![]() ![]() There may be an East Coast bias at work: Cities in Arizona, California, Colorado and Texas all are named less often, on average, than you’d expect based on population, while cities in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts all outperform their population. What’s holding San Jose back? It doesn’t help that it’s so close to San Francisco, which gets nine times the number of international visitors and has more than three times the number of hotel beds (even though it has about 150,000 fewer residents). San Jose is a place where we’re quite comfortable outperforming and underbragging.” “In some ways it’s a point of pride for many of us. “It’s fair to say we don’t bat our weight in terms of marketing and reputation,” Liccardo, who is now the city’s mayor, said in a telephone interview. He got used to telling people he was from San Jose and having them ask where it was. Sam Liccardo grew up in Saratoga, a suburb of San Jose, before studying at Georgetown and Harvard. 2 San Jose ranked 42nd in Google searches. The data matched Sporcle extremely closely: The more a city is searched, the more it’s recalled on the quiz. search data since 2004 for the 100 Sporcle cities. At our request, Google’s News Lab sent over U.S. “I always miss San Jose in these quizzes!” one commenter lamented. 1 And people are more likely to remember much smaller cities, such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati. ![]() That makes it the least named city of any of the 10 most populous ones. But just two out of three remember San Jose before the allotted 12 minutes is up. ![]() About 90 percent name San Francisco and San Diego. More than 99 percent of quiz takers name New York as one of the 100 most populous cities, more than any other city. Sporcle is a leading provider of brain teasers for procrastinators: Name the 50 states in 10 minutes (a quiz taken more than 15 million times) or the 47 countries of Europe in eight minutes (taken nearly 11 million times). We know this because nearly half a million people have taken a Sporcle quiz that asks them to name the 100 most populous U.S. But San Jose, the nation’s 10th most populous city, just doesn’t jump to mind in the same way. What’s that California city again? Starts with “San,” has a million people, near the coast?Īlmost everyone can think of San Francisco or San Diego. ![]()
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