Strange but true: guess the US city

Select the city in the USA which matches each description.

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This desert city has a large suburb called Surprise.

A woman from this southern city faked pregnancy to get maternity leave, by stuffing objects up her shirt.

A man bet $50,000 that there would be a pitch invader at the 2021 Super Bowl here, ran on himself, then tried to claim the winnings.

Concetta Antico, a woman from this border city, has a genetic variation which allows her to see 100 million colours.

A man was caught at this airport in 2014 trying to smuggle snakes into the country in a bag stuffed up his trousers.

The Who’s Keith Moon passed out on stage during a concert in this hippie mecca and was replaced by an audience member.

A family found 50,000 bees living behind a bedroom wall in this city, whose basketball team is called the Hornets.

In 2015, a woman from this major western city sleepwalked outdoors for nine miles, barefooot.

Artists in this New England city sneaked building materials into an unused space within a shopping mall and lived there undetected for four years.

An ex-con broke into his former lover's house in this Charlotte suburb and lived in her attic for two weeks.

In 2017 in this Irish-sounding Maryland town, SWAT teams had a standoff with an armed man who had shot at his wife after she took a bite of his cheese sandwich.

At the opening ceremony of the 1994 World Cup in this city, Diana Ross was supposed to kick a ball into the net from six yards out, but somehow missed.

The hijacker known as D.B. Cooper took off from here in 1973, before extorting $200,000 from the authorities and parachuting out of the plane with it at night.

In the early 1800s, tomatoes were put on trial in this witchy-sounding New Jersey town because they were thought to be poisonous.

This desert town saw the first bombing of the continental US, by a drunk pilot attempting to participate in a war in Mexico.

Atlanta

Charlotte

Chicago

Denver

Dundalk

Miami

Naco

Phoenix

Portland

Providence

Rock Hill

Salem

San Diego

San Francisco

Tampa

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