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Odd One Out - Cities Of The World

I'll give you a sentence and five cities. Can you select the only city for which the content of the sentence is not true?
You have to select the city for which the sentence is NOT TRUE.
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Last updated: April 6, 2023
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1. These are all country capital cities:
La Paz
Monrovia
Sydney
Tokyo
Vaduz
Sydney is the largest city in Australia, but Canberra is the capital.
2. These are cities located in Africa:
Addis Ababa
Alexandria
Ankara
Antananarivo
Oran
Ankara is the capital of Turkey, thus it's not in Africa (it's in Asia).
3. These are all located on an island:
Copenhagen
Havana
Manama
Taipei
Vancouver
Copenhagen is on Sjæland, Havana is on Cuba, Manama is on Bahrain and Taipei is on Taiwan. Vancouver island is in front of Vancouver, so the city is not on the island.
4. There's a river that flows through all of these:
Cairo
Moscow
Nantes
Paris
San Francisco
The rivers are the Nile (Cairo), the Moskva (Moscow), the Loire (Nantes) and the Seine (Paris).
5. These have all been host cities of the Summer Olympic Games
Antwerp
Milan
Montreal
Moscow
Saint Louis
Milan will co-host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games with Cortina d'Ampezzo, but it has never hosted the Summer Games.
6. These are all cities where the trans-Siberian railway has a stop:
Kazan
Moscow
Novosibirsk
Perm
Yekaterinburg
7. These are all along the Danube river:
Belgrade
Bratislava
Budapest
Bucharest
Vienna
The Danube flows through 4 European capitals, and even though it's delta is in Romania, Bucharest is not one of them.
8. These are the '4 great ancient capitals of China':
Beijing
Luoyang
Nanjing
Shanghai
Xi'an
9. These are cities that exist in the UK and Canada:
Cambridge
Glasgow
London
Windsor
Truro
Glasgow, UK and New Glasgow, Canada both exist, but there's no Glasgow, Canada.
10. These are all cities mentioned in the Bible:
Alexandria
Corinth
Jerusalem
Nazareth
Sodom
11. These are all cities named after a king/queen:
Charleroi
Saint Louis
Kristiansand
Saint Petersburg
Victoria
Saint Petersburg was named by Peter the Great after Saint Peter.
12. These are all cities named after a US president:
Hamilton
Jacksonville
Jefferson City
Monrovia
Lincoln
Hamilton is a city in Canada named after George Hamilton, a Canadian merchant and politian.
13. These are all transcontinental cities:
Istanbul
Orenburg
Panama
Suez
Yekaterinburg
Panama is a transcontinental country, but it is the Darien gap where the line between North and South America is, for those that consider both two continents (not in Panama City itself).
14. These are all cities that have the same spelling on it's native language:
Frankfurt
Madrid
Porto
Rotterdam
Turin
Turin is called Torino in Italian.
15. These cities have more than 1 million inhabitants:
Brasilia
Frankfurt
Pretoria
San Antonio
Shymkent
2 Comments
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Level 77
Apr 6, 2023
I think question 14 is the wrong way round: If Turin is the answer, then question would be: "these are all cities that are spelled the same in their native language as in English".
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Level 55
Apr 6, 2023
True! I changed my mind on what the question would be but forgot to change the actual question and somehow didn't realize Xd

Thanks for noticing!