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Word Puzzles - World Cities #3

Guess each clue and then sound them out together to form the name of a city.
Example: Sack + father = Bag + dad = Baghdad
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buck1017
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First submittedFebruary 2, 2014
Times taken30,304
Average score60.0%
Rating4.07
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Word Puzzle
City
Superman's garment + small city
Cape Town
What grows on the north side of a tree + heifer
Moscow
Not old + medieval lord's residence
Newcastle
What a ghost says + automobile + letters ending a superlative
Bucharest
Boring brown color + letters ending a gerund
Beijing
What a choir does + iPhone download + mineral rich rock
Singapore
Pull a car + lock opener + say can you see
Tokyo
Automobile + mausoleum
Khartoum
Circumcision ceremony + place to put rubbish
Brisbane
Short form of Elizabeth + hamburger bread
Lisbon
Chinese main ethnic group + word following Aussie Aussie Aussie
Hanoi
To own + Ms. Karenina
Havana
NASDAQ offering + domicile
Stockholm
Martial artist Bruce + common first word for a baby
Lima
Actor Gibson + To set aflame
Melbourne
Space Odyssey computer + Kipling poem + woodcutter's tool
Halifax
Sheep's sound + vendor's action
Basel
Gift for naughty children + to have
Cologne
Upset or crazy + college boss + sound of relief
Medina
Word before saw and conquered + way to cross a river
Cambridge
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49 Comments
TheQuizzler
+6
Level 63
May 3, 2014
Challenging but bot frustratingly so. Cool quiz!
cranbeckh
+3
Level 69
May 3, 2014
That was fun. More, please!
ColoHarpare
+4
Level 49
May 3, 2014
Loved this! Gotta go find the others....
JerseyzFinest
+1
Level 60
May 5, 2014
Super easy 100% with 3:48 remaining
queenmaeree
+3
Level 73
May 6, 2014
I love these quizzes.
mac212121
+4
Level 28
May 6, 2014
Literally the best quiz I have ever taken. Thanks, had a blast doing it!
mrnmama
+4
Level 63
Dec 3, 2014
Best quiz EVER!
buck1017
+5
Level 78
Dec 4, 2014
Thanks everyone! I'm glad you all liked this series of quizzes.
Quizzer6794
+2
Level 66
Apr 17, 2016
I wish I could enjoy the series, but the time limit makes it impossible! :(
samiamco
+4
Level 68
May 3, 2016
Because the damn Aussies insist on pronouncing things funny, there are problems with both of your Australian city clues. Melbourne is pronounced "mel-burn" like the injury from fire, not like Jason's last name. And the second vowel in Brisbane is a schwa (ə), not a long a. FYI.
Findlay
+4
Level 80
Aug 9, 2016
Actually, I'd say Melbourne is a schwa as well.
grantdon
+10
Level 74
Jan 24, 2017
They are similar: pronounced Mel-bun and Bris-ban; in both cases, the emphasis is on the first syllable
Findlay
+2
Level 80
Aug 9, 2016
Fun quiz. Got 'em all, but Calgary and Havana I only got from half the clue ('Gary' and 'Ha'). I think you've got one too many syllables there in Tokyo, but maybe that's me being pedantic.
MayaB
+3
Level 73
May 9, 2019
I did this quiz for the second time exactly 5 years after the first try and I got 5 more answers. With this pace maybe in further 5 years I'll actually get to 100%.
normanlamont
+18
Level 72
Oct 27, 2020
Hanoioioi is a beautiful city
jghastings
+2
Level 78
Nov 5, 2020
Very clever. I did appallingly though!
Jango
+2
Level 63
Sep 13, 2021
Nice quiz series, really enjoyed these!
AbiA
+2
Level 88
Feb 18, 2023
I’ll second that. Thanks for the series.
FrankiiLynx
+3
Level 89
Aug 29, 2025
Nice quiz! Would like to add that there's an argument for accepting "Lisburn" as well as "Lisbon", since they're pronounced the same :)
sumguy
+2
Level 87
Aug 29, 2025
Can you provide evidence of a place called Lisburn?
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Aug 30, 2025
what?
Hinckford
+6
Level 87
Sep 1, 2025
There's a city in Northern Ireland by that name.
halpie
+5
Level 80
Aug 29, 2025
Moss grows on the north side of trees in the northern hemisphere, but the south side of trees in the southern hemisphere. I would suggest this clue be reworded!
QRU
+4
Level 77
Aug 30, 2025
Can you provide evidence of trees in the southern hemisphere?
Koopa
+2
Level 88
Aug 30, 2025
I think halpie is correct.
Myk
+3
Level 74
Feb 17, 2026
Even in the northern hemisphere, moss doesn't only grow on the north side of trees, it's just that's usually the most suitable conditions - moisture and shade. But, it can (and regularly does) grow on any side, as any stroll through dense woodland will demonstrate
fixypants
+3
Level 87
Aug 29, 2025
How about accepting Modena for Medina? Both are close.
beorming
+1
Level 87
Aug 30, 2025
There's also the Tasmanian tourist town of Maydena. Although absolutely nobody is confusing that for a world city
Alexquiz17
+3
Level 95
Sep 3, 2025
And neither start with the syllable “mad”…
OfficerDibble
+4
Level 86
Sep 1, 2025
A town is not a small city. You can have a very large town, and a very tiny city.
mookieblaylock
+2
Level 78
Sep 3, 2025
Weird that the clue for Brisbane takes into account local pronunciation, but the clue for Melbourne doesn't
Alexquiz17
+3
Level 95
Sep 3, 2025
I like these quizzes, but find them slightly inconsistent, sometimes focusing on pronunciation and sometimes on spelling.

