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European Geography By Letter - G

Can you guess these European geographical answers that start with the letter G?
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First submittedFebruary 5, 2014
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Clue
Answer
Country that has the largest
economy in Europe
Germany
Most populous city in Scotland
Glasgow
Largest lake in the Alps
Lake Geneva
Famous for feta, philosophy,
and phalanxes
Greece
Europe's largest island
Great Britain
One of the Channel Islands
Guernsey
Celtic language group
Gaelic
Basalt columns off the coast of
Northern Ireland
Giant's
Causeway
Spanish city once capital of
an Islamic emirate
Granada
Town that gives its name to the
UK's largest music festival
Glastonbury
Clue
Answer
The G in GMT
Greenwich
Sweden's second biggest city
Gothenburg
Roman name for France
Gallia
Polish city formerly known as Danzig
Gdańsk
Term for a secluded valley mentioned
in the song "Danny Boy"
Glen
Strait between Spain and Morocco
Gibraltar
Capital of Liguria in NW Italy,
once a city-state with a naval empire
Genoa
Region of northwest Spain with
its own language
Galicia
Inlet of the Bosphorus that flows
through Istanbul
Golden Horn
Nickname for someone
from Newcastle
Geordie
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66 Comments
Dax
+13
Level 64
Jul 13, 2014
Good quiz. (Didn't get the biggest island despite having lived on it for 31 years)
sussexval
+3
Level 58
Dec 14, 2016
Dax - I've lived on it all my life and I still missed it. Doh!
sambear
+1
Level 75
Mar 31, 2023
I almost missed it as well despite living here my whole life
TheWombat
+16
Level 73
Jul 14, 2014
I was going to ask why Greenland isn't the biggest island in Europe, but thought I should Google it first. Apparently it's considered part of North America. Who knew? I like these quizzes, by the way, thanks for making them.
irish41
+57
Level 59
Jul 14, 2014
You get an A+ just for Googling something before complaining about it. :)
macie22austria
+4
Level 43
Jan 20, 2015
It isn't part of North america, it belongs to Denmark, and Denmark is in Europe! Greenland is no own country!
Choraleraleria
+2
Level 25
Apr 2, 2023
By that logic, Aruba,Bonaire,Curacao,Guadeloupe,St Pierre and Miquelon,French Polynesia,French Guiana, British Indian Ocean Territory,British Antarctic Territories,Pitcairn Islands,New Caledonia,Falklands,St George Islands, Sandwich Islands and a lot more territories are all in the european continent, Get wrecked, macie22austria
Carry
+37
Level 63
Aug 12, 2016
Cool, so Aruba is in Europe too?
WolfCam
+3
Level 66
Dec 14, 2016
Oh Britain... Some people might have been like " we should conquer Europe!" But no you said " no let's conquer everything else"
CardinalSin
+6
Level 79
Nov 3, 2018
macie22 austria, does that mean that you think that French Guiana, Melilla, Kerguelen and St Pierre et Miquelon are all in Europe too? Since when does politics trump geography?
Sifhraven
+2
Level 72
May 2, 2019
@macie22austria (and others that that didnt respond so apparently think the same thing (besides the people that dont feel like responding obviously, before replies come) greenland IS a country. An autonomous one even, just because on jetpunk they are omitted for the purposes of the quiz doesnt suddenly make it not be a country anymore...

a shame that people just simply assume things, ow it is left out in this country quiz, so then it is not a country. People learn the wrong thing that way (and just blatantly copy and defend a statement with verve because they heard it somewhere before, without really knowing)

roleybob
+6
Level 75
Dec 23, 2019
^On Jetpunk, country is generally taken to mean sovereign state
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Apr 3, 2020
@macie22austria Makes as much sense as the Falklands being in Europe because it belongs to the United Kingdom, and United Kingdom is in Europe! Falklands is no own country!
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 82
Sep 11, 2022
If I ever visit the Pitcairn Islands I’m going to inform everyone that they live in Europe.
MiracleMax
+1
Level 74
Apr 5, 2023
To be pedantic, the question doesn't ask for "the largest island in Europe", it asks for "Europe's largest island", and Greenland DOES belong to Europe.

But mostly I'm just disappointed that I spend so long thinking about towns on that island that I forgot to think of the island itself.

leonora
+1
Level 43
Sep 24, 2014
Great Britai isn't ONE island!!!
TheWombat
+27
Level 73
Oct 2, 2014
It is, you know.
stromae
+1
Level 71
Oct 29, 2014
lol
Antofagasta
+26
Level 71
Jan 2, 2017
You're right. Great Britai doesn't exist at all.
CaoMaru
+1
Level 49
May 23, 2018
What? Great Britain does not exist?

???????

