Category Elimination - Cities

Wow this was an amazing quiz, this was so well made and really deserves a feature. I'm excited what other cities and hints you can bring in the future :)

best quiz

Yes thank you so much for making this awesome-sauciness. I got my thinking cap all warmed up :)

I agree it is a great quiz but I found it very difficult. The whole world gives so many possibilties that my head was spinning when time ran out, and I only scored two points and didn't get a single final answer. I don't know the populations of most of the major cities, so the caveat of using only the largest cities didn't help me, but that's my problem, not yours.

I agree, but I do think it is a flaw of the quiz. I doubt anyone has the 250 most populous urban areas memorized, so it does become a guessing game. Nashville doesn't make the cut, but Las Vegas does. That's really hard for someone to intuit. By the time I got to the last category and saw "Cities with a population under 3 million," I just didn't bother trying. It's good when quizzes are challenging, but I think this one is demanding too much in its very limited time. To ask people to figure out which cities are in the sweet spot that they both are in the top 250 and have fewer than 3 million people in the space of maybe one minute is not really fair.

Thanks for the mention! But more importantly a fantastic continuation of my Category Elimination series into Cities! Couldn't have done it better myself, top notch Cringe :)

Good job cringe! I think this deserves 100 features, then a million more. A nice new take on category elimination.

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Fabulous quiz. Deserves an absolute feature, can't wait for part 2

I understand that there must be a limitation but there are many well-known cities under 2M... 250 is far too few IMO. Not counting the fact that there must be a bunch of Indian and Chinese cities that few people on Jetpunk know about (and indeed you don't ask for one in the quiz). So, sorry, the concept is nice, but the quiz is not satisfying as it is.

Doesn't Amman also meet all the criteria for the first section?

Mind sharing what data source you're using? The following report appears to be the latest official government estimate (as of 12/31/2018), and it puts the population of the Amman Governorate at 4,327,800: http://dosweb.dos.gov.jo/DataBank/Population_Estimares/PopulationEstimates.pdf

I agree, but in his defense, a lot of the people on Jetpunk are American or just don't care.

Extra hard this cities version.

Hope it get featured! (and that more are coming)

The final answer for the second (or yellow) category doesn't work as a type-in for the second answer; fun quiz, I love these category quizzes

I didn't get the city I live in (Melbourne) because my house and the rest of my suburb is at an elevation of ~50 m above sea level and as such it never occurred to me that Melbourne could be the answer.

Wouldn't Sydney also work for the clues about Melbourne?

You'll always have a better quiz experience if you read the instructions.

Great quiz, I really enjoyed it!

Nice quiz idea. Like other quizzes about city populations, though, I would suggest adding in the instructions that this one is based on the population of each metro/urban area, not city proper. The distinction doesn't matter as much in certain countries, but in the U.S. it makes a huge difference. Las Vegas, for instance, has only about 650,000 people in the city itself, as compared with more than 2 million in the metro area.

Cheers

Geussed Blue from that start its my city

Apparently not, but nobody knows where exactly that line is, which is what kills this quiz. The quizmaker should at least put a note in the top telling us what the 251st biggest metro is, so we have some reference point. If you stopped me on the street and asked if Manchester was among the top 250 metros in the world, I'd have no idea whether it is, and how close it comes. I suspect most people wouldn't. I'd believe you if you said it is 245th, and I'd believe you if you said it is 807th. It becomes a total guessing game.

The note in the description clearly states the cut off is 2.125m people. This is more than sufficient than providing the 251st metro (Vadodara by the way). This turns your Manchester example into "Does Manchester have more than 2.125 million people?" Which is far more useful and answerable than "Is it in top 250" or your suggestion of, "Is Manchester bigger than Vadodara".

I think the quiz is fine as it is, with more than enough answers for each category. The reference point of 2,125,000 million people is far superior than another metro as most people can guess a city's population, but not whether it's bigger or smaller to a metro they haven't heard of.

