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Find the City on a Treasure Map

You have found a mysterious map with a cross representing a city. You have to answer questions about exploration to discover the mysterious city.
Every cities on the map, including the secret one, have at least 1 million of inhabitants
Quiz by Phytox
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Last updated: February 23, 2023
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First submittedFebruary 23, 2023
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One of the first men to climb Everest.
Edmund Hillary | Tenzing Norgay
First European explorer to reach India via the Cape of Good Hope by ship.
Vasco da Gama
Brightest star in the Little Dipper, giving the direction of north in the northern hemisphere.
Polaris
Viking leader of an expedition that discovered North America around the year 1000.
Leif Erikson
Fictional city covered in gold supposedly in South America.
El Dorado
Ships invented in the 15th century by the Portuguese, symbols of the Age of Discovery.
Caravel
A culinary speciality of Alsace and Germany, the consumption of which greatly reduces cases of scurvy among sailors.
Sauerkraut
Cape off Morocco, the supposed southern maritime frontier of the world in the Middle Ages.
Cape Bojador
French sailor indissociable from his red bonnet, pioneer of the exploration of the sea bed.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Language family containing both Hawaiian and Malagasy.
Austronesian languages
Chinese admiral who led many explorations, which took him to the Red Sea, off Kenya and Indonesia.
Zheng He
An explorer born in present-day Morocco, his expeditions in the 14th century took him to China, Zanzibar and Indonesia.
Ibn Battuta
Country where the compass was invented.
China
The secret city on the map.
Tbilisi
+6
Level 54
Feb 23, 2023
No need to repeat what I wrote under the French version of the quiz, but I truly hope that it will met success, since the idea is really cool and the realization beautiful. At least I nominated it. Let's see if I'm followed enough...
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Level 71
Feb 23, 2023
Very cool quiz! Nominated.