Cities

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#AnswerAppearancesSample Clue
1 Chicago 15 The Old Water Tower, Wacker Drive, O'Hare Airport
2 San Francisco 10 The Inn at the Opera, The Nob Hill Lambourne, The Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf
3 London 9 Dorchester, Connaught, Cadogan
4 Boston 9 Ritz-Carlton, Copley Plaza, Back Bay Hilton
5 Atlanta 9 The Gaslight Inn, The Ansley Inn, The Westin Peachtree Plaza
6 Washington, D.C. 8 This city designed by Pierre L'Enfant was the world's 1st planned federal capital
7 Las Vegas 8 Bet you didn't know this city's seal features Hoover Dam
8 Seattle 7 This northwestern city's seal bears the image of Chief Sealth, for whom the city is named
9 Philadelphia 7 The city motto meaning "Let Brotherly Love Continue" is imprinted on its seal
10 Minneapolis 7 Pillsbury Building
11 Pittsburgh 6 Mad magazine illustrator James Warhola
12 Memphis 6 The Center for Southern Folklore, The Mud Island Amphitheatre, The Sincerely Elvis Museum
13 Los Angeles 6 New Otani Hotel & Garden, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Hollywood Roosevelt
14 Detroit 6 Cadillac Tower
15 Whitney Houston 6 California's highest mountain followed by Texas' biggest city gives you this singer's name
16 Toronto 5 The CN Tower, the world's tallest freestanding structure, is located in this Canadian city
17 San Diego 5 California's second-largest city, its seal depicts the Pillars of Hercules to recall its days under Spanish rule
18 Salt Lake City 5 The Peery Hotel, The Inn at Temple Square, The Brigham Street Inn
19 Rio de Janeiro 5 Sol Ipanema, Plaza Copacabana, Copacabana Palace
20 Paris 5 Meridien Montparnasse, Balzac, George V
21 New Orleans 5 Lafayette Hotel, Maison Dupuy, Pontchartrain Hotel
22 Istanbul 5 Byzantium
23 Charlotte 5 Up to 10,000 people from 63 countries attend the International Hosiery Expo in this city, North Carolina's largest
24 Barcelona 5 Capital of Catalonia, it's Spain's 2nd largest city
25 Atlantic City 5 In 1990 Donald Trump took a gamble & opened his Taj Mahal Casino in this city
26 Athens 5 The high culture of a 19th century immigrant group got Milwaukee the nickname "Deutsche Athen", meaning this
27 Vienna 4 Sacher, Imperial, Pension Wiener
28 Tokyo 4 Until recently, the Giants, this city's baseball team, played their home games in Korakuen Stadium
29 static electricity 4 Type of electricity you create by stroking a cat's fur or dragging your feet across a rug
30 St. Petersburg 4 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
31 St. Louis 4 In 1904, this city hosted the Democratic National Convention, a World's Far & the Olympics
32 Oklahoma City 4 The Eastern Flyer was a short-lived train line that connected Tulsa to this state capital
33 New York City 4 The Pierre, The St. Regis, The Carlyle
34 New York 4 Thiscity is the brightest area along the East Coast
35 Munich 4 Now the home of beer hall festivals, it was the site of the Beer Hall Putsch, or revolt, in 1923
36 Montreal 4 Place Ville-Marie, Place Jacques Cartier, Beaver Lake
37 Miami 4 Havana-born Manny Diaz
38 Jacksonville 4 It's the largest Florida city named after a guy named Andrew
39 Denver 4 This city's seal has depictions of an eagle, the state capitol building & the sun setting over the Rockies
40 the Bronx 3 (Hi, I'm Rudy Giuliani.) Yankee Stadium is located at East 161st Street & River Ave. in this northernmost NYC borough
41 Sydney 3 Circular Quayis a hub of transportation & tourism in this city
42 Shanghai 3 Near the mouth of the Yangtze:Near 20 million
43 San Antonio 3 The Marriott Riverwalk, The Hilton Palacio Del Rio, The Holiday Inn Crockett Hotel
44 Nashville 3 The Regal Maxwell House, The Sheraton Music City, The Opryland Hotel
45 Milwaukee 3 Birnbaum's United States Travel Guide calls it "the community that made beer famous"
46 Glasgow 3 The name of this Scottish city on the Clyde means either "Green Glen" or "Dear Green Spot"
47 Eugene 3 This home to the University of Oregon was founded by a Mr. Skinner & given his first name
48 Dodge City 3 In the wild days of the Wild West, this city in Kansas was home to the notorious Long Branch Saloon
49 Cologne 3 German city whose name is derived from the Latin for "colony"; it was once the colony of Agrippina
50 Buenos Aires 3 This Capital gleams on the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata

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Chicago (14) Boston (10) San Francisco (10) Atlanta (9) Las Vegas (8) Washington, D.C. (7) Seattle (7) Minneapolis (7) Philadelphia (7) Whitney Houston (6)

Europe

114 clues
London (10) Paris (5) Vienna (4) Berlin (4) Barcelona (3) Avignon (2) Glasgow (2) Rome (2) Madrid (2) Stockholm (2)

Asia

48 clues
Tokyo (4) Shanghai (3) Jakarta (2) Singapore (2) Tucson (2) Kyoto (2) Bangkok (2) Fort Wayne (2) Istanbul (1) Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City (1)

Africa

27 clues
Nairobi (2) Alvin Ailey (1) Lagos (1) Cairo (1) Morocco (1) Giza (1) Carthage (1) Monrovia, Liberia (1) The Congo (1) Tripoli (1)

North America

25 clues
Toronto (4) Montreal (4) the St. Lawrence River (1) Ensenada (1) Ontario (1) Mexico (1) Acapulco (1) Ottawa (1) the Underground Railroad (1) the Panama Canal (1)

Middle East

22 clues
Istanbul (4) Ankara (2) Aleppo (1) Iraq (1) Baghdad (1) the Barons (1) Vulcan (1) Sacajawea (1) Portland (1) Tigris & Euphrates (1)

South America

20 clues
Rio de Janeiro (5) Buenos Aires (3) Lima (1) São Paulo (1) Santiago (1) Filament (1) an electric eel (1) Bogotá (1) Rio (1) Amazon (1)

Oceania

11 clues
Sydney (3) Auckland (2) Melbourne (2) Canberra (1) Perth (1) Wellington (1) Cate Blanchett (1)
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