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Geography by Letter - C

Guess these geographical answers that start with the letter C.
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Last updated: September 21, 2018
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First submittedApril 26, 2013
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Capital of Denmark
Copenhagen
World's biggest inland sea
Caspian Sea
Capital of Wales
Cardiff
Obama's hometown
Chicago
India's most popular sport
Cricket
Island of the Minoan Civilization
Crete
Country in the Balkans
Croatia
Island where Napoleon was born
Corsica
Southern Chinese dialect
Cantonese
Major city in Alberta
Calgary
French city closest to Britain
Calais
Island divided between
Turkish and Greek factions
Cyprus
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Former name of Kolkata
Calcutta
Louisiana ethnic group of Acadian French
Cajuns
Country where Khmer is the official language
Cambodia
Most populous Native American tribe
Cherokee
Peninsula that juts into the Black Sea,
seized by Russia
Crimea
Ancient city near modern-day Tunis
Carthage
Most populous city in northern Africa
Cairo
City near the southern tip of Africa
Cape Town
City on the Riviera with a famous film festival
Cannes
The Christian community of Egypt
Copts
River that flows through the Grand Canyon
Colorado
Resort city on the Yucatan peninsula
Cancun
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Level 82
Jun 26, 2013
I couldn't think of any cities in Kenya that started with C.

Also, my Egyptian co-workers would like me to point out that technically all people native to Egypt are Copts, not just Christians. Even though the term is rarely applied to Muslims or other non-Christians, it could be, at least according to them. Christians in Egypt are called Coptic Christians to differentiate them from Christians outside of Egypt.

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Level 32
Dec 5, 2015
Aren't Christianity and Islam two different religions?
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Level 82
Sep 11, 2017
sort of
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Level 57
Feb 17, 2024
they definitely are
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Level 24
Apr 8, 2017
It's NOT a city in Kenya, anyway.
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Level 43
Jul 6, 2019
Haha nice
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Level 57
May 25, 2022
the part about copts is wrong
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Level 82
Aug 15, 2022
If I see any of the many Egyptians who told me this I'll let them know that you said so.
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Level 75
Jun 26, 2013
Only missed Copts, which I've never heard of.
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Level 65
Jun 21, 2019
It is cops with tea.
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Level 45
Jun 26, 2013
I spent most of my time trying to figure out how I was mispelling "Creole". Turns out I wasn't. It should totally have been accepted; it is the name of a French ethnic group in Louisiana.
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Level ∞
Jul 1, 2013
Changed the clue to include the word Acadian, so that Cajun is the only correct answer not just the best answer.
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Level 52
May 10, 2014
Cajun refers specifically to French Arcadians living in Louisiana while Creole could refer to numerous other groups
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Level 65
Jun 21, 2019
Same
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Level 66
Oct 7, 2021
I did the same exact thing!
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Level 41
Apr 17, 2023
i was so convinced it was creole i didn't even think of cajun lol i just kept trying to spell creole in different ways
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Level 68
Jun 26, 2013
I thought hometown is where someone is born. I kept trying to remember a city in Hawaii that begins with C
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Level 82
Jun 26, 2013
I think of hometown more as the place where you grew up. I was born in Merrifield but that's definitely not my hometown. I would say Centreville is, because that's where I was during my "formative years," from age 7-19, and then again from 22-25. I spent the first seven years of my life mostly in Manassas, but that doesn't really feel like home to me. and now my family all lives out in Haymarket.. there's nothing left (of my home) in Centreville. But I myself live in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Sometimes home can be hard to define. It means different things to different people.

btw Obama was born in Honolulu.

