"A"stounding USA Cities Trivia Quiz

Answer: Arlington, TX

Whilst both the Falcons (NFL) and the Braves (MLB) are named after their home city of Atlanta, GA, neither of the franchises that play their home games in Arlington, TX, are.

Baseball's Texas Rangers moved into what became known as Globe Life Park in Arlington (pictured) in 1994, although it was then named The Ballpark in Arlington. It has since been called Ameriquest Field and Rangers Ballpark before the naming rights were sold to Globe Life for the 2014 season and beyond. The Dallas Cowboys, the self-proclaimed "America's Team", left Texas Stadium in nearby Irving,TX, their home since 1971, and moved into Cowboys Stadium in Arlington in 2009. The stadium was renamed AT&T Stadium for the 2014 season and beyond.

Located 20 miles west of central Dallas and 12 miles east of downtown Fort Worth, the city of Arlington is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. With a population of around 380,000 (2010 Census), it is also the seventh-largest city in Texas in its own right. As well as its major league sports grounds, the city is also home to the International Bowling Hall of Fame, the University of Texas at Arlington and the Six Flags Over Texas theme park.

Famous Arlingtonians include the country singer Melissa Lawson and World Series of Poker champion David Williams.

Answer: Allentown, PA

First settled in 1751, the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1762 and thus celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2012.

Allentown is located in the Lehigh Valley, 50 miles north-northwest of Philadelphia and 90 miles east-northeast of the state capital, Harrisburg. Although only the 226th-largest city in the country at the time of the 2010 Census, it was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) and is also the state's fastest-growing city.

Allentown's place in the folklore of American history came early, during the Revolutionary War: it was here that the Liberty Bell was hidden from the British after George Washington's defeat at the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777.

Famous people born in Allentown PA include Lee Iacocca, the former chairman of the Chrysler Corporation, former Buffalo Bill and now Hall of Fame wide receiver Andre Reed, and actress Christine Taylor ("The Brady Bunch Movie") now married to Ben Stiller.

Answer: Akron, OH

The fifth-largest city in Ohio (after Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo), Akron was America's fastest-growing city in the 1910s thanks to the rubber industry. Today, of the major tyre manufacturers, only Goodyear has its headquarters here.

Akron, Ohio is perhaps best-known as the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous, founded here in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. It is also the home of the annual All-American Soap Box Derby, the Professional Bowlers Association and Women's Professional Mud Wrestling.

Famous Akronites from the sporting world include the number 1 pick in the 2003 NBA draft, LeBron James, star player for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Miami Heat, former 400m world record holder Butch Reynolds and New York Yankee legend Thurman Munson. Also born in the city were Chrissie Hynde, lead singer with The Pretenders, former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove, and America's second female astronaut, Judith Resnik, who died in the Challenger disaster.

Answer: Ann Arbor MI

Ann Arbor, Michigan is known as "'A' Squared", "Tree Town" and "The People's Republic of Ann Arbor". To say that the university has been influential in the development of this city is a huge understatement: it employs more than a quarter of the city's 114,000 (2010 Census) population. More than 12,000 of those work University of Michigan Health System, one of the most important university research programs in the country.

Famous Ann Arborites include actress Martha Vickers (Mickey Rooney's third wife), and Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza and a former owner of the Detroit Tigers.

Answer: Amarillo, TX

Named for the Spanish word for yellow, the city of Amarillo, Texas, is sometimes called "The Yellow Rose of Texas", hence the picture clue. With a population of 190,000 (2010 Census), it is the largest city in the Texas panhandle, although only the 14th-largest in the state.

Just south of Amarillo is Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the second-largest canyon system in the USA (after Grand Canyon). The city is, perhaps, best-known thanks to the song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, "Is This the Way to Amarillo". Released as a single in 1971 by Tony Christie, it reached only number 18 in the UK singles chart, but when it was re-released in 2005 in support of Comic Relief it swept to the top of the chart, where it remained for seven weeks.

Famous Amarilloans include the astronaut Rick Husband (who was killed in the Columbia Shuttle disaster), actress/dancer Cyd Charisse ("Singing in the Rain"), and Oscar-nominated actress Carolyn Jones, probably best remembered as Morticia Addams from the TV series "The Addams Family".

