Jerusalem (~880k going from Wikipedia) is more populous than Tel Aviv (~430k, also from Wiki), so the clue for Tel Aviv should say "second most populous city".
If you're going by nominal city population, then you are correct. But Tel Aviv has a much greater metropolitan population (~3.85M) than Jerusalem (~1.25M).
City near Chattanooga: South Pittsburg. The town had an iron industry and was named for Pittsburgh, PA, but they dropped the h. (There's a Lodge outlet there that we often visit when in the area.)
Pittsburgh and East Pittsburgh get an h, West Pittsburg which is northwest of Pittsburgh by a county or so doesn't. Though honestly any Pittsburgh without an h looks wrong.
To be more forgiving of incorrect spelling. The only way to remedy this without giving up this that I can think of would be to require users to press "enter" whenever they thought they had an answer, which would add on average 20-30 additional keystrokes per quiz, plus a few more if you type in several wrong answers.
I've thought about this before and I think it would be interesting because another thing that this would do is make it possible to collect data on most common wrong answers.
Should Istanbul really be considered a Middle Eastern city, considering that much of it lies in Europe? I know some definitions of "Middle East" include all of Turkey, but others only include Anatolia, so at the very least Istanbul's status would probably fall into a grey area.
(I personally consider only Anatolia to be in the Middle East, but that's beside the point)
From Wikipedia: The Middle East (Arabic: الشرق الأوسط: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Socotra Archipelago (a part of Yemen). The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East beginning in the early 20th century. The term "Middle East" has led to some confusion over its changing definitions, and has been viewed by some to be discriminatory or too Eurocentric. The region includes the vast majority of the territories included in the closely associated definition of Western Asia (including Iran), but without the South Caucasus, and additionally includes all of Egypt (not just the Sinai Region) and all of Turkey (not just the part barring East Thrace). So, yes, all of Istanbul is in ME.
No its not. Middle East term is used to refer to a geographical location in Asia. If you look all the middle eastern countries they're fully asian (except egypt). And if we talk about Istanbul, the majority of the city is located in the european side. So its clearly not an middle eastern city, its a balkan city, east thracean city etc. The middle eastern part of turkey is just the southeastern region of the country, not all the anatolian peninsula is located in middle east. And lastly, wikipedia is not a reliable source, everyone can enter and change the words whatever s/he wants. So basically its not ME city.
İstanbul isnt in middle east its in Europe and Ankara isnt in middle east too . Ankara is in Anatolia . İn Türkiye , only kurdish cities are in the middle east . Rest of Türkiye is Anatolia and Europe.
Alexandretta was also named for Alexander.
I've thought about this before and I think it would be interesting because another thing that this would do is make it possible to collect data on most common wrong answers.
(I personally consider only Anatolia to be in the Middle East, but that's beside the point)
I've always thought Anatolia was the Near East.
Near East - Middle East - Far East
These three terms refer to different geographies. Balkans & Turkey were near east. But Near & Far terms fell out of usage today.
were played here.
Baghdad nearly got me though
Apparently I know Diyarbakir more than Damascus lmao