Geography by Letter - F

Can you guess these geographical answers that start with the letter F?

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Hint	Answer
Japan's tallest mountain	Fuji
America's “Sunshine State”	Florida
Capital of Tuscany	Florence
Financial capital of Germany	Frankfurt
Pacific island nation	Fiji
Former Chinese imperial palace	Forbidden City
Currency of Switzerland	Franc
Narrow, deep inlet such as the ones found on the coast of Norway	Fjord
Islands claimed by Argentina but controlled by the U.K.	Falklands
Dallas's neighbor	Fort Worth

Hint	Answer
San Andreas, for example	Fault
Central Alaskan city	Fairbanks
Helsinki is its capital	Finland
City on Route 66 in northern Arizona	Flagstaff
Moroccan city or a cylindrical red hat	Fez
Canadian bay with the world's highest tides	Fundy
Dutch-speaking region of Belgium	Flanders
Danish island chain between Britain and Iceland	Faroe
Term for a person from the Philippines	Filipino
Capital of Sierra Leone	Freetown

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84 Comments

+16

Level 76

Aug 7, 2013

Missed Fairbanks and Flagstaff - not very well-known in terms of world geography.

+30

Level 78

Jan 11, 2016

Yeah, they don't belong in a test like this. The population of Fairbanks is 32,000, and Flagstaff is 63,000. It is ridiculous to include inconsequential towns in a test of world geography. There are hundreds of cities starting with F with more population or historical significance.

Level 65

Jan 16, 2016

Well, population-wise, no, but Flagstaff and Fairbanks are both somewhat well-known, at least in the American community; and if you are not, then there's some more knowledge for you. As for Fort Worth, people should know it as the other side to the famous metroplex that is Dallas-Fort Worth

+19

Level 66

Jan 16, 2016

At the same time, I don't do quizzes here to confirm my perfect knowledge of things. Knowing 90% of the answers is very satisfactory and it has the benefit of adding 10% to your knowledge when checking the answers you didn't know.

I'd like to promote obscurity in quizzes for this very reason.

+13

Level 76

Jan 16, 2016

I'm okay with Fairbanks because Alaska has so few notable cities, easy to remember. I'm okay with Fort Worth because Dallas airport is Dallas-Fort Worth, also easy to remember. I have heard of Flagstaff, but the question is a bit too random for an otherwise easy quiz.

Level 22

Jan 28, 2016

Flagstaff, Arizona is in the song Route 66. Which I performed with my choir once. Which is why I missed this question. Which is why I must hang my head in shame.

+10

Level 62

Mar 23, 2016

gd, you can't try harder to know something you don't know. That doesn't make any sense.

Megapossum, I'm also Australian and have never heard of those places. I guess you've heard of them from a film or something, but I have no idea what.

I agree with the general sentiment that including niche American knowledge with no importance to the wider world in a world general knowledge quiz is silly. It comes across as Americans either not caring about catering to a wider audience or simply not realising that America is not the centre of the world.

Level 51

Apr 22, 2016

As someone who lives in Fairbanks, I object to you calling my city inconsequential. It is the second largest city in Alaska, smack dab in the middle of the state. It is a major tourist location for people all around the world.

Frankly, I wouldn't care if that weren't the case even if I didn't know the answer. I like learning new things.

Level 71

Dec 27, 2016

Nothing at all wrong with Fairbanks or Fort Worth. They're very well known , I've seen much more American-centric quizzes. Not saying it's American-centric though. As for Flagstaff, it is quite obscure, but like erikjanssen and gd said, what's the point where in every quiz you do, all the answers are either known or within an easy range of knowledge. And McLerristarr, gd wasn't telling you to try harder. He/she was saying that learning something new is part of doing these quizzes. You learn something new every day, on Jetpunk and in normal life. You use that to help you with lots of things. I want to know more about America, I'm British. I didn't know Flagstaff before, but now I do, so stop moaning about some obscure place you haven't heard of, give the Quizmaster a break and if you want to go and make some Australia-centric quizzes so your country can be moaned about. Now I know Flagstaff.

Level 58

May 22, 2017

I once took a quiz, one worth points, where it asked for something along the lines of, like, the third biggest city in Croatia. You know, a country with less than 10% of the population of the United States, and one that's only like the third most historically important country of former Yugoslavia, and even less so if you include the entire Balkan peninsula. When you start complaining about something like that, please, please get back to me about these obscure American cities.