Answer: Athens, GA

The picture clue is a bulldog, although not the one named 'Uga' who is the official mascot of the University of Georgia sports teams. Georgia's largest and oldest institute of higher education is located in the city of Athens in the north of the state. This city of 115,000 (2010 Census) is the sixth-largest in the state.

Famous people born in Athens, Georgia include Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger ("L.A. Confidential"), actor Jeff Daniels ("Terms of Endearment"), and Claire Merritt Ruth, wife of baseball legend Babe Ruth.

Answer: Anchorage, AK

Although the city limits encompass an area of 1,961 square miles (about one-and-a-third times the size of the state of Rhode Island), Anchorage is not the largest city in Alaska in terms of area. That honour belongs to the capital, Juneau, which has city limits spanning 3,255 square miles, which is not much smaller than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. With a population of around 290,000 (2010 Census), though, Anchorage is by far the state's most populous city, with more than 40% of the entire state population living here.

Anchorage has been designated by the National Civic League as an "All-America City" four times, most recently in 2002. It has also been named as America's most 'tax-friendly' city.

Famous Anchoragites include singer/songwriter Kate Earl, country music singer Mel McDaniel, actress Anna Parisse (Alexandra Borgia in TV's "Law & Order"), and 3-times World Series winner and 2001 World Series MVP pitcher Curt Schilling.

Answer: Anaheim, CA

In terms of area, Anaheim is only the second-largest city in California's Orange County (after Irvine), but with a population of 335,000 (2010 Census) it is the county's most populous city and the 10th-largest in the state.

Best known as the home of Disneyland, Anaheim also boasts two major sporting franchises, baseball's California Angels and the Anaheim Ducks (formerly called the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) of the National Hockey League. Originally named Anaheim Arena and then Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, the Honda Centre is the home of the Ducks, whilst the Angels play their home games at Angel Stadium, which was previously called Edison International Field of Anaheim.

Famous people born in Anaheim include singer/songwriter and guitarist Jeff Buckley, Mike Lockwood, the professional wrestler known as 'Crash Holly', and Elizabeth Ryan (a member of the international Tennis Hall of Fame and winner of 30 Grand Slam titles including four Wimbledon singles titles between 1914 and 1930).

Answer: Annapolis, MD

With a land area of just 7.18 square miles, Annapolis, Maryland is the smallest of the fifty U.S. state capital cities. Founded in 1649, it became the capital of Maryland in 1694, before it was even incorporated as a city (which happened in 1708). It is one of only three cities that have been capitals of their state or territory since before the end of the 17th century. The other two are Santa Fe (capital of New Mexico Territory since 1610) and Boston (which was designated as the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1630).

With a population of 39,000 (2010 Census), Annapolis is tiny by comparison with Maryland's largest city, Baltimore (home to 620,000), and is only the seventh-largest city in the state. There are, though, seven other state capitals that have even smaller populations than Annapolis -- Montpelier, VT, (the smallest of all, with a population under 8,000), Pierre, SD, Augusta, ME, Frankfort, KY, Helena, MT, Juneau, AK and Dover, DE.

Famous Annapolitans include Arctic explorer James Booth Lockwood, Debbie Meyer (winner of three Olympic swimming gold medals in Mexico City in 1968), fashion designer Christian Siriano, and novelist Barbara Kingsolver.

Answer: Augusta, GA

With a population of 195,000 (2010 census), Augusta is the third-largest city in Georgia, after Atlanta and Columbus. The city was named after the mother of King George III, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772). From 1736 until the death of her husband in 1751, she was Princess of Wales and is one of only three to hold that title who did not subsequently become the consort to the king.

Of course, Augusta is most famous as the home of the Augusta National Golf Course, the home to The Masters tournament where each hole is named after the tree or shrub that grows there. It is just after completing the pictured 10th hole on the famous course than players enter the notorious "Amen Corner", which officially encompasses the second shot on the 11th ("White Dogwood"), the par 3 12th (("Golden Bell") and the first two shots to the par 5 13th ("Azalea").

Famous Augustans include the former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, actor Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus in the "Matrix" trilogy), singer/songwriter Amy Grant, the artist Jasper Johns, Terry Gene Bollea (the professional wrestler known as 'Hulk Hogan'), and the winner of the 1987 Masters, golfer Larry Mize.