Jerusalem (~880k going from Wikipedia) is more populous than Tel Aviv (~430k, also from Wiki), so the clue for Tel Aviv should say "second most populous city".
If you're going by nominal city population, then you are correct. But Tel Aviv has a much greater metropolitan population (~3.85M) than Jerusalem (~1.25M).
This might have the ring of truthiness but it's not actually true. Palestine, both the historical geographical region and the amorphous poorly defined non-sovereign quasi-state are mentioned on this site routinely.
"even the UN?" It's not as if the UN has an especially high bar for recognizing sovereignty. Western Sahara doesn't have a seat at the UN (same as Taiwan) for the same reason that Palestine has observer status and the same reason for every other thing the UN does or doesn't do: politics.
City near Chattanooga: South Pittsburg. The town had an iron industry and was named for Pittsburgh, PA, but they dropped the h. (There's a Lodge outlet there that we often visit when in the area.)
Pittsburgh and East Pittsburgh get an h, West Pittsburg which is northwest of Pittsburgh by a county or so doesn't. Though honestly any Pittsburgh without an h looks wrong.
To be more forgiving of incorrect spelling. The only way to remedy this without giving up this that I can think of would be to require users to press "enter" whenever they thought they had an answer, which would add on average 20-30 additional keystrokes per quiz, plus a few more if you type in several wrong answers.
I've thought about this before and I think it would be interesting because another thing that this would do is make it possible to collect data on most common wrong answers.
Should Istanbul really be considered a Middle Eastern city, considering that much of it lies in Europe? I know some definitions of "Middle East" include all of Turkey, but others only include Anatolia, so at the very least Istanbul's status would probably fall into a grey area.
(I personally consider only Anatolia to be in the Middle East, but that's beside the point)
From Wikipedia: The Middle East (Arabic: الشرق الأوسط: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Socotra Archipelago (a part of Yemen). The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East beginning in the early 20th century. The term "Middle East" has led to some confusion over its changing definitions, and has been viewed by some to be discriminatory or too Eurocentric. The region includes the vast majority of the territories included in the closely associated definition of Western Asia (including Iran), but without the South Caucasus, and additionally includes all of Egypt (not just the Sinai Region) and all of Turkey (not just the part barring East Thrace). So, yes, all of Istanbul is in ME.
Alexandretta was also named for Alexander.
I've thought about this before and I think it would be interesting because another thing that this would do is make it possible to collect data on most common wrong answers.
(I personally consider only Anatolia to be in the Middle East, but that's beside the point)
I've always thought Anatolia was the Near East.
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