You should also accept New York. The food that is famous and popular world wide is from New York City. The stuff they eat in Naples isn't the same thing.
Not at all kidding. If you're looking for the place where pizza- the foodstuff popular around the world- originated, that's New York, in Little Italy. If you're looking for the place where people first started eating something with that name (originally, pita), that would be somewhere in Greece. Greeks brought it with them from Greece when they colonized Neapolis. Italian immigrants brought it to America. But it didn't achieve it's final form and become real pizza until New York. Naples is neither the first nor the last stop in this story. And if you'd been to Naples and eaten the greasy blobs of goo they make there and call pizza, and were being honest about this, you'd concede the point.
and you're right, this isn't about evaluating whether local varities of pizza is good or bad. The type of foodstuff that is called pizza and that is famous and popular around the world was originally made in New York City. Flat bread with toppings on it goes back to ancient Greece but it wasn't properly pizza until New York put it's own spin on it.
basically covers what I was saying. Who invented pizza? Depends on how you define pizza. Flat bread = ancient Egypt, Turkey, and Mesopotamia. This flat bread made its way to anceint Greece, where they put toppings on it such as olive oil and spices and called it "pita." Greeks colonized Neapolis (Napoli, Naples), bringing their pita with them. Can't really say it was invented there if they brought it from Greece if we're going to use your rules, right? It was a popular food among the poor, flat bread with toppings on it. Over time the pronunciation was corrupted from pita to pizza. Neapolitans tried out different toppings like mozzarella, tomato, and basil (little globs of each). Italians brought this food to Little Italy in New York City. In the early 20th century it became popular there, and those immigrants started making a food that would be exported all over the world.
If, when you think of pizza, you think of a golden brown semi-rigid crust, firm enough that you could hold it in one hand and eat it without all the toppings tumbling everywhere, tomato sauce and cheese spread evenly over the entire pie as a foundation upon which you put other toppings like pepperoni, sausage, peppers, etc, usually cut into 6 or 8 slices for easy handling... then what you are thinking of is a food that was invented in New York City.
this is more like what you would find in Naples. It's more like soup than pizza (follow the link). and it is NOT what most people think of when they think of pizza, because pizza was definitely invented in New York City.
Ulan Bator, but quizmaster used that in version one of the quiz. The only other very well known city I can think of is Udaipur. Not much to choose from otherwise. Maybe Ürümqi and Uberlandia (which I have encountered on this site), Uppsala or Utrecht? Some variation in answers is nice though, so I fully support Udon Thani, event if I didn't get it.
Seriously? Ufa, Ussuriysk, Ulyanovsk and Ulan-Ude (Russia), Ulm (Germany), Ulsan (South Korea), Umea and Uppsala (Sweden), Urumqi (China), Utrecht (Netherlands) and Uzhhorod (Ukraine)
Agreed, I am for Upsalla, Utrecht, or Ur or even Urumqi. Not against learning new things, but those are hard enough (above the usual) difficulty anyway
I breezed through this quiz. Got Udon Thani immediately. But I've been to Thailand many times and even as I was typing it in I knew there were going to be complainers in the comments section.
Overall was fun quiz. Minor comments: Alice Springs is not a city, and the clue for Casablanca seems to me to be pretty obscure unless that cafe is world famous and I am ignorant.
I was shocked at the Rick's café one, since I didn't get the Bogart reference. I was at "Rick's café" a month ago - in Negril, Jamaica. When I googled "Rick's café," the one in Negril was the first hit and the cliff jumping people do there was the third one. I'd say you should allow Negril for this, except this one's obscure too - I doubt it would help too many people.
I too, have Outback Steakhouse to thank for getting that clue so easily! Don't remember if originally I looked it up, or there was a map on the menu, but remember thinking that Alice Springs is pretty close to the dead center of Australia. Or, maybe it was Priscilla...?
Alice Springs? (sign) It has all of about 28,000 people. Los Angeles, New York, London, - pick an actual city and they fart suburbs bigger than that. A user might expect a quiz asking for names of cities to have answers that are...cities?
Thank-you for forcing me to learn to spell Kolkata correctly- every other quiz up until now I've lazily used the Anglicised version. And now I read the comments and find I could've avoided all that guesswork!
Verona is also famous for its coffee, maybe more so than Vienna. Though Vienna has more famous music, overall Verona is almost as famous for those things. You should accept it.
One COULD argue, if they're being overly pedantic, that a city starting with V that is famous for music and coffee could be Vancouver, what with hipster culture and diffusion with nearby Seattle.
basically covers what I was saying. Who invented pizza? Depends on how you define pizza. Flat bread = ancient Egypt, Turkey, and Mesopotamia. This flat bread made its way to anceint Greece, where they put toppings on it such as olive oil and spices and called it "pita." Greeks colonized Neapolis (Napoli, Naples), bringing their pita with them. Can't really say it was invented there if they brought it from Greece if we're going to use your rules, right? It was a popular food among the poor, flat bread with toppings on it. Over time the pronunciation was corrupted from pita to pizza. Neapolitans tried out different toppings like mozzarella, tomato, and basil (little globs of each). Italians brought this food to Little Italy in New York City. In the early 20th century it became popular there, and those immigrants started making a food that would be exported all over the world.
this is more like what you would find in Naples. It's more like soup than pizza (follow the link). and it is NOT what most people think of when they think of pizza, because pizza was definitely invented in New York City.