Gavin McOwan 

Where on Earth? World cities travel quiz

Can you name the world’s highest, southernmost and most Michelin-starred cities? Take our quiz and see if you’re a city slicker
  
  

Cities quiz

  1. It's a long way from here to Timbuktu (pictured above), but where is the city?

    1. Ethiopia

    2. Mali

    3. Mauritania

    4. Sudan

  2. What is the world's highest capital

    1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    2. Kathmandu, Nepal

    3. La Paz, Bolivia

    4. Quito, Ecuador

  3. The National Museum in Brasilia, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

    Brasilia has been the capital of Brazil since 1960, but where was the country's first capital?

    1. Recife

    2. Rio de Janeiro

    3. Salvador

    4. São Paulo

  4. Three of these places in Wales are cities – which is the only town?

    1. Bangor

    2. Newport

    3. St Asaph

    4. Wrexham

  5. Dutti-Galla, Batmania and Bearbrass were interim names of which southern-hemisphere city?

    1. Jakarta

    2. Johannesburg

    3. Lima

    4. Melbourne

  6. Which is only city to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times?

    1. Athens

    2. London

    3. Paris

    4. Rome

  7. Which city has the most Michelin-starred restaurants?

    1. Paris

    2. Lyon

    3. Dubai

    4. Tokyo

  8. Which is the world's most southerly capital?

    1. Cape Town

    2. Montevideo

    3. Santiago

    4. Wellington

  9. And the most northerly?

    1. Helsinki

    2. Moscow

    3. Reykjavik

    4. Tallinn

  10. Where is this skyline?

    1. Newcastle-Gateshead

    2. Saint Louis

    3. Stockholm

    4. Sydney

  11. The hit single Pop Muzik by the band M references all but one of these cities. Which one?

    1. London

    2. Munich

    3. New York

    4. Tokyo

  12. Which city has the world's longest metro network?

    1. Beijing

    2. London

    3. New York

    4. Shanghai

  13. And where is this stunning metro station?

    1. Buenos Aires

    2. Moscow

    3. Stockholm

    4. Vienna

  14. Portrait by Jose Roldan.

    Christopher Columbus airport serves which city?

    1. Genoa

    2. Havana

    3. Lisbon

    4. Madrid

  15. Which city has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents?

    1. Brussels

    2. Dubai

    3. Los Angeles

    4. Sydney

  16. Lisbon, Elevator da Bica, Bica cable car, Bairro Alto, Portugal<br>Lisbon, Elevator da Bica, Bica cable car, Bairro Alto, Rua da Bica de Duarte Belo, Portugal, Europe. (Photo by: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)

    This famous funicular railway line runs in which city?

    1. Barcelona

    2. Lisbon

    3. Marseille

    4. Naples

  17. Leaving aside their impromptu private gig on the rooftop of the Apple building in London in 1969, in which city did the Beatles play their last concert?

    1. Liverpool

    2. Manilla

    3. New York

    4. San Francisco

  18. Who wrote that the Paris slums were "a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent"?

    1. Ernest Hemingway

    2. George Orwell

    3. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    4. Victor Hugo

  19. Which city opened a Museum of Literature in 2019?

    1. Dublin

    2. Edinburgh

    3. Manchester

    4. London

  20. Baron Haussmann is best known for the planning of which city?

    1. Athens

    2. Berlin

    3. Paris

    4. Rome

Solutions

1:B, 2:C - It stands at 3,650 metres above sea level, 3:C - From 1549–1763, before it was moved to Rio (1763–1960), 4:D - Wrexham has applied for city status three times since 2000 but has missed out on each occasion, 5:D, 6:B - In 1908, 1948 and 2012, 7:D - 226 Tokyo restaurants received stars in the 2020 Michelin Guide Tokyo for 2020, the 13th consecutive year it has been the most Michelin-starred city in the world, 8:D - With a latitude of 41° 17' south, 9:C - At 64°08 north, 10:A, 11:D - "New York, London, Paris, Munich, Everybody talk about pop muzik", 12:A - 690.5 km/429.1 miles, 13:B - Komsomolskaya station. Along with Stockholm, Moscow is considered to have the world's most beautiful metro stations, 14:A - He was born there in 1451, 15:B - Over 80%, 16:B - It is the Bica Funicular or Elevador da Bica, 17:D - At Candlestick Park on 29 August 1966, 18:B - In Down and Out in Paris and London, 19:A, 20:C - Is the correct answer! If you got this one right we're assuming you watched The Quiz on ITV last week. This was Major Charles Ingram's £500,000 question (with the same options) that someone in the audience is said to have helped him with.

Scores

  1. 16 and above.

    Well done, quite the city slicker

  2. 11 and above.

    Almost an urban legend

  3. 0 and above.

    Bit of an urban miss!

  4. 6 and above.

    There's a world beyond Urban Outfitters ...

 

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