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Level 59
Jun 26, 2013
The question was still not clear enough I suggest changing it. Great quiz though:)
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Level 69
Jun 20, 2016
This is the damndest thing. I live in Centreville!
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Level 67
Dec 27, 2016
I did make the same mistake.
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Level 67
Jun 26, 2013
I agree, and I live in Chicago. I don't think he even lived here until after college. He was in Hawaii, then Columbia University in NY for college, then I think he was a community organizer in Chicago for a few years before he went off to Harvard, and came back to Chicago after law school. In any case, "hometown" doesn't feel accurate. If you're looking for "Chicago" as an answer, there are about a million clearer clues from which to choose.
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Level 82
Jun 27, 2013
It's where he made his home. I'm sure if you ask him he does not consider Kansas, New York, Indonesia, or Washington his home. Maybe Hawaii, but I doubt it. Chicago is probably the best answer. and of course... if anyone says Kenya and is serious... ::groan::
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2019
Having lived here for another six years since making this comment, I suppose I am starting to come around. Chicago is where Obama has the deepest roots, even if he came here in his 20's. Also I'm super into Chicago and super into Obama, so I'm all too happy for the city to claim him as its own.
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Level 31
Jan 12, 2014
Question definitely requires rewording. His hometown is Honolulu. Maybe: Obama's former political seat?
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Level 53
Jan 4, 2020
7 years later and the clue for Chicago still hasn't changed...
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Level ∞
Jan 4, 2020
Nor will it.
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Level 26
Dec 27, 2020
Well you are definitely making a mistake considering the definition of "Hometown" according to the Oxford Dictionary is "the town of one's birth or early life or of one's present fixed residence." The Obama's currently own a home in Washington DC and in Massachusetts. This clue does not make sense at all, sorry Quizmaster.
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Level 72
Apr 26, 2022
I mean, how do you want the question worded? The quiz is about geography beginning with the letter C, so it obviously isn’t Washington, Honolulu etc. I’m not from the US but answered the question with barely a thought. I’m fairly certain that everyone commenting about the definition of ‘hometown’ knows this, but just desperately need strangers to know how very clever they are. Besides which, they’d have to add about 10 mins to each quiz to give everyone enough time to read the questions if they applied such stringent exactitude to the formulation of each question.

I wonder if quizmaster would consider making a general knowledge/vocabulary quiz on the letter ‘P’ with the first question as follows: “Give a word for a person who has the the quality of being too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important?” And a second: “Name a word with the the following definition: “ the quality of being too serious and showing that you think you are very important:””

