Quiz: How well do you know the world’s capital cities? Part 3

[tiger76]

Yet another quiz for your pleasure or not as the case maybe, this one you should find slightly easier i got 19/26, and most of them i knew, so i'm expecting someone to get a full house.https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/ca ... 741f9df7e

[FactualFrank]

I've scrolled down and I know them all. But I was extremely sad and mentioned it the other week that I was learning every capital city of the world. It comes up in pretty much every quiz.

[spadesclaret]

24.

[KateR]

I was stumped on Kazakhstan, been many times and what I thought was a wrong answer until I googled and learnt they had changed the name last year, missed that one!!

[JohnMac]

https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/ca ... 4741f9df7e

Happy with 21

[FactualFrank]

I was stumped on Kazakhstan, been many times and what I thought was a wrong answer until I googled and learnt they had changed the name last year, missed that one!!

I think of images and people to piece together the capital. Almost like a story. When you think of the country, you think of the person or thing in your head and it reminds you of the capital.

[tiger76]

I've scrolled down and I know them all. But I was extremely sad and mentioned it the other week that I was learning every capital city of the world. It comes up in pretty much every quiz.

Yes you were the one i had in mind for a clean sweep, the tricky ones can be the newer countries, or the countries that have changed capitals, and i'm pretty sure there's a fair number of those.

I've been doing a lot of quizzing during lockdown, but I've been easing off the past couple of weeks, you can become quizzed out after a while, and the break helps you from becoming fatigued with them.

[ClaretTony]

21

[FactualFrank]

Yes you were the one i had in mind for a clean sweep, the tricky ones can be the newer countries, or the countries that have changed capitals, and i'm pretty sure there's a fair number of those.

I've been doing a lot of quizzing during lockdown, but I've been easing off the past couple of weeks, you can become quizzed out after a while, and the break helps you from becoming fatigued with them.

I know what you mean. I've got a few apps on my phone and most mornings I just do a few before I get out of bed. I think you have to enjoy them though. If it feels like a task/job, then the information won't sink in. It's best to quiz on things you enjoy and won't get tired of, and go from there.

[Bosscat]

23 messed up Kazakhstan and a couple of others bah humbug...

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[FactualFrank]

When I see Kazakhstan I think... largest landlocked country in the world.

[kritichris]

Dinky doo with a couple of guesses

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

21 and should have had 2 more. Missed one where test match cricket is played!!!

[KateR]

When I see Kazakhstan I think... largest landlocked country in the world.

It's a funny old place, 9th largest country in the world I believe, it's on the Caspian but yes you can't get anywhere else from the Caspian by sailing ocean going vessels, except the Russian River Waterway system allows water transport so not quite landlocked, so you can actually sail it from from several places. Worked on a project until August 2019 where large modules were built in Korea, plus several other smaller modules from European countries, mostly Italy. Set up transhipment bases in Finland and Bulgaria, modules arrived on ocean going vessels but had to take them off and place on specialty built river ships, which were built around the smallest bridge size on the Northern & Southern Russian waterway systems. The large modules had to be deigned and cut into 3 parts as they could not go on the river system as they were, reassembled in place west Kazakhstan, massive project and logistics were a nightmare. Engineered in the UK.

[Vino blanco]

26 out of 26. I do quite a bit of quizzing, or did before Covid.

[durhamclaret]

19 for Durham

[boatshed bill]

21. here

[The Enclosure]

Twenty

[Tribesmen]

I was stumped on Kazakhstan, been many times and what I thought was a wrong answer until I googled and learnt they had changed the name last year, missed that one!!

In Kaz it was Astana , but a guess and got it right 24 , should have been 25 but my fingers got mixed together

[giveusaB]

Twenty one

[KateR]

yes indeed, have been, beautiful city but mostly been in Atyrau, which is not a beautiful city yet it is where they have a bridge that is the gateway between Asia and Europe according to the locals. I really thought the choice of answers were wrong, doh

[Vino blanco]

It must be a bit confusing if you are an inhabitant of the Kazakhstan capital, Nur-Sultan: it has a complicated history:

1830 founded as a Cossak fort called Akmoly
1832 changed its name to Akmolinsk, when it was recognised as a town
1961 changed its name to Tselinograd
1992 became Akmola
1997 became capital replacing Almaty
1998 changed its name to Astana
2019 changed its name to Nur-Sultan.