First choose any World 50K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any World 50K+ city in each 500 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 500 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 500 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 50K+ World 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.
Typing Catacaos on the Peruvian cities quiz does nothing, even though Catacaos is one of the 50 biggest cities. It’s listed in the statistics at the end, but does not get accepted when you type it. Other than this, I’ve really enjoyed the quiz! It would be cool to get results we can see on the map, if that’s not too much to ask.
This has been fixed.
Can we get results on the map for this quiz?
Hey Darin, can this quiz be more like “US Largest Cities By State – Choose State and Number”? In that quiz, if a state has fewer cities than the specified number, it just includes all available.
Here’s a suggestion for how this could be done without too much hassle:
*It’s impractical to include countries with very limited data (e.g. Vanuatu), so there still needs to be some minimum number of cities to be included. Making it 25 similar to how it is right now makes sense, but it could be smaller if there was some objective basis for doing so.
What do you think?
Will think about it – would probably be a separate quiz. Thanks!
why isn’t ireland on the map?
i’ve added it.
Curious why the Canary Islands aren’t included as part of Spain since it’s not a continent-based quiz.
Victoria is not there for Canada
not in the top 50 based on city proper…it’s just under 100k
Noumea is in the French island of New Caledonia not in Réunion
that’s where it is marked – another city is in Reunion.
I’m surprised that Kazakhstan and South Africa don’t have enough cities/data to feature on this quiz.
South Africa is included now.