| Description | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarter of the Nazi Party. | Munich | 83%
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| Its first name was Nieuw Amsterdam. | New York | 83%
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| The capital of the Francoist regime. | Madrid | 74%
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| Home of the cartel ruled by Pablo Escobar. | Medellín | 74%
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| Seat of the peace conference after the end of World War I. | Paris | 65%
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| Breakout of the Cyprus crisis of 1963/64. | Nicosia | 61%
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| Leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars. | Sparta | 57%
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| Economic and cultural centre of the Mali Empire. | Timbuktu | 52%
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| Capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest. | Cusco | 43%
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| Former capital of the Chinese Empire. Site of a famous massacre. | Nanjing | 43%
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| The cradle of Italian Risorgimento. | Turin | 43%
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| Home of the world's first purpose-built commodity exchange. Capital of world trade in the 16th century | Antwerp | 22%
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| City ruled by Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Normans. Sit of the court of Frederick II. | Palermo | 22%
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| The cradle of Christianity. Capital of the Seleucid Empire and later regional capital to both the Roman and Byzantine Empire. | Antioch | 17%
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| Capital of the Sikh Empire | Lahore | 17%
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| Site of a famous defeat of the Umayyad Caliphate against the Franks. | Poitiers | 13%
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| It served as the capital of Elam and the Achaemenid Empire, and remained a strategic centre during the Parthian and Sasanian periods. | Susa | 13%
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| Site of the peace establishing the principle "cuius regio, eius religio" in the HRE. | Augsburg | 9%
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| Near Bangkok. Capital of the Siam kingdom. | Ayutthaya | 9%
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| Capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla. | Gyeongju | 4%
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