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European Geography By Letter - I

Can you guess these European geographical answers that start with the letter I?
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European countries that start with I
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Turkish city straddling Europe and Asia
Istanbul
Most common male first name in Bulgaria, Croatia, and possibly Russia
Ivan
One of Switzerland's official languages
Italian
"Capital" of the Scottish highlands
Inverness
County town of Suffolk
Ipswich
French region containing Paris
Île-de-France
Peninsula of Spain and Portugal
Iberia
Netherlands lake, created by the closing of the Zuiderzee
IJsselmeer
Sea between Greece and Italy
Ionian
Island in the above sea, home to Odysseus
Ithaca
Symbolic barrier between Communist and free Europe
Iron Curtain
This country is the largest source of immigrants to the U.K.
India
Austrian Winter Olympics host city
Innsbruck
Island in the Hebrides known for tourism and Scotch whisky
Islay
plattitude
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Level 92
Jun 25, 2014
Got the Netherlands lake, no problem. Town in Suffolk, simple. Sea between Italy and Greece... Ithacan?
jajaco2017
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Level 57
Jan 22, 2017
the Ionean sea
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Mar 20, 2019
No, it's Ionian
TomatosRaafatos
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Level 73
Apr 22, 2020
Not everyday do you see three poor souls in a row completely missing the point. Looks like the 'I' quiz attracts idiots in larger proportions.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Apr 23, 2020
You're calling me an idiot then?
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Apr 5, 2021
It's Ionian.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jul 29, 2014
I lost Ithaca because I spelled it Ithica
Mogysht
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Level 50
Jul 29, 2014
Well, I think Itaca and Ithaka should also be accepted.
AceRimmer
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Level 58
Dec 15, 2014
True... tried even Itaka, Itacca, Itakka. Never thought of puttin an h somewhere... :P
dasubergeek
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Level 74
Jan 17, 2017
Ithaka, maybe, but the original Greek has the Þ ("th" as in "think") sound: Ιθάκης, ithákis.
leni
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Level 76
Jan 17, 2017
Should be spelled both ways: Ithaca and Ithaka
RabidPony
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Level 39
Jan 17, 2017
I cheated and Google translated it because I knew the French name but had no idea how it ended in English...
ander217
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Level 75
Apr 22, 2020
I don't think it's cheating if you know the name in another language and use Google to translate. It's cheating if you use Google because you don't know the name in any language.
schnuederlue
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Level 68
Dec 19, 2019
I tried also every possible spelling, but always with k instead of c, because the greek spelling is with k. On the other hand "IJ" is enough for Ijsselmeer. And Insbruk is also accepted for Innsbruck. Are you kidding me???
RJF
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Level 64
Dec 21, 2022
It's IJsselmeer. In Dutch the digraph IJ is treated as a single letter when it comes to capitalisation, so you always capitalise both the I and the J.
thecoolestdude2
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Level 68
Jan 23, 2015
For "one of Switzerland's official languages" I wanted to put yodeling so bad.
JonOfKent
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Level 56
Apr 22, 2020
iodelling?
eurocrem
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Level 41
Mar 11, 2015
You should accept "isle of France"
divantilya
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Level 37
Oct 14, 2018
Why? - The name of the region is "Ile de France".
grantdon
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Level 73
Dec 20, 2015
Istanbul straddles the BORDER between Europe and Asia
PaulR91
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Level 55
Jun 9, 2016
The IJ is pretty much one letter in Dutch (pretty muck like a 'y' with an umlaut, and then it is pronounced like the German 'ei'). I am not sure whether it should be included in this quiz. Apart from that, good quiz.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Mar 20, 2019
But in English it indisputably starts with an I. Also the German 'ei' is pronounced /ai/, but the Dutch 'ij' is pronounced /ɛi/.
phalocrocorax
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Level 83
Dec 19, 2019
Even in English the IJ is clearly treated as one letter, otherwise it would be written Ijsselmeer.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Feb 10, 2020
But it's two letters: I and J, albeit both capitalised (as in Dutch).
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Mar 1, 2024
Semantically, yes, but phonetically, no. I think it's fine as is, but there can be an argument made either way.
CripplingVelocity
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Level 58
Sep 12, 2016
Too Ameri-centric :/
ander217
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Level 75
Jan 17, 2017
Wholeheartedly agree. Americans eat Italian dressing, there's a city in NY named Ithaca, there is a Suffolk County in NY, many Americans buy IKEA furniture...QM, please remove everything in this quiz which might relate to America in any way!
schnuederlue
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Level 68
Dec 8, 2017
Next point is, that every question is written in American English. Please change it to Esperanto!
Jiaozira
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Level 70
Dec 18, 2019
Hmm, that sounds like an Americentric way of looking at things too.. and Esperanto is too easily corruptable. I propose this quiz be changed to Proto Indo-European.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Feb 10, 2020
You're joking.
DonStar
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Level 41
Jan 3, 2017
Would never have got the Netherlands lake but did ok
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Jan 17, 2017
The "Dutch" clue provides that the answer ends in -meer and contains a J.
l1lvink
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Level 45
Jan 18, 2017
Really the wording for Ijsselmeer should be either "Lake in the Netherlands" or "Dutch lake".

What it currently says in equivalent to "England lake"

Sifhraven
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Level 67
Dec 20, 2019
You are right. The question shouldn't be on here in the first place though, it doesnt start with an i. In dutch the ij is one letter, basically the english y, but with the dots above it. And the overused argument "well this is an english quiz" (which people like to throw out there without even thinking about if itwas is in any way relevant) Then it still shouldn't be on here, English kept the same spelling as dutch (l believe all languages but afrikaans, for those with a latin alphabet). If it would have been anglicised it would be yssel lake.

