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Geography by Letter - W

Guess these geographical answers that start with the letter W.
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Last updated: June 10, 2019
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First submittedApril 26, 2013
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Capital of the United States
Washington D.C.
Cardiff is its capital
Wales
Midwestern U.S. state
Wisconsin
One of the Palestinian territories
West Bank
Capital of Poland
Warsaw
Residence of the U.S. president
White House
French territory in the South Pacific
Wallis and
Futuna
German name of Vienna
Wien
Capital of New Zealand
Wellington
Part of London home to the
Houses of Parliament
Westminster
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Famous Honolulu beach
Waikiki
Capital of Manitoba
Winnipeg
U.S. state with the lowest population
Wyoming
Where Napoleon met his final defeat
Waterloo
Most populous city in central China
Wuhan
Biggest stadium in England
Wembley
Most common Chinese last name
Wáng
French-speaking region of Belgium
Wallonia
Irish city famous for crystal
Waterford
London district and host of a
major tennis tournament
Wimbledon
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Level 64
Feb 11, 2016
Wisconsin is in the midwest? Shouldn't that be mideast?
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Level 47
May 20, 2016
As a Wisconsinite, probably, but Midwest is the term we fat Muricans use to describe the center of our country. It doesn't make any sense now that I think about it.
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Level 65
Jun 15, 2016
I think it goes back to when there wasn't much of what we now know as America further west than Dakota territory.
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Level 73
Aug 27, 2016
because in the old days, anything to the west of the Mississippi river was considered west and it just stuck
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Level 84
May 26, 2019
Yeah, just learned that. Was trying Wyoming at first. Amusing to read the Wikipedia article. "The Midwestern United States... occupies the northern central part of the United States." Of course it does. Obviously due to the history, but fun anyway :)
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Level 74
Jun 13, 2019
Same reason you'll find Northwestern University in Illinois instead of Washington or Oregon. It made sense at the time...
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Level 60
Nov 23, 2020
It pays to remember that the US was settled east to west. From Ohio to Nebraska, from Minnesota to Missouri, that is the Midwest. Lots of farms, a lot of small towns and rural areas. Especially in western areas, roads cover the whole area in a grid, besides where a town or river disrupts it.
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Level 82
Aug 28, 2016
We tried to sell Wisconsin to the Emiratis but they backed out of the deal.
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Level 75
Aug 29, 2016
They must have seen someone wearing a cheesehead hat.
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Level ∞
Jun 10, 2019
Instead Wisconsin sold itself to Foxxconn. Very good pocast about it here.
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Level 84
Jun 11, 2019
Interesting QM!
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Level 84
Jun 11, 2019
Lots of people consider Ohio to be part of the Midwest too. It's become less of a geographic distinction and more of a cultural one.
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Level 78
Nov 24, 2019
Ohio doesn't really fit anywhere. It seems too far east for the Midwest, too far west for the Mid-Atlantic, and too far north for the South. The eastern part of Ohio is like the Mid-Atlantic, the western part is like the Midwest, and the area around Cincinnati is like the Upper South.
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Level 67
Nov 24, 2019
I agree it's a cultural distinction. I always think the Midwest starts with Pittsburgh. People from Pittsburgh are much more like people from Cincinnati than they are like people from Philadelphia.
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Level 67
Apr 30, 2021
Originally from Chicago and when I moved to Pittsburgh, I was very shocked to find that they considered themselves midwest!
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Level 65
May 23, 2023
I consider Ohio to be the maximum extent. Anything further seems like a stretch, but also culturally there are a lot of similarities.
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Level 71
Apr 12, 2016
So it is believed that the names of both Wales & Wallonia come from the same word Walhaz meaning foreigner :-)
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Level 70
Aug 7, 2018
interesting!
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Level 59
Aug 4, 2020
Wallachia, too.
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Level 71
Nov 15, 2020
Also I believe the 'wall' in Cornwall has the same origin.
