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European Geography By Letter - O

Can you guess these European geographical answers that start with the letter O?
Includes, perhaps incorrectly, Ø and Ö
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First submittedJuly 17, 2014
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Famous fall festival held
in Munich
Oktoberfest
England's oldest university
Oxford
Capital of Norway
Oslo
Highest mountain in Greece
Olympus
London cricket ground
The Oval
Scottish archipelago
Orkney
Outer Hebrides
German name for Austria
Österreich
One of the titles of the
Dutch monarch
Prince of Orange
One of the D-Day beaches
Omaha Beach
Ukrainian seaport
Odessa
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Answer
Spain is the largest producer
of this type of oil
Olive Oil
Manchester United football stadium
Old Trafford
Term for a province of Russia or Ukraine
Oblast
Bridge connecting Copenhagen to Malmo
Øresund
French city; there's a "new" one
in Louisiana
Orléans
Second largest city in Portugal
(alternate spelling)
Oporto
Biggest city in northern Finland
Oulu
River on the Poland / Germany border
Oder
Belgian seaside city
Ostend
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50 Comments
MayaB
+2
Level 73
Aug 10, 2014
Oblast is "province" in Bulgaria(n) as well. I'm not sure for the other Slavic languages.
Etanna
+1
Level 71
Aug 27, 2014
in Czech oblast isn't 'province' but it means any area (район or oбласть says a dictionary). It's more general in Czech but still close :)) (and I believe it's the same in Slovak). Anyway, I felt like a total fool when I didn't get that one :DD
AceRimmer
+2
Level 57
Dec 16, 2014
I tried all the other Slavic (Balkan) words for county (okrug, opcina), but didn't think of oblast :P
Djilas
+1
Level 83
Dec 4, 2016
It was used in Yugoslavia after WWI for a while, but after then districts were named differently, so now it's a more general term for region, area, or even field (of science!)

In Slovenian it means "authority".

MyMindWentBlank
+1
Level 61
Mar 25, 2017
I thought it was asking for the name of a specific one so I didn't even think of typing oblast...
benjaminmarker
+10
Level 72
Aug 18, 2014
Ø and O are two different vowels. So Øresund isn't quite correct.
sillie
+3
Level 77
Sep 1, 2014
I am wondering about the same thing for Österreich, but I don't know German well enough to know if those two are considered different letters in German like is the case of o and ø in Danish/Norwegian. O and ø are just as different as e and i.
camus
+4
Level 78
Jul 1, 2020
Ö and O are different letters in German. Despite that, Ö is usually found under O in dictionaries, so the quiz is very right to include Ö answers.
Yanni47
+4
Level 77
Jul 1, 2020
I think the German - and Swedish - Ö is the same sound as the Danish/Norwegian Ø.
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Dec 19, 2019
We are already having a tough enough time finding questions for this quiz, so Ö and Ø are staying in.
benjaminmarker
+4
Level 72
Jun 24, 2020
Odense, Denmark

Oingt, France

Oviedo, Spain

Oberhausen, Germany

Offenbach am Main, Germany

Oldenburg, Germany

Olomouc, Czechia

Olsztyn, Poland

Opole, Poland

Just to name a few cities..

ander217
+3
Level 75
Jul 1, 2020
Where the Passion Play is performed every ten years in Germany - Oberammergau. (I'm not a geography nerd but that's one I would have gotten.)
SeeKar
+3
Level 68
Sep 3, 2014
Can you accept Odra (as it is known in Poland) for Oder River?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 3, 2014
Okay
Roger77024
+3
Level 57
Sep 3, 2014
You should take Oostende (native spelling) for Ostend.
Mogysht
+1
Level 50
Sep 3, 2014
Yes, you should :)
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 3, 2014
Oostend and Oesterreich will work now.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Sep 3, 2014
This was tough but managed to pull a few answers out of I-don't-know-where. Missed the Ukraine question because I misread seaport as airport.
david2013
+2
Level 85
Sep 3, 2014
I first thought of "okrug" for the province question, as it starts with "o" in both Russian and Ukrainian. But I think it's a smaller unit of government than a province.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 11, 2016
Okrug will work now
HermandLund
+1
Level 66
Jan 3, 2017
I think the swedes are gonna be well pissed, if you don't put the answer as ØresundsBron. Thats their part of the bridgename.

