Statistics for World Capitals by a Single Clue #5

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Country	Clue	Capital City	% Correct
Seychelles	Named for a British queen	Victoria	89%
Kuwait	Captured by Iraqi forces in 1990	Kuwait City	87%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914	Sarajevo	85%
Bangladesh	The largest Bengali-speaking city in the world	Dhaka	82%
Romania	It first became a capital in 1459 under Vlad the Impaler	Bucharest	77%
Kenya	Where Barack Obama's father died in 1982	Nairobi	76%
Senegal	Westernmost city on the mainland of Africa	Dakar	75%
Belarus	Spelled Мінск in its native language	Minsk	74%
Luxembourg	Along with Brussels and Strasbourg, it is one of three capitals of the EU	Luxembourg	71%
Kazakhstan	Known as Nur-Sultan from 2019–2022	Astana	70%
Afghanistan	Located in a valley of the Hindu Kush mountain range	Kabul	70%
Libya	Its name reflects its origin as three different cities or, in Greek, "poli"	Tripoli	69%
Cuba	Home to the Tropicana nightclub	Havana	67%
Trinidad and Tobago	Founded by Spain in 1560 with the name "Puerto España"	Port-of-Spain	65%
Switzerland	Where Albert Einstein worked as a patent examiner	Bern	64%
Jordan	The largest city in the Levant	Amman	49%
Ethiopia	Serves as the headquarters of the African Union	Addis Ababa	44%
Albania	Its international airport is named in honor of Mother Teresa	Tirana	44%
Colombia	Has the highest elevation of any city in the world with a population over 5 million	Bogotá	34%
D. R. Congo	Established as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881, it today has a population over 15 million	Kinshasa	31%