Submitted by adgo1 t3_10slars in Pennsylvania
As a hobby I make small geography quiz games. I made one about the (major) cities of Pennsylvania. You have to locate them on the map:
https://geographyquiz.app/quiz/usa-pennsylvania-cities/215
Not too difficult for you guys I guess.
Hey thanks! In the "hide answers" game mode correct and wrong answers won't be visible after a few seconds.
Didn't even notice there was a drop-down option for that lol
One suggestion I’d like to make is adding Wilkes-Barre to the quiz. A moderately sized and well known city in the state
Done, added Wilkes-Barre. Thanks for suggesting this city!
Well known for all the wrong reasons unfortunately.
Yeah, every time the area gets put in the national spotlight it’s for something bad
Wikipedia says it was featured in Capitalism: A Love Story.
I've never seen it, but it's a love story, so that must be a positive thing.
12/12. Geography was the one subject in school that I’m absolutely brilliant at.
OP, out of curiosity, how did you choose which municipalities to be included in your quiz? No offense to any redditor from New Castle, but I was a bit surprised it made the cut
Also just so you are aware, something that is interesting about Pennsylvania political geography is that none of our land can be unincorporated and that mergers and consolidations are uncommon. What happens instead is municipalities work together to offer services but do not formally merge. What this means is that you will enter a Pennsylvania city before you enter the legal city limits. Pittsburgh is a great example of this. (Note number 74: the borough of Mt. Oliver.)
But the way the US Census Bureau counts people is normally based on municipality and doesn't quite match what you would assume is part of the city. So instead we call these all of these municipalities "Suburbs" even when they function as a unit with the larger city
This resistance to consolidation and merger might be a holdover from Philadelphia's 1854 consolidation.
Edit: making it clear no land in PA can be UNincorporated
New Castle was at one point a major industrial center. Home of the hot dog and fireworks, located just across the border from Youngstown. Folks should know it not only for those but also for its historical value and as a center of a robust Amish/agricultural economy.
And now I will need to move "New Castle" up in my list of Pennsylvania cities to visit
Interesting! As always I struggle a bit which places to include in such a quiz. It is mainly by population and a few famous ones such as Gettysburg. Sometimes I have to drop a place if it is too close to other cities on the map (here e.g. Hershey and Bethlehem). Regarding New Castle no very special reason. I am open to suggestions regarding cities that need to be included.
Okay! Cool! In that case I suggest maybe Punxsutawney (some world famous eternal marmot lives here but I would hardly call it a "city'), Johnstown (the Johnstown Flood), Williamsport (Home of the Little League world series), and maybe Altoona (railroad history is big here and it is home of the Horseshoe Curve that connects Pittsburgh with Philadelphia by rail).
Done, added all the places you recommended!
To that point, I’d also suggest Chester, Bethlehem and Easton — the last two are both close to Allentown in that Lehigh Valley corridor. If we’re including just “noteworthy” or famous locations, Jim Thorpe might be worth adding as well.
(I’ll admit that while I’m not as familiar with the west of PA, I don’t think I’ve even heard of New Castle.)
Now do one with each of the 67 county seats. :-)
Ah I guess I'll skip the county seats. But I'll do one about the counties.
That sounds fun but I already know I'm gonna fail that one!
12/12. Ask me where Throop or Pringle are next time.
Thanks for creating and sharing. Your site is a goldmine for my son.
Got 8/12. Kinda know which ones are on the eastern side, just not exactly sure where I guess.
11/12 New Castle I wasn't even familiar with. Clicked places nearest Delaware only because I know of New Castle Delaware. Got it on 3rd try when I noticed the one out west that I couldn't otherwise identify.
12\12!
12/12 would play again
16/17. Swapped Johnstown and Altoona. Thanks for making this.
100%, thanks to my former job, lol. Thanks for the link to other quizzes!
11/12. Probably should have done it not at a stop light
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12/12 I’m a star
I always mix up Scranton and wilksbarre
16/17
keep getting wilkes bare and scranton mixed
Mixed up Scranton/WB and Lancaster/York.
14 of 17. Punxsutawney, and Johnstown we’re my struggles. I accidentally hit the wrong one on Lancaster.
Wanna mess with people? Add the ABE metroplex. Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton. Together over 800k people.
Well done! Gettysburg and York messed me up, as did Allentown (thought it was Wilkes Barre), but got the western part correct.
That was fun, very cool thank you!
This was so fun! Thank you for shared!
Shippensburg would be a good one!
17/17. I know all of the counties so it was pretty easy. You should probably add Bethlehem.
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This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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10/12, Lancaster really tripped me up for some reason.
You should make it such that wrong answers just blink red. Giving the correct answer makes it easy to cheat. I never would've gotten Reading correct if it hadn't shown the name when I tried to pin it as Lancaster.