Each dot represents a city with population > 1 million. To turn the dot green, guess any 1M city within 1,000 kilometers.
UrbanArea population according to citypopulation.de (ref. date 1.1.19)
Dot size depends on population
Dot colours: blue represents a capital, dark blue an agglomeration including a capital, red represents an agglomeration without a main city, white on the circumference represents a city with no other 1M city within 1,000 km
when you have few left, a trick is moving the mouse over the nearest one that has been highlighted, read the name and type it, hoping it's close enough...
Beat it for the first time by doing just that. The last 2 times I left 1 city in Russia that I'll never remember how to spell, but had a minute and typed in the name of one that was luckily just close enough.
While I like that you have to type the whole Dar es Salaam for the city, I feel obliged to point out most other quizzes accept just "Dar". Consistency?
I know! I made one for Texas counties, where each county would be filled in by any adjacent county, and it took me hours to make. But there are more than twice as many cities on this list than counties on mine, and a widened parameter of anything within ~620 miles being an acceptable answer. I bet it took this guy weeks to get everything straightened out.
Hopefully quizmaster didn't actually do it all out by hand... you know that you can simply find this data online with city latitude/longitude coordinates and convert it into a notepad, at which point you can write a program with a distance formula and which automatically makes all the quiz answers? Than you just need to import the data and it is much easier.
I used Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Dhaka to get most of the Indian Subcontinent. Similarly, I did Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu to get most of eastern China.
I'm embarrassed by how long it took me to figure out how to get 100% on this quiz. When you don't know the name of a city, hover over the nearest city that you've gotten and type that in. You can then work your way towards any city you don't know, except for the cities that aren't within 1000 km of any other city in the quiz.
The maximum listed number of cities for an answer is 89. There are two cities that get you 89, Suqian and Yancheng. Perhaps unsurprisingly, you can't ever guess both of them, as they are just 200 km apart.
Bloody Antananarivo always gets me... Firefox's spell correct tries to turn my mangled attempt into Annapurna, so I can't get away with right clicking like I can with "Nocuhakott."
Can you please accept just Kansas for Kansas City, since people only need to type in Guatemala for Guatemala City and Mexico for Mexico City? That's really starting to irritate me.
Took me months as to get 100%! I kept doing scambigol's more intense proximity quizzes till I became very familiar with the locations then I finally came back and did this one.
Great quiz but not enough time. Find myself head-down typing and residual text from previous answers is spoiling my new answers, leading to much time wasted deleting and re-typing.
so close!
(but you will need to type Colombo for Sri Lanka)
second try, all of them
Need a couple of seconds for Mogadishu, and Makasaar needs to be closer to something
Typing Detroit gets you most of East USA. What are other cities to type to get many
Should've got Manaus too, oh well I'll take 568/569 xD
BTW isn't the current capital of Sri Lanka 'Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte' (Sri Kotte type-in)?
POGGERS
swich the second a and the m and add n on u get
BATMAN
I DID IT WITH (time) REMAINING
Makassar, Manaus, and Krasnoyarsk.
Who is cheating?
At first, I lost 2 in Brazil, 3 in Russia and 2 in India, I really forgot about Sao Luis and Chennai!
Calgary
Vegas
Denver
St Louis
Nyc
Mexico City
Guatemala
Cali
Brasilia
Teresina
Buenos Aires
la paz
Benin city
Kano
Bamako
Kananga
Kampala
Lusaka
Durban
Sanaa
Tunis
Lisbon
Paris
Berlin
Kiev
Moscow
Chelyabinsk
Istanbul
Riyadh
Qom
Delhi
Calicut
Jodhpur
Santo Domingo
Khulna
Yangon
Saigon
Bangkok
Singapore
Bandung
Denpasar
Manila
Sydney
Perth
lima
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Zibo
Chengdu
Xian
Port elizibeth
Shantou
Auckland
Omsk
Almaty
Addis ababa
Beirut
Mombassa
Abu Dhabi
Ulaanbaatar
krasnoyarsk
Antananarivo
Manaus
Honolulu
Havana
Dallas
Curitiba
Cordoba
Dakar
Bangui
Brazzaville
Melbourne
Jilin
Taipei
Las Vegas
Boston
Houston
Indianapolis
Mexico (City)
Tegucigalpa
Caracas
Port-au-Prince
Tampa
Bogota
La Paz
Lima
Manaus
Sao Luis
Manaus
Natal
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
Montevideo
Asuncion
Sydney
Adelaide
Perth
Auckland
Hanoi
Jakarta
Singapore
Phnom Penh
Makassar
Jakarta
Dubai
Kabul
Hyderabad
Colombo
Dhaka
Kathmandu
Harbin
Beijing
Tokyo
Shanghai
Hong Kong (might not be needed)
Chengdu
Astana
Ufa
Krasnoyarsk
Ruhr
Rabat
Tunis
Athens
Tel Aviv
Yerevan
Kyiv
St. Peterburg
Bishkek (might not be needed)
Ulaanbataar
Honolulu
Manila
Dakar
Lagos
Bamako
N' Djamena
Kinshasa
Kingasani
Capetown
Antananarivo
Maputo
Sana'a
Mogadishu
Khartoum
Nairobi
Ürümqi
Lusaka (might not be needed)
Volgograd (might not be needed)
Ashgabat (might not be needed)
lmk if i missed any