Locations by Letter - E

Name these real and fictional locations that start with the letter E.
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Last updated: March 16, 2016
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First submittedMarch 24, 2014
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Description
Location
World's tallest mountain
Everest
Garden home of Adam and Eve
Eden
Country of pharaohs
Egypt
One of the Great Lakes
Erie
Former name of Tokyo
Edo
Heaven, to the ancient Greeks
Elysian Fields
This royal throne of kings,
this sceptered isle
England
Capital city of Oz
Emerald City
Mythical city of gold in
South America
El Dorado
One of the seven continents
Europe
Third rock from the sun
Earth
One of the Baltic republics
Estonia
Capital of Scotland
Edinburgh
Haile Selassie's country
Ethiopia
Simpsons' street
Evergreen Terrace
Forest moon of the Ewoks
Endor
Twice the tallest building in NYC
Empire State Building
England's most famous
boarding school
Eton
Home of the NHL's Oilers
Edmonton
South American country
Ecuador
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Level 92
Mar 28, 2014
Really enjoyed the cluing on this quiz. Twice the tallest building was nicely phrased; One of the seven continents is a nice way to prevent arguments about Eurasia, etc. One I had the hardest time with was the line from Richard 2... couldn't come up with a name starting with E for Great Britain. < / fail>
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Level 51
Apr 13, 2014
I'm somewhat disturbed that more people get "Evergreen Terrace" and "Endor" than get "England"....
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Level 84
May 24, 2014
The England one is a weird clue. Sounded like a trick question, so of course I missed one of the most obvious ones. Not hard to believe.
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Level 77
Jun 9, 2014
Not really a trick. It's a famous Shakespeare quote from Richard II.
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Level 85
Nov 29, 2016
Silly Shakespeare didn't know that England wasn't an island but shared an island with Wales and Scotland.
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Level 51
Mar 17, 2024
up to probably the latter part of the nineteenth century it was common to refer to the entire island as England
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Level 55
Nov 29, 2016
But it's still an island though, even if shared.
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Level 66
Nov 29, 2016
England is ON an island, but the island itself is Great Britain. Just like how New Guinea is an island, but Papua New Guinea is a country (thankfully the geography quizzes are very forgiving of that one though).
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Level 87
Jan 29, 2023
I never thought of England, so I missed it. I did try multiple spellings of "Eire", though...yikes!
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Level 70
Jul 14, 2016
I had no idea what the clue meant. However, I didn't get "Evergeen Terrace" or "Endor", either :(
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Level 78
Nov 29, 2016
Not everyone is familiar with obscure Shakespearian quotes.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2018
Come on, Richard II is easily Shakespeare's twentieth most popular play, at least!
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Level 80
Feb 19, 2019
The line is very well known, even the play isn't.
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Level 66
Sep 28, 2019
I would disagree, I have heard of the play, never of the line
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Level 34
Nov 2, 2021
I guessed evergreen because it sounded like a British university and england was a pure guess.
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Level 78
Nov 2, 2021
Yes, surprising more people get cultural references from the 20th century than from the 14th
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Level 69
Oct 22, 2022
Late 16th century, not 14th (the reference is to the play, not the king), and performed and quoted to this day. It's even referenced in the title of a 2022 miniseries about Boris Johnson.
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Level 75
Jun 9, 2014
I must be tired. I thought on the tall building question you were asking for some type of measurement equal to twice the height of the tallest building in NYC. I totally blanked out on any word beginning with an e connected to height. It's time for bed. (But I would have gotten it if you'd asked, "Once the tallest building in NYC," or something of that nature.)
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Level 75
Nov 29, 2016
I just took the quiz again and did the same thing, wondering what could be twice the height of the tallest building in NYC. And I'm not tired, so it's just a glitch in my brain. I was confused by the Shakespeare quote, too. That's not a glitch, that's just ignorance of Shakespeare.
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Level 71
Jun 9, 2014
*pharaohs :P
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Level 50
Jun 9, 2014
Everest is not a mountain. The mountains there are Himalayas.