TheLastFish
+13
Level 70
Dec 18, 2019
You should not confuse Great Britain with the Great Britai who was probably the twin brother of Alexander the Great!
ChipOtley
+2
Level 74
Mar 25, 2020
I guess it could mean both the island (as is usual), or the combined nations of England, Wales & Scotland; after all, it's not the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Wight, Lundy, Hebrides (Inner and Outer), Lindisfarne, Shetlands, Orkneys, Anglesey, Scilly, and all the other ones dotted around the place :-).
AllenY
+5
Level 69
Apr 15, 2015
Tried gully, gorge, gravina... lot of synonyms for glen.
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Apr 23, 2016
From gorge to gully, and down the mountainside?
SundarIsaacs
+1
Level 59
Dec 14, 2016
:-)
Antofagasta
+3
Level 71
Jan 2, 2017
Same problem. I thought glen was part of a forest. Don't know why.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
May 2, 2019
Hmm i havent looked it up, but your comment resonates with me. I associated it with being green. If it was dry and barren the word glen doesnt fit i feel. But in my mind everything is green there anyway so i dont know if they even have dry valleys.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Aug 5, 2019
makes sense
ander217
+1
Level 74
Mar 25, 2020
Thank you, Monarch of the Glen.
akwildrose
+2
Level 51
Jul 23, 2015
All I could think of was gully or gulch; couldn't think of glen. *sigh*
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 82
Sep 11, 2022
Don’t feel too bad. I tried gullet which is not a landform at all.
evacooper
+2
Level 51
Nov 5, 2015
galicia is a bit confusing for me as my ancestors were from galicia, ukraine...
odiseyitaka
+2
Level 65
Nov 28, 2019
cool.

i am from galicia in ukraine))

ander217
+2
Level 74
Dec 22, 2019
I typed Galatia and wondered why it wasn't accepted - wrong country.
Carry
+3
Level 63
Aug 12, 2016
Glad to see I'm not the only idiot who forgot about GB.
Corrode
+1
Level 60
Dec 14, 2016
Yep took me a minute too.
Yamaneko
+1
Level 72
Dec 14, 2016
Wow, I thought Lake Constance was the biggest one in the Alps, but it comes second by fewer than 5 sq.mi to the #1, which I thought was a very common trivia mistake due to the fact that it's by far the most well-known of the range!
Roger77024
+10
Level 57
Dec 15, 2016
Observation, not a complaint - very U.K. oriented, with at least 8 questions directed there.
Yanni47
+1
Level 78
Jun 29, 2020
10 even = 50%, if you include Gibraltar and Gaelic.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Apr 5, 2021
Gibraltar here is referring to the strait (not entirely owned by the UK) and Gaelic may also refer to Irish Gaelic.
Jarl5
+2
Level 68
Jun 7, 2017
Accept "Gully" for deep valley?
Blaidd
+4
Level 51
Feb 18, 2020
Gully is not in song, Glen is.
Worldcitizen
+2
Level 33
Jan 20, 2019
Geneva’s Lake is called Lac Léman.
fitheach
+9
Level 58
May 2, 2019
Not in English it isn't (you know, the language in which this quiz is set, and therefore the language in which you answer).
fitheach
+6
Level 58
May 2, 2019
The proper linguistic term for the Celtic language question would be Goidelic, which also begins with G and so should really be accepted.
TinteEalaine
+1
Level 54
Apr 2, 2022
Where did that word originate? I'm Irish and have never heard ir before.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 68
Nov 6, 2024
Because its a linguist thing and not a general knowledge thing
quicksilver87
+1
Level 38
Dec 18, 2019
I'm Scottish, yet missed Gaelic, Glen and almost missed Great Britain. Thank goodness I at least got Glasgow. *hangs head in shame*
Sifhraven
+8
Level 72
Dec 19, 2019
Had too much Glenfiddich perhaps? ;)
PoetsCorner
+2
Level 86
Jan 8, 2022
Glenlivet
ander217
+1
Level 74
Dec 22, 2019
The second-largest city in Sweden must have been a clue at least twenty times on this site, and every single time I miss it. Each time I think I've jammed it well into my brain and I'm confident I'll remember it the next time, and then the next time the clue appears the answer deserts me once again. Sigh.
ander217
+7
Level 74
Mar 25, 2020
I got closer this time. I tried Goetheburg. (I think that must be a city for German writers.)
Yanni47
+2
Level 78
Jun 29, 2020
I suppose you were thinking of Goethe and fused him with Göteborg, the Swedish name for the city. Close enough, but unless your version is a type-in - no cigar.
uti
+1
Level 34
Jul 10, 2024
Haha, that's great xD
gursh
+1
Level 56
Dec 28, 2019
very Britain-centric - love it
QRU
+1
Level 74
Mar 25, 2020
Maybe you could improve the Glen answer with an "First name of the above"?
ChipOtley
+1
Level 74
Mar 25, 2020
Glen Gdansk? https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/glen-danzig-to-change-his-name-to-glen-gdansk
luxint
+2
Level 66
Mar 29, 2020
English and missed Great Britain! Possibly becuase I never think of it as great!
Sodum8
+2
Level 18
Apr 22, 2020
Oh Gdańsk. Wonderful city
dingwad303
+1
Level 34
Jun 23, 2020
I tried Britain instead of Great Britain. I thought Great Britain referred to all of the islands in that archipelago, and Britain was just the one with Wales, Scotland, and England on it.
WackyAnagramDude
+3
Level 63
Jun 25, 2020
If it was Britain it wouldn't be on this quiz where all the answers start with G.
FolgoreCZ
+3
Level 59
Jul 25, 2020
The entire group is valled British isles, Great Britain is the largest of them.
jamaltepec
+1
Level 66
Nov 7, 2022
Isn't Hawaii in the USA?
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 75
Mar 31, 2023
What about adding the double-G Gretna Green!
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 83
Mar 31, 2023
I love getting one of the least-known answers correct. It made up for the fact that I missed Glastonbury (which I really, really should have known)
josuagayleitner
+1
Level 45
Oct 7, 2024
Is this a quiz about Europe or the UK? Plenty of irrelevant UK facts while nearly completely ignoring eastern Europe.
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