Smaller Cities That You May Know

Based on a clue, can you guess these places that have a population of 100,000 or less?

Many of these are technically villages or towns

Anyone who says "X is not a city" will be fed to wild beasts

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Pop.	Country	Hint	Answer
100,000	India	City in Goa named for a Portuguese explorer	Vasco da Gama
96,405	Spain	Pilgrims walk here to see the shrine of St. James	Santiago de Compostela
94,192	Ireland	City on the River Shannon which a type of poem is named for	Limerick
91,104	Italy	"Watch out below" said Galileo has he dropped objects from this city's leaning tower	Pisa
81,111	Mexico	Found on the tip of the Baja California peninsula	Cabo San Lucas
73,868	France	City on the Riviera with a famous film festival	Cannes
69,849	Greece	Namesake of a type of olive	Kalamata
54,453	Mali	Saharan trading post that had a Golden Age around 1500 A.D.	Timbuktu
37,074	–	Capital of Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain
35,259	Sparta	There's a statue of King Leonidas here	Sparta
34,003	UK	Almost, but not quite, the southernmost point on the Iberian Peninsula	Gibraltar
30,174	Belgium	Napoleon lost his final battle near this town in 1815	Waterloo
28,034	Norway	It's not a tool used to smash flowers, it's the host of the 1994 Winter Olympics	Lillehammer
26,534	Australia	To see Uluru, tourists commonly fly into here	Alice Springs
25,358	Italy	The modern city was founded in 1891, nearly 2 millennia after the ancient city was buried in a volcanic eruption	Pompei
25,266	Palestine	Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar came to this town bearing gifts in the year 1 A.D.	Bethlehem
15,650	Australia	City named in honor of Queen Victoria that people visit on their way to Milford Sound	Queenstown
11,226	UK	As I was going here, I met a man with seven wives ...	St Ives
8,706	UK	While the metropolitan boroughs have a population of several million, the city itself has just 8,706	London
7,847	Canada	Town that lies inside Canada's first national park	Banff

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75 Comments

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Level 73

Jul 3, 2020

But Quizmaster, the letter X is not a city.

+18

Level 65

Jul 3, 2020

Are you in the beast's mouth right now?

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Level 80

Jul 3, 2020

I don't regret missing St Ives, because I don't classify it as a city. I don't see no wild bea- . Oh wait. Please don't feed me to them. Please ple-

Level 76

Jul 3, 2020

Coincidentally die hard with a vengeance was on tv yesterday with that riddle.

Level 70

Aug 11, 2020

Hmm... a city named X in Belgium in which wild beasts live?

Level 70

Feb 24, 2023

rip

Level 47

Jan 28, 2025

have you ever heard of a rich person named "Elon Musk"

Level 87

Jul 3, 2020

Out of curiosity, where did you get the names Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar? The wisemen aren't named (or numbered) in my Bible. I found this in Britannica, though:

"Eastern tradition sets the number of Magi at 12, but Western tradition sets their number at three, probably based on the three gifts of “gold, frankincense, and myrrh” (Matthew 2:11) presented to the infant."

Level 72

Jul 4, 2020

There's no reason to think they arrived at Bethlehem, either.

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Level 79

Aug 11, 2020

These names appear in Western Christian folklore going back at least as far as the 5th century and probably earlier. Eastern Christian traditions attach different names to the characters.

Level 88

Jul 3, 2020

The date for the magi seems a little bit off. Most historians estimate the birth of Jesus to have been c. 4 BC, based on modern analysis of the historical timeline. The visit of the magi is estimated to have been up to about 2 years later. In any case, most likely in a year we now describe as "BC."

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Level 87

Jul 3, 2020

Good call. Growing up, I always heard that the birth was either 4 or 7 BC, and that the magi showed up about 2 years later, which is why Herod ordered the death of all boys who were "two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men." (Matthew 2:16 KJV)

People tend to think of the wise men being present at the birth of Christ. Had that been the case, Herod only would have ordered the death of newborns.

