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Country	Clue	City	% Correct
	Denmark's leading container port	Aarhus	100%
Nigeria	Capital of Nigeria	Abuja	100%
Ethiopia	Headquarters of the African Union	Addis Ababa	100%
	Called "Halab" in local language	Aleppo	100%
	Nearest large town to Uluru	Alice Springs	100%
	Once home of the papacy	Avignon	100%
	Center of an empire that existed between 100–940 AD	Axum	100%
Iraq	Center of the Islamic Golden Age	Baghdad	100%
Mali	Capital of Mali	Bamako	100%
	Where Sinbad sails from	Basra	100%
Lebanon	Devastated by an explosion in 2020	Beirut	100%
	The British stole its "bronzes" after a battle in 1897	Benin City	100%
	Birthplace of Jesus	Bethlehem	100%
	Judicial capital of South Africa	Bloemfontein	100%
	The wine capital of the world	Bordeaux	100%
	Oscar Niemeyer designed much of it	Brasília	100%
	Will host the 2032 Summer Olympics	Brisbane	100%
	One of the venues for Grand Prix motorcycle racing until 2020	Brno	100%
	Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef for most tourists	Cairns	100%
Canada	Hosts the annual "Stampede"	Calgary	100%
France	Hosts a well-known film festival	Cannes	100%
South Africa	Is overlooked by the Table Mountain	Cape Town	100%
Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka's commercial capital	Colombo	100%
	Main Bolivian city on Lake Titicaca with namesake of a Rio beach	Copacabana	100%
Syria	Fourth-holiest city in Islam	Damascus	100%
	Home to the world's largest airport	Dammam	100%
	Charted city near Harari	Dire Dawa	100%
	King Shaka is the name of its international airport	Durban	100%
	Capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan	Erbil	100%
Germany	Financial capital of Germany	Frankfurt	100%
	Headquarters of Hamas	Gaza	100%
	Oldest German university	Heidelberg	100%
	Capital of Tasmania	Hobart	100%
	"Emesa" was its pre-Islamic name	Homs	100%
	Biggest city before independence	Ibadan	100%
	Soon will be home to the tallest building in the world	Jeddah	100%
	The oldest walled city in world	Jericho	100%
	Biggest city in northern Nigeria	Kano	100%
	Largest German city on the Baltic Sea	Kiel	100%
	Highest world capital	La Paz	100%
	Main port of Syria	Latakia	100%
	Most populous in western Ukraine	Lviv	100%
	The national anthem of France is named after its people	Marseille	100%
Saudi Arabia	Muslims pray towards it	Mecca	100%
	Where Muhammad is buried	Medina	100%
Australia	Australian Open's venue	Melbourne	100%
	Site of the ancient city of Nineveh	Mosul	100%
	Site of Nazi rallies and tribunals	Nuremberg	100%
Denmark	Capital of Greenland	Nuuk	100%
	Hometown of H. C. Andersen	Odense	100%
	Most populous coastal city	Odessa	100%
	White-only city of Northern Cape	Orania	100%
	City that is famous for its beer	Plzeň	100%
	"Oil capital of Nigeria"	Port Harcourt	100%
Portugal	Located at the mouth of Douro	Porto	100%
	Site of world's largest silver deposit	Potosí	100%
Czech Republic	Charles IV's Holy Roman capital	Prague	100%
	Some propose to name it "Tshwane"	Pretoria	100%
	Only fortified city in Canada	Quebec City	100%
Philippines	Official capital until 1976	Quezon City	100%
	Current de-facto capital of Palestine	Ramallah	100%
Greece	Site of the Colossus statue	Rhodes	100%
	Largest city on the Arabian Peninsula	Riyadh	100%
	Hometown of Lionel Messi	Rosario	100%
	Most populous city in Bolivia	Santa Cruz	100%
Russia	2014 Winter Olympics host	Sochi	100%
Bulgaria	Alexander Nevsky Cathedral	Sofia	100%
Bolivia	Was founded as "La Plata"	Sucre	100%
Finland	Largest inland city	Tampere	100%
	World's most murderous city per-capita	Tijuana	100%
	Former trans-Saharan trade center	Timbuktu	100%
	Oldest university in Finland	Turku	100%
	Capital during World War II	Vichy	100%
	Capital of Yukon Territory	Whitehorse	100%
	Site of a WWII "Big 3" conference	Yalta	100%
