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Name a Valid Capital #2

Name any valid national capital that belongs in each selected category.
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First submittedOctober 2, 2022
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Starts with the letter O
Oslo | Ottawa | Ouagadougou
Has two words in its name and the first word is "San"
San José | San Marino | San Salvador
Has a Z in its name
Zagreb | Vaduz | La Paz | Brazzaville
Has an average daily high temperature
of at least 33° Celsius
Khartoum | Niamey | N'Djamena | Bamako | +10 others
Has a latitude below 30° south
Wellington | Canberra | Montevideo | Buenos Aires |
Cape Town | Santiago
Is below sea level
Baku | Amsterdam
Is one of the 200 most common names
for babies born in the United States in 2021
Sofia | Santiago | Victoria | Kingston
Is not the only capital of the country
Sucre | La Paz | Pretoria | Cape Town | Bloemfontein
Is mentioned in the Old Testament
Damascus | Jerusalem
Is not one of the country's five largest cities
(by city proper population)
Bloemfontein | Canberra | Islamabad |
Rabat | Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte |
Sucre | Valletta | Washington D.C.
Is on a Caribbean island
Havana | Santo Domingo |
Port-au-Prince | Kingston | +9 others
Within sight of the Caucasus
Baku | Tbilisi | Yerevan
Within sight of the Himalayas
Islamabad | Kathmandu | Thimphu
Less than 75 km from another capital city
Rome | Vatican City | Kinshasa | Brazzaville |
Vienna | Bratislava | Amman | Jerusalem
Home to an emperor
Tokyo
A sailor could sail directly south and hit
Antarctica without hitting any land in between
Accra | Cape Town | Conakry | Dakar | Lima |
Lomé | Monrovia | Montevideo | Wellington
That, at one time, had the
world's tallest building
London | Kuala Lumpur | Taipei
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58 Comments
Arp2600
+7
Level 89
Oct 4, 2022
I don't think you would hit any land going south from Dakar, would you? (as well as Conakry, Accra, Lome, Monrovia...)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 4, 2022
Added Dakar, thanks.
AlexDerNice
+2
Level 34
Nov 2, 2022
What about Reykjavik? You wouldn't hit land by going south from there I guess
GoblinOfCooz
+3
Level 79
Apr 10, 2023
Look at a map. Reykjavik is on the southern shore of a bay. There's no water touching it to the south.
cpgatbyu
+3
Level 88
Oct 4, 2022
Wikipedia: "Bloemfontein . . . is one of South Africa's three capital cities and . . . is the seventh-largest city in South Africa."
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 4, 2022
Added that one, thanks!
WT2008
+6
Level 76
Oct 4, 2022
The world capitals quiz used to have Porto Novo and Cotenou as alternate capitals for Benin. Has Benin changed to a single capital now?
Fresco3
+2
Level 70
Oct 4, 2022
Seconding the Benin comment. Why doesn’t Cotonou/Porto Novo work?
DNAPoet
+20
Level 78
Oct 4, 2022
At one time the Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest building.

But great quiz!

Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Oct 4, 2022
The Eiffel Tower is a structure not a building.
AlexThirkell
+23
Level 74
Oct 5, 2022
It has several rooms, shops, bars etc inside it, why not?
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Mar 22, 2024
Because there is an international standards organization which decides these things.
DrWhoFanJ
+2
Level 64
Nov 2, 2022
I think the difference is that there isn’t technically an accessible “inside” to structures; you go to the Eiffel Tower/Washington Monument to see the structures, but you’d go to a house/library to do things inside them.

(And, before people try and “well ackchyually” me, yes, I know there are lifts and a viewing platform at the Eiffel Tower, but they’re more taking advantage of the tower’s shape rather than any actual interior space. If you removed the floor there, everyone would fall to the ground.)

(And the tiny room in the very top does not count, either; a single minuscule living space does not offset all the other lack of such.)

Zyper
+2
Level 60
Nov 2, 2022
Same reason why Great Pyramid of Giza was not the world's tallest building.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 22, 2024
And this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_radio_mast

"The Warsaw Radio Mast was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and was the world's tallest structure at 2,120 ft (646.38 m) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. The mast was designed for extreme height in order to broadcast Soviet propaganda around the world, including to the remotest areas such as Antarctica."

blizzrd33
+2
Level 81
Oct 5, 2022
Found the answer for the 3rd question when all of the answers to the 14th question were revealed :)
Minecraftyoshi2
+1
Level 57
Sep 28, 2024
Lol same
AbiA
+4
Level 88
Oct 5, 2022
Eswatini also has two capitals.
Wistful
+5
Level 72
May 11, 2023
I've been wondering about it. Wikipedia says Lobamba is the legislative capital, is there any specific reason it hasn't been included all these years?
fuanacdc
+1
Level 89
Oct 6, 2022
Wasn't the Washington Monument the tallest building in the world when it was built?
WillemLAif
+1
Level 81
Oct 7, 2022
More like the tallest structure for a few years.
DukeOfLorraine
+1
Level 67
Oct 13, 2022
Same reason why Paris (Eiffel Tower) didn't work
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 22, 2024
And Warsaw Radio Mast.
SCP5000
+3
Level 46
Oct 25, 2022
Add Cotounou and Porto-Novo for only 1 capital question
bizarre
+1
Level 73
Nov 2, 2022
Great quiz! I would add "after year x" to the last question, though: my mind went to medieval times.
BlackJohn
+3
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
Even in Medieval Times, the tallest structure in the world was the Great Pyramid of Giza which is not located in a capital.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
The Great Pyramid of Giza, in the urban area of Cairo (capital), was surpassed 1st by the Lincoln Cathedral (not in a capital), then the Washington Monument in Washington DC (capital), then the Eiffel Tower in Paris (capital), then the Chrysler and Empire State buildings in New York (not currently a capital), but I don't think QM is counting most of those as "buildings" including the pyramids.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
There are definitions of building that would put Washington DC (Washington Monument), Paris (Eiffel Tower), and Jerusalem (2nd Temple) on the list of capitals that were at times home to the world's tallest building. And maybe Istanbul for the Hagia Sofia if Istanbul were still a capital? Would have to look it up.

