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Europe

50 answers | 173 clues

Must-Know (2)

Venice 10x 10.0% stumper $390 avg J:5 DJ:5

DJ $200 1997 This Italian Adriatic seaport is situated on 118 islands formed by about 180 canals

J $500 DD 1994 This city has 6 wards: San Polo, Castello, Santa Croce, Dorsoduro, Cannaregio & San Marco

DJ $1,200 2019 If you're into bridges, this city has more than 400 of 'em, including the Rialto that crosses the Grand Canal

Florence 8x $486 avg DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $200 1990 The name of this city on the Arno River comes from a Latin word meaning "flourishing'

DJ $600 1992 The tombs of Michelangelo & Machiavelli are in the Church of Santa Croce in this Italian city

FJ 1999 Around 59 B.C. the Romans settled what is now this city, & gave it a Latin name that means "blossoming"

Should-Know (16)

London 7x 14.3% stumper $1,443 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $100 1985 City whose West End produces many plays seen later on Broadway

DJ $800 1994 In 1613 the Irish city of Derry was turned over to the government of this city

DJ $8,000 DD 2026 Like his famous grandfather, portrait artist Lucian Freud died at home in this city

Glasgow 7x $457 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $200 2013 George Square in this largest Scottish city has a very tall column with Sir Walter Scott atop it

DJ $800 1992 George Square in this largest Scottish city has an 80-foot column honoring Sir Walter Scott

J $300 1996 This largest Scottish city occupies much of the Clyde Valley

Barcelona 7x 42.9% stumper $529 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1997 The Saint Jordi Sports Palace in this Spanish city was built for the 1992 Summer Olympics

DJ $600 1985 Though not the capital, it's Spain's leading industrial & commercial center

DJ $1,000 1985 Tradition says Columbus announced his discovery of the New World in this Spanish town

Liverpool 6x $400 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 1999 Buildings located on its Mersey River waterfront include the Cunard Building & the Royal Liver Building

J $500 1997 A railroad tunnel under the Mersey River connects this British city to the Wirral Peninsula

J $300 1996 The home of Prime Minister William Gladstone still stands in this British city on the Mersey River

Zurich 5x 20.0% stumper $920 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2024 Head to the end of the alphabet & this largest Swiss city that ranks among the world's most expensive to live in

DJ $600 1995 While banking in this largest Swiss city, you may want to pick up some chocolates or an Army knife

DJ $1,000 1992 James Joyce wrote part of "Ulysses" in this Swiss city where he's now buried

Sydney 5x 20.0% stumper $300 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 1995 Port Jackson Harbor has helped make this city Australia's busiest seaport

DJ $200 1990 In 1788 a handful of officials & some 700 convicts founded this Australian city on Botany Bay

J $300 1993 Kingsford Smith International Airport in this city is Australia's busiest

Lima 5x $380 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1998 When Pizarro founded this Peruvian city in 1535, he called it the "city of kings"

J $500 1992 Proposed by Pizarro, this city's Great Cathedral was rebuilt after a 1746 earthquake

DJ $200 1991 For nearly 300 years, this Peruvian city was the capital of Spain's South American empire

Vienna 4x 25.0% stumper $425 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1993 About one-fifth of Austria's population lives in this city

DJ $800 2006 Themonumentseenhereis in the section of honor in this city's Central Cemetery

J $300 1985 "The Musician's Holy City", home at one time to Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms & the Strausses, etc.

Vancouver 4x $450 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1992 This city in British Columbia is the center of Canada's third-largest urban area

DJ $800 1996 This city has been called "Canada's Gateway to the Pacific"

DJ $400 2014 Less than half of the people living in this busiest port on Canada's West Coast speak English as their first language

Munich 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1992 The name of this capital of Bavaria is from a word which means "home of the monks"

DJ $600 1990 Western Czechoslovakia was given to the Nazis in the pact signed in this German city

DJ $600 1990 In 1919 locksmith Anton Drexler founded the forerunner of the Nazi Party in this Bavarian capital

Moscow 4x $567 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1994 The bell tower of Ivan the Great was once the tallest structure in this capital

