Can we name every USA city with at least 10,000 people? (VERY HARD)

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[@DuranceBell]

For those confused (as I was at first), the title is a bit misleading. It's not just naming 3 cities over 10k in a square, it's naming the 3 biggest cities in each square. That's why some larger cities like Buffalo weren't accepted. Also, I'm a bit disappointed that Jake kept misspelling Tucson, but then again it's a bit of a weird one.

[@arcxjo]

Okay that makes sense. I was thinking maybe a bunch of them were actually incorporated as boroughs or towns or had their population actually in suburbs or something.

[@MikeP2055]

The Tucson thing was frustrating me, too.

[@chaoticignorant483]

I saw Tuscon on a highway sign once as a little kid and called it "Tuck-son", and my parents made fun of me for it. Due to that I've always remembered its spelling.

[@DuranceBell]

@@chaoticignorant483 Okay, not trying to clown you, but it is kinda funny that you misspelled Tucson in a comment explaining that you always remembered how to spell it.

[@theburnetts]

Ah. That makes so much more sense. Yeah the title is very misleading.

[@6thwilbury2331]

I've said this for a previous video... given the nature of Jomboy Media, I'm surprised they don't immediately name all of the MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL cities, then start working through Triple-A and Double-A baseball and/or the G League. They would knock out 90 percent of these maps just from those cities alone.

[@deepowls]

That wouldn't have helped that much with this quiz, since they needed to list the top three in each square. Some squares had multiple major league cities. Others required to go fairly obscure, name suburbs, or list the Canadian or Mexican cities in the square like they did with Tijuana. For example, in the square with New York and most of Pennsylvania, they needed to answer Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton. The Salt Lake City square is SLC, West Valley City, and West Jordan. There's no reason for people to know those SLC suburbs unless they previously looked them up after a different HugeQuiz. Your strategy would be useful in other coverage quizzes where they could name any city. Same with college towns, which they started doing. But, yes, they would have finished a square with Milwaukee and a few others they missed. It is a better strategy than repeating Gary (69k and 8th in Indiana) over and over.

[@keith8956]

Not guessing Milwaukee is wild.

[@kevinkuenn5733]

Memphis, too.

[@TrocarSlushWeasel]

I love how Jimmy just gets locked into an answer and has a hard time giving it up. Somehow, even though Jake said that Kelly Slater was a pro surfer, Jimmy was convinced Baywatch couldn't be right and somehow he was a prisoner of war.

[@6thwilbury2331]

Hahaha came down here to post similar. For older folks, it reminds me of the "Baby Fish Mouth" scene in When Harry Met Sally.

[@meghanm6282]

Jimmy's timelines are so off. Kelly Slater was on Baywatch 30 years ago, he is old af. He also famously dated Pamela Anderson at the same time.

[@Trollololololful]

Score: 8/102 Jake: Did we win?

[@FamousMortimer]

Watching Jake misspell Tucson repeatedly was surprisingly frustrating

[@Joe45-91]

As a childhood fan of Weird Al, I will never have to ask how to spell Albuquerque

[@austinnistico3845]

Can’t wait to see the stats next episode

[@Lamb318]

But what about the stats?!

[@thomasschroeder5981]

Legend has it they’re still calculating

[@austintaylor6633]

Where do I find this quiz? I wanna try lol

[@asdfaeou]

Jimmy fighting against a SURFER BEING ON BAYWATCH was crazy talk! I'm glad Jake did his Best Friend magic thing he does to ease him off of it.

[@DoltFromTheBlue]

Massapequa is a town on Long Island…. I think they were going for Mississagua. Also said Atlantic City, but never entered it. .

[@deepowls]

Atlantic City wouldn't have worked. They needed Tom's River, Egg Harbor, and Cherry Hill for the square with Atlantic City. When playing, I tried Camden and Trenton and then gave up. Mississauga was correct. I didn't go back and review, but I thought he meant Massapequa, but not seriously.

[@Jjchestna]

Big up Matty for saving that last round, Jimmy was determined to get Best wrong

[@nomarlebron8456]

i was waiting for zach to chime with a "scroll up so we can see the time" but I'm glad he didn't, had my heart racing lol great stuff boys

[@miche3559]

I would've said Springfield as a shot in the dark because there's so many states with it.

