| Double letters | Clue | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC | The capital of Ghana | Accra | 90%
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| MM | The Jordanian capital | Amman | 90%
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| NN | The former capital of West Germany | Bonn | 87%
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| DD | Large Saudi city on the west coast | Jeddah | 87%
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| PP | Major city in NW Syria | Aleppo | 79%
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| ZZ | The capital of Congo | Brazzaville | 79%
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| OO | Large English port city famous for its football team | Liverpool | 77%
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| FF | City in western New York state | Buffalo | 69%
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| RR | Popular Moroccan destination | Marrakesh | 69%
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| EE | Name of a Scottish city, also associated with crocodiles | Dundee | 67%
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| LL | American city with a soap opera named after it | Dallas | 46%
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| TT | Louisiana city with the same name as a French writer and Parisian street | Lafayette | 33%
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| AA | State capital in western Germany | Saarbrücken | 31%
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| BB | Vancouver suburb whose name suggests a holy man crossing a river at a shallow point | Abbotsford | 26%
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| SS | Major Indonesian city on Sulawesi | Makassar | 26%
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| Large Syrian city on the Euphrates which was the capital of the Islamic State caliphate | Raqqa | 23%
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| HH | The capital of Inner Mongolia | Hohhot | 21%
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| WW | Lanarkshire locale named after a black bird and a forest | Crowwood | 13%
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| GG | Huge but little-known city in the Guangzhou metropolis | Dongguan | 13%
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| XX | Going back to an inland town in Malta near Birkirkara | Naxxar | 8%
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| JJ | Large, ancient central Indian city in Madhya Pradesh state | Ujjain | 5%
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| KK | City in Sindh, the 14th-largest in Pakistan | Sukkur | 3%
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| YY | The top-grade town at the southern edge of Giza on the Nile | Al ‘Ayyat | 0%
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| II | Central Finnish town in northern Savonia, where salami loses a part of its contents during the butchering process | Iisalmi | 0%
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| UU | Seaside town in SW Finland where you are sick; it makes you hanker for the golden age of punk | Uusikaupunki | 0%
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| VV | Frontline village on the railway between Kharkiv and Kupiansk; an East German might stop and think at a place like this | Vvedenka | 0%
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