World Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions - Statistics

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Description	Answer	% Correct
The name is indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel	Amsterdam	95%
The name is often wrongly abbreviated to 'Barça', this name refers only to the local football club	Barcelona	94%
SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in this city	Wuhan	91%
The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of "Sin City"	Las Vegas	87%
Widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy	Athens	84%
Home to the tallest twin buildings in the world	Kuala Lumpur	83%
Had the largest decline in population of the past 60 years of the large shrinking cities in the USA	Detroit	78%
The closest national capital to the equator	Quito	78%
Located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa	Brazzaville	74%
Known between 1998 and 2019 as Astana	Nur-Sultan	72%
Located in the center of the world's largest rainforest	Manaus	63%
In the Americas, the largest predominantly English-speaking city south of the United States	Kingston	56%
Home to the largest Polynesian population in the world	Auckland	50%
The highest national capital by elevation among the island countries	Antananarivo	26%
Takes its name from an explorer whose name itself originates from the Dutch city of Coevorden	Vancouver	8%

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