Level 71

May 30, 2018

I agree, that Fort Worth is "well"-known, but Fairbanks (kinda) and Flagstaff? What about Cities like Faisalabad, Fortaleza, Fukuoka or Fuzhou to name a few.

Level 55

Jan 22, 2019

Oh well, I knew Fort Worth and Flagstaff, never heard of Fukuoka, Fuzhou and Faisalabad.

It really depends on the person, I am from Europe, I happen to know Flagstaff. I didn't know Fairbanks, now I do.

Level 78

Apr 1, 2019

I'd be the first to agree that the point of these tests is learning things you didn't know. The problem is that I'd like that those things that I learn is interesting or significant trivia. I'd probably would have also failed Faisalbad or Fortaleza, but I would have learned about cities with millions of inhabitants.

Level 73

Jul 13, 2021

In an ideal world, I'd take Fort Worth and Freetown off and put in two of Faisalabad, Fortaleza, and Fukuoka. But that would involve resetting stats, so it's not worth it IMO. It's fun to learn about new places, and it's not like these places are incredibly obscure: I, a New Zealander, have heard of both plenty-a-time.

Level 48

Apr 25, 2014

Fezzes are cool!

Level 45

Jul 29, 2014

As are bow ties.

Level 44

Jan 20, 2016

Stetsons are cool now, too

Level 70

May 22, 2017

So is a Dyson Fan

Level 57

Dec 15, 2014

Listening to ''In Flanders Fields'' while taking the quiz helped with the 2nd question...

+17

Level 28

Dec 23, 2014

These quizzes are too heavy on obscure American cities, but great anyway

Level 74

Dec 10, 2015

Freetown is the only one I missed. It works both ways.

+12

Level 78

Jan 11, 2016

The difference is that Freetown is a capital of a sovereign nation, with a population of 951,000. Fairbanks is a remote unimportant town with 32,000 souls. A learned person from, let's say Japan, should know about the African city, but couldn't be expected to bother about the US one.

Level 74

Jun 13, 2016

So you're saying you don't want any answers that are trivial on this site? Or are you saying there should there be rules in place which limit any world quiz to no more than one question about the USA? I didn't say Freetown is unimportant, but it's not often in our news and it was over 50 years ago that I learned world capitals in school, which makes it a bit obscure for me. I just took the quiz again and scored 100% which is why I take these quizzes - to learn new things, or to jog my memory for facts that I've long forgotten. (Or which have changed over the years.)

Level 86

Apr 17, 2018

Fairbanks' Wikipedia page is twice as big as Freetown's.

Level 73

Jul 13, 2021

As a Wikipedia editor myself, I think article lengths are a horrid measure of importance. It's inevitably skewed towards Western cities because most editors are from a Western country that speaks English and would find writing articles about such places as Freetown uninteresting (maybe) and hard. There's a lack of quality English-language sources about a small third-world country like Sierra Leone.

Bias in sources translates to bias on Wikipedia, and if cp's statement is taken on, that Wikipedia bias translates to JetPunk bias. Which we don't want. Don't use Wikipedia article lengths to judge importance.

Level 71

Jan 16, 2016

Fairbanks is the 2nd largest city in Alaska. It's population is more then a fair number of national capitals.

Level 69

Jan 21, 2016

The 2nd largest city... in Alaska. 18 countries' capitals are smaller than Fairbanks, out of a total of 196 Jetpunk recognised countries, so less than 10%.

Level 80

Mar 18, 2019

than* :)

Level 51

Apr 29, 2015

Love that my Fair city is on this quiz. *plays on words*

Level 73

Nov 19, 2018

A lovely city and one in which I once resided briefly as well.

Level 94

Sep 21, 2015

Isn't the Federated States of Micronesia also a Pacific island nation?

Level 65

Apr 6, 2023

I was gonna say that too. I mean I know the chances anyone huffing that they missed the question because F.S. Micronesia was all they could think of are low, but it's still a technically correct answer

Level 37

Dec 26, 2015

You should accept mount fuji for the first question too

Level 56

Jan 16, 2016

Hint: "San Andreas, for example"

Me: "Fictional state"

Level 80

Mar 18, 2019

Tee-hee :)

Level 76

Jan 16, 2016

Also accept fiord?