At any rate, it probably wasn't 1 AD. Herod died in 4 BC and, thus, couldn't have received the magi in 1 AD. (And, historically speaking, there is no contemporary record of the Massacre of the Innocents occurring at all.)

Level 79

Aug 11, 2020

Well if we are going by the real facts of the life of the hypothetical historical Jesus, then there more than likely were no Magi, and no star, and no manger, and he was probably born somewhere else other than Bethlehem. The clue references Christian tradition, and according to popular mainstream Christian tradition (Christian scholars probably disagree), Christ was born in 1 A.D.

Level 74

Feb 24, 2023

Tradition says Jesus was born on the 25th of December 1BC

He was circumcised on the 1st of January 1AD

The 3 Wise Men arrived on the 12th Day of Christmas, which would be the 6th of January, 1AD

Level 67

Feb 24, 2023

That was all invented centuries later. Myths and legends evolve to meet the needs of the story tellers and their times.

Level 57

Jul 3, 2020

What kind of wild beasts are we talking about?

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Level 80

Jul 3, 2020

Probably Belgian ones.

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Level ∞

Jul 3, 2020

No, that would be going too far.

Level 82

Aug 11, 2020

I didn't see any wild beasts when I was in Belgium.

Level 82

Aug 11, 2020

I didn't see any wild beasts when I was in Belgium.

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Level 70

Aug 19, 2020

Really? Not the second time either?

Level 48

Feb 24, 2023

lol

Level 63

Jul 4, 2020

Is Jetpunk slowly moving towards Incorporating Palestine into it's List of Countries? Recent Developments such as featuring the Palestine "Country" Quiz among others indicate so.

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Jul 4, 2020

Level 91

Aug 11, 2020

why is the country Palestine on the quiz especially since it was not called Palestine even when under Roman occupation?

Level 35

Feb 24, 2023

Bethlehem is within the West Bank, which is part of the Palestinian territories.

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Level 69

Jun 9, 2022

I've never understood why not. It is recognized by the United Nations... why not by Jetpunk??

Level 70

Feb 24, 2023

wow

Level 87

Jul 4, 2020

There was a Greenland quiz, too. It was to match the names of the other quizzes in the series. It's not a political statement.

Level 28

Jul 11, 2020

There should be a little known big cities quiz as well

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Level 89

Sep 14, 2020

There already are two. They're called 'All cities in India/China with a population of 1 million'.

Level 82

Aug 11, 2020

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat had seven kitts.

Kitts, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

Level 72

Aug 11, 2020

1, since the man, wives, sacks, cats and kitts were all going the other way.

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Level 71

Aug 11, 2020

The man and his wives were going to jail for polygamy and animal abuse.

Level 74

Feb 24, 2023

It depends on the mode of transport. If he met them while walking to St Ives, they were probably heading the other way, but if he met them on the train to St Ives they were probably going to St Ives too.

Level 63

Feb 24, 2023

0 or 1. It's unclear whether the narrator is a kitt, cat, sack, or wife.

Level 73

Aug 11, 2020

I first read this in my Mother Goose book in the 1950s. Momma Goose had some good riddles. My favorite was "Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess all went together to seek a bird's nest. They found a nest with five eggs in, they all took one and left four in." The answer was there was only one girl, Elizabeth, and the other names were her nicknames.

Level 67

Feb 24, 2023

I named a quiz after that riddle - Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess.

Level 66

Feb 24, 2023

This makes sense, but in a really forced bad sort of way. Not the best riddle imo

Level 71

Aug 11, 2020

Accept Sparti for Sparta.

Level 63

Aug 11, 2020

Doesn't Pompeii have two "i"s? Or does the new city name have one "i"?

Level 70

Aug 11, 2020

It seems like that both Pompei and Pompeii are used. Personally I’ve only seen Pompeii.

Level 72

Aug 11, 2020

I only got 1 point. What a Kalamata.