I think Tashkent should be included for cities with a population of 2-5m (2,898,500 - 2019 citypopulation.de), cities with an elevation over 150m (varying sources say 400-500m) & cities not in India or China if I'm not mistaken?

I've been living for some time in Kuala Lumpur. It has an L on its name and it is not coastal, so it should work on the second yellow box

Victoria can also be a correct answer to the last question.

For the one with the L and not coastal, what about Delhi?

Almaty, Kazakhstan also fits all the criteria for the first question.

I like the concept of the quiz, but the city population limit of 2.15 Million makes this quiz much harder than it should've been. There are many cities commonly seen as cities which may be sufficient for many categories, especially for the broader categories, such as Lyon (third biggest city in France) for category 3-2. I know that it practically will be impossible to add all the cities (if we can even define them) which are sufficient for each of the categories, but I think you've could have added much more cities for each categories.

For group 3, I started with Lagos and kept going until it did not work for elevation. Lagos is one of the cities most vulnerable to rising sea levels. According to http://eaumega.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/EN-Lagos-Monograph.pdf, the average elevation is

less than 15m above sea level. According to Britannica.com, the highest point on Lagos Island being only 22 feet (7 metres) above sea level. I question the Wikipedia figure of 41m and wonder if that may be the maximum elevation.

I don't really get how Hamburg is a coastal city. I suppose by metro area? But does this mean that London is coastal to? (As it's roughly the same distance to the next sea)

Didn't know Hamburg has a L in it.

Also Indianapolis.

Shouldn't Yantai (China) be accepted for the purple category?

It's population is 2.15 m according to citypopulation.de, it's coastal, in the northern hemisphere, and starts in a country that starts with C or S

Is there a reason that Philadelphia doesn't count for that are not the capital of their state? Even though its near the coast its not on it

The last one could be Vancouver

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shouldn't Amman work for the first one?

Lisbon doesn't work for the last box and it is a city and has a population less than 2 million.

(@Chris19) I'm very confused about this, Cringe mentioned urban area population in the caveats and in the reply here, and hence I don't see how he is trying to imply separate things. To add to that, he has written a blog about this topic(click here), and I highly doubt that this quiz and that blog would've been featured if those mistakes were to be made.

- Edit: Just to make it clearer, please read carefully before complaining

Los Angeles also fits within the same peramiters as Las Vegas so there are multiple answers.

San Jose, California (Population 1.03 mio.) should work for the first two answers in the light blue category and the first answer in the magenta category.

I typed in Halifax (Nova Scotia) for a coastal city under 2 million and the answer was not accepted.

Too small.

Hobart has less than 2 million

And less than 1 million. Too small to be in the quiz.

Shouldn't Johannesburg work for the fourth question in the blue category? It's not a national capital, it isn't in Asia or Europe, it has a pop of 4m+, and it's in the southern hemisphere!

Oh, ok. Good quiz by the way!

Canterbury is a city and that is not on the answers so I personally think you should add it other wise you killed a puppy which is kind of rude!!!

Not a population of >1M. Canterbury has a population of ~55K.

I'm so confused. There are more than 2 million people that live in the Portland metro area??? I looked it up to confirm. I'm not saying you have an error just to be clear. But wow, it doesn't seem like that many people. That is unless you count all the homeless people which probably makes up half of it. XD

south of the equator, no, over 3k meters, nope

Porto Alegre is my state's capital and I still couldn't get it, I'm very disappointed with myself

Am I missing something? Aren't NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, ... all not national capitals? Shouldn't they work?? What on Earth am I not seeing here?!

I don't think there is any part of Africa in the Western Hemisphere, or maybe I read it all wrong...

Why post this comment when you could just look it up?

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As other commenters have said, there is definitely something wrong with the "cities that are not national capitals" box. I tried answers like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Sheffield before it accepted Mombasa. Also, the numbers for the orange categories seem to be wrong or out of order because it increases from 38 to 43 even though this is supposed to be category elimination.

Chicago didn't work for the frist blue category