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Level 92
Jun 26, 2013
What's your source for the Cherokee being the largest tribe? Everywhere I look lists the Navajo as 9-10% larger. Most numbers have Cherokee around 285k, but Navajo around 310k.
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Level ∞
Jul 31, 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
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Level 52
Jun 27, 2013
Could "Creole" be an acceptable answer for a French ethnic group in Louisiana? Or is that wrong?
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Level 82
Jun 27, 2013
not exactly. Creoles can be French, Spanish, African... but the Cajuns are all descendants of French-speaking Acadians.
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Level 53
Jun 27, 2013
Creole only applies to the language, not the people. Creole just meaning a language which has formed from two other languages merging for one reason or another, if you're interested.
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Level 82
Jun 30, 2013
you sure about that, robbie?
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Level 53
Jun 30, 2013
nope
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Level 78
Jan 15, 2021
A creole is more of a developed pidgin language - one which has developed into a systematically logical language - one which is generally inherited or acquired by children as their own native language. I've read the works of the linguistics and Ebonics professor John McWhorter extensively, and listened to his lectures. They are very enlightening on the subjects of pidgins and creoles; how they come into being, and how they develop into complex languages.
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Level 37
Aug 13, 2014
Crimea's not exactly Ukrainian anymore.
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Level ∞
Jul 31, 2015
The clue has been updated.
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Level 37
Aug 14, 2014
As for the world's biggest inland sea, I would say that's the Mediterranean. It used to be a vast desert until the strait of Gibraltar finally wore down enough to let the ocean in. Did you know it filled in less than a year?
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Level 71
Dec 5, 2015
I believe the erosion of the Gibraltar strait started with just a trickle of a stream which lasted for thousand or more years before a major breakthrough formed the Gibraltar Falls which then filled the remaining 90% to form the Med. as we know it in a year or so.
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Level 67
Dec 27, 2016
You've just explained in your own comment why it's not a sea.
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Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
It is a sea - it's not inland
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Level 90
Nov 1, 2014
What about adding Cozemul? It is another resort city on the Yucatan Peninsula that starts with "C."
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Level 59
Jun 21, 2015
It's not on the peninsula, it's an island.
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Level 71
Feb 12, 2024
You mean Cozumel?
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Level 54
Oct 6, 2015
Croatia isn't in the Balkans, I don't think
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Level 56
Oct 27, 2015
You need a new atlas!
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Level 53
Nov 25, 2015
The Navajo tribe is the largest NOT Cherokee!
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Level 57
Dec 5, 2015
Definitions & meaning are key to this. The 2010 U.S. Census shows 286,700 Navajo & 284,200 Cherokee reported as single-tribe, American Indian only. However, broadening out to include people of two or more tribes, there were 300,500 Cherokee & 295,000 Navajo. And if you include people of mixed Native American & other race heritage, Cherokee total 819,100 whilst Navajo are just 332,100. To confuse the answer even further, 693,700 full-blooded Native Americans failed to specify their tribe! Bottom line - too confusing to call between Cherokee & Navajo - insert new question!
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Level 72
Apr 26, 2022
Or maybe just give the answer that begins with C? Seems a simpler fix.
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Level 82
Dec 5, 2015
resort cities... hm... cozumel? cabo? curacao? popular letter for resort cities to begin with...
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Level 91
Dec 5, 2015
Cantonese is not a dialect of Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese are two different languages, although both languages could be referred to as Chinese it would be more correct to say the southern (or Guangdong) Chinese language or similar
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Level 82
Apr 27, 2016
Agree. Many European languages have far more in common with each other than Cantonese and Mandarin. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are vastly more similar than Cantonese and Mandarin.
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Level 92
Sep 20, 2016
As a speaker of both, I'll assure you that you are wrong. Cantonese and Mandarin share the same syntax and grammar, a shared lexicon, and a very similar morphology and phonology. Yes, the same word often is pronounced differently, but the similarities are obvious, and in most cases knowing a few general trends makes it easy to guess what the word will be in one if you know the other. They, along with Wu, Min, etc. are properly dialects of the same language.
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Level 56
Dec 5, 2015
"Largest Native American tribe" I tried Quechua and Aymara, which are clearly larger than any tribe in the USA.
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Level 82
Jul 31, 2016
But they aren't tribes, nor do they start with 'C'.
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Level 25
Dec 8, 2015
As a Chicagoan I find it insulting to call Chicago hometown to people like Obama and Kanye west they were not born or raised in Chicago so therefore not from chicago
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Level 83
Feb 23, 2016
I would call the town in which I live at present my home town, even though I spent the first three years of my life elsewhere, and wasn't born here. It's more a question of what the individual would call his hometown, not what others from that place might think.
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Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
Being insulted by that is ridiculous. Grow up
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Level 72
Apr 26, 2022
Seconded
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Level 74
Jul 30, 2016
Would appreciate it if Carthago is acceptable to Carthage as well. (It even works on wikipedia, which seems to be our reference for everything) Thanks!
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Level 72
Feb 24, 2017
Got them all bar Chicago. I'm another who was thrown slightly by the wording, I assumed you wanted a city in Hawaii, I didn't know any.
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Level 74
Feb 26, 2017
Thank you Scarlet Pimpernel for giving me Calais.
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Level 37
Mar 7, 2017
Former President Obama could have been born on the Moon; the fact that his mother was a native of the United States makes him an AMERICAN... punto final.
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Level 78
Feb 17, 2019
Yes, but to be eligible for presidency Obama would need to have been born in the United States (which is the case, obviously).
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Level 89
Feb 18, 2019
But even if you weren’t born in the US, if one of your parents were and you denounce your birth country’s citizenship, you can still run. That’s what Ted Cruz did.
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Level 56
Jun 11, 2022
You can be born outside of USA to American citizen parents and be classified native-born American, as is the case with all foreign service, Peace Corps, military, etc. In most countries such a newborn would not be considered a citizen of that country and therefore no citizenship would have to be renounced.
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Level 90
Apr 20, 2017
Depending on how you want to classify the Chippewas, Cree could also be the answer for the largest North American tribe. Roughly 110k Cree/Chippawas in the US and 200k in Canada. Nonetheless considering the category one of the two is correct and anyone with a basic knowledge would get it.

