Statistics for World Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions

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Description	Answer	% Correct
The name is often wrongly abbreviated to 'Barça', this name refers only to the local football club	Barcelona	96%
The name is indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel	Amsterdam	95%
SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in this city	Wuhan	93%
The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of "Sin City"	Las Vegas	88%
Widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy	Athens	85%
Home to the tallest twin buildings in the world	Kuala Lumpur	84%
Had the largest decline in population of the past 60 years of the large shrinking cities in the USA	Detroit	80%
The closest national capital to the equator	Quito	80%
Located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa	Brazzaville	75%
Known between 1998 and 2019 as Astana	Nur-Sultan	75%
Located in the center of the world's largest rainforest	Manaus	64%
In the Americas, the largest predominantly English-speaking city south of the United States	Kingston	57%
Home to the largest Polynesian population in the world	Auckland	50%
The highest national capital by elevation among the island countries	Antananarivo	28%
Takes its name from an explorer whose name itself originates from the Dutch city of Coevorden	Vancouver	10%