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European Cities A-Z

Based on the clues, name these European cities starting with each letter.
If multiple cities fit the clue, guess the more prominent one
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Last updated: September 21, 2018
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First submittedJune 17, 2013
Times taken66,459
Average score69.2%
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Hint
City
A
Belgium diamond industry center
Antwerp
B
Capital of Catalonia
Barcelona
C
French film festival city
Cannes
D
City destroyed by firebomb in WWII
Dresden
E
Ruhr valley city
Essen
F
Germany's financial capital
Frankfurt
G
City closest to Africa
Gibraltar
H
Capital of Finland
Helsinki
I
Austrian Winter Olympics host
Innsbruck
J
City in Andalusia where sherry
wine originated
Jerez de la
Frontera
K
Capital of Ukraine
Kyiv
L
City devastated by an earthquake
in 1755
Lisbon
M
Oktoberfest
Munich
 
Hint
City
N
Where pizza originated
Naples
O
Second largest city in Portugal
(alternate name)
Oporto
P
Has a leaning tower
Pisa
Q
City in Brittany
Quimper
R
The Eternal City
Rome
S
Where Nobel Prizes are awarded
Stockholm
T
Capital of Estonia
Tallinn
U
Fourth biggest in the Netherlands
Utrecht
V
Third biggest in Spain
Valencia
W
City where a Communist pact
was made
Warsaw
X
City in western Germany
Xanten
Y
Major city in the Urals
Yekaterinburg
Z
Capital of Croatia
Zagreb
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Level 44
Aug 18, 2013
First comment. Yeah, baby!
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Level 27
Aug 18, 2013
This is not YouTube. Aw, never mind.
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Level 17
Dec 23, 2013
you should accept piza for pisa
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Level 70
Nov 14, 2014
i can't stop laughing
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Level 75
May 27, 2016
Thin crust or regular?
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Level 48
Jan 13, 2017
And Napoli for Naples
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Level 60
Jun 27, 2023
This one works now.
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Level 67
Jun 18, 2017
Well at least that last one's serious.
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Level 67
Jun 18, 2017
Why do I say at least? Serious is boring.
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Level 50
Aug 18, 2013
Technically, Gibraltar is a British overseas territory and not a city according to the European Union.
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Level 92
Aug 20, 2013
Yes, Gibralter is an overseas territory, but the capital city of Gibralter is Gibralter. If you want to get picky, the Spanish town of Tarifa is closer to Africa, though it's just over half the size of Gibralter, so may not be counted a 'city.'
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Level 28
Sep 27, 2014
*Gibraltar. I'm sorry, I can't help it.
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Level 92
Jul 9, 2015
Gah! I can NEVER spell that one correctly.
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Level 37
Nov 1, 2015
I always Gibraltar with an e and never get it right haha
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Level 68
Jan 8, 2017
I always too!
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Level 60
Jun 15, 2020
Ah, Gibraltar. My favorite verb.
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Level 47
Feb 22, 2022
I often Gibraltar, as well.
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Level 37
Aug 18, 2013
Good quiz. Unfortunately got only 15 out of 25. Probably would have gotten 3 or 4 more if there was a little more time..lol.
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Level 63
Aug 19, 2013
I think you can make a case for Quiberon or even Quimprele for Brittany.
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Level 67
Jun 18, 2017
I'm aware that the term city is used loosely on this site, but where I like Quiberon and would love it to be on a quiz, Quimper is an actual city.
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Level 7
Aug 20, 2013
i got them all oh yeah
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Level 72
Oct 7, 2013
Didn't know Ekaterinburg was written in latinic with Y...
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Level 58
Jan 12, 2014
It depends on the language. English uses Y, German J, French I.
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Level 77
Jul 17, 2014
And in the Latin alphabet Jehovah begins with an I...
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Level 52
Aug 24, 2017
@buck1017 Lol I get the reference
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Level 92
Jan 13, 2019
only the penitent man shall pass
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Level 75
Feb 6, 2019
Let it go, Indiana.
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Level 72
Jul 11, 2019
You mean Junior.
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Level 56
Jan 15, 2016
It's the only reasonable way. There is a "ye" sound at the beginning of the name.
