| Hint | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The "Bay Area" | San Francisco | 97%
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| Capital of Chile | Santiago | 97%
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| Capital of Bulgaria | Sofia | 95%
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| Has a famous opera house | Sydney | 95%
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| Capital of Yemen | Sana'a | 94%
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| Most populous in South America | São Paulo | 94%
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| Where Nobel Prizes are awarded | Stockholm | 94%
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| Russia's imperial capital | St. Petersburg | 94%
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| Capital of California | Sacramento | 93%
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| Micronation surrounded by Italy | San Marino | 93%
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| Where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914 | Sarajevo | 90%
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| Where you can find Gangnam | Seoul | 90%
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| Home to the Pudong skyline | Shanghai | 90%
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| Costa Rican capital or Bay Area city | San Jose | 89%
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| HQ of Amazon and Starbucks | Seattle | 89%
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| World's only true city-state | Singapore | 89%
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| City home to the Mormon church | Salt Lake City | 87%
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| Birthplace of Mozart | Salzburg | 86%
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| Capital of North Macedonia | Skopje | 84%
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| Capital of Andalusia | Seville | 83%
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| Witch trial city | Salem | 82%
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| Rival to ancient Athens | Sparta | 81%
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| Egyptian city and a canal terminus | Suez | 79%
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| Capital of Puerto Rico | San Juan | 78%
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| Bolivia's constitutional capital | Sucre | 78%
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| Host of the 2014 Winter Olympics | Sochi | 76%
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| Site of the Alamo | San Antonio | 75%
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| Capital of New Mexico | Santa Fe | 75%
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| Where "Anchorman" is set | San Diego | 74%
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| World capital whose namemeans "Holy Savior" | San Salvador | 74%
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| "Steel City" of Northern England | Sheffield | 72%
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| Largest city on Hokkaido | Sapporo | 71%
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| Largest city in Fiji | Suva | 71%
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| Croatia's second largest city | Split | 70%
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| First U.S. city to host the Olympics | St. Louis | 70%
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| Twin city of Minneapolis | St. Paul | 70%
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| Capital of Illinois | Springfield | 69%
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| Home to Porsche and Mercedes | Stuttgart | 69%
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| Capital of Newfoundland or Antigua | St. John's | 68%
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| Seat of the EU Parliament | Strasbourg | 68%
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| City to Hong Kong's immediate north | Shenzhen | 67%
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| Second biggest city in Wales | Swansea | 64%
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| Capital of Sri Lanka: it is thelongest national capital name | SriJayawardenepura Kotte | 62%
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| Largest city in Saskatchewan | Saskatoon | 60%
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| Most populous city in Crimea | Sevastopol | 59%
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| Oldest European settlement in the New World | Santo Domingo | 58%
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| Birthplace of Shakespeare | Stratford-upon-Avon | 58%
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| English city on the river Trent | Stoke | 57%
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| African capital named after Thomas the Apostle | São Tomé | 56%
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| Capital of Grenada | St. George's | 56%
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| Sicilian city home to Archimedes | Syracuse | 56%
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| Main city in Hampshire, England | Southampton | 55%
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| Capital of Bahia, Brazil | Salvador | 51%
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| Third-biggest city in Indonesia | Surabaya | 51%
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| Biggest city in Bolivia | Santa Cruz | 49%
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| Iranian city or variety of red wine | Shiraz | 49%
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| Largest city in Georgia before 1880 | Savannah | 48%
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| Largest city in eastern Washington | Spokane | 48%
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| Where "The Office" (U.S.) is set | Scranton | 46%
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| Most populous city in South Dakota | Sioux Falls | 46%
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| Where Scotland's most famousgolf course can be found | St. Andrews | 44%
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| Capital of Saarland | Saarbrücken | 43%
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| Second biggest city in Uzbekistan;important Silk Road waypoint | Samarkand | 43%
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| Village in Luxembourg where thetreaty that abolished border controls [mostly] in the EU was signed | Schengen | 42%
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| City in Alabama where threecivil rights marches began | Selma | 42%
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| Tuscan city once home to thepainter Duccio | Siena | 42%
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| Home to a prestigious universityin the Bay Area | Stanford | 41%
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| Capital of Kiribati | South Tarawa | 39%
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| Los Angeles suburb whereRoute 66 came to an end | Santa Monica | 38%
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| Tunisia's largest cities after Tunis | Sfax | 38%
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| Most populous city in South Gujarat | Surat | 37%
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| Capital of the Falkland Islands | Stanley | 36%
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| "Oil Capital of Norway" | Stavanger | 36%
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| Swiss Alpine resort that hosted theWinter Olympics twice | St. Moritz | 36%
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| Third-biggest city in Louisiana | Shreveport | 35%
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| Polish port at the mouth of Oder | Szczecin | 35%
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| Major Phoenix suburb | Scottsdale | 33%
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| Most populous urban area in northeast China | Shenyang | 33%
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| Spain's oldest university | Salamanca | 32%
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| Cambodian city home to Angkor Wat | Siem Reap | 31%
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| Oldest continuously inhabitedcity in the U.S. | St. Augustine | 31%
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| Major city bordering Dubai to north | Sharjah | 29%
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| Yunnan city named after a Himalayanutopia whose residents are immortal | Shangri-La | 28%
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| Tunisia's largest cities after Tunis | Sousse | 27%
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| City of Notre Dame University | South Bend | 27%
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| Nearest major city to Japan's 2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake | Sendai | 26%
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| Capital of France's Réunion island | Saint-Denis | 25%
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| Guangdong city romanized as "Swatow" | Shantou | 24%
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| Capital of the Republic of Crimea | Simferopol | 23%
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| "Coastal" city north of Brisbane | Sunshine Coast | 23%
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| Ichabod Crane's village | Sleepy Hollow | 22%
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| Turkey main port on Black Sea | Samsun | 20%
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| As I was going here, I met a man with seven wives ... | St Ives | 19%
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| Tyre's Phoenician counter-part | Sidon | 18%
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| Biggest city in the Northern Marianas | Saipan | 17%
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| Second biggest city in Uruguay | Salto | 16%
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| Capital of Hebei, China | Shijiazhuang | 15%
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| Largest city and the summer capitalof Jammu and Kashmir | Srinagar | 15%
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| Largest city in southern Oman | Salalah | 13%
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| Largest Québécois city south of the St. Lawrence Waterway | Sherbrooke | 13%
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