First choose any Europe 10K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any Europe 10K+ city in each 100 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice, trying to name SECOND LARGEST city in each circle. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.
PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the largest one will be counted.
You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named in relation to the second largest city in the circle. A smaller city’s point total will be the ratio of its population to the largest, so if you name a city of 75K people and the largest city has 100K, you get 75 points. Naming the largest city will get you points based on the ratio of the 2nd largest city's population to the largest city's.
When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring’s 2nd largest city at right (under ‘Answer Stats’ by your coordinates).
For example, if you choose ‘Paris’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 km to appear outside that circle, however - you will want to try naming the SECOND LARGEST city you can to get more points. After completing that circle, you now need to name any 10K+ Europe city in the new ring (but not within any previous circles/rings), again trying to name the 2nd largest city. If there are not two cities within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until two cities fall within it.
How does this quiz work? I write my answer, press enter and nothing happens??
Try reloading it – you should see blue markers on the map for each island.
i love islands
I know you didn’t decide this but I’ve always found it weird how Södertörn is classified as an island when we see basically the same thing on a larger scale in Northeastern Sweden, the Torne River splits in Junosuando and doesn’t connect untill it reaches the Gulf of Bothnia, wouldn’t it be an island for the same reason?
it looks like Sweden classifies it as an island…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dert%C3%B6rn
It connects to other parts of mainland more north if you look
can we get a us version
Gotland is never ever spelled Gothland. Not in Swedish, not in English. There is no Island called “Fasta”. It just means mainland. The name is Åland, Fasta Åland, Not Fasta Island. It’s not Majorca, it’s Mallorca. “ll” in Spanish is pronounced as j, but the spelling is ll. Etc etc.
those alternatives all are accepted, they may not show up as the default in the Hardest/Missed but they are accepted as answers.
Doesn’t let me do anything, Sylt, Malta, Sardinia, Corsica, Mallorca, Ibiza, Helgoland Isle of Man, none of these were accepted. Must be a bug
reload the quiz you should see markers when it loads
I have the same problem. I reloaded, saw the markers and typed in “Iceland” and it accepted it. But that was it. Any others were not accepted. Tried it a few times now. Would be great if you could fix it, thanks!
I’m trying it a few times and see all markers and it’s accepting answers – maybe clear your cache?
The usual name for the Croatian island next to Krk is Cres. The island also has an Italian name (Cherso) and a Dalmatian name (Crepsa), but is listed as ‘Crespa’ here. Not much of a problem, because Cres is working too. However, Crespa probably doesn’t exist in any language, so it may be better to consider Cres as the standard here.
Addition: the Italian names are used as the standard for a couple of Croatian islands, here and in the Mediterranean quiz. But not for all of them; it’s 50/50 now. Dugi Otok is a catagory itself; that means ‘Long Island’ and it is listed as ‘Long’. I would say that Croatian islands are internationally better known by their native names, rather than the Italian alternative.
I try to include multiple alternatives for most islands. If there’s an alternative I’m missing, let me know.
Alternatives are working well. My suggestion was to use the Croatian names as the standard option in the 10 hardest/missed list.
I assume you don’t accept the 970 m2 Flevopolder in the Netherlands as an island since it is connected with bridges to the mainland?
it’s generally not considered one as it’s artificial.
booh 🙂