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100 European Cities by a Clue

Based on the clue, can you guess these 100 European cities?
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Last updated: April 12, 2024
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Clue
City
Has the world's oldest metro system
London
Known for its running of the bulls
Pamplona
Was formerly called "Stalingrad"
Volgograd
Home to the EU's Court of Justice
Luxembourg
Its statue of the Greek sun god Helios is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Rhodes
Where the Nobel Peace Prize is annually shared
Oslo
Sicilian city which was once the largest Greek colony
Syracuse
Where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum takes place
Davos
Where Gavrilo Princip assassinated a famous archduke
Sarajevo
Olaf Scholz was its mayor between 2011–2018
Hamburg
Most populous coastal city of Romania
Constanța
Pagan center of Sweden where human sacrifices were hung from trees
Uppsala
Site of Napoleon's greatest victory which led to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
Slavkov u Brna
Wine capital of the world
Bordeaux
Its name is included in Geoffrey Chaucer's most notable work
Canterbury
Where the Bavarian Illuminati was created in 1776
Ingolstadt
Second most populated city in Belarus
Gomel
City on the Adriatic Sea with the namesake of a 2016 James McAvoy movie
Split
Its Guggenheim Museum was designed by Frank Gehry
Bilbao
The other city with a Guggenheim Museum
Venice
"Under the hill" is where you'd find the capital of "Black Mountain"
Podgorica
An ISIS terrorist attack on this city's Crocus City Hall left 144 people dead in 2024
Moscow
Its Jagiellonian University is the oldest of its kind in Poland
Krakow
This port city was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade
Nantes
The Winter Palace was the residence of its emperors
Saint Petersburg
Capital of the Italian region of Apulia
Bari
Setting of the movies "Before Sunrise" and "Amadeus"
Vienna
It was the most important city in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages
Utrecht
The English siege of this city collapsed nine days after the arrival of Joan of Arc in 1429
Orléans
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the firebombing of this German city in "Slaughterhouse-Five"
Dresden
"Diamond capital of the world"
Antwerp
City on the Don that the Wagner Group took control of for one day in 2023
Rostov-on-Don
Major city located on the delta of Douro
Porto
This city on the Danube is the only world capital that borders two countries
Bratislava
It is known today as the Oil Capital of Norway
Stavanger
Andalusian city renowned for its sherry wine and vinegar
Jerez de la
Frontera
Where Russian air strikes bombed a children's hospital on 9th March 2022
Mariupol
Second-largest city in Hungary
Debrecen
The New Zealand city of Dunedin was named in honor of this city
Edinburgh
The Eastern Bloc's version of NATO was founded in and named after this city
Warsaw
Largest Turkish city that is entirely on the country's European part
Edirne
This Swiss city on the French and German border in Roger Federer's hometown
Basel
Was named after Saint Marinus
San Marino
Was, at times, the second largest city in the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople
Thessaloniki
At the confluence of the Sava and the Danube
Belgrade
Largest city in Iceland outside of the Capital Region
Akureyri
The Majdanek concentration camp is located in this city in eastern Poland
Lublin
Capital of unoccupied France during the World War II
Vichy
Croatian walled city which is a World Heritage site
Dubrovnik
The Mayflower started its voyage to the New World here
Plymouth
Two members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed and nine others were taken hostage
by a Palestinian militant organization during this city's Olympics
Munich
Largest city north of the Arctic Circle
Murmansk
"Sauna Capital of the World"
Tampere
Famous for its paella
Valencia
The House of Grimaldi rule this city
Monaco
This Bulgarian Coastal city was called "Odessos" in ancient times
Varna
Home to the Peaky Blinders
Birmingham
This city on the Fyn island was home to Hans Christian Andersen
Odense
Was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1755
Lisbon
Crimean site of a WWII conference
Yalta
The "Old Firm" play football here
Glasgow
Mount Vesuvius sits right southeast to this city
Naples
Where British troops evacuated France in 1940
Dunkirk
Straddles the Bosphorus
Istanbul
The treaty that created modern-day EU was signed in this city in 1992
Maastricht
Irish city that has the namesake of a type of poem
Limerick
First to host the Winter Olympics twice
St. Moritz
Second to host the Winter Olympics twice
Innsbruck
The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after this city
Vilnius
Main port of Slovenia on the Mediterranean Sea
Koper
Greek city that has the namesake of a type of column
Corinth
Southernmost capital in Europe
Valletta
Largest town in Scotland's Orkney
Kirkwall
Houses the International Court of Justice
The Hague
A type of "syndrome" was named because of this city's 1973 failed bank robbery
Stockholm
Capital of the Isle of Man
Douglas
CAC 40 is the name of its stock market index
Paris
Where Alexander Lukashenko has his presidential palace
Minsk
Was the main port of East Germany
Rostock
Hosted the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Berlin
City on the French Riviera that hosts an international film festival annually
Cannes
The Ottoman Turkish rendition of this world capital's name was "Üsküb" and it was
adapted in Western languages as "Uskub"
Skopje
Where Brendan Gleeson and Colin Firth play as two hitmen in a black comedy
Bruges
Visit this city's Uffizi Museum to see the "The Birth of Venus"
Florence
Where people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window) in 1419, 1483 and 1618
Prague
This city was once a maritime republic and the greatest Italian rival to Venice
Genoa
The ancient city of Knossos was built around the outskirts of this city
Heraklion
The witch trails of this German city, near the Luxembourgish border, resulted in the
executions of 368 people in the late 16th century
Trier
Most populous city in northern Sweden
Umeå
NATO has its headquarters in this city
Brussels
Pan-Am 103 was bombed and disintegrates over this Scottish town
Lockerbie
A type of olive is named after this Greek city
Kalamata
Ed Sheeran sang a song about a girl from this city in 2017
Galway
Home to Europe's aerospace industry
Toulouse
Most populous city on the Volga river, formerly known as Gorky
Nizhny Novgorod
Village in southeastern corner of Luxembourg where an "agreement" for "open borders"
between most European nations was signed and named after in 1985
Schengen
Town in far southwest England overrun by musical pirates
Penzance
Is served by International Airport Nënë Tereza
Tirana
This Germany city was considered the informal capital of the Hanseatic League
Lübeck
Administrative center and largest settlement in Svalbard
Longyearbyen
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Level 65
Apr 10, 2024
Nice one, but I think it needs more time.
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Level 72
Apr 12, 2024
Thanks! I added three more minutes :)