European Geography By Letter - N

Can you guess these European geographical answers that start with the letter N?

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First submitted	July 10, 2014
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Average score	70.0%
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Clue	Answer
Country known for fjords	Norway
City where pizza is said to have originated	Naples
Italian name for the city above	Napoli
Scottish lake with a famous monster	Loch Ness
Paris's most famous cathedral	Notre Dame de Paris
One of the four "countries" of the United Kingdom	Northern Ireland
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland	The Nordic Countries
Region of northern Spain, once an independent kingdom	Navarre
City in Lorraine, France that is also a women's name in English	Nancy
Country incorrectly known as Holland	Netherlands
City near Sherwood Forest	Nottingham
England's northernmost county	Northumberland
Most populous city on the Volga river, formerly known as Gorky	Nizhny Novgorod
City that hosted Nazi rallies and, later, war tribunals	Nuremberg
People from here are known as "Geordies"	Newcastle upon Tyne
Second or third largest city in Serbia (name either)	Novi Sad / Niš
French region and D-Day landing site	Normandy
"Pleasant" city on the French Riviera	Nice
Gentrified London district that hosts an annual carnival	Notting Hill
Small German town that gave its name to many other things including, indirectly, the capital of Bahamas	Nassau

Level 85

Jul 15, 2014

At first, I thought that there was just one cathedral in Paris but of course not. Notre Dame is the main roman catholic cathedral, but there are other branches of catholicism as well as orthodoxy. In the end, it seems there are ten of them!

Level 57

Mar 10, 2020

So sad after the fire incident...

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Level 83

Aug 27, 2014

Nassau was named for William III of Orange-Nassau. Not for a German city.

Level 37

Aug 27, 2014

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe if it said German house or castle or family?

Level ∞

Aug 27, 2014

@kalbahamat. You are right. I left out a few steps. The original Nassau was the German city.

Level 58

Dec 15, 2014

I knew the 3rd city of Serbia, it also begins with N... :(

Level ∞

Dec 19, 2019

I changed the question so that you can no guess either the second or third biggest.

Level 84

Jun 17, 2020

I read "Siberia" instead of "Serbia". D'oh!

Level 79

Feb 18, 2015

why is Loch Ness in a letter n-quiz?

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Level 47

Feb 18, 2015

Because it's called Loch Ness

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Level 78

Oct 15, 2016

Because "Loch" is lake. Similarly you'd find Lake Michigan under M.

Level 77

Apr 3, 2020

Los Angeles would be under L because the two words comprise the name of the city.

Level 69

Jul 8, 2018

would Rio Grande be under "R" or "G"? and Los Angeles under "L" or "A"?

Level 67

Oct 7, 2020

"Rio Grande" feels like an R, and "Loch Ness" like an N - I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe because in "Rio Grande", both parts are more a description than a name - as in, it's a big river, not a river named "Grande", whereas Loch Ness is a Loch named Ness, not a Nessy Loch. Does that make sense?

Level 67

Oct 7, 2020

This reflection inspired me to look up the etymology of Loch Ness, in case anyone finds it interesting: "Loch Ness is named for the river Ness which flows from the loch's northern end. The river's name probably derives from an old Celtic word meaning "roaring one"." (Wikipedia)

Level 73

May 8, 2021

Rio Grande probably "should" be under G, but in the English-speaking world seems to fit under R.

Level 60

Jul 4, 2016

Tried navarro, navarra and finally got it. Took me far too long

Level 73

Nov 23, 2020

I think 'Navarra' should be accepted as a type-in.

Level 83

Nov 20, 2016

Guess I need to study the difference between Northumberland and Northumbria!

Level 83

May 12, 2023

Was that its former name?

Level 58

Mar 11, 2017

Nancyboys ?

Level 65

Apr 2, 2017

Maybe instead of having two questions about Naples you could replace one with Neman (river that flows through Belarus, Lithuania and Russia), Nizhny Novgorod (major city and the centre of the river tourism in Russia) or Novaya Zemlya (archipelago where Soviets tested the most powerful atomic bomb in history)?

Level 75

Jun 1, 2020

I guess you must be from Russia? Nizhny Novgorod made the quiz, but I doubt the other two would get many guesses except maybe from Russian people - if that.

Level 73

Nov 23, 2020

I agree the Naples double-act is odd. How about Nijmegen - the oldest city in the Netherlands :)

Level 60

Nov 14, 2021

Is Novaya Zemlya even in Europe? It probably is, given where the Ural mountains reach the coast, but still, it wouldn't be mine first thought for an european place.

