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European Geography By Letter - R

Can you guess these European geographical answers that start with the letter R?
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Answer
"The Eternal City"
Rome
The largest country in Europe
(and also in Asia)
Russia
Currency of the above
Ruble
Country just north of Bulgaria
Romania
Capital of Latvia
Riga
River that once separated Germany
from the Roman Empire
Rhine
Dutch city with Europe's busiest port
Rotterdam
River that goes from Lake Geneva
to the Mediterranean
Rhône
Major city on the delta of Russia's
Don River
Rostov-on-
Don
World's northernmost capital city
Reykjavík
National flower of England
Rose
Clue
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Greek island formerly home to an
ancient wonder of the world
Rhodes
City where Joan of Arc was executed;
Monet painted its cathedral
Rouen
Type of intersection where cars go around
in a circle, popularized in the U.K.
Roundabout
Circular road surrounding central Vienna
Ringstraße
Switzerland's fourth official language
Romansh
Central Paris hotel whose name is
synonymous with luxury
Hôtel Ritz
English town that gave its name
to a popular sport
Rugby
Urban agglomeration which contains
Duisburg, Dortmund, and Essen
Ruhr Area
Building where Germany's
parliament meets
Reichstag
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75 Comments
BobSaget
+27
Level 78
Sep 17, 2014
The best variation for the name of a circular junction has to come from Swahili: Kipilefti.
sillie
+22
Level 77
Sep 3, 2016
If they drove on the opposite side of the road it'd be kipirighti?
Malbaby
+27
Level 70
Apr 22, 2017
And straight ahead would be Kepigoingi
TanithEdgley
+4
Level 36
Sep 17, 2014
Got the Switzerland one with fifteen seconds to spare. Kept trying Rumantsch.
communisteggplant
+4
Level 73
Sep 17, 2014
If only this included New England, then rotary could work for roundabout :)
ander217
+3
Level 75
Feb 11, 2017
We call them roundabouts in the upper south.
LarryLovage
+17
Level 55
Jun 24, 2015
I did hope "Reading" would count as a sport. Though it's not in the Olympics.
ChocolateMoose
+1
Level 28
Dec 20, 2015
damn. i only got one
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Apr 22, 2017
Which one?
ChaosLord
+2
Level 75
Apr 22, 2017
You don't know your Europe, do you?
IvanAndonov
+54
Level 64
Apr 22, 2017
kipitryingi
ander217
+1
Level 75
Apr 22, 2017
lol
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Nov 1, 2018
+1 Ivan
pinverarity
+2
Level 33
Jul 13, 2016
The roundabout is actually an American invention, and they were named 'roundabouts' here as well.
ChaosLord
+21
Level 75
Apr 22, 2017
It's... a British invention, mate. The first circular junction was constructed in Bath in 1768, and modern roundabouts were pioneered by the UK's Transport Research Laboratory in the 1960s. So. Do you want to carry on pretending that Americans do everything, or do you want to concede that perhaps other countries make stuff as well?
ander217
+6
Level 75
Apr 22, 2017
My husband has to negotiate two of them near his workplace, and for our part we wish you had them back.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Apr 7, 2018
There, there... we'll let you have your traffic circles... if that's the one remaining thing you have left to feel proud about. Don't cry.
oweifdhskxn
+1
Level 34
Jun 26, 2018
...there are many claims to the first roundabout...uk, france, us of a...1905 letchworth garden city uk perhaps the first by a year to france then us of a...confusing really, i always thought the first was 1961 or thereabouts...
dunkinggandalf2
+9
Level 68
Jan 28, 2021
You gotta love kalba making fun of the British guy who is rightly claiming the invention of roundabouts, but completely ignoring the American guy, who tried to (wrongly) appropriate them first!
