Great quiz! I thought George Town would have been one of the largest urban areas in Malaysia, but it's apparently a conurbation, not an urban area (at least according to citypopulation).
Same, and I think this is a mistake - the source lists Jerusalem as the biggest city, and Tel Aviv second. Depending on how you count Jerusalem the order could be reversed - but in either case the first valid answer should surely be Haifa.
Nice quiz! But I have a couple of questions. Why was Thailand not included? Surely 'Chiang Mai' and others would meet the criteria. Also, for some reason, while typing in Surabaya for Indonesia, I got Lebanon for free, after just typing 'Sur..' or 'Sura...'. Is that some weird alternate for one of the Lebanon answers? I also second the comment that Tel Aviv is the largest city in Israel, and shouldn't be an option.
3. The source lists Jerusalem as the biggest city in Israel, so the quiz is correct. However, you are right that some sources list Tel Aviv as the largest, but not ours.
The question about Tel Aviv probably arises because the quiz focuses on city proper. Tel Aviv is a bit like Los Angeles: a huge urban sprawl consisting of municipality after municipality.
You could go by urban area for Thailand and include it. Surely more people know about Chiang Mai than about those of Jordan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan and North Korea. By the way, city proper population is not a very good measure... I guess you know the size of the city of London? That also goes for Tel-Aviv, everybody knows it's the biggest city in Israel, so the quiz is flawed imo.
The type-in Sur should be removed, it's pointless to have a gimme for Lebanon for all those who know the second city in Indonesia...
here to echo removing the Sur type-in for Lebanon--totally gives it away for free when it would likely be a hard one for a decent amount of people! and Tyre is likely the more well-known name to begin with
Nice quiz, one question though, why does typing Kaesong validates Kaohsiung? Kaesong is a legitimate guess for North Korea and I'm pretty sure nobody thinks it's in Taiwan.
Can we please have the actual names for Taiwanese cities? I should be able to type in "Gaoxiong" instead of having to work my head around the inaccurate Anglicized names.
Okay, that was an unmitigated disaster. Took a Kazakh miracle just to get half. I never realized until just now that Tehran is the only city in Iran that I know. :-/
The city population proper bit throws the quiz for a bit of a loop. Never even tried Guangzhou for China since on every other Jetpunk Quiz it is the biggest city in China and the biggest city in the World!
The problem is that the Guangzhou and Shenzhen urban areas (and maybe some others) are now contiguous, making one huge metro area, but the cities are not merged either.
Having a bit of a self-reflection moment having been unable to think of anywhere but Aleppo and Damascus for Syria, given the amount of news coverage over the last few years. Knew Homs, Latakia and Rakka, but brain was having none of it.
I missed Syria, Kazakhstan, and NK. I typed Kaesong but Taiwan got the blink and I thought Aleppo was the second largest city and I knew no any other city in Syria. My Asian brain was quite frozen
I missed Jordan (I think it was reasonable) but missed Lebanon which Tyre and Tripoli flew over my head and misspelled Hamhung as Hamhong and missed Taiwan.
Only a few have familiar names looking at the results. (but some I would never have thought of or even placed in the correct country)
This is hard! must get to practice asian cities i guess.
2. Because Sur is an alternate name for Tyre
3. The source lists Jerusalem as the biggest city in Israel, so the quiz is correct. However, you are right that some sources list Tel Aviv as the largest, but not ours.
The type-in Sur should be removed, it's pointless to have a gimme for Lebanon for all those who know the second city in Indonesia...
But it seems Aleppo is the largest city in Syria.
This goes for the whole series.
Thanks!