Description | City | % Correct |
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Capital of a powerful republic that became an empire after Julius Caesar | Rome | 98%
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"The birthplace of democracy". Home to Socrates and Plato. | Athens | 97%
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Italian city built on a lagoon. It dominated Mediterranean trade in the Middle Ages. | Venice | 88%
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Capital of the Byzantine empire | Constantinople | 85%
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Capital of the Habsburg empire. A center of classical music. | Vienna | 81%
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City that defeated the above in the Peloponnesian War | Sparta | 77%
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"The birthplace of the Renaissance". At times, it was ruled by the Medicis. | Florence | 76%
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Former Russian capital on the Neva River | St. Petersburg | 74%
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Village in Belgium near where Napoleon met his final defeat | Waterloo | 69%
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Slavic city, site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Sarajevo | 63%
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City that the Nazis failed to capture in 1942–43, marking a turning point in WWII | Stalingrad | 62%
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City that was defeated by the above in the Punic Wars | Carthage | 60%
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The world's most industrialized city in the first half of the 1800s | Manchester | 57%
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Great rival of the above. The birthplace of Christopher Columbus. | Genoa | 53%
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Once the largest shipbuilding city in the world. Where the Titanic was built. | Belfast | 46%
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Capital of the last Muslim emirate in Spain. It was "reconquered" in 1492. | Granada | 40%
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Defenestrations in this city led to the Thirty Years War | Prague | 36%
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French city where popes and anti-popes resided during the Catholic schism | Avignon | 35%
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Canal city in Flanders - one of the chief commercial centers in Northern Europe from around 1150–1500 | Bruges | 33%
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City where English archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered by Henry II | Canterbury | 33%
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