| Country | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| LK | Federal capital of Sri Lanka - Sri ______________ Kotte | Jayawardenepura | 100%
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| RU | City where the Amur and Zeya rivers meet; opposite China's Heihe | Blagoveshchensk | 33%
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| GB | English county whose largest city is the modernist Milton Keynes | Buckinghamshire | 33%
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| DE | Medium-sized city halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border | Mönchengladbach | 33%
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| CO | Notoriously humid city home to the country's largest oil refinery | Barrancabermeja | 0%
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| US | Largely Hispanic suburb of Chicago; on the banks of the Fox River | Carpentersville | 0%
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| US | Independent Virginian city infamous for its 'Unite the Right' rally of 2017 | Charlottesville | 0%
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| US | Maine lake straddling the towns of Winthrop, Monmouth and Litchfield | Cobbosseecontee | 0%
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| US | 55-mile-long Florida river with a Muscogee name; "Econ" for short | Econlockhatchee | 0%
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| JP | Town between lakes on the foothills of Mount Fuji (hint: Fuji's in the name) | Fujikawaguchiko | 0%
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| GB | English county whose namesake town is the largest on the River Severn | Gloucestershire | 0%
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| BR | Large suburb of São Paulo; founded in 1560 by Father Joseph of Anchieta | Itaquaquecetuba | 0%
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| GB | Former Scottish county whose name had long been known as "Mearns" | Kincardineshire | 0%
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| US | Notable French (later British) fort at the upper tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula | Michilimackinac | 0%
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| JP | Kyushu island city on the southern shores of its namesake peninsula | Minamishimabara | 0%
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| HU | City at the border point between Hungary, Austria and Slovakia | Mosonmagyaróvár | 0%
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| RU | City designed by 1960s architects; suburb of namesake capital of Chuvashia | Novocheboksarsk | 0%
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| RU | "New" oil-refinery city downwind of Samara metropolis on the Volga River | Novokuybyshevsk | 0%
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| ID | Independent city that is second largest in North Sumatra Province | Pematangsiantar | 0%
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| CA | Lake Huron town home to a former British naval yard and army base | Penetanguishene | 0%
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| RU | V-shaped lake in Chukotka; its Latin spelling lacks all five vowels | Pychgynmygytgyn | 0%
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| NZ | Traditional Māori name for the world's clearest natural freshwater lake | Rotomairewhenua | 0%
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| UA | City of Korsun-_____________; named for a famous Ukrainian poet | Shevchenkivskyi | 0%
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| UA | Major city in Luhansk Oblast under Russian occupation since June 2022 | Sievierodonetsk | 0%
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| IN | Major city of almost one million in Tamil Nadu; founded in 3rd century BCE | Tiruchirappalli | 0%
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