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2019
No, that sound can be represented with "je" and "ie" just as well
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Level 57
Jun 20, 2022
I know it's the main way in English and I'm not complaining, but I didn't expect it either cause it starts with an E in Russian (which I know is sometimes pronounced as ye)
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Level 60
Feb 18, 2014
Man, I got all the booze themed cities.
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Level 62
Mar 9, 2014
This quiz is ridiculously similar to the World Cities A-Z quiz. Barcelona, Innsbruck, Naples, Warsaw (though not the same clue)... Surely there are some different ones you could pick?
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Level 84
Jul 10, 2014
Sounds like this complaint should be on the World Cities quiz, not this one.
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Level 24
May 25, 2014
Technically, the closest cities to Africa are Ceuta and Melilla, that belong to Spain. They're in fact in African territory, but they're spanish.
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Level 28
Sep 27, 2014
Yes, but they're not in Europe.
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Level 41
Jul 16, 2015
If you are in Africa, you cannot be close to Africa (:
+8
Level 67
Jun 18, 2017
Unless you jump.
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Level 60
Feb 6, 2019
Well, technically, southern parts of Algeciras are closer to Africa than Gibraltar, but that really isn't helping the case for an answer starting with G, is it. ;-)
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Level 57
Jan 15, 2016
You could've picked Oslo for O...
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Level 62
Mar 27, 2017
Yeah, learning new things sucks, right?
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Level 62
Jan 15, 2016
nobody knows porto as oporto
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Level 69
Feb 6, 2019
40% of the quiztakers beg to differ
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Level 57
Jun 20, 2022
did they give everyone the ability to retake the quiz and cheat except you? these percentages are rarely reliable
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Level 80
Jun 11, 2023
Retaking a quiz won’t change the stats.
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Level 60
Jun 27, 2023
I figured out Porto from the clue and it was accepted. If it wasn't, I would have added an O at the front.
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Level 75
Feb 6, 2019
I didn't know it as either.
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Level 71
Jan 15, 2016
nice quiz 26/26 3.50 left
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Level 83
Jan 15, 2016
Nobody calls Porto, Oporto.
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Level 44
Jan 15, 2016
Agreed. Never heard of Porto being called 'Oporto.'
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Level 38
Jan 15, 2016
13/26 :/
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Level 77
Jan 15, 2016
EVERY time Yekaterinburg is an answer on any quiz, I type Yekaterinaburg and get it wrong. You'd think I'd remember but I must have some kind of mental block. Guaranteed it will happen again!!
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Level 82
Jan 16, 2016
I always have trouble with that one, too. I think this time I omitted the vowel after the initial Y.
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Level 84
Dec 9, 2016
I do exactly that too. Not sure why I think that's its name.
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Level 68
Jan 8, 2017
At least you've heard of it.
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Level 69
Feb 6, 2019
i guess yekatarinENburg every time, dunno why. close but no montecristo. i know now though.
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2019
Same,must ve tried 15 differet spellings, but all, katerinA
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Level 67
Aug 4, 2020
I always type "katerineburg" first, then add the counterintuitive (for an Italian) YE
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Level 69
Jan 16, 2016
its weird that oporto is an answer, while napoli isnt even accepted as an alternative answer.
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Level 73
Feb 8, 2019
Why is that weird?
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Level 50
Oct 12, 2016
Tarifa is the southern most city, not Gibraltar
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Level 65
Jan 13, 2017
Tarifa is a town, not a city. While Gibraltar is a city.
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Level 43
Dec 21, 2016
I know Porto but not Oporto....:\
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Level 65
Jan 13, 2017
"Porto is also known as Oporto as a result of linguistic mis-interpretation, as apparently when the Portuguese referred the city of Porto, they would precede it with an article “O”, and foreign traders therefore assumed the actual name of the city was Oporto."

