Stats: 100 European Cities by a Clue

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Clue	City	% Correct
Has the world's oldest metro system	London	92%
Where Gavrilo Princip assassinated a famous archduke	Sarajevo	79%
Known for its running of the bulls	Pamplona	77%
Where the Nobel Peace Prize is annually shared	Oslo	72%
Was formerly called "Stalingrad"	Volgograd	69%
Its Jagiellonian University is the oldest of its kind in Poland	Krakow	63%
Its Guggenheim Museum was designed by Frank Gehry	Bilbao	62%
Mount Vesuvius sits right southeast to this city	Naples	61%
Wine capital of the world	Bordeaux	59%
This city on the Danube is the only world capital that borders two countries	Bratislava	59%
City on the French Riviera that hosts an international film festival annually	Cannes	59%
Irish city that has the namesake of a type of poem	Limerick	59%
The Winter Palace was the residence of its emperors	Saint Petersburg	59%
Sicilian city which was once the largest Greek colony	Syracuse	59%
Two members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed and nine others were taken hostageby a Palestinian militant organization during this city's Olympics	Munich	58%
A type of "syndrome" was named because of this city's 1973 failed bank robbery	Stockholm	58%
Capital of unoccupied France during the World War II	Vichy	58%
Setting of the movies "Before Sunrise" and "Amadeus"	Vienna	57%
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the firebombing of this German city in "Slaughterhouse-Five"	Dresden	55%
Croatian walled city which is a World Heritage site	Dubrovnik	55%
Straddles the Bosphorus	Istanbul	55%
Was named after Saint Marinus	San Marino	55%
Southernmost capital in Europe	Valletta	55%
Crimean site of a WWII conference	Yalta	55%
This Swiss city on the French and German border in Roger Federer's hometown	Basel	54%
Where British troops evacuated France in 1940	Dunkirk	54%
Home to the EU's Court of Justice	Luxembourg	54%
Houses the International Court of Justice	The Hague	53%
Where Alexander Lukashenko has his presidential palace	Minsk	52%
The Mayflower started its voyage to the New World here	Plymouth	52%
Famous for its paella	Valencia	52%
It was the most important city in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages	Utrecht	51%
The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after this city	Vilnius	51%
The Eastern Bloc's version of NATO was founded in and named after this city	Warsaw	51%
Where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum takes place	Davos	50%
Home to the Peaky Blinders	Birmingham	49%
Olaf Scholz was its mayor between 2011–2018	Hamburg	49%
"Under the hill" is where you'd find the capital of "Black Mountain"	Podgorica	48%
Major city located on the delta of Douro	Porto	48%
Capital of the Italian region of Apulia	Bari	46%
Its statue of the Greek sun god Helios is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World	Rhodes	46%
"Diamond capital of the world"	Antwerp	45%
Its name is included in Geoffrey Chaucer's most notable work	Canterbury	44%
This city was once a maritime republic and the greatest Italian rival to Venice	Genoa	44%
The House of Grimaldi rule this city	Monaco	44%
Visit this city's Uffizi Museum to see the "The Birth of Venus"	Florence	43%
At the confluence of the Sava and the Danube	Belgrade	41%
Most populous coastal city of Romania	Constanța	41%
Was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1755	Lisbon	41%
An ISIS terrorist attack on this city's Crocus City Hall left 144 people dead in 2024	Moscow	41%
Where people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window) in 1419, 1483 and 1618	Prague	41%
City on the Don that the Wagner Group took control of for one day in 2023	Rostov-on-Don	41%
This Bulgarian Coastal city was called "Odessos" in ancient times	Varna	40%
Second-largest city in Hungary	Debrecen	39%
This port city was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade	Nantes	39%
The English siege of this city collapsed nine days after the arrival of Joan of Arc in 1429	Orléans	39%
Largest city north of the Arctic Circle	Murmansk	37%
NATO has its headquarters in this city	Brussels	36%
City on the Adriatic Sea with the namesake of a 2016 James McAvoy movie	Split	36%
Greek city that has the namesake of a type of column	Corinth	34%
The treaty that created modern-day EU was signed in this city in 1992	Maastricht	34%
Village in southeastern corner of Luxembourg where an "agreement" for "open borders" between most European nations was signed and named after in 1985	Schengen	34%
It is known today as the Oil Capital of Norway	Stavanger	34%
Capital of the Isle of Man	Douglas	33%
The ancient city of Knossos was built around the outskirts of this city	Heraklion	33%
Is served by International Airport Nënë Tereza	Tirana	33%
Pagan center of Sweden where human sacrifices were hung from trees	Uppsala	33%
Site of Napoleon's greatest victory which led to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire	Slavkov u Brna	32%
Was the main port of East Germany	Rostock	31%
Second most populated city in Belarus	Gomel	30%
"Sauna Capital of the World"	Tampere	30%
Ed Sheeran sang a song about a girl from this city in 2017	Galway	29%
Largest Turkish city that is entirely on the country's European part	Edirne	28%
Andalusian city renowned for its sherry wine and vinegar	Jerez de la Frontera	27%
The "Old Firm" play football here	Glasgow	26%
A type of olive is named after this Greek city	Kalamata	26%
Pan-Am 103 was bombed and disintegrates over this Scottish town	Lockerbie	26%
This Germany city was considered the informal capital of the Hanseatic League	Lübeck	26%
This city on the Fyn island was home to Hans Christian Andersen	Odense	26%
Home to Europe's aerospace industry	Toulouse	26%
Hosted the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup	Berlin	25%
Second to host the Winter Olympics twice	Innsbruck	25%
Was, at times, the second largest city in the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople	Thessaloniki	25%
Where Brendan Gleeson and Colin Firth play as two hitmen in a black comedy	Bruges	24%
Where Russian air strikes bombed a children's hospital on 9th March 2022	Mariupol	24%
Largest city in Iceland outside of the Capital Region	Akureyri	23%
Most populous city on the Volga river, formerly known as Gorky	Nizhny Novgorod	23%
Town in far southwest England overrun by musical pirates	Penzance	23%
The Ottoman Turkish rendition of this world capital's name was "Üsküb" and it was adapted in Western languages as "Uskub"	Skopje	22%
Administrative center and largest settlement in Svalbard	Longyearbyen	21%
The Majdanek concentration camp is located in this city in eastern Poland	Lublin	20%
First to host the Winter Olympics twice	St. Moritz	20%
Most populous city in northern Sweden	Umeå	19%
The New Zealand city of Dunedin was named in honor of this city	Edinburgh	18%
Where the Bavarian Illuminati was created in 1776	Ingolstadt	17%
Main port of Slovenia on the Mediterranean Sea	Koper	17%
CAC 40 is the name of its stock market index	Paris	17%
The witch trails of this German city, near the Luxembourgish border, resulted in theexecutions of 368 people in the late 16th century	Trier	15%
The other city with a Guggenheim Museum	Venice	12%
Largest town in Scotland's Orkney	Kirkwall	11%

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