That being said, the question probably should either be rewritten or better replaced. Since it's all of North America the answer is either Aztec or Maya. Even if you limit to the US, there are probably enough "mixed" Hispanics in the the US that Aztec or Maya still would be the correct answer.

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Level 37
Apr 20, 2017
Creole is a language derivative of French (like Patois in Haiti and some other Caribbean countries). The ethnicities are: Cajun (specifically French ethnic group) and more specifically: Mulattos, Octoroons, Quadroons, etc. (depending on the percentage of African Blood you inherited). Of course, none of this is really applicable to the United States where even a smidgen of African

blood make you Black (that is, if you tell them).

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Level 72
Apr 26, 2022
Nope, this is wrong on a number of levels. There are Creole Peoples and Creole languages, which are defined here: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Creole

And Creole languages are not necessarily French based, they can be based on the language of any coloniser, such as Berbice Dutch Creole (Guyana), Leeward Caribbean English Creole (Antigua and Barbuda), or Cafundo Creole (Brazil, Portuguese based).

And ‘mulatto’ is not an ethnicity. At best it can be described as a racial classification, but a very offensive and pejorative one describing people of mixed ethnicity, usually referring to a person with one parent of the colonising power’s ethnicity, and the other being of any ethnicity in the colonised country. Therefore two ‘mulattos’ living in the same country could have two completely different ethnic heritages but are grouped under the same term, for no other purpose than labelling them as “not properly one of us.”

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Level 68
Jun 6, 2017
Only missed Cannes
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Level 18
Nov 11, 2018
How did I not think of Cyprus?
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Level 45
Jan 23, 2019
There's a sport called cricket? I thought that was an insect. I'm only 7
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Level 79
Feb 17, 2019
There's a whole world waiting to be discovered outside of the United States too.
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Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
Think along the lines of a slightly less boring version of baseball
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Level 83
Feb 15, 2024
I'd say rounders was the more exciting baseball but cricket's pretty similar. Just in 2D instead of 3D.
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Level 73
Feb 18, 2019
People getting upset about the Black Sea clue, saying it's a delta rather than a peninsula: Crimea river.
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Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
No one mentioned anything about that
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2019
Xarnac just really wanted to set up his wordplay.
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Level 73
Feb 18, 2019
my geography joke falling flat on a geography quiz? must've been too plain.
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Level 75
Feb 22, 2019
Yep sorry - me being dim!

At least I got the flat plain one...

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Level 43
Mar 7, 2019
I spent too much time trying to think of cities in Hawaii that began with C, that clue is confusing.
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Level 37
Apr 6, 2019
Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and yet, is identified with Illinois. Why is it so difficult to accept that Barack Obama (born in Hawaii) chooses to be identified with Illinois?
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Level 59
Sep 4, 2020
I got the Obama/Chicago one almost instantly and thought "How many people are going to say 'Obama was born in Hawaii' in the comments?"

Answer: Quite a few

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Level 56
Jun 25, 2022
Because he was, idc about where he chooses he's from, he was born on Hawaiian soil
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Level 36
Apr 9, 2021
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Level 65
Feb 13, 2024
JetPunk arg???!!!
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Level 67
Oct 16, 2021
You mean, "EUROPEAN Island split between Greek and Turkish factions."
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Level 65
Feb 13, 2024
why, spencer? WHY?!