| WICHITA | Central US city on the Arkansas River |
| STLOUIS | The Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers combine just north of this central US city (2,5) |
| HUTCHINSON | City on the Arkansas River |
| PINEBLUFF | City on the Arkansas River |
| TULSA | Port city on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma (5) |
| LITTLEROCK | City on the Arkansas River |
| DODGECITY | County seat of Ford County, Kansas, on the Arkansas River, famous for its history as a wild frontier town of the Old West (5,4) |
| CLINTONLIBRARY | Project on the Arkansas River |
| OZARK | County seat on the Arkansas River |
| AUSTIN | Which US city, on the Colorado River and the railway line to San Antonio, is the capital of Texas? ( |
| SOMERVILLE | In which US city on the Mystic River is Prospect Hill Tower where General Putnam raised the first fl |
| PHILADELPHIA | US city on the Delaware river |
| ELPASO | The most populous US city on the Rio Grande |
| SIOUXCITY | US city on the Missouri River; fourth largest in Iowa |
| MEMPHIS | US city on the Mississippi |
| TAMPA | US city on the Gulf Coast |
| SEATTLE | US city on the isthmus between Lake Washington and Puget Sound (7) |
| NEWORLEANS | US city on the Mississippi, where Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 (3,7) |
| BELLEVUE | US city on the opposite side of Lake Washington from Seattle (8) |
| NEOSHO | US river rising in Kansas that joins the Arkansas River near Muskogee, Oklahoma (6) |