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.
Is there something off with the Estonian capitals? I think some of the markers might be misplaced, like the ones for Ida-Viru county (Polva triggers that dot, but is in the south-east of the country) and Jogeva county (triggered by Kärdla, which is on the Hiiuma island)?
This quiz doesn’t work for some reason, not accepting any of my answers (Paris, Dublin, Moscow, Rome), etc…
try reloading you should see markers
Please update for France’s new divisions and new name of kropyvnitski
updated
Is there a reason why the quiz includes the French departments outside Europe, but not the Russian subjects outside Europe?
probably just cause France is considered a European-based country only, whereas Russia is considered both based in Europe and Asia, also would be a large proportion of locations outside Europe geographically.
1516 (there’s no way to reply to your message above), of course Moldova also has way too many divisions but I’m sure Darin couldn’t find a suitable easier partition of the country. For Swiss it was obvious that it should be the Cantons, what else could it be? Sure we don’t get to choose how many regions a country has… I was referring to quiz-context only as I’m sure there’s not a huge player demand to have 30 Latvia regions to guess. In reality they can have as much as they want… Hell, Monaco has 10 administrative divisions.
Why do you have Balashikha for Moscow Oblast, but no city for Leningrad Oblast? Also some places seem to be in a different location, for example Selfoss and Keflavík in Iceland and Kumanovo in Macedonia. And I’m pretty sure Latvia has more regions and capitals (for example Ventspils is missing)
ill fix the locations…forgot to put in Leningrad’s largest city. Latvia has only 6 statistical regions.
why do you use statistical regions?
Latvia has about 100 municipalities – i didn’t want to have a ton of regions for a particular country so i used statistical regions for Latvia (much like using countries for England).
you can use the administrative division before 2009 – it has about 30 regions
30 divisions for a country the size of Latvia is way too much. The current 6 seems about right. There’s also problem with the loading time for this quiz… if you add more border files the worse it will get.
But 35 for Moldova or 26 for Switzerland is okay eh? We’re not the ones to decide how many regions should the country have.
there are only six regions for Latvia. the next step is the municipalities, of which there are about 100.