Can you name the European cities from the snippets of these maps?

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Just Read the Map II Quiz

by Hejman

Created Nov 21, 2010 in Geography
Featured Apr 2, 2012
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	Zak6009:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 04:44 GMT	15 points
	Nice quiz! It helps recognizing languages alphabets. Also would have thought Berlin would be here, I guessed it for like three different ones, haha.

	dancastro:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 05:02 GMT	8 points
	I wonder if someone, seeing the "Calle Bembo" in Venice, guessed some Spanish city, thinking that "calle" is Spanish for 'street'. And indeed it is (see "Calle de Alfonso XII" in Madrid) but, quite strangely, also the streets of Venice are known as "calle", instead of the usual name of all streets elsewhere in Italy ("via").

	cuatrodosocho:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 05:06 GMT	2 points
	Did the cities get changed since you first made the quiz? I apparently have now taken it twice and did leaps and bounds better the first time...

	Gillmacs:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 09:35 GMT	1 point
	If only I could spell Stuttgart...

	emilkr:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 10:51 GMT	2 points
	Ah... failed Stuttgart. Tried desperately to type Mannheim, since Karl and Bertha Benz built the first automobile there and the Benz-quarter is shown on this map.

	barnztormre:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 11:52 GMT	2 points
	All you need to remember for the 2nd least guessed: Beethoven = Bonn.

	ChileNoseJam:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 13:06 GMT	4 points
	Excellent quiz - some very tough ones, although I got them eventually (so I should, considering that I've been to most of them!). It did occur to me that part of the Vatican map might have strayed into Rome, but after carefully scrutinising a map I found that everything shown in the picture does indeed fall within the Vatican's borders. @barnztormre all you need to remember for the least guess: festival in a French-speaking city = Cannes.

	neilmod:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 13:55 GMT	2 points
	@dancastro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_language

	rubinii:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 14:17 GMT	1 point
	I knew Copenhagen, just wasn't be able to spell it. I wrote it with two 'p'-es. (in my language it's written with two)

	TrumpetPlayer:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 14:47 GMT	3 points
	a couple more minutes would be nice.

	mjmooney:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 14:57 GMT	-2 points
	Got them all except Cannes.

	UnknownUser:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 15:19 GMT	8 points
	not US-centric enough. lol jk Great quiz!

	dancastro:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 15:43 GMT	3 points
	@emilkr: but present day Mercedes-Benz headquarters is in Stuttgart. If you look at a photo of a Mercedes in an ad you'll notice that always the license plate begins with an S, the code for Stuttgart (likewise, the photo of a BMW shows always a license plate beginning with M, the code for Munich, where BMW is located).

	dancastro:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 16:32 GMT	6 points
	The Canal Grande in Venice reminded me that in Italian the word "canale" can mean: 1) a natural channel or strait, like the "Canale d'Otranto" between Italy and Albania, or 2) a man-made canal like the "Canale di Panama". When in the 1870s the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli said that he had seen "canali" in Mars, he meant "[natural] channels", but they were mistranslated as "canals", which implied "intelligent canal builders". That was the origin of the belief in "Martians".

	bddowl:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 17:11 GMT	3 points
	kepp these quizes coming

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	WonderlandGirl:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 17:46 GMT	3 points
	I was stuck on the Glasgow one, I'd tried Edinburgh and Aberdeen and was just typing Glasgow when the time ran out!