Statistics for Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions #1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Famous as the home of Hollywood, a major center of the world entertainment industry	Los Angeles	99%
In the time of Ivan III, the Red Square appeared	Moscow	91%
Was the first city targeted by a nuclear weapon	Hiroshima	85%
German: München; Austro-Bavarian: Minga; Polish: Monachium	Munich	83%
Where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich defines the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude	London	77%
The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines	Rome	73%
Modern scholars now generally agree that the goddess takes her name from the city	Athens	70%
Was at the heart of the modernization of Siam	Bangkok	70%
Can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs"	Buenos Aires	70%
Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising sea levels	Alexandria	68%
The territory has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world, most surrounding Victoria Harbour	Hong Kong	68%
Outgrew its original purpose as the first European outpost at the Castle of Good Hope	Cape Town	61%
Some time in the 5th century, the Kaaba was a place of worship for the deities of Arabia's pagan tribes	Mecca	61%
In 1992, the city hosted the Summer Olympics	Barcelona	51%
Lieutenant James Cook, after leaving Botany Bay, saw the entrance to Port Jackson	Sydney	49%
It is also the largest city in the Maghreb region	Casablanca	47%
The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in the harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War	Havana	41%
Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal	Montreal	39%
Making them the world's second-closest pair of capital cities after Rome and Vatican City	Kinshasa	37%
Renowned for its Lujiazui skyline, and museums and historic buildings, such as those along The Bund	Shanghai	33%