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Can you name the sets of capitals with the shortest distances between them?
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Onno
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Capital 1
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#3
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#8
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#12
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Capital 2
< 2 km >
< 8.5 km >
< 55 km >
< 69 km >
< 77 km >
< 83 km >
< 84 km >
< 94 km >
< 99 km >
< 118 km >
< 125 km >
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Closest Capitals Quiz
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Onno
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Oct 2nd, 2009 at 19:52 GMT
5 points
I tried my very best to make this list accurate, but there is still a chance that I missed something. Let me know if you think another set should have made it.
DRB
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Oct 2nd, 2009 at 19:53 GMT
4 points
Good quiz, you just need to put where Manama is the capital of (I should know but can't remember!) Surprised Buenos Aires / Montevideo didn't make it, they're pretty close to each other.
DRB
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Oct 2nd, 2009 at 19:55 GMT
3 points
Just checked your source, Buenos Aires and Montevideo are apparently 207km apart.
Onno
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Oct 2nd, 2009 at 19:58 GMT
3 points
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. BA and Montevideo was one of the sets I checked too, but there are actually about 10 more before them.
HPZ
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Oct 2nd, 2009 at 20:21 GMT
4 points
Tough one! I would have guessed Kigali and Bujumbura would have been closer, but apparently not. Very educational!
Martin
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Oct 2nd, 2009 at 20:48 GMT
2 points
Montevideo / Buenos Aires was my first thought as well. Good quiz, and very tough.
warboner
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Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:43 GMT
4 points
My first thought was - here we go, west Africa.
AtomicIce
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Oct 9th, 2009 at 00:28 GMT
3 points
Awesome idea for a quiz. I got the closest pair right away but could't think of the 2nd closest for a while. And drat if i missed both pairs including a Baltic state. I guessed Riga, figuring it would be close to its northern or southern neighbor's capital, when it didnt pop up, I figured nothing in the Baltics was included and moved on. :(
caramba
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Oct 17th, 2009 at 15:19 GMT
4 points
Wow. Now I finally have incentive to remember the capitals of St Kitts and St VIncent...
Lighthouse
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Oct 19th, 2009 at 22:18 GMT
3 points
love it, just wish I could have got more of them...
segacs
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Oct 20th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT
2 points
This is a really great idea for a quiz. If you want to make it even more challenging, you could require typing in both countries for each answer. As it is, when you guess one, it serves as a hint for its pair country.
montecarlo
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Oct 20th, 2009 at 19:15 GMT
2 points
perhaps should include tirane as an alternate to tirana (sporcle tends to favor tirane).
Onno
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Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:29 GMT
2 points
@montecarlo: Fair enough, I can always add reasonable alternatives. @segacs: I thought about that, but I think it would lead to too much typing. Besides, few people are getting the Caribbean ones as it is now. ;)
miko
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Oct 23rd, 2009 at 01:34 GMT
1 point
good quiz. Needs 10-12 minutes imo.
mike5816
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Nov 22nd, 2009 at 13:29 GMT
1 point
I missed #6 because I typed in Tallinn but must have misspelled it because it didn't give it to me.
Apollo846
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Dec 5th, 2010 at 22:14 GMT
2 points
doing the opposite of this would be cool - capitals furthest apart...
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