Which City in the Middle East?

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

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".

Easy.
Alexandretta was also named for Alexander.

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

Are you implying that this is unusual?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.)

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.