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 56
Jun 5, 2023
There's a polite way to correct people, y'know.
dasubergeek
+6
Level 74
Apr 24, 2017
The British invented it. The Americans managed to screw it up wholly (seriously, there are no efficient roundabouts in the US), and the apotheosis of the roundabout is in Tijuana, where they're called "glorietas" and feature massive statuary in the middle.
bitterblue
+1
Level 58
Jul 9, 2017
there are plenty here that work i prefer them to intersections
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Apr 7, 2018
They're extremely rare in the United States. Intersections are not the same thing. And roundabouts are a horrible idea anywhere- dangerous in addition to being extremely disorienting. For a true American invention see the cloverleaf interchange, which is far superior.
brandybuck96
+1
Level 83
Oct 23, 2023
Pretty sure it's been demonstrated that roundabouts are safer than most types of intersection. Perhaps related, the USA has more than four times the rate of traffic-related deaths than the UK.
blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
Sep 11, 2024
Such an American answer in every way.
CaoMaru
+5
Level 49
May 24, 2018
Unless you live in a small country, where those massive cloverleafs are not an option. Besides, roundabouts are safe as long as everyone knows how to use them.
fuanacdc
+4
Level 85
Jun 25, 2018
You wan't to see a complete clown show of an interchange, look up a Diverging Diamond.
Djilas
+8
Level 83
Dec 21, 2019
Everything has its place and purpose. Roundabouts are perfectly suitable and best solution in some places and bad in others. Also their design can be great or horribly messed up.
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 85
Jul 29, 2020
Here in New Jersey, where driving is generally considered a contact sport, we have "circles" and "jug handles".
Ferbin
+6
Level 76
Oct 5, 2020
"Horrible idea anywhere", wow. What is it with muricans and their irrational hate of roundabouts? That and their aversion to the metric system, which they fight against with what seems like a misplaced pseudo-patriotic intensity. It just boggles the mind.
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 68
Jan 28, 2021
A cloverleaf intersection is an insane waste of space and ressources in most settings.
bitterblue
+2
Level 58
Jul 9, 2017
really? where i'm from in the US we call them rotarys
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
rotaries*
ruftytufty
+4
Level 79
Oct 9, 2017
If two roundabouts try your patience, never visit Milton Keynes - though in fairness there are many reasons for not visiting Milton Keynes.
divantilya
+1
Level 36
Oct 28, 2018
^ Or Barbados. It once took a native taxi driver five tries to finally exit the one in Bridgetown (doesn't help that they drive on the left over there). That and the speed at which they drive gives you the sensation of being on a Merry- go -round at an amusement park! - Never again!!!
grantdon
+1
Level 73
Feb 7, 2022
Doesn't make any difference if you drive on the left or the right, roundabouts can be chaotic, especially the multilane ones. Best suited to single lane intersections of roads with low to moderate and similar volumes of traffic
blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
Sep 11, 2024
or Canberra, it's really just one giant roundabout.
Rocker6346
+4
Level 49
Nov 8, 2016
Any chance you can accept 'Rhodos' (and maybe also 'Rodos') as answers?
Yanni47
+1
Level 77
Jul 29, 2020
I just knew someone would come up with that suggestion.
Roger77024
+4
Level 57
Apr 22, 2017
My favourite is the "magic roundabout" - not the TV show, but a central roundabout with smaller mini-roundabouts around it! Traffic can go either direction around the central one. I well remember my first time at the Moor End one in Hemel Hempstead, U.K. in the mid 1970s.
ColoHarpare
+1
Level 50
Apr 22, 2017
That sounds....horrific!
Corrode
+1
Level 60
Apr 27, 2017
Swindon has one too.
Carry
+1
Level 63
May 9, 2017
Looks horrific too. I stumbled across my favorite roundabout in the Netherlands. It's for bicycles.
HectorVortac
+2
Level 48
Apr 22, 2017
While attempting to answer the Joan of Arc question I got three others right instead.
cornflakesfu
+6
Level 87
Dec 21, 2019
You thought Joan of Arc was executed in Rugby, the Reichstag, or the Hotel Ritz?
bmjs98
+1
Level 54
Apr 23, 2017
Just put Rhode, didn't know why it wasn't working cause I was pretty sure that was right, only to find I just needed to add an s
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Apr 23, 2017
Maybe you learned something?
MustardCustard
+2
Level 65
Aug 7, 2017
Mispelled Rhine and got Rhone, not complaining.
TheRatmeister
+2
Level 86
Apr 7, 2018
Include rotary as an acceptable answer.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Apr 7, 2018
Or else what?
