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World Capitals by a Single Clue #1

We give you one clue: can you name the world capital?

Answer must match the yellow box!

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Quiz by Jerry928

Last updated: February 01, 2018

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Clue	City
European capital most distant from Moscow	Lisbon
You might throw a coin in this city's Trevi Fountain	Rome
Most populous city in the world in 1900	London
The capital was moved to here from Auckland in 1865	Wellington
Formed by the merger of Pest, Óbuda, and Buda in 1873	Budapest
South American capital that lies closest to the equator	Quito
On the Caspian Sea	Baku
Was Edo until 1868	Tokyo
The U.S. bombed this city in 1972	Hanoi
Built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan	Mexico City
On the Vistula (also called Wisła) River	Warsaw
Located in the region of Bohemia	Prague
About 500 miles from Hong Kong and Shanghai	Taipei
The capital moved here from Lagos in 1991	Abuja
The most populous metro area on a Caribbean island	Santo Domingo
South Africa's judicial capital	Bloemfontein
Located on the Dnieper River	Kiev
Renamed in 1812 in honor of Britain's king	Georgetown
African capital with 8 vowels and only 3 consonants	Ouagadougou
Asia's highest	Thimphu

SundarIsaacs

level 65

May 23, 2017

Points please QM.

Quizmaster

level ∞

Jun 5, 2017

Okay

cshtthomas

level 55

Jun 5, 2017

Did you mean 8 vowels and 3 consonants?

Jerry928

level 71

Jun 6, 2017

I did! Update on its way.

mammix

level 52

Jun 7, 2017

I knew which city is that, but I just couldn't spell it right :D Didn't help that in my childhood every map or globe had a different spelling of it...

Sulps

level 59

Aug 5, 2017

It would make more sense to spell it Wagadugu (best matches the orthography of other African languages) or Uagadugu but due to the influence of French, all the U-sounds are spelled "ou", giving us the mess that is Ouagadougou.

kariannepizza

level 55

Jun 12, 2017

Couldn't finish in time because I'm never able to spell Ouagadougou correct...

SundarIsaacs

level 65

Aug 5, 2017

Sadly Ouaga is accepted now. Why can't we learn to spell correctly?!

lucd13

level 61

Aug 5, 2017

I know - it's really putting me off Jetpunk altogether. The number of times my answer somehow starts with an E or some other missing letter from the previous answer just because an 'alternate' (read incorrect) version of spelling was accepted.

tshalla

level 66

Aug 5, 2017

Except that pretty much everyone in Burkina Faso calls it Ouaga?

PjotrL

level 62

Aug 5, 2017

Yet we need to fully spell "Republic" when it's quite clear what's going to follow when you type Dominican Rep... :p

redsplat

level 73

Nov 1, 2017

But no one calls it "Dominican Rep".

interopia

level 76

Jan 27, 2018

I hate it when I spell Riyadh but it is accepted after just Riyad.

tshalla

level 66

Aug 5, 2017

I thought Ouaga, Georgetown, and Bloemfontein had particularly good clues.

anything22

level 46

Aug 5, 2017

reykjavik is further than lisbon

Lilylee

level 62

Aug 5, 2017

3320 km to Reykjavik, 3914 km to Lisbon.

ander217

level 75

Aug 5, 2017

Curvature of the earth - less the further north you go.

TheodoreE45

level 56

Aug 7, 2017

Umm, Lisbon is 4,626km from Moscow, and Reykjavik is 4,840km. Guess again.

Jerry928

level 71

Aug 7, 2017

Lilylee is correct, and Lisbon is definitely the answer. If you're still not convinced, measure it with a piece of string on a globe.

BlueDragon

level 58

Sep 5, 2017

4843km is Google's suggested quickest route to drive between the two, not distance as the crow flies. It involves driving through Belarus, Poland, Germany and Denmark, where you catch a ferry to Iceland. The ferry arrives at the east of the island, you then drive around the north of Iceland to get to Rejkavik. This is nothing like a straight line!

Sliema

level 21

Jan 31, 2018

Just call it agadu lol