I know QM addressed this partially already, but, there are conflicting definitions of what a building is...

kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
could also throw Cairo on this list since the Great Pyramid is in Giza, basically a suburb of Cairo...
StampIron
+1
Level 84
Nov 2, 2022
It doesn't look like Valletta is one of the 5 largest cities in Malta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Malta
rubentexas
+1
Level 62
Nov 2, 2022
Why is Valletta not correct for the capital but 'not of the biggest 5 cities in the country' one? It's number 7 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Malta
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 2, 2022
Valletta will work now.
jyp
+6
Level 63
Nov 2, 2022
Great Quiz!

I'd like to suggest Ngerulmud as an answer for the "capital not one of the five biggest cities".

Palau, of course, doesn't really have cities, but it does have at least 5 towns. Ngerulmud, I've mentioned elsewhere, is just a hill with a population of zero. So I would say it's definitely not one of the five biggest cities (of which there are none) or even towns.

Then again maybe this is a bit too esoteric. Just a thought.

SkyjumperTalon
+12
Level 58
Nov 2, 2022
There's no way that Ouagadougou is not one of the most 200 common baby names
ddddan
+5
Level 85
Mar 9, 2023
The day-cares are overflowing with Ngerulmuds these days
FreeStater
+6
Level 81
Nov 2, 2022
Who names their child Kingston?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Nov 2, 2022
I know a couple with a child named Kingston. Nice people.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
I also know someone with a child named Kingston. Though I privately always hated their kid's name.
SometimesHim
+1
Level 68
Apr 27, 2026
That would be awkward talking with a geography nerd, and you don't know geography, imagine being like: "Hi, what's your name?" "Kingston." "Like the capital of Jamaica?" "No, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines." "Yeah ur wrong lol u don't know where your name comes from"
VictoriaWhite
+3
Level 53
Nov 2, 2022
Why does the last question not accept "Paris" as a response? When the Eiffel tower was unveiled it was the tallest building in the world meaning at one point Paris had the tallest building in the world
Walacama
+2
Level 83
Nov 2, 2022
It's not a building.
AkJMB
+2
Level 70
Nov 3, 2022
What makes a person an emperor? Pretty sure leaders in Beijing, Moscow, and Pyongyang all resemble historic emperors more than the current one in Japan.
Koopa
+1
Level 88
Dec 27, 2022
Enjoyable quiz.
SlimeDude
+1
Level 48
Aug 30, 2023
Im pretty sure the pyramids of Giza were the tallest buildings on the world untill 1311 (Cairo)
EcceHomo
+1
Level 86
Oct 10, 2023
It's the children's name question that took me the most time.
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 91
Oct 1, 2024
Same. I thought London or Paris would have made the list, but after those didn't work it took me awhile to come up with one of the valid answers.
EricF
+1
Level 81
Apr 6, 2024
Please accept Porto Novo/Cotonou
Amberv16
+2
Level 37
Apr 10, 2024
add Paris for tallest building
Greygate
+1
Level 67
May 24, 2024
Please clarify "Home to an emperor". I was really wondering why "Rome" did not work - Since it is home to many emperors like Augustus etc.

Also Vienna for Franz Joseph

lou00
+1
Level 58
Jul 17, 2024
The baby name question took me the longest. I was typing in Rome, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney.

Remembered Victoria right at the last 10 seconds.

tosti
+1
Level 50
Sep 28, 2024
Ngerulmud has a population of 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngerulmud
LBH
+1
Level 59
Oct 22, 2024
"it is estimated that 277 people live in the city."
CLD99
+1
Level 66
Jan 9, 2026
That has been removed from the Wikipedia page, so the only estimate there is, in fact, 0
dersououzala
+2
Level 84
Oct 7, 2024
Add Paris for the last question: The Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest building from 1889 to 1930.
CLD99
+1
Level 66
Jan 9, 2026
I was really surprised that Kingston was ahead of Havana in baby name popularity! Got it on Santiago, though.
person720
+1
Level 52
Apr 14, 2026
Why doesn't Ngerulmud work? It has a population of 0.
AzureSky
+1
Level 46
Apr 20, 2026
hmm... I'm gonna name you Kingston! like bruh what the heck
GeographyBAHRAIN
+1
Level 65
May 17, 2026
Update to Equatorial Guinea's new capital? Ciudad de La Paz
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