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Hint	City	% Correct
Fashion capital of Italy	Milan	90%
The world's tallest building is located here	Dubai	87%
Capital of Turkey	Ankara	86%
Where the first modern Olympics were held	Athens	86%
Formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople	Istanbul	86%
Second city to be struck with an atomic bomb	Nagasaki	86%
City that was split in two until the 1990s	Berlin	84%
Suburbs include Santa Monica and Beverly Hills	Los Angeles	84%
Where the Beatles are from	Liverpool	83%
Kim Jong-un lives here	Pyongyang	83%
Where Bollywood is based	Mumbai	82%
Most populous city in Israel	Tel Aviv	82%
A "Tea Party" was held here in 1773	Boston	81%
Southernmost city on the African continent	Cape Town	81%
Largest city in Scotland	Glasgow	81%
Capital of Western Australia	Perth	81%
City home to Europe's most successful football club	Madrid	80%
Holy city of the three Abrahamic religions	Jerusalem	79%
Home to the largest celebration of the Carnival festival in the world	Rio de Janeiro	79%
Where "La Sagrada Familia" is under construction	Barcelona	78%
Most climbers of Mt. Everest will fly to this capital city	Kathmandu	77%
Four of its five boroughs are found on islands	New York	77%
Most populous city in South America	São Paulo	77%
Most Disney World visitors will fly to this city's airport	Orlando	76%
South American city whose name means "Fair Winds"	Buenos Aires	75%
Capital of Djibouti	Djibouti	75%
City that burned down in 1666 after a fire started on Pudding Lane	London	75%
Millions come here each year for the Hajj	Mecca	75%
Neighborhoods include Myeongdong and Gangnam	Seoul	74%
Where tourists can visit the "Forbidden City"	Beijing	72%
Capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, one letter away from the capital of Jamaica	Kingstown	72%
Most populous urban area in North America	Mexico City	72%
City famous for World War II war crimes trials	Nuremberg	72%
City with the busiest port in Germany	Hamburg	71%
Known for bicycles, canals, and its Red Light district	Amsterdam	70%
Come here to see the pyramids and the Great Sphinx	Giza	70%
Where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot	Sarajevo	70%
The central hub of the Shinkansen bullet train rail system	Tokyo	70%
Largest city on the island of Oahu	Honolulu	69%
Capital whose name means "City of Islam"	Islamabad	69%
Speaks English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil	Singapore	69%
North African city whose name means "three cities" in Greek	Tripoli	69%
Together with Kyoto and Kobe, this city forms Japan's second-largest urban area	Osaka	68%
Most Nobel Prizes are awarded here	Stockholm	68%
Hosted the 2022 World Cup final	Doha	67%
Gambling capital of Asia	Macau	67%
Napoleon captured this city in 1812, but would regret it	Moscow	67%
Capital of Yugoslavia	Belgrade	66%
Pakistan's most populous city	Karachi	66%
City for which the French national anthem was named	Marseille	66%
Western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway	Vancouver	66%
French city called the "Wine Capital of the World"	Bordeaux	65%
America's "Mile-High City"	Denver	65%
Largest city on the island of Sicily	Palermo	65%
Its seven hills include the Capitoline and Palatine	Rome	65%
Mexican city located just a few miles south of San Diego	Tijuana	65%
Belgian Olympic host city	Antwerp	64%
Only national capital starting with "Q"	Quito	64%
Located near the ruins of Carthage	Tunis	64%
Where Mozart was born	Salzburg	63%
Home to the busiest airport in the world	Atlanta	62%
Capital city just 60 km away from Vienna	Bratislava	62%
Home of the Sears Tower, once the tallest building in the world	Chicago	61%
Capital city whose name means "Holy Savior" in Spanish	San Salvador	61%
Where "Romeo and Juliet" takes place	Verona	61%
City whose ghetto uprising was crushed in 1943	Warsaw	61%
Founded in 1960, this planned city in South America was designed with the shape of an airplane	Brasília	60%
Most popular tourist destination on the Yucatan peninsula	Cancun	60%
Largest city in sub-Saharan Africa	Lagos	60%
This city is generally considered the center of the Enlightenment in the 1700s	Paris	60%
Famous for the Taj Mahal	Agra	59%
Largest city in Indochina	Bangkok	59%
Home of Pablo Escobar's cartel	Medellin	59%
The EU Parliament meets in this French city on the German border	Strasbourg	59%
Russia's largest Pacific port	Vladivostok	59%
Capital of Greenland	Nuuk	58%
Location of the 2014 Winter Olympics	Sochi	58%
National capital that begins with "Z"	Zagreb	58%
Major Mediterranean city named for the person who founded it in 331 B.C.	Alexandria	57%
Spanish city home to a Guggenheim Museum	Bilbao	57%
Judicial capital of South Africa	Bloemfontein	57%
Namesake of a type of red felt hat with a tassel	Fez	57%
Westernmost city on mainland Africa	Dakar	56%
Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion can be found here	Memphis	56%
Capital of Puerto Rico	San Juan	56%
Home to the U.N. International Court of Justice	The Hague	56%
Largest city on the Dnieper River	Kiev	55%
South American city, namesake of a type of bean	Lima	55%
Where Muhammad died	Medina	55%
Home to Schönbrunn Palace	Vienna	55%
Major city on the Potomac River	Washington D.C	55%
Formerly known as "The Paris of the Middle East"	Beirut	54%
City with the most skyscrapers in the world	Hong Kong	54%
African capital named after a U.S. president	Monrovia	54%