DJ $600 1995 The Cosmos Hotel in this East European city was built for the Olympics held there in 1980

DJ $1,000 DD 1988 The Warsaw Pact is administered from headquarters in this city

Edinburgh 4x 25.0% stumper $275 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1996 The name of this Scottish city may come from a Celtic word meaning "Edin's Fort"

DJ $200 1987 Some say this Scottish city was named for Edwin of Northumbria; some say it wasn't

DJ $400 1995 This Scottish city may have been named for Edwin of Northumbria, an Anglian king

Darwin 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1988 Capital of Australia's N. Territory, named for a famed British naturalist who was never there

DJ $800 1992 Fittingly, this capital of Australia's Northern Territory is located on Beagle Gulf

J $1,800 DD 2013 This capital of Australia's Northern Territory lies on Beagle Gulf

Copenhagen 4x $250 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1994 Begun more than 400 years ago, Bakken amusement park in this Danish capital is the world's oldest

DJ $200 1994 Lawrence Welk would have had a wunnerful, wunnerful time in this Danish capital

J $300 1994 This city's Tivoli Pleasure Garden was laid out in 1843

Berlin 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 From 1961-1989 a concrete wall separated the Eastern & Western sections of this German city

DJ $800 2024 This current world capital was once the capital of Prussia

DJ $1,200 2009 First settled by Germanic & Slavic tribes, this city served as the capital of Brandenburg from 1486 to 1701

Amsterdam 4x 25.0% stumper $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1994 A replica of the Wright Brothers' plane is exhibited at the Aviodome Museum near this largest Dutch city

J $500 1986 60 canals divide this crescent-shaped European city, so that it consists of about 90 islands

J $200 1988 This city's name means "dam on the Amstel"

Worth Knowing (32)

Stuttgart 3 Seville 3 Salzburg 3 Rome 3 Prague 3 Naples 3 Mexico City 3 Marseille 3 Innsbruck 3 Havana, Cuba 3 Dublin 3 Belfast 3 Quebec (City) 3 Turin 2 Toledo 2 Switzerland 2 Rouen 2 Rotterdam 2 Nice 2 Marseilles 2 Helsinki 2 Hamburg 2 Grenoble 2 Frankfurt 2 Delft 2 Coventry 2 Canterbury 2 Brussels 2 Bonn 2 Antwerp 2 Adelaide 2 Lisbon 2

Asia

15 answers | 50 clues

Should-Know (6)

Montreal 6x $800 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $100 1991 After hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, this city's Olympic Stadium became the home of the Expos

DJ $600 1992 This Canadian city's metro was the first subway in the Western Hemisphere to use rubber tires

DJ $1,700 DD 1990 Once called Hochelaga by the Indians, it's the largest French-speaking city after Paris

Calcutta 6x $433 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 1995 A monument at St. John's Church in this Indian city remembers the victims of the "black hole"

J $500 1998 O! This city's Writers' Building on Dalhousie Square once housed the British East India Company's clerks

DJ $400 1998 It grew out of 3 villages: Sutanati, Govindapur & Kalikata

Kyoto 5x $900 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1997 Japan's imperial capital for over 1,000 years, its name is an anagram of Tokyo

DJ $800 1987 w/Same letters & syllables, names of Tokyo & this city show both have been Japanese "capital"s

DJ $1,000 1998 The rebuilt Imperial Palace in this city was home to only 2 emperors; Meiji moved the Imperial Palace to Tokyo

Manila 4x $800 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 In 1863 an earthquake destroyed a large part of this largest Philippine city

DJ $800 1996 Roxas Boulevard in this capital was once called Dewey Boulevard

DJ $2,000 2009 After the Muslims' defeat, this island capital became a Spanish colony before it was held by the U.S. & then Japan

Ho Chi Minh City 4x $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1991 You can let Saigons be bygones as it was renamed this in 1975

DJ $600 2000 Present name of the largest city on the Saigon River

J $400 1996 Saigon, once capital of Indochina, is now known by this name

Beijing 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2008 From Bei Hai Park in this city, pass the Great Hall of the People, bear left, & then it's straight on to Mao's mausoleum

