For all 6 permanently inhabited continents, can you name the largest city for every letter of the English alphabet? A map is provided for your help! Once a city is guessed, it will disappear from the map.
By reading the Wikipedia entry on Xanthippe, Socrates' wife (who is said to have dumped a chamber pot over his head in a fit of rage, lol), then reading how there's a town in Australia named after her. That's how I knew, anyway. Quite the memorable namesake if you remember how to spell it.
Everything is fine for me unless you mean after you have guessed those 2 cities, they don't appear. If that's the case, it's intentional, mostly because there's a mess of cities on the map, and removing the ones which are guessed makes the map cleaner. It's also mentioned in the instructions.
Also, the correct word for your comment is "accepted" and not "expected". :)
Even as an Australian/Kiwi, Oceania was brutal. Managed to finish Asia and Europe only which was about as good as I could have hoped for.
It's probably just me, but I found distinguishing the colours quite hard. I think the yellow backgrounds makes it hard to see the colours as they actually are...maybe it would be easier if the dot outlines were white rather than black? Just a thought.
Ha true! Not only Oceania, but other continents also have multiple absurd cities. And being honest, knowing a random town in the middle of Australia with a population of 20 won't change one's life in any way or make thier knowledge about Australia better. About a quater of cities in this quiz probably don't matter for the person who is taking the quiz, but when I said EVERY Letter for EVERY Continent, I meant it, I didn't wanted to clickbait :)
When it comes to cities with yellow dot, the shade of yellow in quiz is comparatively pretty brighter to that of countries, and once you have named a good amount of cities and only about half of cities are left on map, they are easier to notice. For a white stroke for dots, both countries and water bodies have a lighter shade of thier respective colors, which means white would blend better making the dots a bit harder to notice. Thanks for your feedback :)
I enjoyed the quiz quite a lot, but I also have some problems with the colors. The main issue is that I have to constantly scroll up and down to compare dots to color boxes and the similar nuances make it even harder.
Is it possible to add info to the dots, so when I hover with the mouse over one, it shows me the letter it stands for? E.g. like in the Countries of the world quiz (and not only), where you see the name of the countries you've already got in the bottom left corner when you go with the mouse over them.
That is an amazing idea, but sadly it isn't possible with the way hovering over countries in Countries of the World quiz work. It shows you the name of country in bottom left only after you have guessed the country, so to see the letter from which a city start, you would have to guess it first, which doesn't makes sense...
I mean it positively. If someone says their city has 10,000 people I think "That's not really a city is it?". However, if they say their city has 0.01 million people, I'll think "That's basically Manhattan right? What's it like to live in a place of such importance?"
A webpage[LINK] from the same website which is directly accessible from thier front page, Barcelona- 4.72 mil; Berlin- 4.22 mil.
The population figured you gave were of city proper, but like almost every other *featured* quiz here, this quiz uses urban area. That webpage only contains population of cities over 1 mil, so for smaller cities, I had to dig deeper into site, like individual country pages.
It is just odd when you cite a source and then redefine its content/notation. But really: I don't want to open that barrel. Just ignore my comment. :-)
Fair enough. Other sources I've seen definitely show that as being just Edinburgh proper and the metro closer to 1million, but you cite your source and I know how notoriously complicated estimating populations is. Fun idea for a quiz (and I didn't do so hot! Although I did figure out Essen).
There's no such problem for me. My best guess is that due to another city just north of Maputo, you thought that the other city was representing Maputo after you guessed it, and hence it didn't disappeared. Please try again and tell me if the issue is still there :)
Quoting from wikipedia, "Hawaii comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 volcanic islands spanning 1,500 miles (2,400 km) that are physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania."
I used to live in Echuca, a small country town. There's no way it would have occurred to me as the largest city in Oceania starting with E, or, for that matter, as the largest anything other than maybe hole in the ground.
I had two left for North America: "U" and "Z". Somehow I pulled "Uruapan" from the far reaches of my brain, and then, aha!... "Zacatecas". Nope... "Zamora", whose existence had heretofore escaped me. (I checked... it's larger than Zacatecas.)
If only it had been city proper... I'da zapped 'em with "Zapopan". :)
When I scrolled through the stats I saw Zamora and thought no way is Zamora bigger than Zurich (plus I couldn't remember seeing a dot there). Then I realized there's another Zamora... in Mexico!
Some omissions though - e.g. wellington is by far the largest W in Oceania
Also, the correct word for your comment is "accepted" and not "expected". :)
It's probably just me, but I found distinguishing the colours quite hard. I think the yellow backgrounds makes it hard to see the colours as they actually are...maybe it would be easier if the dot outlines were white rather than black? Just a thought.
When it comes to cities with yellow dot, the shade of yellow in quiz is comparatively pretty brighter to that of countries, and once you have named a good amount of cities and only about half of cities are left on map, they are easier to notice. For a white stroke for dots, both countries and water bodies have a lighter shade of thier respective colors, which means white would blend better making the dots a bit harder to notice. Thanks for your feedback :)
Is it possible to add info to the dots, so when I hover with the mouse over one, it shows me the letter it stands for? E.g. like in the Countries of the world quiz (and not only), where you see the name of the countries you've already got in the bottom left corner when you go with the mouse over them.
The population figured you gave were of city proper, but like almost every other *featured* quiz here, this quiz uses urban area. That webpage only contains population of cities over 1 mil, so for smaller cities, I had to dig deeper into site, like individual country pages.
It is just odd when you cite a source and then redefine its content/notation. But really: I don't want to open that barrel. Just ignore my comment. :-)
Rio : Already in the quiz
Buenos Aires > Belo Horizonte
London > Lisbon
Moscow > Milan
Me speak no spaghetti...Jokes aside, the city that you mentioned is clearly a part of Cagliari's urban area, so it's excluded.
I live near there
In Clovis, actually
:)
But it's not well known, and Clovis gets associated with the one in New Mexico sometimes
:(
Fun quiz, a real brain workout - thanks!
Thanks!
I had two left for North America: "U" and "Z". Somehow I pulled "Uruapan" from the far reaches of my brain, and then, aha!... "Zacatecas". Nope... "Zamora", whose existence had heretofore escaped me. (I checked... it's larger than Zacatecas.)
If only it had been city proper... I'da zapped 'em with "Zapopan". :)
When I scrolled through the stats I saw Zamora and thought no way is Zamora bigger than Zurich (plus I couldn't remember seeing a dot there). Then I realized there's another Zamora... in Mexico!