| Description | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Where George Floyd was killed by the police in 2020 – sparking nationwide riots | Minneapolis | 84%
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| Nicknamed "Crossroads of America" for being a major junction for transportation | Indianapolis | 82%
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| Headquarters of the U.S. Naval Academy | Annapolis | 64%
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| Either Gaddafi's seat of power or Lebanon's second-largest city | Tripoli | 64%
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| City in Illinois that gets attention for having the namesake of Superman's setting | Metropolis | 56%
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| Headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet | Sevastopol | 51%
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| Greek town or the term for a supercity as in its size | Megalopolis | 36%
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| First Ukrainian city to be sieged by the Russian forces in 2022 | Mariupol | 32%
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| Capital of the breakaway state of Transnistria inside Moldova | Tiraspol | 31%
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| Ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire | Persepolis | 29%
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| Capital of Santa Catarina, Brazil | Florianópolis | 27%
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| Ancient Egyptian city of "sun" in Greater Cairo whose obelisk is the oldest in the world | Heliopolis | 20%
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| The administrative center of the Republic of Crimea | Simferopol | 20%
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| Largest city in the Greek part of the Thrace region | Alexandroupolis | 14%
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| Center and namesake of a Russian "Krai" in North Caucasus | Stavropol | 14%
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| City of 50,000 that is home to the North Carolina Research Campus | Kannapolis | 10%
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