DJ $600 1996 In the 13th century, Mongol ruler Kublai Khan made this city his capital

J $400 2013 It's the capital of the world's most populous country

Worth Knowing (9)

Tokyo 3 Jakarta 3 Istanbul 3 Victoria 2 Osaka 2 Mumbai 2 India 2 Bombay 2 Bangkok 2

Africa

12 answers | 44 clues

Must-Know (1)

Cairo 11x $264 avg J:4 DJ:7

J $100 1996 Residents of this African city are called Cairenes

J $100 1995 This Egyptian city is the most populous in Africa & the Middle East

J $100 1993 Suburbs of this African city include Heliopolis, Nasr City & Giza

Should-Know (3)

Casablanca 7x 14.3% stumper $429 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $200 1997 As Rick, Bogart said he came to this city, Morocco's main port, for the waters

J $500 DD 2011 Morocco has its own "white house", this city whose name means just that

DJ $200 1991 This issues FDR & Churchill discussed in this Moroccan city in 1943 amounted to more than a hill of beans

Alexandria 5x $340 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1997 This Egyptian port city is named for the Macedonian king who founded it in 332 B.C.

DJ $600 1995 Euclid wrote his famous geometry text in this city once famous for its library

DJ $200 1992 The lighthouse on Pharos in the harbor of this Egyptian city was 1 of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

Khartoum 4x $675 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2008 This Sudanese capital lies on a narrow piece of land bounded by the White & Blue Nile Rivers

J $500 1992 Sudan became independent in 1956 with this city as its capital

DJ $1,000 1995 The Haboob, a dust-laden wind, can darken the sky in this Sudanese capital between March & October

Worth Knowing (8)

Paris 3 Nairobi 2 Monrovia 2 Marrakesh 2 Lagos 2 Johannesburg 2 Cartagena 2 Addis Ababa 2

South America

12 answers | 33 clues

Should-Know (2)

Sao Paulo 5x $575 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $300 1995 This Brazilian city is home to the second-largest metropolitan population in Latin America

DJ $600 1996 Almost 90% of Brazilian autos are manufactured in this, Brazil's largest city

FJ 1987 The most populous city in the world south of the equator is this one in South America

Rio de Janeiro 5x $680 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2009 This Brazilian city's name means "river of January" in Portuguese; its site was discovered on New Year's Day

DJ $600 1993 A major tourist attraction in this city is the 100-foot-high statue of Christ the Redeemer on Mount Corcovado

DJ $1,000 1996 This city's main post office is a palace once used as the home of Brazil's Portuguese rulers

Worth Knowing (10)

Maracaibo 3 Caracas 3 Brazil 3 Santiago 2 Paraguay 2 Medellin 2 Ecuador 2 Buenos Aires 2 Bogota 2 Santiago, Chile 2

Other

9 answers | 25 clues

Should-Know (1)

Geneva 6x 33.3% stumper $767 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1991 This Swiss city is the headquarters of the International Red Cross

DJ $600 1997 In 1995 the new World Trade Organization established its headquarters in this Swiss city

DJ $2,500 DD 1996 This Swiss city is headquarters to the World Council of Churches

Worth Knowing (8)

St. Petersburg 3 Reykjavik 3 Athens 3 Yugoslavia 2 Vladivostok 2 Lake Geneva 2 Cardiff 2 Budapest 2

North America

8 answers | 18 clues

Worth Knowing (8)

Tijuana 3 Ottawa 3 Windsor 2 Saskatchewan 2 Puerto Vallarta 2 Mexico 2 Managua 2 Halifax 2

Middle East

6 answers | 17 clues

Should-Know (1)

Mecca 5x $340 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1985 Only Muslims may enter this holiest Islamic city

J $300 1996 The well of Zam Zam is one of the holy sites in this Saudi Arabian city

DJ $400 1996 In this holy Saudi Arabian city, you'll find a sacred well said to have been used by Hagar, Ishmael's mother

Worth Knowing (5)

Tel Aviv 3 Jerusalem 3 Tehran 2 Riyadh 2 Haifa 2

Oceania

2 answers | 5 clues

Worth Knowing (2)

Perth 3 Melbourne 2

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