| Hint | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 2) The birthplace of modern democracy | Athens | 99%
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| 1) Belgian town where Napoleon methis final defeat | Waterloo | 96%
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| 11) Former Soviet capital, also called Leningrad | St Petersburg | 94%
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| 4) Capital of the vast empire lasting until itsfall in 476 AD | Rome | 93%
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| 10) City where Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in1914 | Sarajevo | 93%
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| 18) Eastern capital of the Roman empire, once called Constantinople | Istanbul | 88%
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| 3) This powerful city-state defeated the above inthe Peloponnesian War | Sparta | 88%
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| 14) Widely considered the birthplace of the EuropeanRenaissance | Florence | 87%
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| 8) This North African city defeated Rome in thePunic Wars | Carthage | 85%
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| 5) One of the largest shipbuilding ports, includingthe construction of the Titanic | Belfast | 84%
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| 25) Christopher Columbus hailed from this Italian port city | Genoa | 81%
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| 19) Mozart was born in this Austrian city in 1756 | Salzburg | 81%
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| 12) This Crimean city held the Allied conference of 1945after WW2 | Yalta | 79%
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| 9) This town was the birthplace of William Shakespeare | Stratford | 72%
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| 21) William of Normandy defeated King Harold of Englandin this town in 1066 | Hastings | 69%
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| 7) Was called Smyrna during the Greek reign | Izmir | 66%
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| 15) This Croatian coastal city built stone walls during theMiddle Ages to protect from sea invasions | Dubrovnik | 64%
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| 17) Walled city in England on the River Ouse built by the Romans | York | 63%
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| 22) A German invasion of this Russian city, then known asStalingrad, occurred from July 1942-Feb 1943 | Volgograd | 54%
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| 23) This German city was the site of this Napoleonic battlein 1813 | Leipzig | 46%
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| 6) Bulgarian city home to the Roman amphitheater of Philippopolis | Plovdiv | 46%
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| 24) Beethoven was born in 1770 in this German town | Bonn | 33%
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| 13) The "Diet" of this German city was held to proveMartin Luther as a heretic of the state | Worms | 30%
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| 16) Norwegian coastal city captured by the Nazis duringthe campaign of April-June of 1940 | Narvik | 27%
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| 20) Nikola Tesla was born in this rural Croatian townin 1856, though he was Serbian | Smiljan | 0%
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