Level 69

Jan 16, 2016

Got 100%! Stuck on Flagstaff until I remembered the lyrics to "Route 66"! Great quiz!

Level 66

Jan 16, 2016

uuggh? only 35% of a largely american set of participants knew flagstaff??

Level 69

Jan 21, 2016

I'm not so sure they're largely American, at least not these days anymore

Level 63

Aug 11, 2021

Based on the number of whiney comments from people complaining about too many US questions, I'd say most users are not American.

Level 57

Jan 16, 2016

Every time there's a question about Canada I seem to miss it. It's incredible how much we know about countries across the globe and yet know nothing about our neighbor.

Level 36

Jan 16, 2016

Too easy. Finished in one minute. Forgot Flagstaff until I remembered the astronomical observatory located there.

Level 70

Jan 16, 2016

I've already heard about Flagstaff, but it was in the movie Flash McQueen. Had no idea it is a real city...

Level 43

Jan 16, 2016

Faroe came up somewhere and it was killing me that I couldn't think of the name

Level 68

Jan 5, 2017

Only failed on Flagstaff and Fundy. And forgot Faroe.

Level 44

Jun 1, 2017

Hate to be that person but this quiz is too US-centric. 5/20 questions are about locations in the USA and some of them are pretty obscure (Fairbanks, Flagstaff). I realize that this website is American but I still feel a geographical quiz should teach us about the whole world and not focus so much on a single country.

Level 68

Jun 6, 2017

Finally! My first 20/20 in this series.

Level 56

Jun 13, 2017

Could only think of Grand Theft Auto when it said San Andreas.

Level 91

Jun 13, 2017

Not to be pedantic but Farmers Branch should be an acceptable answer to the Dallas question. It directly borders Dallas. To get to Fort Worth you have to at a minimum go through two other cities to get there without taking some asinine route. I'm not saying Fort Worth is a bad answer just that there is another answer that is more correct and should be acceptable.

Level 81

May 30, 2018

But you see "Dallas - Ft Worth" referenced all the time. The same way you you see "Minneapolis - St Paul," or "Seattle - Tacoma," or "Washington/Baltimore"... you never see "Dallas - Farmers Branch"

Level 63

Aug 29, 2021

This is pretty pedantic. Is there anyone who would think to try Farmers Branch, but not think to try Fort Worth? Maybe the clue could have said "Notable Dallas neighbor" to eliminate Farmers Branch, but are quiz makers expected to guard against every little technicality when the answer they are looking for is obvious? (At least obvious to anyone who is familiar with the correct answer, in this case Fort Worth.)

Level 36

Jul 11, 2017

Thank you for this quiz, Quiz Master. Unlike some here, I truly enjoy expanding my field of knowledge.

Level 35

Aug 5, 2017

19- didn't know Flagstaff...

People, it's an American site, so live with it. I'm in the UK, I know this, and I'm fine with it. I see a quiz about NFL or NASCAR, and just scroll on to the next one. If you're outside the U.S and think this site is too American, write a quiz from your country and put it up..

Second, I write "pub quizzes" & try to set them so people USUALLY get 7 or 8 out of a round of 10. Sometimes they'll have a ball and get 9 or occasionally 10, and the odd time it all goes to rats and get 3 or 4. In setting them, I have to stick in a few real easy ones, and the odd bad-boy. I dont want to make it TOO easy, but i dont want people thinking they're an idiot. Point I'm trying to put is, I can't see why people complain about not getting 100% every time. The quiz is there, its a little challenge to waste a few minutes, and the quiz-setter doesnt WANT you to get 100%. be happy with 85-90-95% and learn summat from the 2 or 3 you didn't know.

Level 83

May 15, 2022

The offset for the US centric questions are the ones about World Cup and Eurovision, I think it balances out

Level 36

Feb 6, 2018

missed fez. Never heard of it.

Level 64

May 18, 2018

Missed Florida, Fort Worth (never heard of), Fault, Faibanks (never heard of), Flagstaff (never heard) and Fundy.

