| Country | Clue | Capital City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seychelles | Named for a British queen | Victoria | 82%
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| Kuwait | Captured by Iraqi forces in 1990 | Kuwait City | 77%
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914 | Sarajevo | 77%
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| Bangladesh | The largest Bengali-speaking city in the world | Dhaka | 74%
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| Romania | It first became a capital in 1459 under Vlad the Impaler | Bucharest | 66%
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| Belarus | Spelled Мінск in its native language | Minsk | 66%
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| Senegal | Westernmost city on the mainland of Africa | Dakar | 65%
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| Kenya | Where Barack Obama's father died in 1982 | Nairobi | 65%
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| Afghanistan | Located in a valley of the Hindu Kush mountain range | Kabul | 60%
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| Luxembourg | Along with Brussels and Strasbourg, it is one of three capitals of the EU | Luxembourg | 60%
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| Libya | Its name reflects its origin as three different cities or, in Greek, "poli" | Tripoli | 59%
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| Cuba | Home to the Tropicana nightclub | Havana | 58%
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| Kazakhstan | Known as Nur-Sultan from 2019–2022 | Astana | 56%
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| Switzerland | Where Albert Einstein worked as a patent examiner | Bern | 53%
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| Trinidad and Tobago | Founded by Spain in 1560 with the name "Puerto España" | Port-of-Spain | 52%
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| Jordan | The largest city in the Levant | Amman | 37%
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| Ethiopia | Serves as the headquarters of the African Union | Addis Ababa | 32%
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| Albania | Its international airport is named in honor of Mother Teresa | Tirana | 32%
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| Colombia | Has the highest elevation of any city in the world with a population over 5 million | Bogotá | 26%
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| D. R. Congo | Established as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881, it today has a population over 15 million | Kinshasa | 21%
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