Tour the World and Never Leave Iowa! Quiz

Answer: Cleveland

Toledo is a twin city, connected with Tama, 50 miles east of Des Moines. Akron is a small town just off the South Dakota border. Dayton is an even smaller town near Ft. Dodge. There is no Cleveland in Iowa. Iowa also boasts a Columbus Junction.

Answer: Norway

Norway is a sparsely populated town near Cedar Rapids, IA. There are no cities named Sweden, Finland or Iceland in Iowa. There is, however, a Denmark in Iowa. Denmark is unincorporated, but it has a ZIP code.

Answer: Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg is a town in the northeast corner of Iowa. The Battle of Fredericksburg occurred in December 1862 in Virginia, with a second battle happening five months later.

Answer: Atlantic

Atlantic, IA is a substantial city in Southwest Iowa (OK, substantial for Iowa). To clarify, there is a small town, also in Southwest Iowa, called Pacific Junction. However, it is not just called Pacific.

Answer: Mt. Sinai

Mount Carmel is located in West Central Iowa. Mt. Etna is in Southwest Iowa, and Mt. Zion is in far Southeast Iowa. All are very small towns, but they are on the map, nowhere close to a mountain. The true Mt. Carmel and Mt. Zion are mountains from the Biblical regions. Mt. Etna is an active Sicilian volcano, over 10,000 feet, or over 3,100 meters high.

Answer: Prague

While none of these Iowa cities have similar populations to their equivalent European cities, they all exist in Iowa--with the exception of Prague. However, the Madrid in Iowa is locally pronounced "MAD-rid" as opposed to "ma-DRID". Paris, IA is just north of Cedar Rapids. Lisbon, IA is just east of Cedar Rapids, and Madrid, IA is about 30 miles north of Des Moines.

Answer: Raleigh

Denver, IA is just north of Waterloo in the Northeast quadrant of Iowa. Lansing, IA is on the Mississippi River in the top Southeast corner of Iowa. Additionally, Jackson, IA is in the Eastern tip of Iowa, just below Dubuque. Denver, Lansing, and Jackson are the capitals of Colorado, Michigan, and Mississippi respectively.

Other "state capitals" you can find in Iowa: Charleston, Salem, Hartford, Lincoln, and Trenton. Oh, and Des Moines.

Answer: Baltimore

Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Oakland are small towns in Iowa. No word on whether the fan bases for those three teams are higher in those towns due to the town names, but I suspect they are. Buffalo is located on the Mississippi River on the Central Eastern border. Cincinnati sits along the Missouri border. Finally, Oakland, IA sits near Omaha/Council Bluffs on the Western Iowa border.

Answer: Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a town in Eastern Iowa just off of Interstate 80. It boasts a main street lined with the flags of all 50 states, along with a few other themed flags. Its motto is the "community of flags".

Answer: Montana

Washington is near Iowa City. I hold a grudge toward the town as they knocked my alma mater out of the High School Basketball tourney when I was a junior in high school. Probably time to let that go, as it was back in 1986. Anyway, Nevada is just north of Des Moines, near Ames.

The school hosts about three trivia fund raiser events each winter. I highly recommend going. Interesting fact: Iowa pronounces it "ne-VAY-duh", unlike the state pronunciation, "ne-VAH-duh". Lastly, Wyoming, IA is just east of Cedar Rapids.