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Quiz about Which City Is Which In Europe
Quiz about Which City Is Which In Europe

Which City Is Which In Europe? Quiz


You may call it "Kiev", but the inhabitants of that city wouldn't agree! Or "Moscow", and the inhabitants would be puzzled! (if they don't speak English). Well, try it. Easy and difficult, a bit mixed....

A multiple-choice quiz by Oblomov. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
Oblomov
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
124,115
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
7 / 15
Plays
9215
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 185 (4/15), Flukey (5/15), Guest 5 (5/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. Anglo-Saxons would call it "Leghorn", which would be quite un-understandable for the inhabitants of this Italian city. What is the indigenous name? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. The French call it Mayence. About the end of the 18th century this city was quite willing to become a part of the new-founded French Republic.
Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. "Genf", the Germans call it. But then they know exactly about which city they are speaking. Do you? Well, 25 % chance is quite a lot. Try! Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. The Italians called it "Ragusa", centuries ago. To make it easy for you, I will give the name of the countries, in which this city might be found. Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. There is that border town, Eger. That's to say, the Germans called it so. (Yes, again a little clue for you.) The question is, how is it generally known - outside Germany, one might suppose - nowadays? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. When Frenchmen are saying: "I am going to visit during my holidays this old city Aix-la-Chapelle", to which outlandish town are they then referring? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. I do hate fill-in-the blanks. But in this particular case I have no choice. The Italians call it "Bolzano", but most of the inhabitants of this town will call it what?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 8 of 15
8. The Ancient Greeks called it Massalia. Nowadays it is called (and I shall add the name of the actual country), well, what is it called today? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. "Rijssel" the Dutch called it and sometimes still call it so. I think you will know it under another name, as: Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. "Amberes" it is for the Spaniards. The inhabitants would not recognize their city in this Castilian sound. They would however, if you call it: Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. "Lüttich" it is for the Germans. What is it for you? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. "Slavkov" is the name of a nice little township in the Czech Republic. The name probably has no meaning to you at all, unless the old German name is divulged to you! Think of wars... Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. We stay with the Czechs for a while (nice people, by-the-way.) They call this city "Víden" (I do omit a diacritical sign on the "n", for your and my sake). How do you call that city? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Ah! Those French! Always having funny names for non-French cities, even if they are far way from Paris! Can you guess, which city is called by those callous French "Ratisbonne"? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. But especially in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe the Germans were keen of supplying names in their own vernacular to towns and even small villages. (Partly because sometimes they had founded them, though.) What do we call Lemberg nowadays? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Anglo-Saxons would call it "Leghorn", which would be quite un-understandable for the inhabitants of this Italian city. What is the indigenous name?

Answer: Livorno

Legnano was the site, where the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was defeated in 1176 by the Milanese. Lagosanto is a village near Ravenna. And Lago Verde is in Brazil, and has nothing to do with Italy. Hence!
2. The French call it Mayence. About the end of the 18th century this city was quite willing to become a part of the new-founded French Republic.

Answer: Mainz

Malaga is in the south of Spain. Mannheim is geographically close to Mainz, but that's all there is to it. And Munich... between brackets, do you know the German name of Munich? Then look it up, in an encyclopedia of whatever. Could come in handy with other quizzes of this kind!
3. "Genf", the Germans call it. But then they know exactly about which city they are speaking. Do you? Well, 25 % chance is quite a lot. Try!

Answer: Geneva

Gdynia is a Polish port, quite close to Gdansk (former Danzig. Oh yes, I could have made a question about that.) Genoa is the English word for the great port of Genova. And that Hódmez-thing, in which country could it be found? No, not in Iceland. In Hungary.
4. The Italians called it "Ragusa", centuries ago. To make it easy for you, I will give the name of the countries, in which this city might be found.

Answer: Dubrovnik (Croatia)

Of course, those Italians of centuries ago were the Venetians, who gave all coastal settlements an Italian name. And, having a bad character, I tried to lure you on a false path, by inserting the name of this Swiss township, speculating, that you knew, that Italian is the third language of the Helvetic Confederation.
By the way, what is the fourth official language of Switzerland? If you know, make use of it in a quiz of yours!
5. There is that border town, Eger. That's to say, the Germans called it so. (Yes, again a little clue for you.) The question is, how is it generally known - outside Germany, one might suppose - nowadays?

Answer: Cheb

Cheb is a Czech bordertown, east of Northern Bavaria. Yes, a tough question, if you are not from Sudeten German descent!
Igarka is a Russian township, Jehonville is in Belgium, and Aigle is somewhere in Switzerland.
6. When Frenchmen are saying: "I am going to visit during my holidays this old city Aix-la-Chapelle", to which outlandish town are they then referring?

Answer: Aachen

Yes, Aachen it was, the city, so near the Belgian and Dutch borders, the city of Charlemagne. Of course I tried to deceive you with the Roman-Catholic connotation of Aquino, in Italy, in spite of the fact that I am an Unbelieving Thomas. As for Alicante, it is in southern Spain (and in the times of Charlemagne, firmly in the hands of the Muslims.)
7. I do hate fill-in-the blanks. But in this particular case I have no choice. The Italians call it "Bolzano", but most of the inhabitants of this town will call it what?