	Birthplace of Freddie Mercury	Zanzibar	100%
	City major urban area in Luzon does NOT start with "Los"	Angeles	67%
	The first planned modern city in Brazil; capital of Minas Gerais	Belo Horizonte	67%
	Claims to be the second-largest natural harbour in the world	Cork	67%
	Independence-declaring counter-part of Luhansk	Donetsk	67%
	Ed Sheeran sang a song about it	Galway	67%
Ukraine	Vitali Klitschko is its mayor	Kiev	67%
Ireland	Type of poem namesake	Limerick	67%
Brazil	Biggest city in Amazon rainforest	Manaus	67%
	Capital of the Philippines	Manila	67%
	Setting of "The Sound of Music"	Salzburg	67%
	Often called the "Granite City"	Aberdeen	50%
	Many Kilimanjaro hikers fly into this Tanzanian city	Arusha	50%
	The largest city in Italy's heel	Bari	50%
	Home to the oldest archdiocese in Portugal	Braga	50%
	Take the "train to" this zombified city	Busan	50%
	Capital of Sardinia	Cagliari	50%
	Home to a meteor	Chelyabinsk	50%
Argentina	Home to Argentina's oldest university	Córdoba	50%
	The Textile City	Daegu	50%
Tanzania	This was Tanzania's former capital ...	Dar es Salaam	50%
	Most visited city by tourists	Denpasar	50%
	... until this one replaced it in 1996	Dodoma	50%
	Capital of Algarve	Faro	50%
Italy	Christopher Columbus's hometown	Genoa	50%
	Ethiopian Empire's first fixed capital	Gondar	50%
South Korea	Home to South Korea's main airport	Incheon	50%
Scotland	"Capital" of the Scottish Highlands	Inverness	50%
	Most populous in New Guinea	Jayapura	50%
	Formerly known as "Königsberg"	Kaliningrad	50%
	Main town of the Orkney Islands	Kirkwall	50%
	Known for it beef	Kobe	50%
	Called "Reichenberg" in German	Liberec	50%
Peru	Founded by Francisco Pizarro	Lima	50%
	Where the riots that toppled Suharto started in 1998	Medan	50%
	Capital of the Tigray Region	Mekelle	50%
	Gateway to Mount Aconcagua for most tourists	Mendoza	50%
	Site of a 2019 hospital shooting	Ostrava	50%
	Gave its name to a major Australian city	Perth	50%
Japan	Host of an annual "Snow Festival"	Sapporo	50%
	Often paired with the above	Sidon	50%
	Home of world's oldest golf course	St Andrews	50%
	Most populous during Dutch rule	Surabaya	50%
	Sicilian city which was once the largest Greek colony	Syracuse	50%
	Namesake of an African capital	Tripoli	50%
	Where legendary figures Europa and Dido were born	Tyre	50%
	World's southernmost city	Ushuaia	50%
	"Romeo and Juliet" was set here	Verona	50%
	Russian Pacific fleet headquarters	Vladivostok	50%
	Where the Romanov family was executed in 1918	Yekaterinburg	50%
Indonesia	Last monarchial city of Indonesia	Yogyakarta	50%
	Home to Magellan's Cross	Cebu	33%
	Where the Death Squad is active	Davao	33%
	Birthplace of Franz Ferdinand	Graz	33%
Austria	Twice hosted the Winter Olympics	Innsbruck	33%
	Guinness's most famous dark beer	Kilkenny	33%
	Capital of the state of Carinthia	Klagenfurt	33%
	Closest Brazilian city to Africa	Natal	33%
	First capital of Brazil	Salvador	33%
	City where famous crystal was made	Waterford	33%
	Detainees were abused in its former U.S. prison	Abu Ghraib	0%
	Pacific city known for cliff divers	Acapulco	0%
India	Location of the Taj Mahal	Agra	0%
	Where Gandhi started his Salt March	Ahmedabad	0%
	Setting of "Breaking Bad"	Albuquerque	0%
	Capital of Niue	Alofi	0%
	Most popular seaside resort	Antalya	0%
	The War of the Pacific started when Chile occupied this port city	Antofagasta	0%
Belgium	"Diamond capital of the world"	Antwerp	0%
	Seat of the Constitutional Court	Arequipa	0%
	Site of the largest dam on Nile	Aswan	0%
	Medieval capital of Siam	Ayothaya	0%
	Where two large statues of Buddha were bombed in 2001	Bamyan	0%
Thailand	Colloquially called "Krung Thep"	Bangkok	0%
	Hometown of Shakira	Barranquilla	0%
	City on Rhine located on the border with France and Germany	Basel	0%
	Romans called it "Aquae Sulis"	Bath	0%
	Home to Turkey's largest oil field, namesake of a DC superhero	Batman	0%
