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Home to the headquarters of the United Nations
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New York City
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Traditionally credited as the home of pizza
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Naples
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The only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics
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Montreal
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The discovery of gold in Victoria in mid-1851 sparked a gold rush
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Melbourne
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The largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world
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São Paulo
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The largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Japan
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Osaka
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Thinkers like David Hume, Adam Smith, James Hutton and Joseph Black were familiar figures in its streets
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Edinburgh
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The major financial centre of the European continent
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Frankfurt
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The westernmost point of Continental Europe
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Lisbon
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Gucci, Versace, Prada, Armani, and Dolce & Gabbana are headquartered in the city
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Milan
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The capital of the Indian state of West Bengal
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Kolkata
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Tahrir Square continued to be the primary destination for protests
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Cairo
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In the late 16th century, Portuguese, French, Danish, Dutch and English ships regularly stopped over in Table Bay en route to the Indies
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Cape Town
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Home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet
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Vladivostok
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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off with its ceremonial start downtown on Fourth Avenue
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Anchorage
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In 1914, it was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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Sarajevo
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Bands that have emerged from its music scene include Oasis, The Smiths, and Joy Division
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Manchester
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This site, with its natural harbour, was selected in 1884 as the terminus for the Canadian Pacific Railway
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Vancouver
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Offers activities such as legal prostitution and a number of coffee shops that sell cannabis
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Amsterdam
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Home to Israel's only stock exchange
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Tel Aviv
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And even if you mean continental Europe, Frankfurt still gets beaten by Paris (according to the Global Financial Centres Index 2022).
I'll gladly fix up every paper on weird and endangered plants or biographies of not so famous people, but man... history wiki can be vicious
- Me, 3 seconds after finishing this quiz
"Edited Wikipedia entries quiz" = totally meaningless.
OK I'll take a quiz on this stuff, fine.
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