11-Letter US City Names by KlionskyG

Champion(s):

mbmason
"Toast is just toast, but grilled bread is full of character."


Runner(s)-Up:

BeningoS


Quiz Description

As perhaps some of you did, I wrote out a whole long list of 11-letter US city names while brainstorming answers for LL86 MD5 Q1 before hitting upon the right answer at #17. I figured I might as well make a quiz about the rest of the list.

Every answer on this quiz is an American city with eleven letters in its name. If your answer doesn't have eleven letters, it's not the right answer. State names not required, but every question is pinned to a specific state.


SPOILER: Here's the recap

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Questions:

Behind Yuengling, the Boston Beer Company, and Sierra Nevada, the fourth-largest craft brewery in the US (and more than 20 others) can be found in what city?

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Fort Collins, CO

A storm on August 10 damaged many buildings in what midwestern city? Shown in this slightly-redacted map are the ~140 deemed too badly damaged to be occupied:

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Cedar Rapids, IA

In a battle named for what lakeside city did the US Army and state militias repel, for the final time, a British invasion from Canada during the War of 1812? (An alternate name for the battle uses the name of the lake instead of the city.)

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Plattsburgh, NY

What city shares its name with a larger-population city in a neighboring state, as well as a city that probably has a smaller population in a state that purportedly borders Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky?

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Springfield, IL

Name, and correctly spell, the city at the heart of northern Idaho, roughly mirroring Spokane across the Washington border.

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Coeur d'Alene, ID

After finishing the 1902 season in last place, drawing under 200 fans in their final home game, what city did the Baltimore Orioles move to?

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New York City, NY

Give the names of any of the following places, which are all within a seven mile radius:

(a) Dolly Parton's birthplace
(b) the location of her first paying gig, which is also the location of the statue linked below
(c) the location of Dollywood

Note that none of these places has an alliterative train-themed dance named for it.

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Locust Ridge, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, TN

What is the southernmost 11-letter city [of over 100,00 people] in the lower 48 states? Arguably, the final battle of the Civil War (because in fact it took place a month after Lincoln was assassinated) was fought a few miles east of here.

Edited to add minimum city size, 1AM 8/27

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Brownsville, TX

After Inland Steel Corporation arrived in 1903, the population of what town, incorporated just a decade earlier, exploded seven times larger by seven years later?

Soon, over 80% of the city's land was zoned for heavy industry, making it the most industrialized city in the US, including plants for Republic Steel, Youngstown Steel, LaSalle Steel, and U.S. Steel.

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East Chicago, IN

Fill in the blank in this verse, which opens a 2008 film of a similar-sounding name and which Roger Ebert later declared the best film of the decade:

There's a place I long to be
A certain town that's dear to me
Home to Mohawks and G.E.
It's called __________

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Schenectady, NY

In the St. Anthony Express, what city's first schoolteacher proposed combining the local indigenous word for "waterfall" with the Greek word for "city" in forming its name? The paper's editors dropped an h, leaving 11 letters, though the indigenous word, intact, still names a nearby feature.

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Minneapolis, MN

The holidays are coming up! Tom Lehrer is spending Rosh Hashona in Arizona and Yom Kippur way down in Mississippur. But in December, there's just one place for him; where is he spending Hanukkah?

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Santa Monica, CA