	Largest in the Negev Desert	Beersheba	0%
Norway	Largest city in Norway until 1830s	Bergen	0%
	At least 4,000 people died here in 1984 after an industrial gas leak	Bhopal	0%
	This city doesn't actually exist	Bielefeld	0%
England	Peaky Blinders' home city	Birmingham	0%
Colombia	Capital of Colombia	Bogota	0%
	1773 Tea Party	Boston	0%
	Known for it canals	Bruges	0%
Romania	Home to world's heaviest building	Bucharest	0%
	Bulgaria's largest oil refinery	Burgas	0%
	First capital of the Ottoman Empire	Bursa	0%
	1971 Pan American Games host	Cali	0%
	Only city the Spanish fortified during the colonial era	Cartagena	0%
Morocco	Location of a Bogart movie	Casablanca	0%
	City bordering Morocco that sits on the Strait of Gibraltar	Ceuta	0%
	Largest city in Northern Thailand	Chiang Mai	0%
	Tiny dog breed namesake	Chihuahua	0%
	Site of a deadly 2011 earthquake	Christchurch	0%
	Unofficial capital of Transylvania	Cluj-Napoca	0%
	Home to the oldest university	Coimbra	0%
	Main port of Romania	Constanța	0%
	Was the capital of the Inca Empire	Cuzco	0%
	World Economic Forum site	Davos	0%
	Dutch pottery city	Delft	0%
	Largest Turkish city on Tigris	Diyarbakır	0%
	Known for its abode-made Great Mosque; a UNESCO site	Djenné	0%
	Walled city formerly called Ragusa which is a World Heritage site	Dubrovnik	0%
	City named after Edinburgh	Dunedin	0%
	Israel's only seaport on the Red Sea	Eilat	0%
	Site of a catastrophic fireworks disaster in 2000	Enschede	0%
	Namesake of red hat with a tassle	Fes	0%
	Birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo	Funchal	0%
	Only fortified city	Galle	0%
	Former capital of the Songhai Empire	Gao	0%
	Free City of Danzig	Gdańsk	0%
Switzerland	Most populous French-speaking city	Geneva	0%
	Capital of Penang	George Town	0%
Egypt	Great Pyramid locale	Giza	0%
	Last Muslim city in Spain	Granada	0%
	Where tequila originated	Guadalajara	0%
Spain	Basque town Picasso painted	Guernica	0%
	Site of a bloody uprising in 1980	Gwangju	0%
	Site of the Baháʼí World Centre	Haifa	0%
	Where world's largest accidental explosion took place	Halifax	0%
	Main town of Easter Island	Hanga Roa	0%
Palestine	Most populous city in the territory controlled by the PNA	Hebron	0%
	Capital of Crete	Heraklion	0%
	Last capital of the Timurid Empire	Herat	0%
	Capital of Inner Mongolia	Hohhot	0%
	Red Sea resort that is home to Egypt's second-busiest airport	Hurghada	0%
	Was shortly the capital of Romania between 1916–1918	Iași	0%
	Largest city inside Amazon rainforest	Iquitos	0%
	Home to the largest city square in the Middle East	Isfahan	0%
Turkey	"The Pearl of the Aegean"	İzmir	0%
	Located on a northern peninsula	Jaffna	0%
	The air route between this city and Seoul is world's busiest	Jeju	0%
Israel	It is called "Al-Quds" in Arabic	Jerusalem	0%
	Located right north of Singapore	Johor Bahru	0%
Mexico	Located across to El Paso	Juárez	0%
Afghanistan	Setting of "The Kite Runner"	Kabul	0%
	A type of olive is named after it	Kalamata	0%
	Namesake of a union that existed between 1397–1537	Kalmar	0%
	Headquarters of Taliban	Kandahar	0%
	"Sweet" city in central Sri Lanka	Kandy	0%
	Mother Teresa's last residence	Kolkata	0%
	Largest city on Malaysian Borneo	Kota Kinabalu	0%
Poland	Home to Poland's oldest university	Krakow	0%
Malaysia	Home to the Petronas Towers	Kuala Lumpur	0%
	Was the capital of Mughal and Sikh Empires	Lahore	0%
	Capital of the Buenos Aires province	La Plata	0%
	Olympic headquarters and EPFL city	Lausanne	0%
	Dalai Lama lived here until 1959	Lhasa	0%
	City in Wallonia that has the namesake of a famous type of waffle	Liège	0%
	1994 Winter Olympics host	Lillehammer	0%
	The four-day Austrian Civil War started here	Linz	0%
	"Film capital" of Poland	Łódź	0%
	Location of the Valley of the Kings	Luxor	0%
	Where modern-day EU was founded	Maastricht	0%
