European Cities A-Z by Clue #1

Based on the clues, can you guess these European cities which start with each letter of the alphabet?

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First submitted	June 17, 2013
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	Hint	City
A	Center of the world's diamond industry	Antwerp
B	Capital of Catalonia	Barcelona
C	Hosts the world's most prestigious film festival	Cannes
D	Mostly destroyed by firebombing on 13 February 1945	Dresden
E	Built near an extinct volcano called Arthur's Seat	Edinburgh
F	Germany's financial capital	Frankfurt
G	Of all the cities in Europe, this one is closest to Africa	Gibraltar
H	Capital of Finland	Helsinki
I	Hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976	Innsbruck
J	Sherry wine comes from this city in Andalucia	Jerez de la Frontera
K	Second largest city in Poland	Kraków
L	In 1755, it was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami	Lisbon
M	Has the world's largest Oktoberfest celebration	Munich
N	Closest major city to Mount Vesuvius	Naples
O	Where you might see a don punting along a river	Oxford
P	Galileo supposedly dropped balls of different weights from city's tower	Pisa
Q	City in Brittany	Quimper / Quiberon
R	Known as "The Eternal City"	Rome
S	Four of the five Nobel Prizes are awarded here	Stockholm
T	Where the Concorde and Airbus A380 took their first flights	Toulouse
U	Largest city in the northern half of Sweden	Umeå
V	Where paella comes from originally	Valencia
W	In 1955, communist countries met here to sign a pact	Warsaw
X	City in Thrace spelled Ξάνθη in its native language	Xanthi
Y	Oldest city in northern England, founded by the Romans in 71 AD	York
Z	Where V. I. Lenin and James Joyce lived in exile	Zurich

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54 Comments

Level 43

Aug 18, 2013

First comment. Yeah, baby!

+25

Level 26

Aug 18, 2013

This is not YouTube. Aw, never mind.

Level 16

Dec 23, 2013

you should accept piza for pisa

Level 70

Nov 14, 2014

i can't stop laughing

+15

Level 78

May 27, 2016

Thin crust or regular?

Level 47

Jan 13, 2017

And Napoli for Naples

Level 63

Jun 27, 2023

This one works now.

Level 70

Jun 18, 2017

Well at least that last one's serious.

Level 70

Jun 18, 2017

Why do I say at least? Serious is boring.

Level 49

Aug 18, 2013

Technically, Gibraltar is a British overseas territory and not a city according to the European Union.

Level 94

Aug 20, 2013

Yes, Gibralter is an overseas territory, but the capital city of Gibralter is Gibralter. If you want to get picky, the Spanish town of Tarifa is closer to Africa, though it's just over half the size of Gibralter, so may not be counted a 'city.'

+11

Level 27

Sep 27, 2014

*Gibraltar. I'm sorry, I can't help it.

Level 94

Jul 9, 2015

Gah! I can NEVER spell that one correctly.

Level 60

Nov 1, 2015

I always Gibraltar with an e and never get it right haha

Level 68

Jan 8, 2017

I always too!

Level 59

Jun 15, 2020

Ah, Gibraltar. My favorite verb.

Level 47

Feb 22, 2022

I often Gibraltar, as well.

Level 35

Aug 18, 2013

Good quiz. Unfortunately got only 15 out of 25. Probably would have gotten 3 or 4 more if there was a little more time..lol.

Level 62

Aug 19, 2013

I think you can make a case for Quiberon or even Quimprele for Brittany.

Level 70

Jun 18, 2017

I'm aware that the term city is used loosely on this site, but where I like Quiberon and would love it to be on a quiz, Quimper is an actual city.

Level 7

Aug 20, 2013

i got them all oh yeah

Level 75

Oct 7, 2013

Didn't know Ekaterinburg was written in latinic with Y...

Level 57

Jan 12, 2014

It depends on the language. English uses Y, German J, French I.

Level 78

Jul 17, 2014

And in the Latin alphabet Jehovah begins with an I...

Level 50

Aug 24, 2017

@buck1017 Lol I get the reference

Level 96

Jan 13, 2019

only the penitent man shall pass

Level 73

Feb 6, 2019

Let it go, Indiana.

Level 70

Jul 11, 2019

You mean Junior.

Level 55

Jan 15, 2016

It's the only reasonable way. There is a "ye" sound at the beginning of the name.

Level 76

Sep 8, 2019

No, that sound can be represented with "je" and "ie" just as well

Level 56

Jun 20, 2022

I know it's the main way in English and I'm not complaining, but I didn't expect it either cause it starts with an E in Russian (which I know is sometimes pronounced as ye)

Level 23

May 25, 2014

Technically, the closest cities to Africa are Ceuta and Melilla, that belong to Spain. They're in fact in African territory, but they're spanish.

Level 27

Sep 27, 2014

Yes, but they're not in Europe.

Level 41

Jul 16, 2015

If you are in Africa, you cannot be close to Africa (:

+10

Level 70

Jun 18, 2017

Unless you jump.

Level 59

Feb 6, 2019

Well, technically, southern parts of Algeciras are closer to Africa than Gibraltar, but that really isn't helping the case for an answer starting with G, is it. ;-)

Level 56

Jan 15, 2016

You could've picked Oslo for O...

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Level 60

Mar 27, 2017

Yeah, learning new things sucks, right?

Level 73

Jan 15, 2016

nice quiz 26/26 3.50 left

Level 37

Jan 15, 2016

13/26 :/

Level 55

Oct 12, 2016

Tarifa is the southern most city, not Gibraltar

Level 66

Jan 13, 2017

Tarifa is a town, not a city. While Gibraltar is a city.

Level 77

Apr 16, 2026

Just measured it – 15.1 km for Tarifa, 21.3 km for Gibraltar. Clue should be changed.

Level 61

Apr 28, 2026

Town, not city! This quiz is about cities. To be fair I never knew Gibraltar is a city. You learn a new thing.

Level 37

Oct 1, 2017

This is the third time I take this quiz and the third time that I miss Quimper because I read "Great Britain" instead of "Brittany". I grew up in Brittany.

Level 65

Feb 6, 2019

Could you consider Anvers (French name) for Antwerp?

Level 76

Sep 8, 2019

No because antwerp is flemish, so antwerpen could be correct, the name in dutch, which is their official language. But not anvers otherwise you should accept the arabic or polish word for it too

Level 71

Apr 16, 2026

French, an official language of the country, with the same status as Arabic and Polish??

Level 54

Mar 4, 2023

🤓 well actually ceuta and melilla are closer to africa than gibraltar

Level 63

Jun 27, 2023

🤓 well actually they are in africa not europe

Level 75

Apr 19, 2026

FRENCH GUIANA AND NEW CALEDONIA ARE IN EUROPE

(sarcasm)

Level 95

Apr 16, 2026

Granada had me fooled. Gibraltar is a very small city…

Level 95

Apr 20, 2026

Gibraltar isn't the closest city to Africa. Tarifa is the closest, but even if we're pedantic and argue that's a town, Algeciras is still closer.

Level 61

Apr 28, 2026

Saying Tarifa is a town and not a city is about as pedantic as insisting that the Mediterranean is a sea and not an ocean. Granted about Algeciras though.

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