[@billbliss1518]

Us history teacher here…. Dying inside as I watch this video 😂😂😂😂

[@Warriorfan287]

I think you do 2 more episodes....the first one ZachJoez gets a bye and Jimmy and Jake pick their contestants (winner is who gets the highest finish of the 2 selected contestants). Then the winner goes to the final vs Zach/Joez (same deal where you pick 2 contestants and the final winner is whoevers player gets the best finish)

[@tomcuthbert-sayers1451]

"we can zoom in??!!" lol

[@Emily-sj4zi]

hearing a correct pronounciation of lancaster is always surprising- i think most of pa got screwed there bc of how that square was positioned

[@jakelong1793]

I live in Lancaster so feeling special

[@philarcuri6338]

TUC-son not TUS-con

[@indyxpbullion2422]

Has Jomboy ever been to Gary?!?! It’s much, much smaller (and more dangerous) than he thinks 😂

[@mattk2740]

Dang I love how your guys’ brains work. Who needs rules, let’s just play and figure it out. Haha

[@deepowls]

That timed quiz is very difficult. I got 45/102 squares (and 145 cities) on the same "easy" level. I'm very good, but not amazing at geography. I did get some of the very easy squares that they ignored like Alaska (2 squares) plus Yukon & Northwest Territories. For the New York state/Pennsylvania square, it was Toronto and two of its suburbs, so I wouldn't expect them to get it. The other two for Detroit's square were also Canadian. I did get all those, but much of the rest of Canada was a mess with me getting 1 or 2 cities. It's annoying to pull Marquette, MI and Thunder Bay, Ontario, but not get credit for it. South of the US border was quite poor as I only got 9 of those, but quite a few with 1 or 2 cities. Sorry, I did not know La Romana, Dom Rep, nor what the 3rd and 4th most populous cities in Cuba. The only ones I can see, feel I should have gotten, and would have earned me a square were Los Mochis and Campeche in Mexico. That's getting obscure, though Campeche is also the name of the state. I think I was so happy to spell Tuxtla Guitierrez correctly that I moved on. Playa del Carmen would be less obscure for others, but I wasn't likely to pull that name without a lot of time. As frustrating as it might have been for them, I enjoy these videos.

[@aaronbennett7338]

What name a quiz?

[@deepowls]

@@aaronbennett7338, it's the North America 10K+ City Grid Challenge at HugeQuiz. They have several similar quizzes and other fun geography ones that don't involve the map. I enjoy the Blackout quizzes.

[@LordBarros]

Can't believe they specifically tried to find Nevada cities and didn't say Vegas!

[@Kwright304]

Vancouver was sitting there the whole time

[@luke40531]

Yeah it’s the 4th largest city in Washington that’s a gimme

[@Kwright304]

@@luke40531 this guy gets it

[@craigyeo]

Not getting Cincy or Louisville is appalling

[@theuniversejr]

15:18 "San Domingo, maybe its Puerto Rico" lol i think you meant Santo Domingo and thats Dominican Republic (Joez is offended watching this unfold)

[@zavist395]

that California/Nevada one with only Vegas, Lancaster/Palmdale and Bakersfield might have been the answers

[@emanmer19]

I think maybe Fresno

[@jmielke4341]

Albuquerque, New Mexico

[@IDL716]

Pigeon racing? 🤨🤔

[@ExileOnDaytonStreet]

What website is this game on?

[@OJ-Simpson]

They never post a link. It’s annoying.

[@tapastro]

It's on hugequiz

[@hugequiz]

The one named after my account 😉 It's called "North America 10K+ City Grid Challenge"

[@RanMan_29]

Do a live so you can source answers from Chat

[@alexsid0017]

they would've had a much easier time if Jake spelt city names correctly

[@gemnifan6045]

port huron is a real place in michigan with over 10k but jake cant spell huron

[@marybaca831]

Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces are the 3 big ones in NM. I'd be surprised if Taos was on that list.

[@deepowls]

Las Cruces would have counted for the southern square. Rio Rancho is bigger than Santa Fe, but neither were in the top 3 for the square. What they needed to go with Albuquerque were Lakewood and Arvada. I missed Arvada during my attempt.

[@marybaca831]

@@deepowls I left in 2012, guess RR has grown since then.

[@kourii]

@@marybaca831 Rio Rancho was already bigger than Santa by then

[@nathanwhite7765]

Is there gonna be another season of guts?😊

[@GoBirds808]

17:11 I was yelling, Kelly Slater!!!

[@Pete69OD]

Jake saying Bangor correctly is shocking

[@mikevanenglehoven6088]

Tucson not Tuscon lol

[@mikevanenglehoven6088]

Oh good lord loving geography and watching this is so hard

[@Marinilliv]

Work can wait

[@nb2078]

Memphis? Milwaukee? Should’ve thought of pro sports teams first

[@Where2bub]

13 minutes in…. “Vancouver!!!! Say it!!!!” -ok we need some Canadian cities, ….. massapequa…. 🤦‍♂️ok what’s next? Ronkonkoma? Babylon? Wantaugh?