	Autonomous gambling city	Macau	0%
	The strait between Malaysia and Sumatra is named after it	Malacca	0%
Sweden	Öresund Bridge's eastern terminus	Malmö	0%
	Capital of Åland Islands	Mariehamn	0%
	"Jemaa el-Fnaa" market square	Marrakesh	0%
	Its name means "tomb of the saint"	Mazar-i-Sharif	0%
	Its cartel was led by Pablo Escobar	Medellín	0%
	Punjab's "City of Saints"	Multan	0%
	Tanzania's largest on Lake Victoria	Mwanza	0%
	Hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics	Nagano	0%
	Capital of Okinawa	Naha	0%
	Site of a bloody WWII battle	Narva	0%
	City of Jesus's youth	Nazareth	0%
	Located close to a famous group of archaeological "lines"	Nazca	0%
	Suburb of the above with namesake of a telephone company	Nokia	0%
	Its federal building was bombed in 1995	Oklahoma City	0%
	Host of the Panhellenic Games	Olympia	0%
	Was home to the largest German concentration camp in WWII	Oświęcim	0%
	"Capital of Northern Finland"	Oulu	0%
	Oldest university in England	Oxford	0%
	Where one can run with the bulls	Pamplona	0%
	Largest on Estonia's west coast	Pärnu	0%
	Nearest major city to Khyber Pass	Peshawar	0%
	Most popular seaside resort town	Phuket	0%
	Europe's oldest continuously-inhabited city	Plovdiv	0%
	Last port of call for the Mayflower on its voyage to America	Plymouth	0%
	Northern terminus of Suez Canal	Port Said	0%
	Formerly German-occupied city known for its brewery	Qingdao	0%
	Religious capital of Iran	Qom	0%
	Most tourists fly to this city to then visit the Milford Sound	Queenstown	0%
	Orchard city of Balochistan	Quetta	0%
	Was the capital of the ISIL until 2014	Raqqa	0%
Pakistan	Capital of Pakistan before 1964	Rawalpindi	0%
	Croatia's main port	Rijeka	0%
	Capital of Denmark before 1443	Roskilde	0%
	Largest Bulgarian city on Danube	Ruse	0%
United States	"The City by the Bay"	San Francisco	0%
Chile	1962 FIFA World Cup finals venue	Santiago	0%
	Nearest major city to the 2011 earthquake	Sendai	0%
	The Steel City	Sheffield	0%
	Popular grape type namesake	Shiraz	0%
	Second-biggest city in Mali	Sikasso	0%
	Mineral springs city	Spa	0%
	Most populous coastal city	Split	0%
	Official administrative capital of Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawar- denepura Kotte	0%
	Oil capital of Norway	Stavanger	0%
	Home to the smallest national park	St. Louis	0%
	Hosted the Winter Olympics twice	St. Moritz	0%
	First capital of Safavid Empire	Tabriz	0%
Estonia	Capital of Estonia	Tallinn	0%
	Once an international zone	Tangier	0%
	Estonia's oldest university	Tartu	0%
Iran	Setting of "Argo"	Tehran	0%
	Capital of parts of Morocco that were controlled by Spain	Tetouan	0%
	International Court of Justice	The Hague	0%
	Once the second-largest city in the Byzantine Empire	Thessaloniki	0%
	Romanian Revolution's starting point	Timișoara	0%
	Main city of the Faroe Islands, its name means "Thor's harbour"	Tórshavn	0%
	Most populous non-Russian city north of the Arctic Circle	Tromsø	0%
	Historically called Nidaros	Trondheim	0%
	Major northeastern city starting with a Japanese wheat noodle	Udon Thani	0%
	Northern Sweden's largest city	Umeå	0%
	Oldest university in Scandinavia	Uppsala	0%
Netherlands	Most important during Middle Ages	Utrecht	0%
	Devastated by an 1960 earthquake	Valdivia	0%
	Where paella originates	Valencia	0%
	Located adjacent to the Latvian town of Valka	Valga	0%
	Home to the National Congress	Valparaíso	0%
	Where Greenpeace was founded	Vancouver	0%
	Holiest city in Hinduism	Varanasi	0%
	Seaport historically called "Odessos"	Varna	0%
	Capital of Gotland	Visby	0%
New Zealand	Southernmost world capital	Wellington	0%
	Largest city on River Oder	Wrocław	0%
China	Home of the Terracotta Army	Xi'an	0%
	Five WWI battles were fought near it	Ypres	0%
	Oldest city in Croatia	Zadar	0%
Croatia	Ban Jelačić is its central square	Zagreb	0%
	Largest inland city	Zahlé	0%