Øresund is the body of water it crosses - as you know I presume.

kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Mar 25, 2017
As long as you pay the absurd 50 euro extortion fee for crossing it they'll probably be okay with it.
fitheach
+5
Level 58
Mar 27, 2017
As this seems to be forum for nitpicking, the Swedes are going to be "well pissed", as you so ineloquently put it, as you've used a letter which isn't in the Swedish alphabet - the name is Öresundsbron in Swedish!
Antofagasta
+2
Level 70
Jan 13, 2017
Was I the only person who thought of oil as in Natural Gas.
Antofagasta
+1
Level 70
Jan 13, 2017
With a question mark.
relessness
+3
Level 47
Jan 13, 2017
Oil isn't a natural gas?
chondrichthyess
+2
Level 61
Feb 28, 2017
Yeah I missed the question because my brain was stuck on going through different types of crude (sweet crude, sour crude) and oil cuts (naphthalenes, vacuum oils, kerosenes etc)
tourwoorden
+3
Level 69
Mar 25, 2017
Could you please accept Oranje for Orange?
Schnitzelbrot
+1
Level 59
Mar 25, 2017
Yeah. Typed Oranje and gave up after that. That should definately be accepted.
divantilya
+3
Level 36
Jun 28, 2017
Oranje would have been accurate if the quiz maker's word was "Prins". Since the given word is in English, it is assumed

that the answer would be in that language as well.

LvE
+1
Level 21
Mar 25, 2017
so many featured quizzes have used this picture
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Dec 19, 2019
Not anymore. We're gradually going through and removing egregiously duplicated thumbnails.
Borgir
+2
Level 63
Mar 27, 2017
Øresund (Danish) / Öresund (Swedish) does not start with O, since Ø and Ö are separate letters in their respective alphabets. In German, Ö is not considered a letter separate from O, even though it is similar in pronunciation to its Scandinavian counterparts.
fitheach
+2
Level 58
Mar 27, 2017
This quiz is in English, and the name of the strait (and resultant bridge) is spelled Oresund in English.
Thorvald
+3
Level 71
Apr 20, 2017
In fact, the answer for the question about the bridge is wrong. The current answer is the name of the strait that divides Denmark and Sweden, not the bridge itself. Maybe you should rephrase the question so it would be about the strait
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Oct 15, 2018
The King of Netherland's is Prince of Orange-Nassau - "Orange" as a princely house doesn't exist.
divantilya
+1
Level 36
Oct 28, 2018
Correct. Or, more accurately "Prins van Oranje-Nassau". This site keeps insisting on Anglicized names because it is an "English language quiz", yet it routinely accepts "Oktoberfest", which is not English!
jmellor13
+6
Level 67
Jul 1, 2020
But we say "Oktoberfest" in English, just as we say "Mardi Gras," "Chanukah," and "Cinco de Mayo." The native names for those observances are all much more common in English than the translations.
madril22
+1
Level 17
Jul 1, 2020
Oldest university in Europe is one in Bologa, Italy, established in 1088.
joshuil
+8
Level 57
Jul 1, 2020
It's a good job it doesn't say the oldest in europe then.
richiesyxx
+1
Level 72
Jun 24, 2024
Quite. And if it did say Europe, they’d want ‘Bologna’ as the answer, not ‘Bologa.’
KarthikVatsavayi
+1
Level 52
Jul 1, 2020
"Prince Of Orange" is the title of the Heir-Apparent, not the Monarch
TheCrusher
+1
Level 71
Jul 1, 2020
I was breezing through that quiz. Then came the last three clues...
Skymatone
+1
Level 59
Jul 1, 2020
Got them all except for the sports questions
Jesperbf
+1
Level 68
Jul 3, 2020
Øresund is not the name of the bridge but of the strait of water it crosses. The bridge is called Øresundsbron or Bron for short.
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 83
Sep 2, 2021
This was probably my worst quiz out of all of the European Geography by Letter quizzes. I only got 11 and that was with cheating by looking at the comments!
GalwayAnto
+1
Level 43
Mar 8, 2022
Yet another quiz in this series leaning heavily towards the UK.

You can't blame people for being turned off when 25% of answers in a "European" quiz relate to just one country.

GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 68
Feb 28, 2023
That river must really smell
Geostars
+2
Level 65
Oct 14, 2023
Why do people say that Ö and O are The same letters. It's so rude to not respect other languages. It might look like an O, but it's pronounced completely different. That's one thing I hate abouth English. For being a language that is so widely spoken, It has no conerns for other languages.
richiesyxx
+1
Level 72
Jun 24, 2024
Well, no, but it wouldn’t because it’s a language and therefore doesn’t experience feelings of concerns. You must remember though, that it was the German and Norse languages that played the biggest part in the development of the English language, so if what we’ve been left with isn’t good enough, then that’s sort of your fault! If the vikings had been a little less occupied with raping and pillaging, and had spent a little more time educating the locals on the correct use of ‘Ö,’ ‘Ø,’ or even ‘Æ,’ then we’d happily have catered to your sensitivities.

The only time the Scandinavians catered to OUR sensitivities was when the Danish king reordered the spelling of his name to spare our blushes. Ah, Good Ol’ King Cnut.

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