Can you name the European cities (populations over 300,000) nearest to the previous city (alphabetical order)? by Merijn

Letter	City	Distance
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Be sure you go to the nearest B-city?		About two hours driving, 174 km
Can you name the nearest C-city?		Again not very far: 182 km
?		Only 34 km. You can do this by bike.
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Find the nearest F-city?
Go straight to the nearest G-city?
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?		It's not far away: 188 km.

Letter	City	Distance
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?		A long journey: 1237 km.
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Plan your trip to this city with a P?
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So, what would the nearest S-city be?
The nearest city with a T?
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Where will the nearest W-city be?
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European City Trip Quiz

by Merijn

Created Jul 6, 2010 in Geography
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	Merijn:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 08:54 GMT	3 points
	I used http://distancecalculator.globefeed.com/World_Distance_Calculator.asp for calculating the distances. Let me know how you feel about the time!

	Ribhump:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 12:35 GMT	2 points
	first 4 were fine but Essen had me. Tried it one more time but only got as far as Lodz. Fun, but very hard, and given alot of people won't play random games more than a couple of times you may find alot of people will stop before getting themselves to the end. That may not be the desired effect...

	Merijn:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 12:43 GMT	4 points
	In a way you're right, but on the other hand: the fun of this quiz is trying to figure out what the closest city to the previous is. If it is not in order, you can just random guess big cities. To make it not to hard I decided not to include Russia and Ukraine.

	banannie:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 19:51 GMT	1 point
	I like the quiz as is, although a little more time might be nice. I made it to N. I found that I could move along pretty quickly, but when I was stumped, I spent a lot of time on a single letter. Taking high school German helped me with this because I know more German cities than I would have without it.

	banannie:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 20:11 GMT	3 points
	I kind of take issue with the answer for letter T. I can see why it's the answer, but I can also see that being alphabetized differently.

	nymous:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 21:46 GMT	0 points
	Cool idea and nice execution. I got stuck at F :)

	TheLastWaltz:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 22:13 GMT	3 points
	Yeah, I guessed The Hague for H, never would have guessed if for T

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	funseeker:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 01:53 GMT	2 points
	good quiz!

	confused:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 02:38 GMT	2 points
	Very hard, but worth it. Would you make "Duesseldorf" acceptable, I'm so used to using the "e" to indicate umlauts that I spent ages on D. (Minutes that would, in all fairness, not have helped me with Ostrava, wherever that is. Cringe.)

	Golden:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 02:59 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for the tour of Germany. Oh, and every now and then I visited other places too!

	xref:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 09:41 GMT	3 points
	Isn't Athens larger than Amsterdam?

	Merijn:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 15:01 GMT	1 point
	Geneva has a population under 300.000, so that's why you can't go there. Rotterdam - Stuttgart: 484 km, that's more than Rotterdam - Sheffield (432 km).

	marsco:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 16:14 GMT	4 points
	One of the best quizzes I have seen here lately...

	kypzethdurron:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 18:32 GMT	3 points
	I count Athens as much larger than Amsterdam by overall population but apparently though it has 4M people, the "municipality" has under 750,000 compared to Amsterdam's 760,000+

	yankeespurs101:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 03:14 GMT	1 point
	Wo I sincerely couldn't get A

	Louxie:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 21:54 GMT	1 point
	Iasi, Romania (Pop: 348,000) is 1058.74 miles from Hannover, Germany, as opposed to 1482.11 miles between Hannover and Istanbul.

	klitch123:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 22:48 GMT	2 points
	had to pull up a map for this one

	duelist135:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 01:47 GMT	1 point
	Novi Sad, Serbia is closer to Minsk than Nuremberg

	Merijn:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 09:34 GMT	1 point
	Novi Sad has a population of 200.035 and Iasi 285.868. So that's why they didn't make it.

	Louxie:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 17:03 GMT	1 point
	I guess it depends on what you use as a reference. http://www.romaniatourism.com/iasi.html and http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=iasi&country=RO

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	Dobbins:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 01:32 GMT	-2 points
	Innsbruck Austria may not be huge, but it is well known having twice hosted the olympics. State Capital, population 119,000+.

	Merijn:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 07:50 GMT	3 points
	The link to my source (World Gazetteer) is listed above (ever since I released the quiz). Every source would give you different numbers, but this source listed the cities you mentioned as not big enough (not over 300.000).

	Anderson:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 20:01 GMT	1 point
	The C city stumped me as having lived in Germany for years I'd always spell that with a K.

	bart122333:	Jul 13th, 2010 at 20:08 GMT	1 point
	Isn't Geneva closer to Frankfurt than Genoa?

	Manitopiaaa:	Jul 16th, 2010 at 18:08 GMT	2 points
	This quiz is ****ing hard. I got to Rotterdam.

	Andiyan:	Jul 17th, 2010 at 00:16 GMT	2 points
	Absolutely awesome. Nicely researched, tough and surprising!

	Oppmannen:	Aug 25th, 2010 at 22:32 GMT	2 points
	I faced defeat at Krakow.

	LittleB:	Sep 24th, 2010 at 19:43 GMT	0 points
	I would of never guessed Cologne. Always spell it KOLN.

	jdm7:	Jan 12th, 2011 at 13:47 GMT	1 point
	Athens is the biggest european city beginnin with an "A". Change your sources...

	D3nn1s:	Mar 24th, 2011 at 08:36 GMT	1 point
	And only after the quiz I discovered the clues actually start with the letters you're looking for...

	aaaandrew:	Mar 24th, 2011 at 18:39 GMT	1 point
	its 1054 km from istanbul to kiev

	srv:	Mar 24th, 2011 at 22:38 GMT	1 point
	you could place messages as for why not some "usual suspects" make it, like "graz: too small", "strasbourg: too small" "stuttgart: too far" and so

	Langbartelski:	Mar 25th, 2011 at 02:45 GMT	1 point
	Athens is bigger though!!! And Ghent/Gent is much closer to Frankfurt than Genoa.

	Langbartelski:	Mar 25th, 2011 at 02:50 GMT	0 points
	And I believe Narva, Estonia is closer to Minsk than Nuremberg

	mykl:	Aug 28th, 2011 at 18:45 GMT	1 point
	I got stuck on T, and even tried typing The Hague but it wouldn't accept it. Oddly, Hague worked for T!