History Quiz: Which City? #1

Four Nobel laureates in Physics were born in Hamburg: James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, J. Hans D. Jensen and Klaus Hasselmann, while Kiel was the birthplace of Max Planck and Ulm was the birthplace of Albert Einstein. Although no Nobel laureates in Physics were born in Stuttgart, the city was the birthplace of Gerhard Ertl, who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Greeks founded the city in the 6th century BC as Neápolis. Jaffa was founded much earlier, no later than 1800 BC. Tripoli was founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC, while Valencia was founded by the Romans in c. 138 BC.

It was known as Chang'an at the time, and it was the capital from 618 to 683 and later from 705 to 904. The other capital of the Tang dynasty was Luoyang. The other three cities in this question were all once capitals of historical states in China.

Teotihuacan was a powerful city-state long before the existence of the Aztec Empire, but was no longer particularly important by the time of the empire's formation.

The standoff involved three US Navy warships and three German warships, with the British corvette HMS Calliope monitoring the standoff. The standoff occurred between the two Samoan Civil Wars.

Paris was the capital of West Francia and Aachen was the capital of Middle Francia. East Francia had various capitals, including Frankfurt and Regensburg.

Mari was located within Upper Mesopotamia, only a short distance away from the Euphrates.

According to the Kano Chronicle, the first ruler of Kano, Bagauda, began his reign in 999. Kumasi was founded in around 1680 and became the capital of the Ashanti Empire. Kinshasa was founded next, in 1881 as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley, followed by Kigali in around 1907, when the German administrator and explorer Richard Kandt established it as his headquarters.

Salvador was founded on the 29th March 1549, Natal on the 25th December 1599 and Belém on the 12th January 1616. Belo Horizonte was founded as the second planned city in Brazil on the 12th December 1897.

Tabriz was the second capital of the Ilkhanate.

Edfu is home to a temple that was dedicated to Horus, which was built during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and a settlement located next to the temple that was originally founded during the Predynastic Period.

In 1970, Hanoi was the capital of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Aden was the capital of South Yemen and Brazzaville was the capital of the People's Republic of the Congo, while Addis Ababa was the capital of the Ethiopian Empire.

Toledo was the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom from 542 to 711.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati and Barack Obama was born in Honolulu.

The city was besieged by the Parliamentarians three times, with the third ending in a Parliamentarian victory.