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Home Cities in History Quiz #2

Can you name the cities where these famous people are/were from?
Not necessarily the city of their birth
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Last updated: August 30, 2018
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First submittedNovember 9, 2010
Times taken15,700
Average score59.1%
Rating3.79
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Person
Home City
Bill Gates
Seattle
Socrates
Athens
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York City
Muhammad
Mecca
Muhammad Ali
Louisville
Cosimo de' Medici
Florence
Barack Obama
Chicago / Honolulu
James Joyce
Dublin
Sigmund Freud
Vienna
Warren Buffet
Omaha
John Lennon
Liverpool
Person
Home City
Claude Monet
Paris
Steve Jobs
San Francisco
Michael Jackson
Gary, Indiana
Rupert Murdoch
Melbourne
The Wright Brothers
Dayton, Ohio
Archimedes
Syracuse, Sicily
Christopher Columbus
Genoa
Jackie Chan
Hong Kong
Elvis Presley
Memphis
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield, Illinois
Pope Francis
Buenos Aires
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Level ∞
Jun 2, 2013
Updated and expanded!
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Level 82
Jun 29, 2013
Challenging. Got 15, though after the answers were revealed I realized that I knew Gary, Genoa, and Springfield.
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Level 33
Jun 29, 2013
14% for Archimedes? Really? He's known as Archimedes of Syracuse. Strange.
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Level 82
Jun 29, 2013
I'd be surprised if 14% of people even knew who Archimedes was, let alone where he was from. They were probably guessing Syracuse, NY.
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Level 44
Jan 22, 2015
knew who he was but couldn't remeber where he was from, knew it was by water tho.. after all the rays of death ..
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Level 85
Dec 11, 2021
Right, because people who take quizzes of this time usually show up without any former knowledge of history or geography.

-facepalm-

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Level 73
Jun 29, 2013
Only one I missed. I've heard of Archimedes, of course, but I always thought he was Greek. I was trying every Greek city I could think of.
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Level 82
Jun 30, 2013
He was Greek. At the time, Syracuse and most of Sicily was a Greek colony.
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Level 85
Sep 9, 2015
I've known of Archimedes since childhood, but never heard him referred to as Archimedes of Syracuse. Since he was Greek, I always thought of him as Athenian, up to now.
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Level 76
Aug 27, 2014
Warren Buffett's name has two T's
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Level 56
Aug 24, 2017
Why does it show San Francisco instead of Cupertino for Steve Jobs? If Cupertino is too small, at least show San Jose because it's closer than San Francisco.
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Level 62
Oct 16, 2019
49er fans probably
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Level 69
Jun 13, 2021
alas, not a quiz for nonamericans
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Level 73
Mar 17, 2023
What a wide variety of people! I scored 19/22, thanks for the quiz!
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Level 47
Apr 8, 2024
Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, Indiana. Better you change the clue from 'The Wright Brothers' to 'Orville Wright'.