Level 89

Aug 11, 2020

All the answers are in alphabetical order, except Kalamata.

Level 82

Sep 10, 2020

It could be that Kalamata is in alphabetical order but London, Limerick and Lillehammer aren't.

Level 58

Aug 11, 2020

Palestine is not a country.

Level 44

Feb 26, 2023

Palestine is a county that has been around for thousands of years. Educate yourself.

Level 59

Jan 18, 2024

It is a disputed area that is being ruled by a terrorist group. All of it is owned by Israel, but it is mostly populated by "Palestinians" which are ethnic arabs that are Israeli. "Palestine" won't survive a year without the land that God gave to the Israelites as The Promised Land. If Israel really wanted to, they could completely self destruct the parts of Israel that are considered Palestine. I can see how people say that Palestine is an independent country. I will respect your opinion if you respect mine. Have a great day.

Level 62

Mar 13, 2026

Palestine is not a country recognized by JetPunk. Educate yourself

Level 66

Aug 11, 2020

please accept Sparti for Sparta, that is the modern name

Level 48

Aug 11, 2020

I thought gibraltar was a region not a city

Level 64

Aug 11, 2020

please accept Vasco as it is commonly known

Level 73

Aug 11, 2020

I guessed San Diego and Queentown - so close and yet so far away.

Level 79

Aug 11, 2020

Me: Huh, don't know the queen one and trying all the places in NZ I know didn't work, oh well.

Answer: Queenstown

Me: .............goddamnit

Level 79

Feb 24, 2023

London's an interesting one

Level 66

Feb 26, 2023

I think it's a mistake. Population of London is 8.700 however millions, not thousands. And around 12 with suburbs. Definitely well over 100k

Level 68

Feb 26, 2023

It's counting everything inside the city limits, which is way less than 1 million.

Level 58

Feb 24, 2023

Queenstown is nowhere near Milford Sound, Te Anau would be a far better answer for a town near Milford sound

Level 85

Apr 1, 2023

Te Anau is not named after Queen Victoria though, and it's not well-known enough to be on the quiz. Also, it says nothing about being near Milford Sound, just that people pass through it while going there.

Level 72

Feb 24, 2023

There are two towns in the UK called Saint Ives. One is in Cambridgeshire and the other one is in Cornwall.

Level 74

Feb 24, 2023

I was always told as a child that the riddle is about the Cambridgeshire one, although how my Dad knew this I don't know. He did go to boarding school nearby so maybe he was just biased!

Level 62

Feb 24, 2023

I think there's a typo in the description about Pisa. Should say "as" instead of "has."

Level 76

May 14, 2024

Never heard of Kalamata or cabo San lucas. That doesn't mean I got all the others though (and I feel asleep halfway through, so we'll never know if I would have gotten the last few)

Level 87

May 22, 2025

17/20, not bad!

Level 73

Aug 2, 2025

Please accept "City of London".

Level 85

Sep 8, 2025

Heads up, you've listed Sparta as the country, rather than Greece.

Level 70

Sep 24, 2025

Queenstown (and Milford Sound) are both in New Zealand, not Australia.

Level 73

Nov 17, 2025

That! Not only factually wrong but also touching a sore spot there for kiwis - needs a trigger warning ;-)

Level 43

Oct 7, 2025

There's a problem with the clue of Sparta

Level 88

Oct 11, 2025

What's with the Bethlehem clue? Sure it's a city, but it's derived from a questionable source, that didn't even name the magi. All the other clues seem rooted in fact.

Level 66

Nov 30, 2025

Aren't Milford Sound and Queenstown in New Zealand...?

Level 47

Jan 26, 2026

There's a Queenstown in Tasmania so Quizmaster probably messed those 2 up

Level 63

Dec 4, 2025

why does the clue for sparta say its in sparta?

Level 61

Jan 16, 2026

Sparta clue says sparta

Level 62

Mar 13, 2026

Ain't Sparta in Greece?

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