Formerly known as Danzig	Gdansk	53%
Formerly known as Leopoldville	Kinshasa	53%
City home to the largest French population in Africa until almost all of them left in the 1960s	Algiers	52%
Known as Nur-Sultan from 2019–2022	Astana	52%
Most populous city whose name starts with C	Cairo	52%
African city whose name means "White House"	Casablanca	52%
Largest city on Tasmania	Hobart	52%
Has the highest elevation of any national capital	La Paz	52%
Had the tallest buildings in the world from 1998–2004	Kuala Lumpur	51%
The Mongol sack of this city ended the Islamic Golden Age	Baghdad	50%
Largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, located at 6° south	Jakarta	50%
Capital of Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	49%
Most populous city in the Rhine-Ruhr area	Cologne	49%
You'll find the Lotus Temple here but you might have trouble seeing it as this city's air pollution is among the worst in the world	Delhi	48%
Major city on an island in the St. Lawrence River	Montreal	48%
Founded in 1703 where the Neva River meets the Baltic Sea	Saint Petersburg	48%
Destroyed by an earthquake in 1906	San Francisco	48%
Largest city on Hokkaido	Sapporo	48%
Captain Cook landed at this city's Botany Bay in 1770	Sydney	48%
Located at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile	Khartoum	47%
Capital of Tibet	Lhasa	47%
In ancient times this city on the Nile was known as Thebes	Luxor	47%
Southernmost city in the world with a population over 1 million	Melbourne	47%
The official capital of Myanmar	Naypyidaw	47%
City known for its Terracotta Warriors	Xi'an	47%
Home to the Atomium and Manneken Pis statues	Brussels	46%
Capital located on the island of Zealand	Copenhagen	46%
Pope John Paul II was bishop of this city, the second most-populous in its country	Krakow	46%
Formerly known as Stalingrad	Volgograd	46%
Former capital of Kazakhstan, still its largest city	Almaty	45%
Former capital of the Inca Empire	Cuzco	45%
Capital of Tanzania	Dodoma	44%
U.S. city nicknamed "The Big Easy"	New Orleans	44%
Capital of Niger	Niamey	44%
Central America capital that shares its name with a city in the Florida panhandle	Panama City	44%
The last Muslim city in Spain	Granada	43%
Served by the Tan Son Nhat International Airport	Ho Chi Minh City	43%
Main port of Kenya	Mombasa	43%
City north of the Rio de la Plata	Montevideo	43%
City which shares its name with the Thailand's largest island	Phuket	43%
Largest city on Puget Sound	Seattle	43%
Egyptian city famous for a dam	Aswan	42%
A Turkish city, not a D.C. superhero	Batman	42%
Largest city in Nova Scotia	Halifax	42%
Largest city on Lake Victoria	Kampala	42%
Largest Pashto speaking city	Kabul	41%
Most populous city in the Amazon	Manaus	41%
City whose name means "Southern Capital", it was brutally sacked by Japan in 1937	Nanjing	40%
Anglicized to Rangoon	Yangon	40%
Former capital of Belize	Belize City	38%
Formerly called Madras	Chennai	38%
Large East African city whose name is Arabic for "Abode of Peace"	Dar es Salaam	38%
City located near the Large Hadron Collider	Geneva	38%
Called Santa Fe before being renamed by Simon Bolivar	Bogota	37%
The Spanish-American war started after the U.S.S. Maine exploded in this city's harbor	Havana	37%
This "R" city is the easternmost major city in South America	Recife	36%
Headquarters of the African Union	Addis Ababa	35%
Largest city in Crete	Heraklion	35%
Site of the planned "Kingdom Tower" which, if completed, will be the tallest building in the world	Jeddah	35%
Largest city in Ecuador	Guayaquil	34%
Name shared by one of the ten largest cities in India and Pakistan	Hyderabad	33%
Across the river from El Paso	Ciudad Juarez	32%
Founded in 1496, this capital is the oldest European settlement in the Americas	Santo Domingo	32%
First capital of the Umayyad Caliphate	Damascus	31%
Capital of French Guiana	Cayenne	30%
Became the capital of Burundi in 2019	Gitega	30%
Capital of the Khmer Empire	Angkor	29%
Sustained major damage during the Easter Rising of 1916	Dublin	29%
Due to an oil boom, this African capital has sometimes been called the most expensive city in the world	Luanda	28%
This city of around 50,000 was completely abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster	Pripyat	28%
De-facto capital of Palestine	Ramallah	28%
Then known as York, it was destroyed by U.S. soldiers in the War of 1812	Toronto	28%
Terrorists stormed the U.S. consulate of this Mediterranean city in 2012	Benghazi	27%
City whose bay saw battles in both the Spanish-American War and World War II	Manila	27%
Capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur "Autonomous" Region	Ürümqi	27%
Former capital of Yemen	Aden	25%
Northernmost city in Colombia with a population over 500,000	Barranquilla	25%
Located on the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula	Cabo San Lucas	25%
Sudan's largest port	Port Sudan	25%
This city's "Sky Tower" is the second tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere	Auckland	23%
Second most populous urban area in the Philippines	Cebu	23%
Most populous city beginning with E	Edmonton	21%
U.N. troops landed here in 1950 to score a major victory in the Korean War	Incheon	21%
Largest city in Cameroon	Douala	20%
Also a word that means "to force someone to join a ship's crew by kidnapping"	Shanghai	16%
City near Kilimanjaro that starts with "A"	Arusha	12%

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