Level 57

Aug 18, 2017

Can Northumbria be accepted for northernmost English county?

Level 48

Jun 17, 2020

Agree entirely. That's how I knew it.

Level 56

Jun 17, 2020

Northumbria is the old Saxon kingdom that covered the whole North of England. Shared etymology I'm sure, but it's never been a county.

Level 59

Jun 19, 2020

@Jarris - Northumbria was an Anglian kingdom, not a Saxon kingdom.

Level 35

Mar 10, 2018

Got Novi Sad thanks to European football.

Level 75

Dec 22, 2019

Vojvodina.

Level 75

Jun 1, 2020

Got it thanks to Monica Seles.

Level 75

Oct 12, 2018

The French cathedral Notre-Dame is hyphenated, although the US university is not.

Level 68

Aug 18, 2019

I’ve never heard of Notting hill. Am I stupid?

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Level 76

Dec 21, 2019

I've only heard of it because of the Hugh Grant-Julia Roberts film.

Level 79

Dec 19, 2019

The "gentrification" of Notting Hill has often been greatly exaggerated, largely thanks to that bloody film.

Level 54

Oct 9, 2020

Huh? It is one of the wealthiest areas of London...

Level 83

Dec 20, 2019

Hmmm... Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia. Maybe Novokuznetsk is second or third. Only other one I can think of that starts with "N". Perhaps I should read the question a little more closely.

Level 85

Dec 21, 2019

And perhaps you should have realized that it didn't fit in an European geography quiz.

Level 84

Jun 17, 2020

I read "Siberia" too. Didn't occur to this wee little brain of mine that I had now strayed far beyond the bounds of Europe. My virtually empty mental rollodex of Siberian cities was too busy flying to "N".

When a clock is ticking down, the pressure's on and you're locked-in, sometimes you miss things you otherwise never would.

Level 76

Dec 21, 2019

Pulled Novgorod from somewhere deep in the grey matter. Unfortunately I forgot to pick up Nizhny on the way.

Level 76

Jun 17, 2020

Just did it again. Sigh.

Level 71

Mar 5, 2021

I always remember that one solely because it's such a distinctive name. It's one of like 4 Russian cities I can ever remember.

Level 57

Apr 8, 2020

Did anyone else get the Nottingham question thanks to Robin Hood?

Level 55

Oct 28, 2020

I got it because I live there.

Level 60

Nov 14, 2021

Did anyone (exept DanielJS) NOT get it because of Robin Hood?

Level 87

Apr 29, 2020

Hmmm...I tried Novi Saad. I'm sure I've seen it spelled that way before. A quick Google search shows it's Novi Sad, but I'm wondering if it changed recently. Anyone?

Level 88

Jun 17, 2020

All I'm seeing is Novi Sad. Maybe you saw it spelled that way in a different language?

Level 67

Jun 18, 2020

No major language spells it with double A. Even languages that denote long vowels by doubling, like Finnish or Estonian, use a single A there.

Novi Sad (Нови Сад) means “New Garden” or “New Orchard” in Serbian. It has had many official names with the same meaning throughout history: Neoplanta (Latin), Neusatz (German), Újvidék (Hungarian), Nový Sad (Slovak), Нови Сад (Rusyn).

Anyway, it has always been with a single A in Serbian. If anyone had ever spelled it with double A in some other language, it must have been a really really old source. Or, it could have been a misspeling or a joke.

Level 50

Jun 17, 2020

Nearly half of these are in Great Britain

Level 76

Jul 15, 2020

Not far off - nearly a third. 6 to be precise. And 4 of them are in the bottom 10 answered correctly. Shame on those British.

Level 86

Nov 21, 2020

Nice quiz! :)

Level 73

Nov 23, 2020

Misspelled a French city and got a Serbian one - never ever would've got 100% without that little bit of serendipity!

Level 60

Dec 31, 2021

Cool quiz but very UK based.. had to cook up cities while typing!

Level 43

May 5, 2023

Ah, I was typing Novgorod by itself - is this technically correct?

Level 29

May 12, 2023

This is so UK-biased. Why should all Europeans be able to name some random English counties and city districts?

Level 40

May 12, 2023

Holland only refers to a region of The Netherlands. Netherlands and Holland do not mean the same thing

Level 65

May 12, 2023

Um… Gorky is an automatic type

In. Gotta hate efficiency.

Level 43

May 15, 2023

isn't nassau, bahamas named for baarle-nassau, a belgian/dutch city

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