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World Cities A-Z by Clue #2

Based on the clues, can you guess these cities which start with each letter of the alphabet?
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City
A
Found in the middle of the Australia Outback
Alice Springs
B
Located about 80 km north of the ruins of Babylon
Baghdad
C
Also the name of a 1942 film which won an Oscar for Best Picture
Casablanca
D
Center of the U.S. automobile industry
Detroit
E
Northernmost city which has an NHL hockey team
Edmonton
F
Capital of Madeira
Funchal
G
Capital of Jalisco, Mexico
Guadalajara
H
Kowloon is part of this city
Hong Kong
I
Third largest city in Turkey, once known as Smyrna
İzmir
J
The Mponeng Gold Mine near this city extends 4.0 km below the surface,
making it the deepest mine in the world
Johannesburg
K
Formerly known as Calcutta
Kolkata
L
Second largest city in France (metro area)
Lyon
M
Second largest city in France (city proper)
Marseille
N
According to one song, its the "concrete jungle where dreams are made of"
New York
O
Ukrainian city on the Black Sea
Odessa
P
Where the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed
Philadelphia
Q
Walled city downriver from Montreal
Quebec City
R
Where Mohammed bin Salman lives
Riyadh
S
Founded by Peter the Great in 1703
St. Petersburg
T
Served by Ben Gurion International Airport
Tel Aviv
U
Located in northeast Thailand, near the border with Laos
Udon Thani
V
Where "The Blue Danube" waltz premiered in 1867
Vienna
W
Capital named for the victorious British general at Waterloo
Wellington
X
Borough of Mexico City which is the only place where the critically-endangered
axolotl can be found in the wild
Xochimilco
Y
Capital of Armenia
Yerevan
Z
Off the coast near Dar es Salaam
Zanzibar City
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35 Comments
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Level 36
Jan 9, 2014
Zanzibar is not a city... still got it.. but its not a city.
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Level ∞
Jan 9, 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_City
+6
Level 36
Jan 9, 2014
I stand corrected, everyone called it Stone Town when I was there
+1
Level 72
Jan 10, 2014
Stone Town is a part of it.
+1
Level 78
Jun 8, 2016
Right. A small, gorgeous part.
+11
Level 59
Aug 7, 2014
Udon Thani ? C'mon ! No other city starts with an U ?
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Level 84
Nov 25, 2015
Ulan Bator, but quizmaster used that in version one of the quiz. The only other very well known city I can think of is Udaipur. Not much to choose from otherwise. Maybe Ürümqi and Uberlandia (which I have encountered on this site), Uppsala or Utrecht? Some variation in answers is nice though, so I fully support Udon Thani, event if I didn't get it.
+5
Level 73
Jun 8, 2016
Or just Ur. Can't see anything saying they have to be modern cities
+2
Level 64
Jun 10, 2016
Ullapool, in Scotland, except it's only a village...haha
+11
Level 73
Jun 14, 2016
Seriously? Ufa, Ussuriysk, Ulyanovsk and Ulan-Ude (Russia), Ulm (Germany), Ulsan (South Korea), Umea and Uppsala (Sweden), Urumqi (China), Utrecht (Netherlands) and Uzhhorod (Ukraine)
+7
Level 76
Mar 27, 2020
Agreed, I am for Upsalla, Utrecht, or Ur or even Urumqi. Not against learning new things, but those are hard enough (above the usual) difficulty anyway
+1
Level 70
Apr 24, 2020
Uttoxeter - for fans of horse racing.
+2
Level 68
Mar 11, 2022
Upstate NY city named after the ancient city in Tunisia: Utica
+1
Level 79
Jun 8, 2016
I breezed through this quiz. Got Udon Thani immediately. But I've been to Thailand many times and even as I was typing it in I knew there were going to be complainers in the comments section.
+2
Level 56
Jun 15, 2016
You are my hero.
+2
Level 79
Jun 22, 2016
and you're the wind beneath my wings.
+6
Level 86
Dec 11, 2016
Get a room :)
+3
Level 72
Jun 8, 2016
Good way to learn more about Thailand!
+1
Level 78
Jun 8, 2016
Yeah - if I hadn't lived in Thailand, this would've been a very hard one. Maybe make a connection with Udon noodles?
+1
Level 70
Jun 8, 2016
I've been to Udon Thani in transit to Laos once, otherwise no way I'd have known this.
+1
Level 28
Nov 28, 2015
Quebec city is upriver from Montreal, not downriver
+7
Level 81
Dec 2, 2015
Wrong! Quebec city is closer to the ocean than Montreal and they are both on the St. Lawrence River, so Quebec City is downriver from Montreal.
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Level 70
Jun 8, 2016
"Better to remain silent ........... " As Abraham Lincoln said.
+4
Level 72
Jun 8, 2016
Kept typing Adelaide. Figured I must have misspelled it. Nope, just wrong.
+2
Level 63
Jun 8, 2016
Tried that one too but then remembered Adelaide is on the coast and not in the Outback.
+3
Level 59
Jun 8, 2016
Fortunately, Alice Springs Chicken is in the middle of the menu at The Outback as well.
+2
Level 88
Jun 8, 2016
I too, have Outback Steakhouse to thank for getting that clue so easily! Don't remember if originally I looked it up, or there was a map on the menu, but remember thinking that Alice Springs is pretty close to the dead center of Australia. Or, maybe it was Priscilla...?
+3
Level 80
Jun 8, 2016
In fairness, calling Alice Springs a city is pretty charitable to Alice Springs.
+1
Level 55
Jun 9, 2016
I couldn't work out why just "Alice" wouldn't work - most of the time we just say 'Alice' and everyone knows where we are talking about.
+2
Level 84
Jun 9, 2016
Alice Springs? (sign) It has all of about 28,000 people. Los Angeles, New York, London, - pick an actual city and they fart suburbs bigger than that. A user might expect a quiz asking for names of cities to have answers that are...cities?
+3
Level 66
Apr 20, 2026
Funnily enough, Alice Springs has more people guessing it than Johannesburg
+1
Level 81
Jun 10, 2016
Ben Gurion airport is in Lod even though it is TLV and widely considered to be in Tel Aviv. Sde Dov airport is in Tel Aviv.
+2
Level 68
Feb 1, 2017
Thank-you for forcing me to learn to spell Kolkata correctly- every other quiz up until now I've lazily used the Anglicised version. And now I read the comments and find I could've avoided all that guesswork!
+1
Level 67
Mar 11, 2022
24/26. I'm not complaining.
+1
Level 92
Apr 28, 2026
How did no one pull them aside and say "concrete jungle where dreams are made of" makes no sense?