This is what I found on the city name of Porto above. "Oporto" seems to be quite an odd one to include when there are so many other 'O' cities to choose from, the Portuguese don't refer to the city as Oporto and now foreign people don't either, it was only called Oporto due to peoples well meaning ignorance. It should not be in this quiz at all!

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Level 37
Jan 13, 2017
I know this is an off-point and a "little" dated inquiry, but when did the capital of Monaco become Monaco? In school I was taught

that the capitol city was Monte Carlo.

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Level 60
Jun 27, 2023
Monte Carlo is a subdivision, not a city.
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Level 37
Jun 6, 2017
Curiously, you accepted Antwerp; Essen, Dresden, Cannes and Barcelona, but not Napoli?
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Level 34
Jun 17, 2017
Isn't Napoli the only one in that list that isn't also the English version of the place name?
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Level 59
Feb 6, 2019
Because those names you listed are the names of the cities in English. Napoli is not the name used in English (although I am surprised Napoli isn't accepted as an alternative).
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2019
Yea all the ones you choose are written like that in english, so I am not sure what your thoughtprocess was. Accidentally picked the opposite of what you meant?

Though besides antwerp, which is antwerpen in its own language the other ones are the same in their native language.

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Level 84
Aug 28, 2017
Oporto? Quimper? Xanten? I was doomed from the start.
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Level 39
Oct 1, 2017
This is the third time I take this quiz and the third time that I miss Quimper because I read "Great Britain" instead of "Brittany". I grew up in Brittany.
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Level 48
Jun 14, 2018
This O for Oporto is quite misleading: portuguese don't call it so neither in portuguese nor in english, and abroad it is most often referred to as Porto anyway. I have been in the city and was pretty sure it was the correct answer, but with an O in the beginning i didn't even bother to try.

I'd like to offer some alternatives:

Czech City neighbouring Poland - Ostrava

Ukraine's "Pearl of the black sea" - Odessa

Largest city on Gulf of Bothnia - Oulu

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Level 31
Feb 10, 2019
never heard of oporto but still got it right. guess work can be magic
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Level 66
Feb 6, 2019
I suppose Dresden is more prominent (or at least more well known), but Darmstadt was also pretty much destroyed by fire bombing.
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Level 65
Feb 6, 2019
I didn't even consider typing Yekaterinburg since it is on the Asian part of Russia, isn't it?
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Level 60
Jun 27, 2023
I think it's on the border.
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Level 65
Feb 6, 2019
Could you consider Anvers (French name) for Antwerp?
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2019
No because antwerp is flemish, so antwerpen could be correct, the name in dutch, which is their official language. But not anvers otherwise you should accept the arabic or polish word for it too
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Level 83
Feb 8, 2019
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo...
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Level 31
Feb 10, 2019
and the rest of them?
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Level 31
Feb 10, 2019
More people knew the capital of finland than knew where the leaning tower is. let that sink ink
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Level 84
Jun 27, 2019
1% difference between people getting a well known capital city and city well known for a tower. Doesn't seem worthy of note to me.
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Level 78
Aug 12, 2020
I have let it the hell sink in!
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Level 69
Aug 22, 2019
Got them all....but I must admit that it helps that I have been to Quimper once and that I live relatively close to Xanten...
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2019
And you drink a lot of sherry?
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Level 48
Mar 4, 2023
🤓 well actually ceuta and melilla are closer to africa than gibraltar
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Level 60
Jun 27, 2023
🤓 well actually they are in africa not europe
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Level 67
Jun 4, 2023
It's still debated if Napoli is actually the city where pizza originated. Might be Greece though.

The bigger complaint is that Yekaterinburg is in Asia, not Europe.

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Level 60
Jun 27, 2023
Yekaterinburg seems to be on the border.