I already mentioned this in many quizzes.

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Level 73
Jun 9, 2014
Then you've been a dork in many quizzes. We obviously don't parse words well enough for you.
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Level 45
Jun 9, 2014
Everest is a mountain (hence it being called Mount Everest). The Himalayas are the mountain RANGE, but Everest is a mountain. By definition a mountain is: "a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak." So yes, Everest is a mountain, and it is in the Mahalangur section of Himalayan mountain range.
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Level 68
Feb 18, 2021
I'm genuinely confused: can you explain in what way Everest should not be considered a mountain?
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Level 80
Jul 16, 2023
I really want to know what they thought Everest was if not a mountain.
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Level 51
Mar 17, 2024
Try telling that to anyone who's tried climbing it.
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Level 73
Jun 9, 2014
As a Dilbert fan, I'm disappointed "Elbonia" wasn't included.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2014
Agreed!
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Level 21
Mar 12, 2015
For the Egypt clue, you misspelled "Pharaohs"
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Level ∞
Mar 16, 2016
I seem to have trouble with that word. Fixed.
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Level 71
Apr 20, 2015
I kept trying Eldorado and gave it up........
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Level 75
Nov 2, 2016
I think it should be El Dorito. They're kind of golden colored.
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Level 37
Apr 14, 2020
The quiz doesn't require spaces between words, so Eldorado would have been accepted. It was for me.
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Level 68
Nov 29, 2016
Really struggled with the Oz clue. I kept thinking how sure I was that the capital of Oz was Canberra. After watching the clock tick for a while, it dawned on me.
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Level 91
Nov 29, 2016
Same here!!!
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Level 68
Nov 29, 2016
Erebor - the Lonely Mountain in Middle-Earth. The hobbit Bilbo Baggins and Thorin's company travelled there to reclaim the treasure stolen by Smaug. I know this as I live in Middle-Earth.
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Level 82
Nov 29, 2016
England's most famous boarding school? But Hogwarts doesn't start with an E...
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Level 72
Nov 30, 2016
Ha! Funny enough, the second Harry Potter book was the first place in which I heard/read about Eton.
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Level 58
Apr 10, 2017
Hogwarts is in Scotland
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Level 71
Jul 7, 2018
Go to Scotland and if you find it I'll eat my hat.
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Level 54
Nov 29, 2016
Anyone else get the Shakespeare quote about England because they saw the Scarlet Pimpernel? : ]
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Level 75
Sep 23, 2020
Alan Partridge :)
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Level 67
Jan 2, 2017
Easy but fun.
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Level 74
Feb 28, 2017
Not really sure the Empire State Building hint is in good taste. Otherwise a great quiz.
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Level 45
Jul 14, 2017
Big greek mythology fan, glad to see an answer involving it!
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Level 66
Oct 15, 2017
That feeling when you know what it is but you can't spell it
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Level 44
Nov 23, 2017
Love that you included Evergreen Terrace and Endor...hilarious.
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Level 71
Jul 7, 2018
Really the answer should be Page 23 of Harry Potter book. The location does not exist.
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Level 73
Jul 7, 2018
Evergreen Terrace? Harry Potter? Huh?
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Level 70
Sep 20, 2020
To be a bit nitpicky, the "third rock from the Sun" hint is quite misleading, as there are over 30 known asteroids that orbit strictly between the Sun and Earth, many of them over a kilometer in diameter.
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Level 63
Aug 22, 2021
It's a pretty well known saying, there was even a TV show called that. It's more of a nickname for Earth than a 100% scientifically accurate statement. Kind of like how Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes." Technically there are more, but "Land of 11,842 Lakes" isn't as catchy.
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Level 87
Jan 29, 2023
Strictly speaking, please name the third one.
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Level 67
Jun 10, 2021
Star Wars needs more love. Also I have no clue how I guessed Evergreen I was guessing for something else I think
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Level 71
Aug 5, 2022
Why should you not let your ewok play outside? Because the are Endor pets
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Level 87
Jan 29, 2023
This will be the primary reason I don't forget Endor in future quizzes...