City to Country Quiz #5

Nobody claimed any of the other versions needed to be the accepted answer,,

Kudos to you and anyone else who scored 100%. I'm simply awful at world cities and capitals. From reading your past comments I suspect you've been to many of these. With the exception of Hawaii I've never been out of North America, but that's still no excuse for remaining ignorant. I need to "get with the program" and do some serious studying.

^ Don't worry, you're not the only one. I can name all the countries and am, well...kind of good at placing them geographically, but the capitals, oh man. There are so many I don't know. And of these listed here, I recognized the names of several, but missed them because I couldn't remember what country they were in, just that they were indeed familiar to me. Which is not much good, really. I sometimes avoid the cities quizzes because I suck at them so badly, but of course they actually do help.

I've been to 13/27 of these countries, almost half, but I've only been to 4 of the named cities.

... actually 5. I forgot my mom and I stayed one night at a hotel in Kawasaki last time I was in Japan.

Haha same here, took me forever to get it! Never seen it spelled with the h.

I've only ever seen it as Ghent. Without the "h" we would pronounce it with a soft g, as in gentleman.

Gent in Australia is a name for a Maggot as well as short for gentleman.

I am used to seeing it as Gent but the extra h didn't suddenly make me think "there is no way Ghent means Gent" or make me all confused.

In English you need to take all the "h"s with a grain of salt. ;) (besides at the beginning of the word, because then will sound either very posh and french like or quite the other side of the spectrum more working class associated.) (I wanted to give examples, but you might read them in the wrong accent haha)

@ander well the Belgians do say it with a soft g, but a different soft g, not one that sounds like (d)j. I believe your 'nonsoft g in Ghent would be something like khent (not completely obviously). I am trying to think if there is a sound in an English word that approximates how someone living in Gent would pronounce it. Can't think of any so far.

To complicate things further, in standard Dutch it is pronounced differently than how it is spoken in Belgium. the pronunciation of the g is one of the main differences between the languages.

Near Xum, wasn't it?

Obviously.

In May 2018? Very topical.

I always felt kind of sorry for him. I think he was caught off guard when asked what he thought about Aleppo and he replied, "What's a leppo?" (Maybe he was wondering if it was a new cross between a leopard and a hippo?) Regardless, just one of many reasons why he shouldn't be president.

ow wait, 7 but still, most of them are on the lower half of the answer stat board. Only Tallinn, Ulaan baatar, Tbilisi are in the top half. (and the others besides Antananarivo are guessed less than 50% of the time in the low 40s even)

yes, that's how I remembered it