[@MikeMath9]

Just screaming MILWAUKEE at my phone for 15 minutes

[@GymAndSun]

10k population is an insanely low threshold, too hard. Just to give you an idea: the 100th most populous city in California is Whittier with 82k; # 300 in Cali has 24k people

[@deepowls]

Despite the video title, they only need to name the 3 most populous cities in each square. The 10+k only comes to play in the sparsely populated squares where, for example, Juneau, Whitehorse, and Yellowknife were the only cities in their squares. Even though those are small, I found those squares to be easier, since those show up on maps often and are well-known. Meanwhile, the squares for Salt Lake City and Albuquerque required you to put SLC suburbs and western Denver suburbs.

[@j66gv]

Lost a few by poor spelling

[@jamesburke2311]

This was fun but does this mean no guts today?

[@positively_broad_st3780]

Not a math pod. Not a spelling pod either.

[@benpetrone5]

Not knowing the capital of NewYork is wild 😭

[@Magicwhitespot]

Why did a bunch of cities not work like Buffalo Santa Fe Tucson , little rock

[@kourii]

Little Rock did work, but they guessed it more than once. They couldn't spell Tucson. Buffalo and Santa Fe weren't in the top 3 cities in their squares

[@Crunchy_Zen]

Was Kelly Dlater on Baywatch? I dont think Kelly Slater was a prisoner of war.

[@benjaminskolozdra6185]

dear god it’s TUCSON

[@ContentinMesa]

So cal has a ton of big city’s

[@RobertJones-ic2vo]

Cleveland has over 10k, why didn’t it go on the map?

[@dfp_01]

This was only the top 3 cities in each square, or all above 10,000 in a square (which is why they got eastern Montana with just Billings)

[@RobertJones-ic2vo]

@@dfp_01 understood thanks!

[@emoryotott2055]

No Athens GA is crazy

[@kourii]

Definitely not top 3 in its square

[@AliceYobby]

Jake never entered Indianapolis!!!!!!!!

[@russrask]

You guys suck at this!

[@derekhammett8634]

so all the canadian cities are american?

[@Where2bub]

Well, technically, yes.

[@kourii]

It said North American cities on the quiz

[@MikeP2055]

Dumb/fun fact for the algo: Indianapolis is the only state capitol that includes the name of the state.

[@A_Bird]

Oklahoma City?

[@shabbajoey]

@@A_Birdnah Oklahoma isn’t a state (sarcasm)

[@positively_broad_st3780]

Doverware

[@Steenar123]

Wtf is this game? It didnt accept Green Bay which us in the USA and has 100,000 population. But it accepts Toronto which isn't in the USA? 🤔

[@Steenar123]

Okay I relistened to the intro and it's North America which is definitely way different than USA. Lol

[@mattk2740]

Honestly this was a shit quiz. Nearly every one of your guesses was over 10k population.

[@deepowls]

Rewatch the beginning. They needed to name the X most populous cities for each square where X was what they chose at the start. The title of the video is poor.

[@kylesheehan2614]

Jake sucks

[@_jhc]

very true

[@hugequiz]

Oh no I'll get the stats issue fixed right away 🐢 🐌 🦥 😂

[@deepowls]

On quizzes like this, it'd be good if the stats also gave the number of correct cities, overall. Putting a line under Population Range that had Overall xxx/365 would be nice. It'd be okay if it only gave that total at the end of the quiz, but that's less good.

[@dfp_01]

This quiz should definitely be "name 3/5/10 cities over 10k in each square" and not "name the top 3/5/10 cities in each square" because you have to know largest suburbs, in order, for a lot of the cities. Not impossible but very difficult even on the "easy" mode

[@deepowls]

@@dfp_01, HugeQuiz works that way on some of their other games. Among their grid games, they do have a few versions where you just need to name any single city above a specific threshold per square. However, I don't think they have a grid game where you could name any 3/5/10 cities per square, like you're suggesting. Among their blackout games, they have some that work both the way you'd want (i.e., name any three that qualify in the Triple Blackout games) as well as name only the three most populated (i.e., Top 3 Blackout). I prefer the Triple Blackout version where you can name any three of the category...especially since that's less sensitive to what year's census/estimates game is using.

[@BaileeModern]

Everyone forgets Louisville