MCdoesgeography
+3
Level 69
Jun 2, 2023
Shut up
HPaddict
+1
Level 27
Nov 1, 2018
Reply if you got Reykjavik
divantilya
+2
Level 36
Dec 9, 2018
^ Yes, I did. It's one of those things that once you get it, you never forget it. Same goes for Kyrgyzstan, Kuala Lumpur, Riyadh, Afghanistan or Tajikistan). (However, until they change the capital of Sri Lanka back to Colombo, I will admit defeat beforehand and never even attempt it).
ander217
+5
Level 75
Dec 21, 2019
Add to that the capital of Myanmar. I had just learned to use Yangon instead of Rangoon and then they pulled that last one on me. Nappy-yabba-dabba-taw, or whatever.
AnEverydayNerd8
+1
Level 55
Jan 1, 2019
I did
elephanteric
+1
Level 38
Feb 28, 2019
yep.
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 85
Jul 29, 2020
Got it, and for exactly the reason divantilya said.
Djilas
+3
Level 83
Dec 21, 2019
The ring surrounds Vienna *centre*, not the whole city. Rostov is in south WEST of Russia.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Dec 21, 2019
Fixed
markasol
+2
Level 76
Dec 21, 2019
The Reichstag is the old German parliament, pre 3rd Reich - the clue is in the name. The modern one is the Bundestag. Either the answer is wrong or the question is wrong....
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Dec 21, 2019
The question is correct. Since 1999, the Bundestag has met in the Reichstag Building.
DrWatson
+4
Level 73
Dec 21, 2019
I came here to say the same thing as markasol, but it turns out that you are, in fact, correct, Quizmaster. Thanks for teaching me something today!
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Dec 22, 2019
Thanks for checking the comments before adding your own!
dunkinggandalf2
+2
Level 68
Jan 28, 2021
Quizmaster is absolutely correct. After Berlin became capital again, there was actually a debate about whether or not to rename the building, but it was decided that due to its historical significance, the name should remain, and now the Bundestag meets in the building called the Reichstag.
cpgatbyu
+2
Level 85
Dec 21, 2019
Wikipedia: "Since the 19th century, these cities have grown together into a large complex with a vast industrial landscape, inhabited by some 7.3 million people (including Düsseldorf and Wuppertal, large cities that are nearby but OFFICIALLY NOT PART OF THE RUHR AREA)." (Emphasis added.)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 21, 2019
Replaced Düsseldorf with Duisburg.
PeregrineFalcon
+1
Level 76
Mar 26, 2020
I think it's preferable to use 'Germania' in question 6
komtvoordebakker
+1
Level 43
May 3, 2020
Why? There is no river called the Germania.
Geographiker
+1
Level 39
Jul 29, 2020
In my knowing its called Retho-romanian or Retho-Romanisch!
Djinsasa
+2
Level 62
May 15, 2021
The language actually is called Romansh. Rhaeto-Romanic (also Rhaeto-Romance or Rhaetian) is a group of languages and Romansh is one of them, together with Friulian and Ladin (both spoken in Italy). But in Switzerland the corresponding german word "Rätoromanisch" is commonly used for Romansh. So, as it also starts with R, it could be helpful to also accept "Rhaeto-Romanic".
SouthwestChief
+2
Level 72
Jul 29, 2020
Could you accept "rotary" for "roundabout?"
joedimaggio
+1
Level 72
Jul 30, 2020
Quite a tricky clue for the Rhône. It goes from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranenan indeed, but it is just a part of it. It's like saying "River that goes from Montreal to the Atlantic Ocean" for the St Lawrence
Tomanding
+2
Level 38
Jul 30, 2020
You should also accept Rhaeto-Romance or Rhaeto-Romanian for the official fourth language of Switzerland.
parkave
+2
Level 57
Dec 15, 2020
Could rotary be included for round a bout, that's what we call them in Massachusetts
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 75
Dec 6, 2021
Should Q.17 not be "Private school in England that gave its name to a popular sport"?

I suppose the town gave its name to the school which in turn gave its name to the sport, but it is pretty famously and legendarily an "invention" of the school's pupil William Webb Ellis.

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