Cities in European History #2 - Statistics

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Hint	City	% Correct
The largest city in the world in the year 1900	London	98%
Where the Reichstag fire happened in 1933	Berlin	96%
British forces seized it from Spain in 1704, but Spain still claims it today	Gibraltar	88%
The French national anthem is named after this city	Marseille	86%
Settled after 1170 when a catastrophic flood created the Zuiderzee, a huge estuary connected to the North Sea	Amsterdam	79%
The earliest law restricting the ingredients in beer was enforced here in 1487	Munich	78%
City whose signature food item was named in honor of Queen Margherita in the late 1800s	Naples	74%
Where the Red Cross was founded in 1863	Geneva	72%
The setting of the novel "Ulysses", by James Joyce	Dublin	71%
In 1956, a revolt against Soviet rule was brutally crushed	Budapest	69%
Founded in 1550 by Gustav I of Sweden to compete for trade with the nearby city of Tallinn	Helsinki	69%
From roughly 880–1240, it served as the de-facto capital of the Rus	Kyiv	68%
Legend holds that Odysseus founded this city at the western edge of the known world	Lisbon	62%
Its name comes from the Old English Snotingaham, meaning "homestead of Snot's people"	Nottingham	60%
City which Joan of Arc helped liberate from an English siege	Orléans	55%
In 1714, Great Britain imported its monarch from this German city	Hanover	48%
Founded in 71 AD as Eboracum, it was the northernmost major settlement in the Roman Empire	York	43%
Once the capital of Castile, it was famous for making swords	Toledo	35%
In 1521, Martin Luther was summoned to the Imperial Diet in this German city and given the opportunity to renounce his views	Worms	27%
The last capital of the Western Roman Empire, it was later part of the Byzantine Empire. Tourists visiting today can see a mosaic of the emperor Justinian.	Ravenna	26%

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