| country | clue | capital city | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | European Union headquarters | Brussels | 78%
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| Slovakia | Just an hour's drive east of Vienna, and became a capital in 1993 | Bratislava | 76%
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| Bosnia & Herzegovina | Winter Olympic venue and "Jerusalem of the Balkans", blockaded in a 1990s war | Sarajevo | 75%
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| Bolivia | The world's highest capital | La Paz | 66%
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| Laos | More northerly of two capitals on Mekong River | Vientiane | 61%
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| Cambodia | More southerly of two capitals on Mekong River | Phnom Penh | 59%
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| Sri Lanka | Many guidebooks still list this metro area, that includes Sri Kotte, as the capital | Colombo | 54%
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| Pakistan | Named after a religion, and founded in 1960 | Islamabad | 50%
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| Uzbekistan | Silk Road capital that was Russian from the 1860s to the 1990s | Tashkent | 48%
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| Zimbabwe | Previously known, under white rule, as Salisbury | Harare | 36%
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| Portugal | Alfonso I and his crusader knights conquered this from the Moors in 1147 | Lisbon | 34%
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| Ethiopia | African Union headquarters | Addis Ababa | 30%
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| Belize | North American capital, moved to here after Hurricane Hattie flattened the previous one in 1961 | Belmopan | 29%
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| Singapore | Asian capital just 100 miles north of the equator | Singapore | 28%
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| Sri Lanka | Spell this correctly: Sri ______________ Kotte | Jayawardenepura | 25%
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| Luxembourg | The only non-American capital containing an X | Luxembourg | 22%
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| Nicaragua | Home of presidents Anastasio Somoza and Daniel Ortega | Managua | 19%
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| Palau | This Pacific capital's area is only the size of its parliament's grounds | Ngerulmud | 19%
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| Antigua & Barbuda | Caribbean capital where cricketer Brian Lara scored a world record 400 not out | Saint John's | 18%
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| Slovenia | The only capital that contains two J's | Ljubljana | 16%
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