| Hint | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Capital of Scotland | Edinburgh | 88%
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| City whose name is shared with one of the Great Lakes | Erie | 77%
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| Finnish city just west of Helsinki | Espoo | 69%
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| Capital of Devon and home to a Norman cathedral | Exeter | 63%
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| Largest U.S. city with a majority Hispanic population for much of its history | El Paso | 62%
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| Tech hub were Philips was founded and ASML resides now | Eindhoven | 57%
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| Home of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a UNESCO site | Essen | 57%
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| Home to North America’s largest shopping mall | Edmonton | 52%
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| Elite boarding school attended by many British prime ministers | Eton | 51%
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| Mystique city rumored to exist somewhere in Latin America, perhaps in the state of Missiones | Eldorado | 46%
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| Polish town that is both namesake for a nearby lake as well as a deer species | Ełk | 45%
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| City that Martin Luther called home between 1505 and 1521 | Erfurt | 44%
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| Dutch town that gave its name to a famous cheese | Edam | 43%
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| Home of the University of Oregon Ducks | Eugene | 41%
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| Was once the capital city of the Ottoman Empire before Constantinople | Edirne | 40%
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| Small city in Alabama that has the same name as the involuntary home of a small French man | Elba | 39%
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| Ugandan airport city linked to Israel’s 1976 hostage rescue operation | Entebbe | 38%
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| Highest city in the world whose population exceeds 1m | El Alto | 36%
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| Dutch city that is the home of FC Twente | Enschede | 34%
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| Nigerian city founded around coal mining | Enugu | 33%
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| An ancient citadel continuously inhabited for thousands of years stands at the centre of this city | Erbil | 32%
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| City near the world’s tallest trees | Eureka | 30%
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| A Peruvian city that differs one letter from the name above | Etén | 29%
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| Coastal town at the mouth of the River Exe | Exmouth | 29%
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| Town next to Wageningen linked to WWII airborne operations | Ede | 28%
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| City in home region of many Olympic long-distance runners | Eldoret | 28%
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| Biggest suburb of California’s capital that contains the city name above | Elk Grove | 28%
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| English seaside resort on the south coast | Eastbourne | 27%
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| Mindanaon provincial capital sharing its name with a country | El Salvador | 27%
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| Danish city at the northern end of the UNESCO Wadden Sea | Esbjerg | 27%
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| Student city of close to a million inhabitants that is famous for its tram network called EsTram | Eskisehir | 27%
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| Most remote permanent settlement on Earth | Edinburgh of the Seven Seas | 26%
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| City known for cowboy poetry festivals in northern Nevada | Elko | 26%
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| Dutch town whose zoo became a safari-style park that you can drive through | Emmen | 26%
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| Spanish city famous for Europe’s largest palm grove | Elche | 23%
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| Industrial city whose name literally means “electric steel” | Elektrostal | 23%
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| New York suburb that shares it name with one of the most famous people of all time | Elizabeth | 23%
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| Resort with coral reefs on the Red Sea | Eilat | 22%
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| Iranian city once described as “half the world” | Esfahan | 22%
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| City on the Volga river, opposite to Saratov | Engels | 21%
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| Hungarian commuter city rapidly growing near the capital | Érd | 21%
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| A cathedral nicknamed the “Ship of the Fens” rises above this English city | Ely | 20%
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| City known for Seljuk monuments like the Twin Minaret Madrasa | Erzurum | 20%
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| Westernmost port of its country, transporting many volkswagens | Emden | 19%
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| Wine town famous for “Bull’s Blood” | Eger | 18%
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| Capital of Europe’s only Buddhist-majority region | Elista | 18%
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| Turkish city that expanded rapidly after construction of a nearby massive dam | Elazig | 17%
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| Polish city on the Vistula Lagoon | Elblag | 17%
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| Portcity where Baja-style fish tacos are very popular | Ensenada | 17%
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| Struck by a genocidal massacre near the end of 2025 that went largely unreported | El Fasher | 16%
