		IN
Long Leases		CA
Satan Onion		TX
Ill-Shaven		TN
Saw Nothing		DC
Satanic Sky		MO
Most Arcane		CA

Anagram	City name	St.
Renew Loans		LA
Tight Burps		PA
Reborn Egos		NC
Lost Cadets		AZ
Orange Bout		LA
Mail Pension		MN
Flies Braked		CA
Casino Francs		CA
Lock Javelins		FL
Inlaid Pianos		IN
Hook Calamity		OK
Cirrhotic Puss		TX
Two-Manliness		NC
Dosing Corporals		CO

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U.S. City anagrams Quiz

by rockgolf

Created Jan 26, 2011 in Geography
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	adidag0:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 04:18 GMT		5 points
	Very interesting quiz. I'd be interested in doing it where you don't have to answer in order - I like to move beyond the ones I get stuck on and go back to them later. Also - I got 32 right and got stuck on Anchorage. How can that be if somebody got ones beyond Anchorage but nobody's gotten Anchorage yet? Also - it shows that somebody must've gotten 36 right if it was always answer in order when that's not reflected in the current percentile.

	rockgolf:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 04:31 GMT		8 points
	I alternated between hidden answers and leaving it open. I settled on open because if I were playing this quiz, I wouldn't want to have to play it 30 times to get to the end either.

	LTH:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 04:43 GMT		7 points
	@rockgolf, thank you for leaving it open. Also, the first one could also be Ames.

	rockgolf:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 04:55 GMT		3 points
	@LTH: Added, although I'm not sure Ames, Iowa is in the 100 most populated cities. Great trivia though: What two American cities are anagrams of each other?

	Trajan:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 07:21 GMT		2 points
	I loved this quiz! Very entertaining. Though Riverside made me laugh when the time ran out, it was too obvious for me to handle it.

	rockgolf:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 14:33 GMT		3 points
	For those needing a hint, drag your cursor over the text to reveal the State abbreviation of each city.

	jaysee:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 15:24 GMT		4 points
	Don't know if it was intentional or not, but there is irony in some of the anagrams that cannot be overlooked. "Neon herds" and "saw nothing" come to mind.... very humorous! Oh, and great quiz too! ;)

	rockgolf:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 15:30 GMT		3 points
	@jaysee: Most were intentional. In the majority of cases, there were several valid anagrams to choose from. (Thank you, Internet Anagram Server), and my criteria for selection was 1) fewest words possible, 2) potential connection to the city and 3) whimsy. For example the "Baton Rouge" (French for Red Stick) anagram also contains a color, even when translated to French.

	geomonkey:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 20:44 GMT		2 points
	I don't think I would want to go to Glendale anytime soon knowing it is secretly filled with gleeks.

	mbc:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 23:31 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz. Maybe a bit North Carolina-centric?

	Lindsay:	Jan 28th, 2011 at 01:40 GMT		1 point
	Neat idea for a quiz, but I have to agree with mbc: 5 from NC & AZ, 7 from TX, 9 from CA, and yet only 3 from the entire northeast? (I guess 4 if you count Baltimore, but I know most people don't). That's almost half the quiz from only 4 states!

	rufusbear9:	Jan 28th, 2011 at 03:36 GMT		1 point
	i thought it was a really well done quiz, one of the best I've run into, should do it for countries too

	rockgolf:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 03:45 GMT		4 points
	@MBC, @Lindsay: The cities I selected were from the top 100 by population. You'll just have to get people to move to other states.

	BombaySapphire:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 16:21 GMT		2 points
	Brilliant. Just brilliant. And as one who lives in Weak Ileum, I know it's because we eat too much pickled herring and bratwurst.

	Q_Pheevr:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 02:19 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for acknowledging the cheapness of "Side River," and for conscientiously preserving the hyphen in "Two-Manliness."

	vb_guy:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:41 GMT		2 points
	I think Ames, even though it was my guess, should be removed. Not among the 100 most populated cities. (For the record, no Iowa city is in that group.)

	phantom4ptplay:	Mar 15th, 2011 at 03:34 GMT		1 point
	The State clues didnt work for me

	betraisefold:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 02:53 GMT		1 point
	Love it, the option to check the state is a very clever touch. Cirrhotic Puss nearly broke my brain. Now for the nitpicking - why not at least make it Drive Sire or something similar? Also, I find it helps so much with these if you make the clues all caps, it's just less confusing somehow and an asterisk to mark the multi-word answers probably wouldn't hurt either.