Statistics for World Cities General Knowledge

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Hint	#	Answer	% Correct
Was once named Constantinople	I	Istanbul	82%
Oktoberfest takes place here	M	Munich	79%
Has Africa’s only subway	C	Cairo	78%
The Petronas Towers are here	K	Kuala Lumpur	78%
Harrod’s, a store in this city, sold cocaine to shoppers until 1916	L	London	78%
Has the world’s busiest airport	A	Atlanta	70%
The most populous city in the world	T	Tokyo	69%
The ballpoint pen was invented in this South American capital	B	Buenos Aires	67%
Foreigners make up 85% of the population	D	Dubai	67%
Most ethnically diverse city in the world	N	New York	67%
The first skyscraper in the world was built here	C	Chicago	61%
The oldest French-speaking city in North America	Q	Quebec	57%
This city's name means River of January in Portuguese	R	Rio de Janeiro	57%
Was the capital of the Muslim world for 500 years	B	Baghdad	54%
Has the world’s tallest unoccupied building, the Ryugyong Hotel	P	Pyongyang	54%
The first Asian city colonised by a western country (Portugal)	M	Macau	52%
Was Japan’s capital for over a thousand years	K	Kyoto	51%
The highest capital city	L	La Paz	46%
Home to the world's oldest zoo founded in 1752	V	Vienna	36%
The popular energy drink, Red Bull, was created here	B	Bangkok	24%
The southernmost city in the world	U	Ushuaia	24%
Has the world’s largest medical center	H	Houston	22%
This capital city is sinking at a rate of 10cm per year – 10 times faster than Venice	M	Mexico City	10%
The lowest city in the world	J	Jericho	4%