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| Where Barcelona’s main airport resides | El Prat de Llobregat | 16%
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| City repeatedly rebuilt after devastating earthquakes in Turkey | Erzincan | 16%
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| Benelux steel center that became a European Capital of Culture in 2022 | Esch-sur-Alzette | 16%
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| Historic city with a Roman temple and a chapel lined with bones | Évora | 15%
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| City in Coffee County where you are encouraged to start a business | Enterprise | 14%
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| Location of the world’s largest building by volume | Everett | 14%
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| Yangtze city that hosts a huge cargo airport hub | Ezhou | 14%
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| Planned Baroque university town closely associated with Siemens | Erlangen | 13%
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| Capital of a disputed desert territory that famously stays grey on maps | El Aaiún | 12%
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| Tuscan town whose football club briefly reached Serie A | Empoli | 12%
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| Oriental version of The Big Smoke | East London | 11%
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| Developed around a large Ottoman fortress built after the Gothic invasions of Illyria | Elbasan | 11%
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| Major turmeric trading center in Tamil Nadu | Erode | 11%
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| One of the world’s most densely populated urban areas | Ecatepec de Morelos | 10%
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| Historic trading center for gum arabic in Sudan | El Obeid | 10%
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| Municipality in a tiny Alpine principality | Eschen | 10%
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| City at the heart of Nicaragua’s cigar industry | Esteli | 10%
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| Agricultural boomtown covered by greenhouses visible from space | El Ejido | 9%
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| City dominated by Hungary’s largest basilica | Esztergom | 9%
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| Industrial hub located close to San Pedro Sula | El Progreso | 8%
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| Oil boom city in eastern Venezuela | El Tigre | 8%
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| Town after which a famous island is indirectly named | Ellesmere | 7%
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| Egyptian city that is composed of 4 words | El Mahalla El Kubra | 7%
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| Third largest city in its small European country | Encamp | 7%
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| City whose name translates to the nickname of the island above | Esmeraldas | 7%
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| Coastal town famous for its timezone of UTC+08:45 | Eucla | 7%
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| Township associated with anti-apartheid activism | Evaton | 7%
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| Planned postwar town sometimes called Scotland’s first “new town” | East Kilbride | 6%
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| City on a famous desert peninsula near Gaza | El Arish | 6%
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| Gateway town to the Perito Moreno glacier | El Calafate | 6%
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| Atlantic port once fortified by the Portuguese but now part of Morocco | El Jadida | 6%
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| Brazilian town in the state of São Paulo, famous for its weekly arts market | Embu das Artes | 6%
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| City once nicknamed “Crescent Valley” | Evansville | 6%
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| Inland port on the Murray river between Mildura and Albury | Echuca | 5%
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| Trading city famous for dinosaur statues on the border between two gigantic countries | Erenhot | 5%
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| Town whose name means “hot waters” in Catalan | Escaldes-Engordany | 5%
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| African city that contains all vowels in its name | Essaouira | 5%
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| German town badly damaged by floods in 2021 | Euskirchen | 5%
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| Border crossing town with an animal in its name | Eagle Pass | 4%
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| Star-shaped fortress city on the other side of the border from Badajoz | Elvas | 4%
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| Famous seaside cliffs can be found here | Étretat | 4%
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| Super remote town near beaches ranked among the whitest on this southern continent | Esperance | 3%
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| Oldest city in its country, located on the Sûre river | Echternach | 2%
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| Tourist hotspot famous for limestone lagoons in the Philipines | El Nido | 2%
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| Dominican town famous for its traditional rodeo festival | El Seibo | 2%
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| City close to disputed islands with Argentina | Encarnacion | 2%
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| Tiny outback town claiming to be farthest from the sea | Eromanga | 2%
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| Hilltop fortress town once contested by empires in this Mediterranean state | El Kef | 1%
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| City where Louis IX was captured during the Crusades | El Mansoura | 1%
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| Town built on an island between two lakes on an emerald isle | Enniskillen | 1%
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