Name the capital city of a US state: rare answers

“Name the capital city of a US state” has 50 accepted answers here, and 18 of them (36%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. Boston, Atlanta and Phoenix are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.

Play unlimited Krillion dives to test yourself on this prompt and others like it.

Accepted answers: 50
Category: Geography
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 18 (36%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 1 answers
First letters: 16 different; C is the most common (6)

🐙 Abyssal: 6 answers (12%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 12 answers (24%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 15 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 13 answers (26%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 4 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

6 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: Olympia, Pierre, Concord, Montpelier, Jefferson City and Augusta. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Olympia, Pierre, Concord, Montpelier, Jefferson City, Augusta

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Columbia, Lincoln, Topeka, Annapolis, Carson City, Bismarck, Charleston, Trenton, Dover, Lansing, Salem, Frankfort

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Richmond, Providence, Albany, Little Rock, Tallahassee, Baton Rouge, Hartford, Montgomery, Jackson, Saint Paul, Madison, Cheyenne, Harrisburg, Springfield, Helena

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Denver, Nashville, Honolulu, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Columbus, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe, Raleigh, Des Moines, Juneau, Boise

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Boston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Austin

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Saint Paul: St Paul

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

Prompts that share answers with this one

Name a current Major League Soccer team (2 shared, such as Nashville, Austin)
Name a city that has hosted the Olympic Games (2 shared, such as Salt Lake City, Atlanta)