10 Closest Capitals (London) Quiz

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10 Closest Capitals (London) Quiz

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Created May 15, 2012 in Geography
Featured Oct 27, 2012
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	geowiz85:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 04:13 GMT		50 points
	this quiz concept just opened up the geography section to like 190 new quizzes

	performax:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 04:22 GMT		-1 points
	Here's my favorite UK joke: when I meet someone from the UK, I ask what city they're from. If they answer "London", I pause thoughtfully and say, "oh, where is that near?" Try it out.

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	biziclop:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 09:58 GMT		25 points
	@futureboy: Since none of them is a capital of a country, yes.

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	Statto2:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 10:30 GMT		24 points
	Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff are not capitals of sovereign nations. I think most British people would regard them as capitals of countries but non-Brits probably wouldn't. I think it would be a brave/foolish person who stood in a busy street in Edinburgh on a Saturday night and shouted that Scotland wasn't a country.

	Statto2:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 10:37 GMT		15 points
	Has anybody got figures as to how close Monaco and Oslo come to edging Andorra la Vella from the number 10 slot?

	RobPro:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 10:44 GMT		23 points
	11. Prague 1035 km. 12. Monaco 1038 km. 13. Oslo 1156 km. 14. Ljubljana 1231 km. 15. Vienna 1237 km.

	ArtFever:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 11:08 GMT		3 points
	About time these start to get published! My favourite quiz series.

	Flurry1987:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 12:31 GMT		6 points
	If London and Prague work together they can get Andorra la Vella out and Prague in. Come on people. Its important.

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	matt01:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 13:11 GMT		10 points
	@Larryholmes I agree with you but it's based on sovereign state capitals and ours is The UK officially.

	miss_bish:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 13:12 GMT		16 points
	@Larryholmes79; Be that as it may, anyone used to sporcle quizzes knows by now that the UK counts as one country. Play the game.

	Ulkomaalainen:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 13:16 GMT		19 points
	I always love it how on Sporcle "UK residents" seem to think that the fact they name their national subdivision countries elevates said subdivisions into a state akin to souvereign nations. You know, other countries (=souvereign nations) happen to include different cultures, too, sometimes vastly more so than the admittedly not unimportant one between the anglo saxons and the celts. Northern Germans are more alike, culturally, to Scandinavia and/or the Netherlands than to southern Germans, who likewise are closer to Swiss and especially Austrians in culture. The different regions of Germany also have capital cities, we call them "Länder" (literally: countries, not states). Okay, we do not have different national teams but that is a historic artefact in the sports it concerns. Still, the hint in the title that we're talking about "London, UK" should be sufficient to show that we're seeing the UK as a whole here.

	megascarp:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 13:17 GMT		29 points
	@larryholmes79: Unfortunately you are wrong even if you are from England. I'm from Scotland and think myself Scottish before being British and I'm definitely not English. But if you are from 1 of the 4 'constituent' countries then you are British. There is no definition on what defines being Scottish or English hence the Scottish Independence Vote problem as we all have the same passport. The 4 countries are not sovereign nations but are represented on the international stage as part of the UK. Each country may have varying degrees of autonomy but that doesn't make it sovereign. I assume that many Texans will call themselves Texan before being American. They have their own government and capital city but they aren't a sovereign state even though they used to be as was Scotland 300 years ago.

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	askf:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 13:27 GMT		9 points
	Not looking to start an argument here; just looking for information...How does the UK, with four countries, differ from the US' 50 states? The states have different cultures (Vermont is very different from Mississippi and both are very different from Hawaii), capital cities, legislatures and so on. "National teams" doesn't apply to the US, but, now that I think about it, the UK sends one team to the Olympics, not four. Scotland, N. Ireland and Wales all send members to Parliament in London. I'm not saying the UK structure is analogous to the US; just looking for clarification.

