Obscure U.S. City Trivia

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Obscure may not be the right word…but whatever.

Can you name any of the major U.S. cities being referred to below? (Hint: 3 are in California, with one each in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, and Ohio).

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  1. Among the several unusual laws still on the books in this city is one that offers special protection for men from the “erratic and mischievous behaviors of an especially jealous wife”.

  2. Held at this city’s convention center since 1983, the annual Unoriginal Sin Festival allows participants to enjoy tea, cookies and “clean jokes only”.

  3. The mayor of this city once jokingly proposed charging New York Knicks center Patrick Ewing “a dunking fee and a blocking tax” for all the trouble he had caused that city’s own NBA team.

  4. Visitors to this city can go to a Little League ball field named for the brother of a former Prime Minister of East Timor.

  5. Visitors to this city can go to a Little League ball field named for the sister of Dodger great Sandy Koufax.

  6. Madonna, Lou Reed and Elvis Costello have each appeared at this city’s Boll Weevil Fair and Cotton-pickin’ Celebration.

  7. Cartoonist R. Crumb claims to have spent two weeks clipping toe nails while reading Sad Sack and Krazy Kat comics at a seedy motel in this city because “there was nothing else to do there.”

  8. This city, home to the e. e. cummings poetry center and the annual Beauregard Yam Festival, purportedly also contains the world’s largest collection of My Little Pony dolls.

  9. A former U.S. vice-president once played shortstop for Mark Twain High School in this city.

  10. Milford Goggins, age 88, is still (after over 30 years of service) the anchor of the 6-oclock evening news for one local TV station in this city.

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More of this special type of …er…“trivia”— this time regarding a U.S. city in the south, and another in the west.

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  1. This “City by the Sea” requires combination locks on all city hall doors.

  2. Visitors to this city may go to a Little League ball field supposedly under a curse by “the water witch of the bay”.

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(Feel free to add your own U.S. city “trivia” along the same theme…)

How about a couple of midwestern cities…

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  1. A six-legged wild boar named Charles and blind wildebeest named Anne are two animals in this city’s zoo.

  2. Though, according to polls published just yesterday, many residents prefer a Red Delicious, the MacIntosh apple is this city’s official fruit.

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Do we have to do this from memory or can we search?

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A search is quite okay. However, I don’t recommend using the internet. There are still some things you can’t find with Google.