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 Kingswood’s population a typo or a recently consolidated city? I’m not seeing anything near 160,000.
http://citypopulation.de/en/uk/cities/
Looks like it is Kingswood/Fishponds.
on 499 now, the one missing is in Northern Ireland.
Really hard even at 100. Used to know all the smaller but still chunky towns around Reading.
Four away now – this is getting ridiculous!
Really cool, my old school (a big boarding school with about 1,000 people on site) is listed as a settlement!
Thanks. On previous quizzes it was a +/- 80.000 town but I found it missing on this one. Maybe it has changed status or was merged with some other population centers.
You’re both quite right. Dartford was listed as an ‘urban area’ in the 2001 census (pop. 56, 818), but failed to qualify as a ‘built-up area’ according to the criteria used in the 2011 census, hence it’s exclusion (it looks as though the pop. was shifted to the neighbouring London borough of Bexley, which grew by a similar amount) – maddening, but there you go.
Thanks Meanvarus. Another town that vanished from the quiz was Waterlooville… the closest places we get is Havant and Horndean, the latter having a suspicious high population which makes me think that it includes Waterlooville.
citypopulation has Dartford only listed as a district and not under the cities/towns lists for the most recent census data.