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World 50K+ Cities 10×10 Blackout
DirectionsFill in the 100 squares with World 50K+ cities based on the categories in the top row and the geographical location given in the cell. For example, if you are looking at a cell with ‘Asia’ in its row, and ‘2+ Words’ in the column, that cell can be filled in with ‘New Delhi.’
Occasionally a cell may not have a qualifying answer, in which case it will appear blank and be a gimme.
hugequiz Premium members will see missed answers in red – they will be the largest city which qualified in each cell.
Quiz Takers 
Really love this quiz! If I could suggest one thing it’d be more country variation – after replaying some times it starts becoming slightly repetitive. There are a lot of European countries in there and I think it would be cool with more from other continents. From Africa I’ve only seen SA and (I think?) Morocco, what about Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC, Angola, Egypt, Tanzania etc? Or from other continents maybe Peru, Colombia, Pakistan, Iran, Philippines, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia?
What is a city in India that ends with an “S”?
Dewas is one, there are a few others.
why isn’t ponta delgada accepted as a Portugal city?? it has 50k+ population
it’s a little under 50K…
https://citypopulation.de/en/portugal/cities/?cityid=11207
there’s no way that there’s a place in japan contains more than 1 english word
Sanyo-Onoda
It does not accepts Soria in Spain starting with S
Population under 50k
http://citypopulation.de/en/spain/localities/soria/42173__soria/
Population 1M+ for South Africa doesn’t accept anything. Not even Johannesburg (4M pop)
Soweto is the only place in SA over a million. The others when using city proper are under.
Why isn’t Bastia accepted for France ending with an ‘A’? And what’s the answer too? I can’t think of anywhere else French that fits.
Bastia isn’t big enough – Noumea in French Polynesia is.
Noumea is actually in New Caledonia 😉
ah correct 🙂
For the love of everything that is holy, I can not find any city in Argentina that has 50+ population and starts with an H…
Hurlingham 🙂
The definition of a city is different across the world. Metro, locality, local government area, etc. That means the quizmaster should be selective in the questions, so that there really is only one answer, not multiple possible answers.
Some countries (ie Netherlands) don’t even have “cities”…the only thing I can do is to make judgment calls as to what is the closest to a “standard” definition of a city. There is no way to make these quizzes only have one irrefutable objective answer, unfortunately.
Is Gitega (the newish capital of Burundi) still under its old name of Kitega? Regardless, it isn’t accepted as an answer for Africa that starts with G. The population is 135k, so it should be there.
I see that Bujumbura (old capital, but still the “economic capital”), Kitega (new capital, old name), nor Gitega (new capital, new name) is accepted for Africa -> World Capital. I don’t know what the data has as the capital of Burundi.
actually according to city-population.de, Gitega is just under 50K, so it won’t appear as an answer to African capital.
Thanks for the response. That site is using 2008 data, which would explain things. Wikipedia’s page for Gitega uses a 2020 number from a Burundi website.
As Gitega was only named capital in 2019 with a 3-year window to move, it makes sense that it has a much bigger population now than in 2008.
Maybe you indicated your source for the data elsewhere, but I didn’t see it. That’s useful to know. Anyway, I now have greatly increased my Burundi knowledge…on a percentage basis. George, South Africa handles anything that Gitega would have covered.
p.s. One feature that would be useful is to add a column to the left after the quiz is done to indicate what the category of each row was.
When describing the game on Facebook, I accidentally referred to a row as Australia when it was Oceania…the one difference being I used Suva, Fiji in it. I also couldn’t remember if it was South of 20° or South of 30° for one of the rows.
Why is harare not an answer for city that starts with H under -30 latitude?
it’s only -17 latitude.
Why is Haridwar not acceptable as an Indian city starting with H? And why is Dover not acceptable as a UK city between 2-5 letters?
Haridwar was under just ‘hardwar’ – will fix that. Dover city proper pop is too small.
hey, great quiz, very creative idea and I love that it’s always different. But I was surprised that ‘Ponta Delgada’ isn’t accepted as 2+ words for Portugal, is there a reason for it?
city proper population is just under 50K.
Really great quiz, but the screen won’t scroll sideways. If I’m the only one getting that don’t worry about it
may need to do it in desktop mode on your browser or something – it does need a wider area.
10/10 quiz concept.
Why is Johannesburg not an acceptable answer for 1m+ city in South Africa? It shows Soweto, which is a suburb of Johannesburg, as the highest population city in South Africa. I can’t find any categorization on the “List of Municipalities in South Africa” wikipedia page that supports this.
South Africa has large municipalities like Johannesburg but has “Places” within them that are more akin to a city. Soweto is the largest place in South Africa. Source: citypopulation.de
Thanks for the quick reply. Soweto is listed as a “Main Place” within the City of Johannesburg, which is listed at all levels as a city and municipality unto itself. Soweto is a subunit of the City of Johannesburg and does not have independent governance. This decision also flouts convention. I feel it’s one thing to use official city populations instead of metropolitan populations (like Jetpunk does); that’s a totally valid choice. I don’t feel the same about subdividing beyond the level of what is already technically designated as a city and as a municipality, especially when doing so contradicts convention and common understanding.
This is just my two cents and constructive criticism. I found this website this week and it has some of the best geography quizzes I’ve ever done, enough to make me upgrade to premium which I never did on Sporcle or Jetpunk. Cheers
yeah South Africa is tough – it doesn’t really have cities in the traditional sense, and if I count these large municipalities as one unit I end up double-counting a lot of places that are within them. So I just decided to use ‘places’ as the unit for South Africa. There are a few other countries that don’t even have ‘cities’ such as Netherlands.
Fair enough – it’ll just be a quirk to get used to! Thanks for the explanation