World Cities A-Z #2

I tried Neapel. :/

yeah at least 60 million italian speaking people call it Napoli because that's its name

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.

Are you kidding me?

Also the question is about the Origin, not about where the Pizza got good or bad

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 The type of foodstuff that is called pizza and that is famous and popular around the world was originally made in New York City.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.

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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.

still doesn't accept New York. tsk.

Zanzibar is not a city... still got it.. but its not a city.

I stand corrected, everyone called it Stone Town when I was there

Ullapool, in Scotland, except it's only a village...haha

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.

and you're the wind beneath my wings.

Get a room :)

Good way to learn more about Thailand!

I've been to Udon Thani in transit to Laos once, otherwise no way I'd have known this.

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.

It's from the movie Casablanca.

When you are the largest establishment for a 1,000 miles in any direction you are entitled to be called a city.

That's not the reason. In US everything is a city, towns are more of a British thing. Not sure about Australia.

The ABS (stats bureau) defines a city as having over 100,000 people. Therefore Alice Springs is not a city by the official Australian definition.

Yep--La Marseillaise. 'Marseille' is wrong.

Quebec city is upriver from Montreal, not downriver

"Better to remain silent ........... " As Abraham Lincoln said.

Kept typing Adelaide. Figured I must have misspelled it. Nope, just wrong.

Tried that one too but then remembered Adelaide is on the coast and not in the Outback.

Fortunately, Alice Springs Chicken is in the middle of the menu at The Outback as well.

In fairness, calling Alice Springs a city is pretty charitable to Alice Springs.

Typing Calcutta for K fills in the answer. You should probably change the clue or the remove the type-in.

Please consider some other hint for Hong Kong than Jackie Chan. He is widely disliked by most Hongkongers for his bigotry and pro-Communist stance.

Like it or not it is the most symbolic and well-known person of the city.

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?

Ben Gurion airport is in Lod even though it is TLV and widely considered to be in Tel Aviv. Sde Dov airport is in Tel Aviv.

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!

They're just hints; they don't have to be exact matches. "Jackie Chan" is not another name for the city of Hong Kong.

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.

I only know verona from shakespeare. Never heard in connection with coffee, though I don't drink coffee, but I do know Wiener melange

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.

How do only 4% get Udon Thani? That was easy!

Alice Springs is completely not a city, completely threw me off, coming from an Australian. Could use Adelaide as an answer with a different hint.

Who the hell calls St. Petersburg "St Pete"? Or thinks it's too hard to spell?

music and coffee->Vienna? A tried Venice, Vancouver, Vicenza, Verona, but nothing. Should be more concrete.