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World Capitals by a Single Clue #5

We give you one clue: can you name the world capital?
Answer must match the yellow box!
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Quiz by TenThousand
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Last updated: October 1, 2021
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First submittedJune 5, 2017
Times taken2,263
Average score40.0%
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clue
capital city
The world's highest capital
La Paz
Previously known, under white rule, as Salisbury
Harare
Winter Olympic venue and "Jerusalem of the Balkans", blockaded in a 1990s war
Sarajevo
More northerly of two capitals on Mekong River
Vientiane
More southerly of two capitals on Mekong River
Phnom Penh
Named after a religion, and founded in 1960
Islamabad
Just an hour's drive east of Vienna, and became a capital in 1993
Bratislava
North American capital, moved to here after Hurricane Hattie flattened the previous one in 1961
Belmopan
Silk Road capital that was Russian from the 1860s to the 1990s
Tashkent
Caribbean capital where cricketer Brian Lara scored a world record 400 not out
Saint John's
This Pacific capital's area is only the size of its parliament's grounds
Ngerulmud
The only non-American capital containing an X
Luxembourg
Alfonso I and his crusader knights conquered this from the Moors in 1147
Lisbon
European Union headquarters
Brussels
African Union headquarters
Addis Ababa
Spell this correctly: Sri ______________ Kotte
Jayawardenepura
Many guidebooks still list this metro area, that includes Sri Kotte, as the capital
Colombo
The only capital that contains two J's
Ljubljana
Asian capital just 100 miles north of the equator
Singapore
Home of presidents Anastasio Somoza and Daniel Ortega
Managua
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jun 5, 2017
Brian Lara's 400 not out is the only quadruple-century in international cricket history. It was his 7th and final innings for West Indies in that 2004 series against England, and his first six scores were 23, 8, 0, 0, 36 and 33. The match scorecard is here.
Arp2600
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Level 86
Nov 21, 2017
Who knows anything about cricket anyway. I just cycled through caribbean capitals until I found the good one...
TenThousand
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Level 76
Dec 12, 2017
You do, now :) A wee bit anyway...
Yamaneko
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Level 73
Sep 26, 2020
I remember the crowd chanting "No whitewash in Antigua" during the legendary performance.
Djilas
+1
Level 82
Jun 7, 2017
Bruxelles also contains an X :)
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jun 7, 2017
Which is why the clue is different on the French version of this quiz!
Yamaneko
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Level 73
Sep 26, 2020
Why did you scratch the Brian Lara clue for the French version by the way? That's a great one.
TenThousand
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Level 76
Sep 26, 2020
Cricket isn't big in France (actually it's microscopic)
tshalla
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Level 75
Dec 29, 2020
And it was the second last West Indian one I tried. I even tried Georgetown (which is West Indian, but not Caribbean). Frank Worrell is (was?) on one of the Barbadian banknotes. I imagine there must be other countries that have had athletes on bills or coins, but it's the only one I can think of. (Of course, even if he's the only one, that has nothing particular to do with the capital and thus wouldn't make a good question.)
Arp2600
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Level 86
Nov 21, 2017
The Belgian pronounce it correctly as two s though, I mean the Belgian who are not stupidly mimicking the awful, misguided pronounciation of the French.
Yamaneko
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Level 73
Sep 26, 2020
Which is even more awful considering French people have no problem pronouncing Auxerre the same, good way. And make fun of people not knowing how to pronounce Metz as well.
jeepy
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Level 66
Nov 7, 2017
Wrote jayawardenapura...
Arp2600
+1
Level 86
Nov 21, 2017
That's how I know it, but it seems it's "...denepura" in English. What a lame question, if the quiz was not as hard as it is, this would still be a good reason no to feature it.
benzeller
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Level 65
Nov 21, 2017
"jay" "award" "ene" "pura" is how I remember
Tramp
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Level 76
Nov 21, 2017
"14/20 huh? Should be easy"

Damn. 10/20. Should've been 11, but I somehow skipped the Brussels question.

tourwoorden
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Level 70
Nov 21, 2017
I equalled the Quizmaster's score and my day can't get any better. Didn't have enough time to think about Ljubljana...
preproman
+1
Level 69
Nov 21, 2017
20/20. I was very lucky getting the cricket related answer in just a few tries, that was the only one I totally had no idea. How is it possible it's not even the less guessed answer???
QRU
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Level 74
Nov 21, 2017
15/20.

I suppose, I am the new Quizmaster now.

MasterChef
+1
Level 65
Nov 21, 2017
Not so fast... 16/20
tailsfan11
+1
Level 48
Nov 21, 2017
Not so fast yourself... 20/20
chaddo
+1
Level 43
Nov 21, 2017
14/20. very hard quiz
MasterChef
+1
Level 65
Nov 21, 2017
16/20 first try, should have know a few more though lol
mahble
+1
Level 77
Nov 21, 2017
14/20 first try... Wow that was tough!
vitriden
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Level 81
Nov 22, 2017
Since 1924, Tashkent was a part of Uzbek SSR, and not of Russian SFSR. Both of them were parts of Soviet Union, but that definitely didn't make Tashkent "Russian".
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Nov 22, 2017
Not very hard. I beat Quizmaster by 4. Guessed on Belmopan and Saint John's but they weren't hard to guess given the clues. Made no attempt at Jaya-whatever. Ran out of time before I could think of Ljubljana.
Djilas
+1
Level 82
Dec 7, 2017
Guess where I was when I almost missed Ljubljana :)
QuizWol
+1
Level 59
Nov 20, 2019
Spent too long trying to spell things. Grrr
Kesa1979
+1
Level 91
Nov 27, 2020
Difficult. 9/20.
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