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Can you name the most populated cities in the State of Washington? Enter a city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger Source: U.S. Census as of July 1, 2007 You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 6701 Broadway Opening Lines 4435 TV Shows (U.S.) 4280 You Do Know Jack 1793 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1755 Same Last Name 1449 And more...
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Rank	City	Population
1		594,210
2		200,975
3		196,520
4		161,436
5		121,347
6		98,295
7		85,013
8		84,819
9		84,474
10		82,974

Rank	City	Population
11		77,503
12		62,182
13		60,331
14		57,231
15		52,647
16		52,642
17		49,808
18		49,427
19		47,325
20		44,925

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	ChrisB:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:16 GMT	36 points
	i was so excited to type in Walla Walla, but i guess it fell short :(

	raisingfear101:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	3 points
	Seattle is a lot smaller than I always thought it was.

	bsd987:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:19 GMT	2 points
	My knowledge of horse racing let me get Yakima (Yakima Meadows), Auburn (Emerald Downs), and Renton (Longacres). Finally, knowledge of obscure defunct tracks (and Emerald Downs) comes in handy. Not to mention Seattle Slew....

	moegoldberg:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	3 points
	When i went to school in Olympia and everyone's the same ...

	hamster:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:21 GMT	14 points
	Next Sporcle quiz: name the cities in the US with the most starbucks... it will probably resemble this quiz!!

	leviper:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:22 GMT	11 points
	Twin Peaks should be a bonus answer seeing as it had 51,201 people.

	RedLIon:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	-2 points
	Love these quizzes, but this is a bit of an odd state to do before some others...

	Skydog:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	5 points
	Interesting state choice, but very hard for me. Got the capital and Seattle and a few others but not many!

	ianbob:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:40 GMT	4 points
	Move to Bremerton and we'll hang out. Move to Bremerton, we'll go all-out...

	catch84:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:47 GMT	-1 points
	Thank you cops and biffle

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	mjenks:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:00 GMT	1 point
	Wow. The capital is almost tiny.

	cmkeller:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	5 points
	Any Washington state quiz that cannot include Walla Walla is not worth creating

	nick421:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:13 GMT	8 points
	I got Yakima from icarly... Start bringing me down...

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	aprilvirgo:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:27 GMT	0 points
	I live in #12 (Kennewick) and still didn't get them all. And I was born in one of the ones I missed!! How sad.

	WadeGarrett:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:29 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, but I thought the Sporcle folks were doing these state quizzes in order of population -- is that the case, didn't we skip over North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia?

	Ecto2:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	7 points
	no matter how often you stare at maps, you can never do so well when quizes like this come around

	Booger:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:36 GMT	13 points
	@ Stephen Sides: North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia are already in the queue. I believe Sporcle chose to do Washington first because the powers that be at Sporcle are located in Washington State.

	jUNKIEd:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT	4 points
	Tough quiz. I got the top four and then Olympia (cuz its the capital) and Redmond (thanks to microsoft). Keep the state cities quizzes comin! I can't wait for Wisconsin, then it's my time to shine.

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	Haunter:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 23:28 GMT	2 points
	No Port Angeles? It's the largest city on the peninsula!

	RedSoxFan:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 23:29 GMT	3 points
	Ya, I would love a Massachusetts quiz!

	moran:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:01 GMT	1 point
	Working for a Boeing supplier helped on this quiz, but not enough. I need to get out of the Midwest.

	Gordo:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	6 points
	@John2 - why would it be weird to do Washington before Massachusetts? They're both almost exactly the same population. New Jersey perhaps I can see because it's slightly larger, but I don't really see why that would matter all that much. I'm sure all states will be done eventually.

	Iceberg:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	5 points
	I heard once that Seattle does not actually get that much rain. It's yearly rainfall is about the same as New York City. What it does have a lot of are cloudy days. Weeks and weeks on end of overcast skies.

	Geo_Crazy:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:10 GMT	3 points
	Almost missed Lakewood and Spokane Valley, but got the top 20 in my home state. Washington is the 3rd (or maybe 4th, behind Arizona) most populous state west of the Mississippi, after California and Texas. Seattle is the 14th largest metro area, with over 3.5 million people. Though it's very cloudy, and rains a lot of days, Seattle gets less rain (37 inches) than New York City, Boston, Miami, Charlotte, DC, Atlanta, Houston, Cleveland, Nashville, St. Louis, and Honolulu. In the much drier desert east, Spokane gets 16 inches and Yakima gets 9 inches.

	GeoExpert:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT	-2 points
	North Carolina, Virginia, and New Jersey are all more populous than Washington is. But I guess the Sporcle guys were a bit biased in publishing their state first. But they probably did well on it.

	aerosolben:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:39 GMT	5 points
	If you're wondering why the population of Seattle is so small, remember the city has limited land mass because it's on an isthmus. The metro area population much more sizable at 3,344,813.

	godzilla:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 00:49 GMT	3 points
	ah, Seattle in August. it's 58 degrees and raining right now. :)

	shel99:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 01:00 GMT	-2 points
	can't believe I missed the capital... :(

	Morbo:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 01:04 GMT	-1 points
	Well said, aerosolben. I think about 15 of the 20 cities on this quiz are either Seattle or Seattle suburbs.

	tscheno2:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 01:58 GMT	0 points
	Vote for Donnelly!!

	zalagreensbury:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 03:42 GMT	1 point
	For some reason the last six cities in the second column sound like gas stations...it's been a long day,lol.

	shakescene:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 04:15 GMT	7 points
	I once compiled a table of all the state capitals that weren't the largest cities in their states (about two-thirds of them, decreased by one temporarily while Baton Rouge housed more people than post-Katrina New Orleans). Olympia held by far the lowest rank within its own state's population of any state capital.

	tgav:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 04:22 GMT	2 points
	Time to blast some good Seattle area grunge.

	Coyote42:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	1 point
	A'ight, hands up if you got some of these only because you're a Shadowrun player.

	jmarshallg:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 11:29 GMT	2 points
	So many suburbs of Seattle... 9-13 of them are suburbs or Seattle itself (depending on whether you count Everett, Tacoma, Lakewood and Olympia). Glad to see Kent on a quiz. :) Spokane Valley seems sort of made up though, even though I got it.

	rottenmonk:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 20:02 GMT	2 points
	There's no way any of those cities are suburbs of Seattle, John. Sure they are on the I-5 corridor, but that's about it. Anyways, got 19/20, missed Spokane Valley, I didn't even think it was a separate city :( Then again, I live in Tacoma and have no reason to go east.