| History | Capital(s) | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Located within territory controlled by Japan before World War II (excluding Tokyo) | Majuro | Ngerulmud | Palikir | Pyongyang | Seoul | Taipei | 94%
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| Located within what used to be the Inca Empire | La Paz | Lima | Quito | Santiago | Sucre | 90%
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| Located within what used to be the Swedish Empire (excluding Stockholm) | Accra | Helsinki | Riga | Tallinn | 88%
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| Located within what used to be the Neo-Assyrian Empire (including vassals) | Amman | Baghdad | Beirut | Cairo | Damascus | Jerusalem | Kuwait City | Nicosia | 84%
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| Visited by Peter the Great during his second trip around Europe | Amsterdam | Copenhagen | Paris | 83%
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| Located on the site of a capital of the Mongol Empire | Beijing | 77%
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| Located within what used to be the Khmer Empire | Bangkok | Phnom Penh | Vientaine | 75%
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| Hosted the Winter Olympic Games | Oslo | Sarajevo | 74%
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| Hometown of a passenger on the Titanic (excluding Europe and North America) | Bangkok | Beirut | Buenos Aires | Cairo | Cape Town | Lima | Montevideo | Tokyo | 72%
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| Founded or settled by the Phoenicians | Beirut | Lisbon | Tripoli | 72%
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| Former member of the Hanseatic League | Berlin | Riga | Stockholm | Tallinn | 70%
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| Was once the capital, or is located on the site of the capital, of an empire within the Americas | Mexico City | Port-au-Prince | 70%
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| Capital of one of the Central Powers of the First World War (excluding Berlin) | Budapest | Sofia | Vienna | 68%
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| Built upon a Maya city | Guatemala City | 68%
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| Located within what used to be the Carolingian Empire (including tributary states) | Amsterdam | Andorra la Vella | Berlin | Bern | Bratislava | Brussels | Budapest | Liechtenstein | Ljubljana | Luxembourg | Monaco | Paris | Prague | Rome | San Marino | Vaduz | Vatican City | Vienna | Zagreb | 67%
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| Controlled by Australia (excluding Canberra) | Port Moresby | Yaren | 63%
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| Damaged by an earthquake before 1900, in the Americas | Caracas | Lima | Port-au-Prince | Quito | Santiago | 61%
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| Founded or settled by German colonists in Africa | Dodoma | Gitega | Kigali | Lomé | Windhoek | Yaoundé | 61%
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| Visited by Ibn Battuta | Algiers | Baghdad | Beijing | Cairo | Damascus | Jerusalem | Muscat | New Delhi | Sana'a | Tripoli | Tunis | 53%
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| Founded after 1850, in Central Asia | Ashgabat | Dushanbe | 35%
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