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Statistics for Cryptic Hint & Word Scramble - Capitals #2

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  • This quiz has been taken 415 times
  • The average score is 12 of 15

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Vague hintCapitalExplanation of the vague hint% Correct
cautIon: thIs is not a pickLe ingreDient!DiliThe words Dili and dill look very similar, the latter being a pickle ingredient.
98%
tAke a looK at aBsheron peninsUla
BakuBaku lies on the Absheron Peninsula.
97%
proviDed thAt you Are in the old woRld, Keep to the westDakarDakar is the westernmost place on Afro-Eurasia.
89%
jingjInji is madE up of heBei, tianJin aNd thIs meGacityBeijingThe Jingjinji megalopolis is made up of the province Hebei and the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin.
88%
by cutTing up the oxhIde into stripS, dido coUld eNcircle a hillTunisLegend has it, that it was Queen Dido who founded the city of Carthage which was located near modern-day Tunis. And she did so, by asking for as much land, as she could encompass with an oxhide, which was granted to her.
88%
"stateLy, plUmp Buck mulligaN came from the staIrheaD"DublinThis is the beginning of the first sentence of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce, which is set in Dublin.
86%
¡dAme un H. upmaNn por faVor! ¿qué vitolA de gAlera quieres?HavanaHere someone is ordering an H. Upmann cigar. They are then asked which size and shape (vitola de galera) they would like.
86%
if farO is san diego aNd setúBal is Long beach, thIs is san franciScoLisbonUpon drawing parallels between Portugal and California, we might define Portugal's San Francisco as Lisbon, because both lie on bays that are halfway along the coast.
83%
a Genus Of this mammal thaT lives in mArshes, cOuld Be called thisBogotáShould there be a genus of Otter that lives in bogs, one might call it a bog otter, of that ilk almost homonym to Bogotá.
82%
no oTher capitAl has chAnged itS nAme more ofteNAstanaKnown as Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, Astana, Nur-Sultan and Astana in that order; as of 2022, this capital has changed names more often than any other.
78%
thrOugh an assAssinAtion gaVrilo pRincip startEd the July criSisSarajevoArchduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. That led to July Crisis which marked the beginning of WWI.
73%
the ____ iN tHe willoWs anD a remarKable rIff fOr examplEWindhoek"The Wind in the Willows" is a famous children's novel and a memorable riff could serve as a song's hook, which (in American English) is homonymous to 'hoek' in Windhoek.
68%
the lAst regiciDe - wheN a King is mUrdered - wAs coMmitTed HereKathmanduIn 2001 Crown Prince Dipendra killed his father King Birendra of Nepal.
57%
Le corBusier's student fIguratIvely craShed An aeroplAne heReBrasíliaLúcio Costa, a student of Le Corbusier, designed the plan for the construction of Brasília, which has a cunning resemblance of a plane from above.
55%
andRianjAka fOunded iT on anAlamaNga aNd andrIamAsinaValoNa nAmed itAntananarivoKing Andrianjaka founded Antananarivo as Analamanga on the hill Analamanga. Later King Andriamasinavalona renamed it Antanananarivo in honour of Andrianjaka's army. Here are two more long words starting with 'A' that are related to Antananarivo: Andafiavaratra and Ambohitsorohitra
51%

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