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The Same Name - Geography

Guess the answer that works for both geographical clues.
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Last updated: August 27, 2022
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First submittedAugust 31, 2017
Times taken15,443
Average score80.0%
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Equatorial
Bissau
Guinea
 
Nevada in California
Leone borders Liberia
Sierra
 
Church in Paris
University in Indiana
Notre Dame
 
U.S. State
Baja in Mexico
California
 
Cape peninsula in Australia
City in England
York
Former capital of Russia
City in Florida
St. Petersburg
 
City suffix in South Asia
Prefix of a German spa town
Bad
 
Genghis Khan's homeland
Inner in China
Mongolia
 
River in China
Harbour in Hawaii
Pearl
 
Wich is the Prime Meridian
Land is the world's largest island
Green
British in Canada
Capital of South Carolina
Columbia
 
Zambezi River falls
Capital of Seychelles
Victoria
 
Desert in Africa
Western is part of Morocco
Sahara
 
Knife is a capital in Canada
One of China's seas
Yellow
 
Sea dividing Africa and Asia
Main square in Moscow
Red
Bay in Canada
River in New York
Hudson
 
Alice in Australia's centre
Colorado in Colorado
Springs
 
His port is in Hispaniola
Edward Island in Canada
Prince
 
Majoriti in Asia Minor
And Caicos
Turks
 
Iowa's "Rapids"
Tree on flag of Lebanon
Cedar
scambigol
+8
Level 76
Sep 12, 2017
Nice! Surprised not to see Georgia
KoljiVriVoda
+3
Level 77
Sep 12, 2017
Thanks :) Probably in #2 version.
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Dec 25, 2017
Here it is The Same Name - Geography #2

drLuigi
+1
Level 45
Dec 25, 2017
or Galicia (Spain / Poland)
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Dec 25, 2017
This is one of the things I was thinking about. I will have to put it in #3 version.
GrandMo
+6
Level 71
Sep 12, 2017
I love the idea of this, but some of the selected answers don't really fit what you're going for.

For example- Mongolia refers to more or less the same region with both clues; Western Sahara is definitively just referring to part of the desert that's already mentioned; and Macedonia is just asking for controversy, since you're talking about two different parts of the same politically-charged region.

On the other hand, Pearl, Bad, Cedar, and Sierra are great since they refer to drastically distinct geographic entities.

tschutzer
+1
Level 91
Sep 12, 2017
Agreed completely. Also might want to think about Cedar. This isn't really two places with the same name, it's a place and a picture on a flag.
KoljiVriVoda
+6
Level 77
Sep 12, 2017
Geography is not only about places.
tschutzer
+3
Level 91
Sep 13, 2017
You're completely missing the point, which is that one is a NAME of a thing and one is a description of a PICTURE of a thing. But I'll humor you anyway.

Geography is not ONLY about places. However, calling a flag a geographical feature loosens the definition to the point where pretty much EVERYTHING is a geographical feature. Why not add Hannah Montana and Dakota Fanning to your quiz as well? They're certainly a part of "the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth" as much as a flag is.

TenThousand
+6
Level 76
Sep 12, 2017
This quiz was fun! With all respect to GrandMo and tchutzer, I think they're missing the point - we're just being asked here to have fun with words that appear in two different geographical contexts.

From my own visit to Macedonia, the country, and Macedonia, the Greek region, neither place feels "politically charged" - the only beef is just around the name: the Greeks are irritated that Macedonia, the country, is naming itself with a name that many Greeks feel belong to them.

KoljiVriVoda
+2
Level 77
Sep 12, 2017
It is about fun, thanks Jerry :)
tschutzer
+1
Level 91
Sep 13, 2017
The picture on the flag of Lebanon is not a word.
tschutzer
+4
Level 91
Sep 13, 2017
And the use of Sahara in Western Sahara and Sahara Desert are not two different contexts. They're both referring to the exact same thing. Here's a new clue to add: North ______: Location of Fargo; South _____: Home of Mount Rushmore.
kapulani3
+3
Level 74
Sep 26, 2017
I agree with Jerry928. The fact that it wasn't just locations made it that much extra fun. It makes you think a little more. Well done.
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Sep 16, 2017
GrandMo and tschutzer ~ Western Sahara is a disputed geopolitical name, with meaning far beyond just "Here lies the western part of the Sahara Desert".
GrandMo
+2
Level 71
Sep 21, 2017
We understand that it is a name distinct from "a region of the desert;" what we're saying is that the word SAHARA is used in the same context in both clues.

As opposed to Pearl or York, which refer to two entirely different areas of the world, SAHARA and MONGOLIA e.g. are just the two different references to the same term.

