Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions #4 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Founded as a British penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia	Sydney	97%
The Burj Al Arab is frequently described as "the world's only 7-star hotel"	Dubai	81%
Hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984, and will also host in 2028	Los Angeles	76%
The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines	Rome	75%
The closest French town to England	Calais	70%
Lying on the northwest coast of Java, it is the largest metropole in Southeast Asia,	Jakarta	68%
The riots were set off by the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards	Delhi	66%
The third-largest metropolitan area in Florida behind Miami and Tampa Bay	Orlando	66%
The most visited border city in the world, sharing a border of about 24 km (15 mi) with its sister city San Diego	Tijuana	66%
Home to the largest ethnic Polynesian population of any city in the world, with a sizeable population of indigenous Māori people	Auckland	64%
Soweto, although eventually incorporated into the city, had been separated as a residential area for blacks only	Johannesburg	62%
The legendary home of Robin Hood	Nottingham	59%
Its natural port is competitive with the other great port of Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires	Montevideo	57%
Hitler ordered the entire city to be razed to the ground. About 85% of the city was destroyed, including the historic Old Town and the Royal Castle.	Warsaw	54%
Origin of the grunge subgenre of rock	Seattle	53%
The capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China	Guangzhou	51%
The birthplace of the important early physicist Galileo Galilei	Pisa	45%
On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 earthquake struck. Most of the central historic area of the city was destroyed.	Port-au-Prince	40%
The Beatles lived and played there from August 1960 to December 1962	Hamburg	29%
Has established the world-renowned research base for giant pandas	Chengdu	28%

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