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.
Why does Novosibirsk not work for Russia?
It’s not in the European portion of Russia.
icelanic cities doesnt work for some reason
Iceland? Working fine for me.
Can you make the answers in the end also show the country for each city? It will be so much nicer! 🙂
Done 🙂
you are my hero, thanks!!!
turkey is definitely wrong. there are many cities with millions of population but you added only istanbul
It’s just the ones in Europe – I’ll add a note in description.
How often does the quiz get updated? I realised today that the list for moldova changed a bit.
Once in a while, it’s not live.
at Romania and at France there are missing citys
I see all 10, and they are based on citypopulation.de
What’s the source for Montenegro? Shouldn’t Herceg Novi be on the list? It is in the top ten of the recent censuses that I’m seeing.
http://citypopulation.de/en/montenegro/cities/
Herceg Novi is on your link at #5 for the 2023 census, but it doesn’t show up on the quiz.
What is your source for Albania? I know it is tough to get firm numbers for that, but the last two cities don’t show up on several reputable population lists. On a related note, I looked up Paskuqan, and it appears it became part of Kamez in 2015.
Yeah I found a separate source other than citypopulation.de for Albania. It looks like Paskuqan is still its own city though, even though it became part of the municipal unit of Kamez.
I’m not quite sure what “patos, albania” is doing in the list. several sources list it with 15.000 people or less, which would not make it in the top10 of albania.
I see a couple with 32k for it…Albania was a little tough to get firm numbers for.
Would be nice to see the country for each city in the “missed” sections after surrendering 🙂
I think quizzes like these need a better time bonus system. You can get five minutes of extra time if you just enter two cities (Monaco and Serravalle), but you can also get zero minutes for entering 80 cities if you are unable to name a lot of cities in a single country.
Italy is deceptively easy. Those two cities you list plus Italy should be enough for just about everyone to get to 100.
I’m Spanish and I got Italy before Spain lol
Can there be an easier option that Just has a bigger time limit? because 5 minutes is not enough
there are time bonuses throughout for all users, and premium members get double time and double time bonuses
anyways 10 minutes to name 421 city is not enough
Start by typing the largest cities of Monaco, San Marino and Andorra and you’ll have more time 🙂