Just a few examples of it being treated as one letter: if accents are used, it isn't just used on one half of the letter, but on both parts

When someone's name starts with it, its initial will show the whole thing. So for instance IJsbrand Peters will have the initials IJ. P.

In crossword puzzels etc the letter always takes up just one

square. So the word bij takes 2 squares not 3.

And both parts of the letter are capitalized

EcceHomo
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Level 78
Aug 27, 2020
Thanks Sifhraven, very informative. I have noticed many wise comments from you on various quizzes. Can you please answer me this? How do you pronounce the name Cruijff, as in Johan Cruijff? (Often now spelled - in the UK certainly - Cruyff). Does the vowel sound like 'ow' as in 'how', or like 'oy' as in 'boy'? Or is it neither? Or does it depend on one's regional accent?
Android1639
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Level 39
Apr 10, 2017
il de france didnt work somehow ...
schnuederlue
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Level 68
Dec 8, 2017
Maybe becaude it "Ile" not "Il"...
theperiodictable
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Level 47
Nov 18, 2018
*free*
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Dec 18, 2019
Yes, free. The citizens of western Europe were free to leave their countries. The citizens of Communist Europe were not. People trapped in the east risked death to escape to a better life in a non-Communist country, knowing that even if they succeeded they may never see their loved ones again. Be thankful you live in a free country. We don't know how good we have it.
PeregrineFalcon
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Level 76
Dec 19, 2019
There is a typo in the third clue: Crotia
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Dec 19, 2019
Okay, fixed
hunjtg
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Level 71
Dec 19, 2019
Iron curtain was/is the symbolic name of the physical barrier between the Communist and free Europe.

But the barrier existed: barbed wire / mined areas etc.

The definition is not completely correct.

ander217
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Level 75
Apr 22, 2020
In the beginning it wasn't a physical boundary. That came later, so I'd either way is correct.
Grahamp81
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Level 43
Oct 18, 2021
The term Iron Curtain was used by Winston Churchill to describe the partitioning of Europe in a speech in March 1946 before any of the actual physical barriers were in place. He said “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

The actual barriers came as the eastern block started to put more restrictions on travel.

HinesBrothers
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Level 75
Dec 19, 2019
can you accept Ipswitch please?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 19, 2019
Okay
Blaidd
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Level 51
Apr 22, 2020
Why?
Arp2600
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Level 86
Dec 21, 2019
I don't think the question about India is a good idea. It's related to the UK, but it's not an European answer...
hellodrew
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Level 65
Apr 22, 2020
Agree, there's so many other better questions that could be used, it should be changed.
undeadwarrior
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Level 63
Jan 1, 2020
India is not a part of Europe
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 12, 2020
Somebody forgot to tell Empress Victoria
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
But it relates to a European country by being the largest source of immigrants to that country.
ctleng76
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Level 65
Apr 24, 2020
I agree. This one stumped me for a while, because I figured all answers had to be European.
OceanSunfish
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Level 68
Apr 22, 2020
Great quiz, though having both "Italy" and "Italian" as answers does feel a touch repetitive.
letzi
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Level 75
Apr 22, 2020
Actually Georgi is the most common male name in Bulgaria. Ivan is a close second.
TeaWithToast
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Level 70
Aug 12, 2020
Can we add "Ithica" to count for Ithaca?
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Dec 7, 2020
I did get Islay, but I had no idea it was in the Hebrides. Somehow, I thought the Hebrides were much further away from the coast. Seems like I learnt something!
NJR
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Level 60
Apr 9, 2021
If you included the city in Australia as well as the town in Suffolk in the clue, given that it is larger, I would have got that one.
Grahamp81
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Level 43
Oct 18, 2021
I would be interested in where the figures for immigration to the UK come from and over how long they are measured. I could not find any source for the answer,

I had wanted to answer Ireland on the basis that immigration from Ireland had been going on since the 1200's and Ireland provided a lot of the labour for building the canals and railways in the 1800's. The term 'Indian' for immigrants also covers Pakistan, Bangladesh and, in the 1960's, East Africa. This followed Uganda's expulsion of the Indian heritage population and associated immigration from other East Africa countries following general hostility to people of Indian heritage.

goofycritter
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Level 29
Oct 18, 2021
i'm pretty sure that the most common Russian name is Ivanov
XeryusTC
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Level 61
Jul 3, 2022
IJ should not be accepted for IJsselmeer as it is a different body of water that runs through Amsterdam and ends in the IJmeer/Markermeer. Nor should IJssel be accepted since it is a river that ends up in the IJsselmeer.
basedlukian
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Level 32
Mar 24, 2023
This is so misleading. The Iron Curtain was the barrier between "free Europe and communist Europe"? What the heck do you mean with "free Europe"? Do you want to imply that the socialist (btw., not communist) states weren't explicitly free? Or do you really think the NATO countries were particularly free? Common anti-communist L.
cmr0
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Level 70
Jun 1, 2023
Ikr. The United States and the United Kingdom were the ones who proposed Iron Curtain. USSR couldn't do much to prevent it
rdiazjry2k
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Level 60
Feb 29, 2024
Tell that to everyone who fought tooth and nail to leave the USSR every year. Yes in comparison to the USSR the rest of Europe was free. Common communist L
Gigalol12
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Level 55
Apr 4, 2023
Please accept Ithaki
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