Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions #1 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The home of Hollywood, a major center of the world entertainment industry	Los Angeles	99%
In the time of Ivan III, the Red Square appeared	Moscow	91%
Was the first city targeted by a nuclear weapon	Hiroshima	85%
German: München; Austro-Bavarian: Minga; Polish: Monachium	Munich	83%
Where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich defines the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude	London	77%
The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines	Rome	74%
Modern scholars now generally agree that the goddess takes her name from the city	Athens	69%
Was at the heart of the modernization of Siam	Bangkok	69%
Can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs"	Buenos Aires	68%
Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising sea levels	Alexandria	67%
The territory has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world, most surrounding Victoria Harbour	Hong Kong	66%
Some time in the 5th century, the Kaaba was a place of worship for the deities of Arabia's pagan tribes	Mecca	59%
Outgrew its original purpose as the first European outpost at the Castle of Good Hope	Cape Town	58%
In 1992, the city hosted the Summer Olympics	Barcelona	49%
Lieutenant James Cook, after leaving Botany Bay, saw the entrance to Port Jackson	Sydney	46%
It is also the largest city in the Maghreb region	Casablanca	45%
The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in the harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War	Havana	38%
Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal	Montreal	36%
Making them the world's second-closest pair of capital cities after Rome and Vatican City	Kinshasa	35%
Renowned for its Lujiazui skyline, and museums and historic buildings, such as those along The Bund	Shanghai	31%

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