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Level 60
Nov 23, 2020
As someone from the Midwest, I am definitely NOT a corn foreigner. ;)
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Level 56
Aug 27, 2016
To anyone that is wondering why so many of the questions are about English-speaking countries, this is because many other languages don't even use the letter W. Among them are most European languages.
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Level 64
Mar 17, 2020
Most romance languages, Slavic languages use it
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Level 60
Nov 23, 2020
Surely Australia has got some W names.
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Level 72
Dec 12, 2022
Australia has a city named Wollongong near Sydney.
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Level 78
Feb 4, 2021
There are plenty of Ws in German.
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Level 68
Aug 27, 2016
I live in the US (currently) and even I thought this was very heavily US-skewed
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Level 63
Oct 2, 2022
Five out of twenty were US based.
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Level 43
Aug 28, 2016
I never thought of stadiums or government buildings as geography but eh
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Level 95
Aug 28, 2016
I love it when my hometown appears on a quiz :)
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Level 57
Aug 29, 2016
Why do so many people complain on this site? This site is about having fun. Yes, there are a lot of American questions on this quiz, but so what? Where does it say that the quiz is supposed to be equally representative of other parts of the world? The quizmaster is likely a Yank, so of course, it will have a lot of US-based questions. If you look at a quiz, and don't like the number of "American" questions, move on to a different one. If you want a quiz with more diverse questions, try to create one. Good luck with that!
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Level 48
Oct 12, 2018
i agree.. if you don't know anything about America, get your head out of the sand...start reading, watching TV and movies..I am Aussie and find most the questions answerable, though the US sports ones usually get me, (but most sport gets me )
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Level 66
Sep 13, 2019
I have always found that the argument; you don't like the quiz, make one yourself. Does not make any sense, taking a quiz is a completely different experience from making one, the two can't be interchanged.
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Level 67
Nov 24, 2019
Even if that's true, everything else komrad said is correct. I don't understand why people think this site needs to be some kind of representative democracy. I think QM does an admirable job mixing up the subject matter, but he and probably the majority of users are American, so the site is going to lean that way. It's like if you went to McDonald's and demanded pasta. That's not part of their menu. There are other places to go if you want that. This site does not need to be everything to everyone. I've played quizzes and trivia games where the host, in an attempt to have mass appeal, clearly wrote questions on subjects about which he himself doesn't know anything, and the questions often come across as bizarre or needlessly specific. They're not fun. You need the quiz writer to be grounded in his subject matter, or the quiz will not be good.
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Level 77
Sep 22, 2017
I thought it said New England, not England :/
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Level 37
Dec 29, 2018
got everything except white house. Can I get a round of applause
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Level 67
May 26, 2019
*clap clap*
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Level 67
May 26, 2019
12/20.
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Level 67
May 26, 2019
For Vienna I just proceeded to spell it with a W lol.
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Level 66
Sep 13, 2019
almost spelled it like in my own language, my mind went like, ow we don't need to type it as Vienna ( translate it to) this time, so Wenen, ow wait no, in german..
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Level 80
May 17, 2022
same, I was surprised that it worked
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Level 71
Jun 14, 2019
Kept typing 'Wallace'..... too much Gromit.
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Level 84
Nov 25, 2019
Fully expected a river Wye question.
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Level 52
Mar 6, 2020
I wonder how much the % correct for Wuhan has increased in the last couple of months.
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Level 79
Apr 8, 2020
Hum.
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Level 68
Apr 8, 2020
Well, it's still low at 31%.
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Level 75
Nov 15, 2020
41% ...
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Level 61
May 6, 2021
45%
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Level 83
Jul 1, 2021
47%
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Level 24
Dec 14, 2021
50%
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Level 80
May 17, 2022
51%
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Level 82
Mar 15, 2024
56%
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Level 78
Jan 26, 2021
Wuhan would (for me) have been to hardest one to answer 12 months ago. Not so now.
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Level 62
Mar 9, 2021
My my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender...
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Level 55
May 11, 2022
Just remembered waikiki because I was there 6 months ago