No other quizzes I've taken give any latitude on the capital names - all you have to do is remember "La Vella". Way easier than say... Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte or Bandar Seri Begawan:)
Honestly, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is just one out of two capitals in Sri Lanka, and by far the less important one. The financial capital Colombo really should be allowed as an alternate, like they do for South Africa's multiple capitals...
I don´t think the coordinates you have given are latitudes... latitudes are north or south, and not west or east. Reykjavik´s latitude for example is 64°09' N. ;)
I've always found that if you want to remember ("want" being the operative word) how to spell a difficult word/name, pronounce it the way it appears. Something like rake-JAV-ick would get you close, and all you'd have to remember is that the first syllable starts with "reyk" not "rayk". It's worked for me for years, especially with words like REN-dez-vowss (rendezvous) or KIRE-gizz-stan (Kyrgyzstan...just remember it's all y's to start) or yas-triz-ZEMSKI (Carl Yastrzemski). First time I ever saw the word yarmulke, I had no idea what word I was looking at. Now, in my head I say yar-MULL-key, and can spell it without a hitch.
Your way seems very confusing Don, and would do the opposite for me, then you have all sort of words/letters in your head that have nothing to do with the spelling ( though for pronunciation a trick like that can be useful)
Breaking it into pieces/ syllables helps. Rey-kja-vik (pronounced righ (like high) kja like em kja and vik (like thick) here)
It means bay (vik) of smokes by the way, reykja is the genitive plural. (from reykr=smoke, in dutch smoke=rook, and in german it is rauch, english reek is most likely related, shakespeare still used it meaning smoke/fumes)
So smoke bay, maybe you can remember is it reek ya wick ;)
But it's not called Andorra. In fact, I think JetPunk should have less type-ins. I don't think KSA should work for Saudi Arabia, and I don't think NZ should work for New Zealand.
On every other quiz you simply accept Andorra for Andorra La Vella. For equivalent North American quizzes, will you now be changing them to require "Mexico City" rather than the shorthand always otherwise acceptable?
Andorra la Vella, (Catalan: “Andorra the Old”) , French Andorre la Vieille, Spanish Andorra la Vieja, town, capital of the independent coprincipality of Andorra.
Quite common on european names
Jaya-Warden-Epura. Not hard, once you've memorized it.
Breaking it into pieces/ syllables helps. Rey-kja-vik (pronounced righ (like high) kja like em kja and vik (like thick) here)
It means bay (vik) of smokes by the way, reykja is the genitive plural. (from reykr=smoke, in dutch smoke=rook, and in german it is rauch, english reek is most likely related, shakespeare still used it meaning smoke/fumes)
So smoke bay, maybe you can remember is it reek ya wick ;)
(but not always)
Here we usually just write NYC (city) or NYS (state) to differentiate between the two if the meaning isn't clear from the context.