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Home Cities in History Quiz #1

Can you name the cities where these famous people were from?
Not necessarily the city of their birth
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First submittedOctober 18, 2012
Times taken15,906
Average score68.2%
Rating4.09
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Person
Home City
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Julius Caesar
Rome
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
Franz Kafka
Prague
Marco Polo
Venice
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Atlanta
Louis Armstrong
New Orleans
Marilyn Monroe
Los Angeles
Jesus
Nazareth
Galileo
Pisa
Al Capone
Chicago
Person
Home City
Victor Hugo
Paris
Paul Revere
Boston
Henry Ford
Dearborn, Michigan
Søren Kierkegaard
Copenhagen
Kurt Cobain
Aberdeen, Washington
King Leonidas
Sparta
William Shakespeare
Stratford-upon-Avon
Tony Blair
Edinburgh
Hannibal
Carthage
Anne Frank
Amsterdam
Alfred Nobel
Stockholm
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32 Comments
mac212121
+2
Level 30
Oct 24, 2012
Technically, Benjamin Franklin is from Boston
tschutzer
+3
Level 92
Oct 24, 2012
"Not necessarily the city of their birth"
klammyt22
+1
Level 22
Jan 4, 2013
Anne Frank was born in Germany.
TheWombat
+4
Level 73
May 6, 2015
"Not necessarily the city of their birth"
tschutzer
+2
Level 92
Oct 24, 2012
Not being from Britain, I'm not sure how he's viewed there, but I'd figure Tony Blair to be associated at least equally with Sedgefield, the seat in parliament he held for 20+ years.
Salz
+1
Level 59
Oct 25, 2012
To be fair, I doubt most of my felllow Britons would know what his constituency was. They would think of him as PM rather than MP for Sedgefield, just as most people would think of Dave as PM rather than MP for Witney.
JockShepshed
+1
Level 35
Jan 13, 2013
looking up famous personages born in Scotland (for my own pub quiz) i know he was born in Edinburgh, left Britain when still an infant, returned about age 5 but lived in N.E England, and went to boarding school in Edinburgh age 9 to about 14, and there the Edinburgh connection ends
OfficerDibble
+1
Level 83
Apr 1, 2019
I think you might reasonably allow Durham and Sedgefield as type-ins.
DocEckleburg
+1
Level 61
Feb 4, 2025
Joining this conversation 13 years later, I can confirm, as a Brit I knew where he was born but could not have told you what his constituency was prior to becoming PM.
Patience
+3
Level 24
Oct 24, 2012
You accept NYC and Philly, can you please start also accepting NOLA for New Orleans?
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
Nov 20, 2012
I kinda like that idea...
buck1017
+1
Level 78
May 15, 2015
I try it every time and alas, never.
Djilas
+2
Level 84
Nov 28, 2016
and Nawlins
luckybarry
+1
Level 58
Jun 14, 2013
A great quiz but Marco Polo was not born in Venice. He was born in the small village of Sibenik, on the dalmatian coast. I understand that this area was part of the Venetian empire at the time but still think that you should add at least Dalmatia/Dalmatian coast to the list of answers. As to have the answer as just Venice could mean he was born in the city of Venice, which is not true.
wolfcat95
+1
Level 66
Oct 31, 2013
While the exact time and place of his birth may be disputable, and it is disputed, there is no dispute as to where Marco Polo called home as an adult, and that is only the city of Venice.
DiscoBayGolfer
+3
Level 79
May 6, 2015
Nice work. I have never seen that many forms of dispute in a single sentence.
foxpenguin
+1
Level 68
Apr 1, 2015
Maybe Hollywood for Marilyn?
RobNobody
+1
Level 79
Jun 4, 2024
That's a neighborhood, not a city.
camus
+2
Level 79
May 6, 2015
Tried Baltimore for Hannibal, then Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn. Finnally, it dawned on me...
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 90
Jul 3, 2018
He wound up in the first movie in the Carribean somewhere.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
May 6, 2015
Had no idea Tony Blair was from Edinburgh but got it eventually. Most of the rest were easy or got them with a lucky guess.
Goomaster7
+1
Level 67
Oct 9, 2015
I had no idea where the first one, Benjamin Franklin, was from, so I just guessed all of the US cities that I know, and got Philadelphia after 8 other correct answers. It shouldn't be that easy.
AllenY
+1
Level 68
Mar 24, 2016
I came back to this after getting 20 last time, only got 22 this time because of random US city guessing though
brandybuck96
+1
Level 83
Nov 28, 2015
Stratford-upon-Avon is not a city.
samiamco
+2
Level 68
Sep 9, 2018
You were stumped because you couldn't consider a *town* when cities were asked for? How did you ever get to level 74?
QRU
+3
Level 74
May 12, 2018
I just got that "Did You Know?":

"In the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but he didn’t live there. He was raised in the town of Nazareth"

IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 90
Jul 3, 2018
Will you please accept every village between Italy and China for Marco Polo?
CliveDexter
+1
Level 75
Jan 16, 2019
I was planning my comment by the time I got to the "e" in Seattle. Nice move Quizmaster.
OfficerDibble
+1
Level 83
Apr 1, 2019
Stratford-upon-Avon is not a city.
martay
+1
Level 70
Nov 16, 2023
I'm clearly no Henry Higgins, but I've never detected any Scottish in Tony Blair's accent. It even felt wrong to guess northern English cities.
EricF
+1
Level 82
May 29, 2024
Most featured quizzes accept NOLA for New Orleans. I thought I had the wrong answer when this one didn't.
MindWax
+1
Level 85
Jan 12, 2025
Not a huge deal, but is there a reason the sitewide type-ins "Roma", "Venezia", and "Praha" aren't accepted in this quiz?
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