Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 15-degree grid, hard is a 10-degree grid. Then, try to name the largest 50K+ cities in each square IN ORDER. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period).
The squares will start with '0/5' (or maybe fewer cities if less exist in that square). Click on a square and enter the largest city in that square not yet answered (so, the largest city if you have yet to answer a city in that square). You will then have '1/5' and need to click on that square to name the 2nd largest city, and so on until you complete all the cities up to 5 (or less if less exist). If you name an incorrect city in a square it becomes 'locked' and turns red and you can no longer accumulate cities in that square.
You receive 1 point for the largest city in a square, 2 for the 2nd largest, and so on.
At the end of the quiz the largest remaining city you haven't named will be shown in each square.
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.