Refer to the North/South "Dakota" example above. It demonstrates the problem with using this kind of reference.

evilcheeser
+1
Level 72
Aug 20, 2023
Does "York" refer to entirely different things though?

Like, I'm pretty sure every York not in northern England refers either to that place, or to the Duke of that place. Don't know of any Yorks that came into that name independently. Whole quiz could literally be English places and then bits of former colonies they named after those places and the people who ruled them. Or French ones. Or Spanish ones. Is that honestly better? I don't think so.

I agree that those aren't the strongest entries in this quiz, but they work okay and it adds some variety.

buck1017
+1
Level 77
Sep 12, 2017
Some clues were tough to understand, but all in all, it was a fun quiz. And I got 18/20 so not bad.
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Sep 12, 2017
Thank you :)
PaterN
+2
Level 78
Sep 13, 2017
Great quiz!

I had to laugh about the "wich"-key.

Yanni47
+1
Level 77
Sep 13, 2017
How annoying. I live in York, but I've never heard of a cape peninsula in Australia with that name.
Malbaby
+2
Level 71
Sep 13, 2017
As well as Cape York in Queensland (the most northerly point of Australia) there is in South Australia a York Peninsular, looks just like Italy, and Yorktown, there is a county of York also. There is a York in Western Australia with a great Car Museum. There is York Town in Tasmania etc.
Malbaby
+2
Level 71
Sep 13, 2017
Try my Australia Quiz for a nice change ......here it is
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Sep 13, 2017
There are a lot of Yorks.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Sep 13, 2017
got york on my first guess. Rest was pretty easy. Good quiz.
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Sep 13, 2017
Thank you :)
WolfCam
+1
Level 66
Nov 24, 2017
Very Nice Quiz! You cloud likely make a quiz but just with U.S places. New Orleans, Boston, New Hampshire, Venice Beach, San Jose, Georgia, New Jersey, New Mexico, etc
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Nov 24, 2017
That sounds like an idea :)
SWATkun
+1
Level 60
Dec 25, 2017
Which South Asian cities have Bad as it's suffix ?
PSTSCCH
+3
Level 47
Dec 25, 2017
Islamabad, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, Ahmedabad, as far as I know. It's more like -abad is the suffix rather than -bad (as someone has mentioned above).
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Aug 21, 2023
Yeah, there isn't a city that ends in -bad but not -abad that I can think of. So I wouldn't call it a suffix or at least accept -abad.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Dec 25, 2017
Is Pakistan really south Asia? To me it is Asia, but South Asia I think of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and south east of there.
DaveM
+4
Level 74
Dec 26, 2017
The subcontinent is most certainly South Asia. Thailand etc is South East Asia.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Dec 26, 2017
If you go any further south then you're in water so I'd say so.
Deru
+1
Level 37
Sep 14, 2022
Yes, it is SE Asia so is India I consider it more based on the ethnic groups. Afghanistan is the end of central Asia. Pakistanis are Clearly south east asians.
PSTSCCH
+1
Level 47
Dec 25, 2017
I'm not sure if we should use "The Same Word" instead of the "The Same Name".
BolyaiAnna
+4
Level 82
Dec 27, 2017
I've made this quiz in French, with other names. It is called Homonymie - Géographie. And yes I made it before this quiz but had only 150 Times played and not featured 😟
awolf
+2
Level 52
Dec 27, 2017
I love the last answer on this quiz as I sit in my Iowa home in named "rapids" city. :)
Pimbard6
+1
Level 67
Dec 27, 2017
I agree, awolf. Having lived there during the 1990s, I can say it is totally appropriate for "Rapids" to be in quotation marks. The rapids in Cedar Rapids aren't very big unless you count the 5-in-1 Dam.
diguedondon
+1
Level 67
Dec 28, 2017
Really really quiz :)
Carry
+2
Level 63
Feb 5, 2019
I really liked this quiz.
nichster
+1
Level 55
Jan 9, 2020
Really nice idea, but I think there's a few spelling mistakes.
Kirboi
+7
Level 61
Mar 28, 2022
Majoriti=Majority

Centre works but center works too (suggestion)

Alexquiz17
+1
Level 88
Jul 10, 2022
Good quiz
tomwinkler95
+2
Level 70
Sep 14, 2022
very nice
Lilylee
+2
Level 74
Sep 14, 2022
The typos are still there, "majoriti" and "wich".
Chad
+9
Level 63
Sep 14, 2022
“majoriti” is a typo (I think), “wich” is the second half of Greenwich
Deru
+1
Level 37
Sep 14, 2022
I really enjoyed this quiz! I hope it gets featured-nomination confirmed.
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