North America just doesnt fit in my head. Hard to earn levels this way

Level 81

May 30, 2018

Aced this quiz but I might have only gotten Flagstaff because I drove through it before on my way back to Virginia from California. Not that that means it's too difficult or that it should be taken off.

Level 80

Mar 31, 2019

Kal, is there anyway I could get notified when someone replies to one of my comments on a quiz/blog? (or even if someones like my comment)

Level 81

Mar 31, 2019

No. QM has specifically left this feature out. He didn't want comments sections to turn out like dedicated troll slugarmy has made many of them, with constant bickering back and forth. As I understand it, slugarmy gets around this by having multiple users with his log-in constantly reloading all of the pages that he/they are monitoring, so that when anyone leaves a new comment he can immediately troll them. But there's no way to get notifications you have to actually navigate back to each page and look.

Level 81

Mar 31, 2019

Sometimes I will go back and look at quizzes I've taken and commented on recently if I thought there was something interesting going on in the comments section. Other times, I'll end up replying back to someone the next time I take the same quiz and the comments I leave might be months or in some cases years apart. So... while it might look like I'm getting notifications really I'm just coming to this site a lot. I've been here virtually every day since 2012. Front page quizzes get repeated every so often, and I also return to quizzes on subjects that I like or am interested in to see if my performance has improved.

Level 80

Apr 1, 2019

Just found this https://www.reddit.com/r/JetPunk/comments/95gwrq/slugarmy_is_a_selfadmitted_group_of_trolls_ban_him/

Level 74

Mar 31, 2019

Flagstaff is a lovely place - stopped there several times on our way to visit our daughter when she lived in Phoenix. It may not be a large city, but it has been visited by lots of tourists on their way to the Grand Canyon and other sites in the area, such as the Arizona Snowbowl, Lowell Observatory, Sunset Crater volcano, and pueblo and cliff dweller ruins. One of the most unusual things I ever saw was the blowhole at the Wupatki ruins where air either blows in or out from a hole in the ground.

Level 85

Mar 31, 2019

3 years ago, got 17. This time, got them all. Thanks, Jetpunk!

Level 37

Mar 31, 2019

What about the Federated States of Micronesia for "a Pacific island country"?

Level 70

May 12, 2019

Stupid, sexy Flanders

Level 16

May 30, 2020

It should be Flandes or Flandres, not Flanders

Level 43

Aug 3, 2020

Why was it called the Forbidden City?

Level 47

Dec 31, 2020

Because it was forbidden for common people, it was the emperor's home

Level 67

Feb 9, 2021

Can you accept 'filipina', too, on the second to last one? Since a person from the Philippines might also be female

Level 64

Mar 20, 2021

cmon now...

Level 59

Jul 12, 2021

The question didn't as for a "man from Phillipines," though. "Person" is a genderless overarching term for the entire population, men, women and everything else. In fact, "filipina" would actually be more sexist in this case. Every filipina is a filipino, not all filipinos are filipinas.

Level 83

Aug 2, 2022

But every filipina is a person from the Philippines. It is a valid answer to the question and ought to be accepted.

Level 56

Mar 18, 2021

There's another Dallas neighbor that fits the category... Frisco. A bit smaller (around 175k people), but still fits the category.

Level 79

Sep 21, 2021

Including US geography in a world geography quiz is ridiculous. It should only include geography from around the world. Excluding the US, of course.

Level 83

May 15, 2022

Exactly! Really, anything outside of Europe and China is problematic

Level 57

Mar 10, 2022

Can you please accept "Frank" for "Franc"?

Level 77

Nov 28, 2022

Too american-centered quizz.

It should be based on world geography, not a 30k populated american town.

Even my town is more populated, was founded earlier, has started major historical events in my country (Alcoi, Spain) and no one would know it unless they were spaniards. It's not fair for the non-american users.

Level 59

Dec 19, 2022

common usa W

Level 50

Mar 28, 2023

Common L*

Level 84

Nov 9, 2023

Here you go!

https://www.jetpunk.com/create-quiz

Level 57

Jan 30, 2024

Interesting to see that the Canadian answers in this series are basically always below 50% correct

Level 44

Jan 30, 2024

16/20, I only missed; Fault, Fairbanks, Flagstaff, and Fundy

Level 64

Apr 17, 2024

Accept Filipina for person from the Philippines?

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