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1. "The Rose City" is located in the Pacific Northwest, where the Willamette River flows into the mighty Columbia. Volcanic Mt. Hood dominates the view to the east, and is quite the sight when you fly into PDX on a clear day. What city is "the Rose City"?
2. This wonderful city shares its name with the great bay off the Pacific Ocean where it resides. In 1967, the city's Haight-Ashbury district was the center of the "Summer of Love". Coincidentally (or not), it was about the same time that the sobriquet "Baghdad by the Bay" took hold. The city has been an artistic and cultural center since the 1890s. Now if the ground will just be still. What city is "Baghdad by the Bay"?
3. This city attracts nicknames the way spilled sugar attracts ants. Carl Sandburg, in a gloriously tendentious 1914 poem bearing the city's name, added several. To Sandburg, the city was "Hog butcher to the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat...stormy,husky, brawling City of the Big Shoulders", and that's just the first stanza! Others have called it the "Windy City" meaning to insult, but the "husky, brawling" locals made the name their own, for their home on the South shore of Lake Michigan. Where is the "Windy City"?
4. The "Gateway City" sports a 630 foot/192 meter stainless steel arch to symbolize the "Gateway to the American West"on its Mississippi riverfront. Lewis and Clark provisioned here and thousands of settlers on the way west did the same. Ragtime King Scott Joplin lived here, and W.C. Handy composed a famous blues tune bearing the city's name. Anheuser-Busch is headquartered here, too, if you're thirsty. Which city is the "Gateway City"?
5. "Beantown" might partially owe its name to a toast. In addition to beans, the city shares its name with a dessert and a terrier breed, and is known for a reckless disregard for tea, an alarming silversmith, and a 19th and early 20th Century tendency to ban "indecent" artworks. What is the proper, very proper, name of "Beantown"?
6. Locals still call it "the Crescent City" from the curving shape the city took by hugging a bend in the Mississippi River. Notoriously, this is the only city in the US that is largely below sea, and river, level. In the 1970s, to contrast the unhurried southern local style with the bustle of New York, some began calling it "the Big Easy". Home to voodoo, two different styles of French-inspired cooking, and Dixieland Jazz, where is the "Crescent City"?
7. "Music City" is the capital of Tennessee, nestled in the western Appalachian Mountains, on the banks of the Cumberland River. "Music City" earned its nickname with "Music Row" where Country, Gospel, and Christian Music recording companies are concentrated. Landmarks include the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Ryman Auditorium, and the Grand Ole Opry House. More citified folks may prefer the local symphony or the opera (quite distinct from the Opry). What is "Music City" called on the map?
8. "Space City" is more often called "the Bayou City" by locals. Both sobriquets are appropriate. The first word spoken from the surface of the moon was the city's name. It is drained by ten meandering, usually mild mannered streams locally called bayous. The city is named for the Texas patriot who secured independence by winning a battle called San Jacinto, about 30 minutes by automobile from where downtown came to be. The city is also big in the petroleum business. Can you identify "Space City"?
9. "Magic City" could claim its moniker based on any number of factors: climate, distinctive culture, or resilience. In fact, it draws the name because a giant metropolis popped up almost overnight on Biscayne Bay, near the end of the Florida peninsula. Incorporated in 1896 with a population under 2,000, by 1980 its metropolitan population exceeded 3.2 million residents. Which Florida gateway to Latin America is "Magic City"?
10. The quintessential nickname for the quintessential American city. Long the most populous city in the US, it is also the city most non-Americans instantly think of when you mention the United States. Locals have long claimed that "civilization stops at the Hudson River". Famed for towering architecture, great museums, theater, finance and a breakneck pace of life that intimidates outsiders, what is "the Big Apple"?
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