Nicknames Of Cities And Countries Quiz

Answer: Finland

It actually has some 60,000 lakes.

Answer: Belgium

Dutch-Spanish Wars in 16-17th {centuries;} Ramillies in {1706;} Waterloo in {1815;} Mons and Ypres in World War {One;} a second German invasion in World War II. Th term Belgium is of course nowadays applied to a country that did not exist before 1830.

But "Belgicus" was frequently used already in maps of the Low Countries dating back to Mercator and Sanderus. The famous "Leo Belgicus" map represented the "Seventeen Provinces" (including Wallonia, Holland and Flanders) as a lion-shaped territory.

It was especially in the Flemish and the Walloon area (present-day Belgium) that a lot of the European in-fighting took place. See Laurence Urdang's "Oxford Dictionary of Names and Nicknames".

Answer: Medina

Medina in Saudi Arabia is where the Prophet Muhammad died and is buried.

Answer: Oxford

Based on a line from a poem by Matthew Anrold. Skyline of Oxford is dotted with steeples, towers, and cupolas of churches, chapels and colleges.

Answer: England

The 'Five' Ports got historical privileges because they had been charged with the defence of England against attack from the sea. First there were five: {Dover;} {Hastings;} {Hythe;} Romney and Sandwich. Later Rye and Winchelsea were added.

Answer: Venice

The original Bridge of Sighs crosses the canal in Venice between the Doges' Palace and the State Prison. The Oxford version connects two buildings of Hertford College. In Cambridge it connects two buildings of St. John's College. The New York BoS must be looked for near Centre Street and the Tombs Prison.

Answer: Boston

Pittsburgh's nickname is the 'Birmingham of America' . Salem has been called the 'City of Witches'. San Francisco earned itself the nickname: 'Poor Man's Paradise' because of its abundance of fruits and vegetables and its year-round moderate climate.

Answer: Edinburgh

Boswell, Hume, Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle lived here. There is also the elegant Georgian architecture that may remind the visitor of classic Greek standards of beauty. Aberdeen's nickname is the ' Granite City'. Perth is famous for its 'Fair Maiden'. The Battlefield of Culloden is near Inverness, but that's about all that can be said about that town.

Answer: Kent

Plenty of orchards may account for the name and there are of course also places like Sissinghurst Castle, Penshurst Place etc.

Answer: Oslo

Medieval Bruges was probably the first to be given the nickname as it was an outpost of the Genoese and Venetian business empires. Various Italian merchants had their rich houses here: {Portinari;} Adornes etc. They may have been the first to detect some similarity..But then Belgium is not really the NORTH of Europe... Amsterdam has plenty of canals and Stockholm is built on islets.