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Which City in the Middle East?

Can you name these Middle Eastern cities based on a clue and their starting letter?

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Last updated: June 03, 2018

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Hint		Answer
Where Muhammad was born	M	Mecca
Where Muhammad died	M	Medina
Holiest city in Judaism	J	Jerusalem
Named for Alexander the Great	A	Alexandria
Formerly known as Constantinople	I	Istanbul
Capital of the Umayyad Caliphate	D	Damascus
Home to the world's tallest building	D	Dubai
Biggest city on the Red Sea - home of a planned building that is even taller	J	Jeddah
Many games in the 2022 World Cup will be played here	D	Doha
City whose "Green Zone" was established in 2003	B	Baghdad

Hint		Answer
Capital of Turkey	A	Ankara
Iraqi port often visited by Sinbad	B	Basra
Ancient Egyptian capital and namesake of a city in Tennessee	M	Memphis
Capital of Saudi Arabia	R	Riyadh
"The Paris of the Middle East", formerly	B	Beirut
Egyptian city once known as Thebes	L	Luxor
Most populous city in Israel	T	Tel Aviv
De-facto capital of Palestine	R	Ramallah
Yemeni port city situated on a gulf with the same name	A	Aden
Capital city on the Persian Gulf	K	Kuwait City

Jealous1sEnvy

level 69

Jun 4, 2018

Nice quiz :)

pitzikat

level 70

Jun 4, 2018

Nice quiz. Got them all with 1.35 remaining. Guess it helps to live in the neighborhood :-)

jellyperson

level 58

Jun 11, 2018

Jerusalem (~880k going from Wikipedia) is more populous than Tel Aviv (~430k, also from Wiki), so the clue for Tel Aviv should say "second most populous city".

Tyrael

level 66

Jun 13, 2018

If you're going by nominal city population, then you are correct. But Tel Aviv has a much greater metropolitan population (~3.85M) than Jerusalem (~1.25M).

kalbahamut

level 75

Jul 5, 2018

Easy.
Alexandretta was also named for Alexander.

cornflakesfu

level 77

Sep 2, 2018

Plus it's a key landmark on the route to the holy grail.

skoldpadda

level 61

Sep 2, 2018

Holy crap, they mentioned Palestine.

kalbahamut

level 75

Sep 2, 2018

Are you implying that this is unusual?

Clorifical

level 18

Sep 2, 2018

It usually is :(

someone2018

level 67

Sep 2, 2018

Damned straight.

kalbahamut

level 75

Sep 2, 2018

This might have the ring of truthiness but it's not actually true. Palestine, both the historical geographical region and the amorphous poorly defined non-sovereign quasi-state are mentioned on this site routinely.

cornflakesfu

level 77

Sep 2, 2018

Better clue for Riyadh: "City that, like Pittsburg(h), may or may not have an 'h' at the end."

kalbahamut

level 75

Sep 2, 2018

But that also applies to Jeddah, Ramallah, Makkah, and Madinah

cornflakesfu

level 77

Sep 2, 2018

True, but Riyadh messes me up on quizzes much more frequently than those ones :(

Azerk

level 25

Sep 2, 2018

Pittsburgh always is spelled with an h. No questions asked. If you don't spell it like this it is an incorrect spelling.

cornflakesfu

level 77

Sep 2, 2018

It's a JetPunk insider joke. Stay here long enough and you'll know what I mean ;)

someone2018

level 67

Sep 2, 2018

City near Albany: Pittsburg.

ander217

level 75

Sep 3, 2018

City near Chattanooga: South Pittsburg. The town had an iron industry and was named for Pittsburgh, PA, but they dropped the h. (There's a Lodge outlet there that we often visit when in the area.)

justroo

level 56

Sep 5, 2018

Pittsburgh and East Pittsburgh get an h, West Pittsburg which is northwest of Pittsburgh by a county or so doesn't. Though honestly any Pittsburgh without an h looks wrong.

divantilya

level 38

Sep 2, 2018

WHY, WHY, WHY, do you cut off all words ending in "h" (i. e., Riyad i/s/o Riyadh; Ramalla i/s/o Ramallah). It is maddening!!!

kalbahamut

level 75

Sep 5, 2018

To be more forgiving of incorrect spelling. The only way to remedy this without giving up this that I can think of would be to require users to press "enter" whenever they thought they had an answer, which would add on average 20-30 additional keystrokes per quiz, plus a few more if you type in several wrong answers.

I've thought about this before and I think it would be interesting because another thing that this would do is make it possible to collect data on most common wrong answers.