May I suggest to avoid things like this to happen in this kind of quizzes? Especially since in this case we have quiz #1 and quiz #2, so you can easily swap one of the two group and avoid every type-in related problem!
Good quiz. Bloody tough though. Could do with more time as quite a lot of the answers require a bit of thinking about. Two of the answers for cities with most Jewish people would never have occurred to me.
There needs to be some explanation of why there is such a big discrepancy or a link to their source since Wikipedia is generally considered the go to source for most quizzes.
The Wikipedia page is not consistent. For example, the number listed for San Francisco is the entire Bay Area. So they are using urban area, not city proper population. In that case, Haifa would have to be much more than 200,000. Somewhere near 900,000 would be accurate.
"The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Mediterranean Sea as follows: Stretching from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to the entrances to the Dardanelles..."
I think the important word there is "entrances" - Istanbul is, from that point of view, at the exit. Although to my mind it seems strange to exclude the sea of Marmara from the Mediterranean - it seems more obvious to my tiny mind to have Istanbul as the point where the Mediterranean and Black seas meet. But what do I know!
Izmir does seem to have a population of 4.3M, and is in the Mediterranean. Actually it is in the Aegean Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean, but then so is Athens. Sorry QM, this doesn't make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_Jewish_population
There needs to be some explanation of why there is such a big discrepancy or a link to their source since Wikipedia is generally considered the go to source for most quizzes.
I love these profitless arguments
"The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Mediterranean Sea as follows: Stretching from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to the entrances to the Dardanelles..."
I think the important word there is "entrances" - Istanbul is, from that point of view, at the exit. Although to my mind it seems strange to exclude the sea of Marmara from the Mediterranean - it seems more obvious to my tiny mind to have Istanbul as the point where the Mediterranean and Black seas meet. But what do I know!