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	RobPro:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 13:56 GMT		1 point
	^ To back this up, I watched Skyfall last night and James Bond gave the answer 'England' as a word associated with 'country'.

	moviegoer74:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 14:39 GMT		15 points
	@Larryholmes79...all of that may be true, but it misses the point. No proud New Yorker would wonder why Albany wasn't included on a "country capitals" quiz. The reason the comments are getting voted down is that 1) everyone asking about Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh is fully aware of the difference between London and those cities in terms of their status as national capitals and 2) everyone else is tired of being told about Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. We get it. We know they're the capitals of the constituent UK countries, we don't need you to keep telling us on every quiz about the capitals of sovereign states.

	cynicallynaive:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 15:21 GMT		-1 points
	The reason for the antipathy is the feeling that the UK is trying to get extra recognition it's not entitled to just by naming its top-level subnational units "countries". That said, the question asked for "Can you name the ten closest capitals to London, UK?". I suppose the closest capital to Ottawa is Montpelier, not Washington. It would be preferable to modify it to "ten closest national capitals" just to forestall this silliness.

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	Djibril4Real:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 15:52 GMT		11 points
	I spent such a long time trying to think of the capital of Luxembourg... I'm an idiot.

	Statto2:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT		2 points
	@Flurry87 - there are plans to develop an area called London Gateway. This is along the Thames estuary east of London. Maybe this will result in the centre of London moving east. If Prague can expand a little to the west then I think it will end up closer than Andorra la Vella.

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	EvanWill:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 17:55 GMT		8 points
	@johnnyguitar: While The Hauge may be the seat of government in The Netherlands, Amsterdam is in fact the capital.

	stormyclouds:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 18:16 GMT		0 points
	Larryholmes: Agree with you that Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland all are seperate countries but Sporcle rules are a general rule of thumb for quizzes here

	megascarp:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 18:36 GMT		4 points
	@jonnyguitar72: Actually the island is Great Britain. The only Britain is a place in Virginia. To assume no-one in the UK thinks of themselves as British is a bit presumptuous. Either way, 'British' is the correct term for someone from the UK whether you feel it or not. Incidentally, out of the 4 constituent countries, Scotland has the most autonomy as England doesn't have it's own government which is another issue in UK politics and Northern Ireland is the only 1 that wasn't it's own country in history though there is a minority of residence who want independence from the UK and nor to join Rep.Ireland.

	futureboy:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 19:25 GMT		-2 points
	To "cynicallynaive" - if you're saying the UK is trying to get extra recognition it isn't entitled to, you should probably be made aware that we (the UK) are the only nation that enters four separate teams for international tournaments in football, rugby, theoretically cricket although Wales and NI aren't any good - and many other sports. So yes, they're not separate countries, but the "extra recognition" already exists.

	futureboy:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 19:30 GMT		-1 points
	By the way, I accept people's answers to my original comment which started all this - I realise it's true that only the UK is recognised as a country, so now I understand why the creator didn't include the other capitals. I just don't like the way this has turned into a "Brits think they're better than everyone else" thread. Some people's comments here say a lot about them.

	askf:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 19:38 GMT		3 points
	@cynicallynaive: re your question about capitals of second-level subdivisions, such as counties, American counties have county seats, which are generally where the various branches of the county government are located, and they could thus be considered to be "capitals" of their counties.

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	Flurry1987:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 20:22 GMT		7 points
	@JSB7: ehm no. Amsterdam is the capital. The Hague is just where the parliament is situated. Nothing more.

	askf:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 20:34 GMT		8 points
	From Holland.com, the official website of the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions: "You can find information about our capital Amsterdam..." and the CIA World Factbook identifies Amsterdam as the capital.

	Ulkomaalainen:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 22:07 GMT		9 points
	@Larryholmes: apparently no, you do not know best what is going on externally. You can do within the UK whatever you like, but in international relations, the UK is ONE country. Just like Spain, despite Catalunya, the Basque Country and I think Andalucia and Galicia as well having swathes of autonomy. And never call someone from any of these "Spanish"... @futureboy: the separation of the "countries" of the UK in many (though by no means all) sports exists for historical reasons, especially since many of these originated in the UK and started as an internal competition. Actually, especially in football (soccer), more and more opposition comes to this, since it also grants the UK 4 votes. By the way: many countries have more than one team - Denmark has 2 and a half (Faroe Islands, Greenland) as an example. @futureboy as well: it may be that this sounds harsh, but this issue has been discussed a thousand times or more already. And people start to get annoyed that some people do not understand the difference between a sovereign country (head of state, passport, foreign policy, army) and a national subdivision. @cynicallynaive: Germany certainly has capitals for its second level subdivisions (Landkreise).