Hailifax? C’mon…

buck1017
+2
Level 78
Sep 9, 2025
Quizmaster made that edit. That's not my clue. It's supposed to ONLY be based on pronunciation. I'll try to get that one fixed.
Newroadgirl
+2
Level 69
Dec 4, 2025
What's wrong with Hal If Axe - sounds just right.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Feb 19, 2026
It's been fixed. The current HAL-if-axe clue is the updated one.
Henceforth516
+3
Level 88
Sep 8, 2025
Instead of "Elizabeth for short" shouldn't it be "Short for Elizabeth"?
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Sep 9, 2025
po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

i'm a crossword guy, so "Elizabeth for short" is a much more common crossword clue. All of my "Word Puzzles" series clues are in the style of your typical Sunday crossword.

goldandrust
+1
Level 42
Feb 18, 2026
Respectfully, it's not a potayto potahto situation. It's wrong and it tripped me up as well.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Feb 19, 2026
bah...you're right. I've edited it.
renbag
+2
Level 74
Sep 23, 2025
These kinds of quizzes make this site - well done.
beorming
+1
Level 87
Feb 17, 2026
Got all 20 at last. Close though - for the 'naughty child's gift + have' one I kept trying Kowloon before getting it
Hryghr
+1
Level 71
Feb 17, 2026
Today I learned the correct pronunciation of Brisbane!
Canuckquizzer1981
+3
Level 66
Feb 17, 2026
Good quiz, my only note would be that "came" is not the word before Saw and Conquered, it is "I came, I saw, I conquered", so the word is I...
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Feb 19, 2026
ahh, you see, by using the distributive property, you can re-write the sentence as i(came, saw, conquered) :-)
idontkn1
+1
Level 94
Feb 17, 2026
Because of the ambiguity of the first part of the last clue. I tried Oxford first which is one hell of a coincidence. I guess that explains all the rowing competitions between the two of them.
ferdy86
+2
Level 77
Feb 18, 2026
I came, I saw, I conquered.
HantsAgent
+3
Level 55
Feb 18, 2026
Great quiz.

Didn't know that bris is a circumcision ceremony and couldn't connect bin with bane.

castle
+1
Level 25
Feb 20, 2026
It;s the local/Aussie pronunciation. We pronounce the city brisbin, but the s is slightly more zed like. so brizbin, or just brissie (or if you're really feeling fancy brisvegas).
Venk
+1
Level 65
Mar 31, 2026
Can't believe I tried 'Bethlehem' for "short form of Elizabeth + hamburger bread"...
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