| Letter | Hint | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Largest city in New Zealand, located on North Island (8) | Auckland | 100%
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| B | Capital of Iraq (7) | Baghdad | 100%
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| I | Capital of Pakistan (9) | Islamabad | 91%
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| M | Capital of Spain (6) | Madrid | 91%
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| O | University city in south-central England (6) | Oxford | 91%
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| R | State capital of Virginia, sharing a name with a suburban town in south-west London (8) | Richmond | 86%
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| C | City in north-eastern Ohio, on the southern shore of Lake Erie (9) | Cleveland | 82%
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| K | Administrative centre of the Russian exclave on the Baltic coast of the same name (11) | Kaliningrad | 77%
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| V | City in south-western Russia at the junction of the Don and Volga Rivers, formerly known as Stalingrad (9) | Volgograd | 77%
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| S | City in South Yorkshire, northern England, famous for steel production and cutlery manufacture (9) | Sheffield | 64%
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| H | Capital of Connecticut, nicknamed the 'Insurance Capital of the World' (8) | Hartford | 59%
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| N | City on the Volga in European Russia, known as Gorky from 1932 to 1990 (14) | Nizhny Novgorod | 59%
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| P | Port in north-eastern Egypt at the north end of the Suez Canal (8) | Port Said | 59%
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| D | City in western Germany, one of the most heavily bombed during WWII (8) | Dortmund | 55%
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| F | Industrial city in Punjab, Pakistan, formerly known as Lyallpur (10) | Faisalabad | 55%
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| J | City in eastern Afghanistan, east of Kabul, near the border with Pakistan (9) | Jalalabad | 36%
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| L | City in Los Angeles County, California, a post-WWII planned community; a compound word meaning 'waterbody timber' (8) | Lakewood | 27%
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| Y | Capital of the eponymous province in central Iran; UNESCO World Heritage Site; formerly known as Yezd (4) | Yazd | 23%
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| G | City in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, nicknamed 'Gateway of Uttar Pradesh' (9) | Ghaziabad | 14%
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| E | Capital of the eponymous province in Algeria, known as 'City of a Thousand Domes' (6) | El Oued | 0%
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| Z | City and administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia, founded as a new town in 1958, known as 'Soviet/Russian Silicon Valley' (10) | Zelenograd | 0%
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