Answer: Bozen

After the First World War Italy, having fought on the side of the Allies, was able to get a chunk out of the disintegrating Habsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary. This portion was German-speaking Southern Tirol, and after more than a half-century the region got a semi-autonomous status, which at the present is, in my view, working rather satisfactorily. The two most important towns in South-Tirol are Merano (Meran) and Bolzano (Bozen).
8. The Ancient Greeks called it Massalia. Nowadays it is called (and I shall add the name of the actual country), well, what is it called today?

Answer: Marseille (France)

Yes, Marseille was an ancient Greek colony. So was Messina on Sicily, but was then called Messana, or Zancle. Manisa is a Turkish town, but just near the Aegean coast, so it also might have been a Greek colony, like neighbouring Smyrna, now known by its Turkish name Izmir.
Messinía is a region in the Peloponnesos in Greece.
9. "Rijssel" the Dutch called it and sometimes still call it so. I think you will know it under another name, as:

Answer: Lille (France)

Yes, Lille, great city in an industrial region, in the North-western part of France, near Belgium. That also is the reason for this Dutch (or, if you prefer: Flemish) name; in the Middle Ages the population still spoke for the major part Flemish, but then already the linguistic frontier began to shift to the north, to be finally stabilized only in the 20th century along the French-Belgian border.
Mons in Belgium, south of Brussels, is called "Bergen" in Flemish.
Regensburg is a town in Bavaria in Germany. And Ross still is Ross.
10. "Amberes" it is for the Spaniards. The inhabitants would not recognize their city in this Castilian sound. They would however, if you call it:

Answer: Antwerp

The inhabitants of this city will have not much trouble recognizing the Anglo-Saxon names given their cherished "Antwerpen". Antwerp was much contested in the rising of the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century. Mutinous Spanish soldiers ransacked the city, and after a few years French troops did the same.
As far a I know Antwerp is the only European city, which has four different names in languages using the Latin alphabet: Antwerpen, Antwerp, Amberes and the French "Anvers".
11. "Lüttich" it is for the Germans. What is it for you?

Answer: Ličge

Yes, Ličge, or for the Flemish: Luik. Up to Napoleonic times it was an ecclesiastical state under a Prince-Bishop. There is a nice Gothic palace in the city. In 1830 part of Belgium's once beautiful surroundings on the river Meuse became spoilt by the coal industry and the like.
Lyons is a vast city in southern France, also thriving on industry. There is no German equivalent for its name (derived from the Latin word "Lugdunum", named after the Celtic God Lug.
Lodz, in Poland, was called "Litzmannstadt" by the Germans, and Szeged in Hungary had no German name to my knowledge, but who knows...
12. "Slavkov" is the name of a nice little township in the Czech Republic. The name probably has no meaning to you at all, unless the old German name is divulged to you! Think of wars...

Answer: Austerlitz

Austerlitz, one of the most famous battles in history. Here the Emperor Napoleon defeated in 1805 two other Emperors of older standing, the Austrian and the Russian one. At the Weisser Berg (Bila Hora, White Mountain), very near Prague, an army of rebellious Czech Protestant nobleman were defeated in 1620 by the Austrians. It meant the near-destruction of the Czech language for at least 250 years...
And Königgrätz (Hradec Kralové) was in 1866 the scene, where a Prussian army defeated decisively the Austrians.
Pilsen or - nowadays - Plzen is a rather huge city, and the only battle I can associate with it, is a battle with beer bottles.
13. We stay with the Czechs for a while (nice people, by-the-way.) They call this city "Víden" (I do omit a diacritical sign on the "n", for your and my sake). How do you call that city?

Answer: Vienna

I don't know if the other cities have particular Czech names. But Vienna at any rate has. No wonder!

What now is Czechia was for about four centuries a part of the Habsburg Empire, and many of the fine buildings in Prague and other cities bear witness to that.
14. Ah! Those French! Always having funny names for non-French cities, even if they are far way from Paris! Can you guess, which city is called by those callous French "Ratisbonne"?

Answer: Regensburg

Yes, and don't ask me why, as Regensburg (in Germany) is far less important than Mainz or Rotterdam or Aachen.
If you have decided for Raciborz (in Poland) I cannot blame you, especially since an older name for that town was "Ratibor".
15. But especially in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe the Germans were keen of supplying names in their own vernacular to towns and even small villages. (Partly because sometimes they had founded them, though.) What do we call Lemberg nowadays?

Answer: Lvov

Lvov, or, in the official language of Ukraine: Lviv. Odessa also is an Ukrainian city, but as far as I know, never had an outlandish name.
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia, but indeed was called by the Germans: Laibach. As for Stalinsk, I am sorry, but nowadays there is hardly any geographical name which still bears the name of the cruelest ruler the Russian Empire ever had.
Source: Author Oblomov

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