Never, ever, unfairly challenge their power of imagination with a one-word answer.
Learn something engaging facts (history, geography, business tatistics/ few fun facts) about your hometown that conversational partners can comment on. Then, when they say something clever in response to your bait, they think you're a great conversationalist.
Talking with a businessperson:
I'm from Columbus, Ohio, You know many major corporation do their product testing in Columbus because it's so comercially typical.
Talking with an American:
Tell him that Columbus was, indeed, named after Christopher Columbus and that ......
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