Country | Approx. Population | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Lithuania | 545.000 | Capital, called "Rome of the North" | Vilnius | 77%
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France | 510.000 | Football club Olympique, on the rivers Rhône and Saône, Birthplace of Andre-Marie Ampere | Lyon | 69%
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Belarus | 1.920.000 | Capital, residence of Lee Harvey Oswald for more than two years | Minsk | 69%
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Israel | 440.000 | Home to the Israeli sillicon valley, name means "Old New Land" in Hebrew | Tel Aviv | 69%
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Ukraine | 1.015.000 | Named after a Greek city mistakenly believed to be there, home to the famous steps from Battleship Potemkin | Odessa | 62%
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Russia | 430.000 | Administrative center of a Russian Exclave, formerly Königsberg | Kaliningrad | 54%
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Ukraine | 730.000 | Former center of Galicia, until WW2 majority of population was Polish, part of "Everything is Illuminated" is set here, birthplace of Stanisław Lem | Lviv | 46%
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Germany | 625.000 | State capital, home to country's second largest fair: Cannstatter Wasn | Stuttgart | 46%
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Hungary | 165.000 | Namesake of a goulash made with sour cream, known as the home of Paprika, site of a great flood obliterating the city in 1879 | Szeged | 38%
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Germany | 250.000 | Formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt, German figure skating mecca | Chemnitz | 31%
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China | 14.000.000 | Terminus of the silk road, the only Chinese Port accessible to foreigners until the opium wars, a regional cuisine is named after its former romanization, capital of China on three (short) occassions in the 20th century | Guangzhou | 31%
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Finland | 230.000 | Former industrial (textiles and metal) center, "Manchester of Finland" | Tampere | 23%
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China | 15.500.000 | Namesake of an infamous square in Beijing, place of accidental explosions in a port storag area with 173 deaths in 2015 | Tianjin | 23%
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Spain | 440.000 | Founded by the emir of Cordoba, probably named after Myrtle, one of the former Castilean capitals | Murcia | 15%
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Mexico | 2.500.000 | Planned city, home to major car factories, textile center in the 19th century, place of the battle that is celebrated on El Cinco de Mayo | Puebla | 15%
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Russia | 410.000 | Textile center of Russia, first part of the name includes a comon Russian first name | Ivanovo | 8%
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Portugal | 80.000 | Bayside town near Lisbon | Barreiro | 0%
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Sweden | 150.000 | Originally small town which grew with a shoe-industry, name refers to a bridge on a bank of a river, birthplace of race car driver Ronnie Peterson | Örebro | 0%
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Georgia | 125.000 | Ancient town and place of the last Soviet race track to be constructured before 1990, near Tblisi | Rustavi | 0%
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