Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

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Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by Bosscat » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:10 pm

Name the Capital Cities from the cryptic clues below……

1. You'll need a pair of these in the rain?

2. Totally ruin your medicinal inhalant?

3. Sounds like you don't need any money to visit this place?

4. In Africa, is this where you'd bury an old banger?

5. A level of achievement in an exam for a campanologist perhaps?

6. Give a university boat-crew their starting lines on stage?

7. Sounds like the most commonly used letter in the English language - three times?

8. A film record of a "python's" activities?

9. In Africa, sounds like you you set up tents in the French style?

10. Certainly doesn't sound like a woman?

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by Vino blanco » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:16 pm

3, Freetown, 4, Khartoum.

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by randomclaret2 » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:17 pm

3.Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by FactualFrank » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:18 pm

1. Wellington
2. Reykjavik
3. Freetown
4. Khartoum
5. Belgrade
6. Kuwait
7. Tripoli
8. Montevideo
9. Kampala
10. Amman
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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by Bosscat » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:21 pm

FactualFrank wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:18 pm
1. Wellington
2. Rekyavik
3. Freetown
4. Khartoum
5. Belgrade
6. Kuwait
7. Tripoli
8. Montevideo
9. Kampala
10. Amman
Have a coconut and go to top of class Frank :D (apart from your spelling of Reykjavik ;) simply the hardest capital city name to spell :lol: :lol: :lol: )

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by FactualFrank » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:23 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:21 pm
Have a coconut and go to top of class Frank :D (apart from your spelling of Reykjavik ;) simply the hardest capital city name to spell :lol: :lol: :lol: )
I love learning capital cities and happened to know of those. Still not learned them all though... yet.
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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by randomclaret2 » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:23 pm

Well thats that...😎

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by Vino blanco » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:28 pm

If Reykjavik is the hardest to spell, then the inhabitants of Ouagadougou, Antananarivo, Bujumbura, and Parimaribo must have it easy.

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by FactualFrank » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:30 pm

I'm going to do another... give me 5 minutes.

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by FactualFrank » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:40 pm

I'll stick it on a new thread.
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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by Bosscat » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:44 pm

Vino blanco wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:28 pm
If Reykjavik is the hardest to spell, then the inhabitants of Ouagadougou, Antananarivo, Bujumbura, and Parimaribo must have it easy.
Paramaraibo Vino m8 :lol: nice one ....

I was on about the quiz :lol: not in the world :lol:

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by Bfcboyo » Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:46 pm

11. Hide deadly pandemics ?

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Re: Cryptic Capital Cities Quiz....

Post by bfcjg » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:02 pm

Frank has single handedly trashed my Friday night I'd just got Wellington :)

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