Can You Name These U.S. Cities from Three Clues?


By: Isadora Teich

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This city on the shores of Lake Erie is famous for wings and being named for a smelly, hairy beast.

Buffalo is the second largest city in New York State and is the birthplace of non-dairy whipped topping, which is quite the claim to fame. They also have the world's oldest active fireboat, if you're in the market for looking at a fireboat.








If you want a delicious brisket you can cook it over this town that's also home to a rodeo and America's first air-conditioned mall!

Mesquite, Texas has a population just over 140,000 people making it one of America's 200 most populous cities and one of the top 10 named after a kind of wood. It was home to America's first air-conditioned mall, the Big Town Mall, which was torn down in 2006.








Where can you find the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and Drew Carey? In the place Forbes called "the most miserable city in America!" Name it!

Cleveland was named for Genera Moses Cleaveland who lost an "A" somewhere in the city's history. It's also home to the NFL franchise the Cleveland Browns whose team logo is the color orange which makes all the sense in Ohio.








You could have some happy days in this town with Laverne and Shirley, not to mention all the cheese and beer. What's the city?

Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and is also home to more beer than you can shake a stick at. In fact, Milwaukee had over two dozen breweries established by 1856. That's a lot of extremely old beer.








Bugs Bunny knows to not take left turns at this town which named their minor league baseball team after a Simpsons joke and is home to Demi Lovato. Name it!

Albuquerque, New Mexico is the biggest city in all of New Mexico and was named for Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque. Those other 9 Dukes probably feel pretty bad about things.








They call this casino-filled town where Ken Shamrock comes from the "Biggest Little City in the World." What is it?

Reno, Nevada is like Las Vegas lite and features not just gambling but bowling tournaments and a balloon race. It's also home to Tesla's Gigafactory where they make batteries in what is the biggest building in the world.





















































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