City to Country Quiz #5

too easy

There's also a Lagos on the south coast of Portugal.

There is another Lagos in Mexico..but no one knows that!

Got everything except for Qom and Lviv.. must have had some wires crossed because I'm sure that I guessed both Iran and Ukraine.. must have done so when the yellow box was in the wrong spot.

Got everything easily this time though Davos was a guess. Yay I'm learning.

Kudos to you and anyone else who scored 100%. I'm simply awful at world cities and capitals. From reading your past comments I suspect you've been to many of these. With the exception of Hawaii I've never been out of North America, but that's still no excuse for remaining ignorant. I need to "get with the program" and do some serious studying.

^ Don't worry, you're not the only one. I can name all the countries and am, well...kind of good at placing them geographically, but the capitals, oh man. There are so many I don't know. And of these listed here, I recognized the names of several, but missed them because I couldn't remember what country they were in, just that they were indeed familiar to me. Which is not much good, really. I sometimes avoid the cities quizzes because I suck at them so badly, but of course they actually do help.

I've been to 13/27 of these countries, almost half, but I've only been to 4 of the named cities.

... actually 5. I forgot my mom and I stayed one night at a hotel in Kawasaki last time I was in Japan.

common spelling for their football team

Ive never seen it spelt with the h

Haha same here, took me forever to get it! Never seen it spelled with the h.

I've only ever seen it as Ghent. Without the "h" we would pronounce it with a soft g, as in gentleman.

Gent in Australia is a name for a Maggot as well as short for gentleman.

I thought it looked Welsh.

Eh, 22 isn't that shabby.

So what is the proper spelling of the capital of Mongolia? I've seen it as two words, and as one word. I've seen it with consecutive 'a's and with just one. I've always spelled it is Ulaan Baator, but it's different in this quiz, and different in the capitals of the world quiz.

Well, the proper spelling wouldn't use the Latin alphabet anyway!

yeah that should be changed to " Ulaanbaatar "

A little surprised to see Qom at the bottom. I remember it mainly because it was in the news for the big earthquake they had in 2003.

Earthquake was in Bam, quite far away from Qom

feels strange to write Lhasa is in China...

Yes, I always miss it because I swear up and down that it must be in India or something. China's one of the last places I'd guess for it.

I must admit I typed Tibet before remembering the Battle of Chamdo...

Wikipedia says that it was formerly anglicized as Ulan Bator, but has been Ulaanbataar since the 40s. Just look at the article on Ulaanbaatar.

Davos is a city in the Philippines

You mean Davao City?

That was by far my best performance in this series. 23 out of 27.

2015: Got 19. 2018: Got all 27. Thanks, Jetpunk!

I have similar improvement: 20 in 2015 and 25 in 2018. The ones I didn't get are the two least guest answers. Definitely a big thanks to the quiz creators for widening my knowledge.

Ulan Bator? Thought it was Ulaanbaatar

Knew Qom thanks to an old adventure novel called 'A Girl and a Caravan'. It's strange, the places you can pick up geography facts sometimes :P

easy

A city. What else would it be?

A city in northern Syria, currently ravaged by the civil war.

Isn't he joking about Gary Johnson?

Obviously.

In May 2018? Very topical.

Fun fact: Abbottabad was where Osama Bin Laden was executed.

I think this quiz might be better with less emphasis on national capitals, which I think are more than sufficiently covered by numerous other quizzes on this site.

Yes!!! My birthplace Abbottabad is here

Why didn't you tell us where Osama was hiding?