Tour of the European Capitals Quiz

Can you name the Closest European Capital?

created by adal

Enter a Capital City in the box below
Correctly named Capitals will show up below
Answers MUST be guessed in order
Source: Distance Calculator
Go on a Tour of Europe always going to the nearest Capital City you haven't been to yet. (47 European Capitals as on the Sporcle Capitals Quiz) All distances "as-the-crow-flies". To Start Go To LONDON
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	Capital	Distance Travelled
Start by going to London?		-
London to ?		320 km / 200 mi
Brussels to ?		174 km / 109 mi
Amsterdam to ?		319 km / 199 mi
Luxembourg to ?		287 km / 179 mi
Paris to ?		435 km / 272 mi
Bern to ?		158 km / 99 mi
Vaduz to ?		399 km / 249 mi
Ljubljana to ?		117 km / 73 mi
Zagreb to ?		268 km / 168 mi
Vienna to ?		55 km / 34 mi
Bratislava to ?		161 km / 101 mi
Budapest to ?		319 km / 199 mi
Belgrade to ?		198 km / 124 mi
Sarajevo to ?		173 km / 108 mi
Podgorica to ?		132 km / 83 mi
Tirane to ?		153 km / 96 mi
Skopje to ?		77 km / 48 mi
Pristina to ?		177 km / 111 mi
Sofia to ?		295 km / 184 mi
Bucharest to ?		358 km / 224 mi
Chisinau to ?		400 km / 250 mi
Kiev to ?		433 km / 271 mi
Minsk to ?		172 km / 108 mi

	Capital	Distance Travelled
Vilnius to ?		261 km / 163 mi
Riga to ?		280 km / 175 mi
Tallinn to ?		82 km / 51 mi
Helsinki to ?		396 km / 248 mi
Stockholm to ?		416 km / 260 mi
Oslo to ?		483 km / 302 mi
Copenhagen to ?		355 km / 222 mi
Berlin to ?		280 km / 175 mi
Prague to ?		517 km / 323 mi
Warsaw to ?		1117 km / 698 mi
San Marino to ?		227 km / 142 mi
Rome to ?		2 km / 1 mi
Vatican City to ?		459 km / 287 mi
Monaco to ?		497 km / 311 mi
Andorra la Vella to ?		493 km / 308 mi
Madrid to ?		503 km / 314 mi
Lisbon to ?		1641 km / 1026 mi
Dublin to ?		1491 km / 932 mi
Reykjavik to ?		3303 km / 2064 mi
Moscow to ?		1794 km / 1121 mi
Ankara to ?		530 km / 331 mi
Nicosia to ?		916 km / 573 mi
Athens to ?		849 km / 531 mi

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Tour of the European Capitals Quiz

by adal

Created Jul 18, 2010 in Geography
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	adal:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 14:26 GMT	5 points
	Who wants to travel around Europe today? :) Feedback would be especially appreciated on the timing of this, and on whether it would be better to show the distances, maybe making it a little easier. Anyway, hope you enjoy your trip!

	cuendillar:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 15:23 GMT	5 points
	I found the first half the harder by far. Once out of the Balkans, I got almost all immediately. One important thing, however, you've got to fix to accept or, preferably, also display Tirana. I tried most remaning Balkan + Italian capitals, beginning with Albania's, before figuring out what you had done there.

	adal:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 15:32 GMT	8 points
	Not sure how you mean Tirane/Tirana is confusing. Both are accepted answers. I chose to display Tirane, to be consistent with the other Sporcle quizzes.

	beckala63:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 15:37 GMT	5 points
	That was really fun! Thanks! :-)

	Pit_trout:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 17:00 GMT	3 points
	Awesome quiz, great fun! One suggestion: mention in the notes that it begin at London? — of course that does show up as soon as you hit the "Start" button, but it's a bit daunting when you first arrive at the quiz page and it looks like there's no explanation of how to begin.

	hilco:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 17:05 GMT	3 points
	Never thought Dublin would be closer to Lisbon than Valletta, but Dublin beats Valletta by 400 km! So generally this quiz turned out better than I thought it would.

	sabresfan:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT	14 points
	Perhaps this is just me being stupid, but could you add to the first clue "type London"--I kept typing all the surrounding capitals and getting frustrated it wouldn't work.

	adal:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT	5 points
	Thanks for the positive comments. I (hopefully) clarified the starting clue a little, and managed to squeeze it into the note as well. Hope that sorts it. I know it's annoying when it's not clear what a quiz is asking for. (In case anyone's wondering, there is no particular reason for starting in London, but you gotta start somewhere.)

	nymous:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 20:33 GMT	5 points
	This is an awesome quiz!

	OscilatingGibbon:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 22:01 GMT	2 points
	Awesome quiz! Nominated.

	Hazl:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT	4 points
	Five globes and nominated. Great quiz.

	Dharma:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 22:37 GMT	-4 points
	I made it with 8 minutes left. Maybe it's just me, but I think you could cut it down some minutes.

	Masoreth:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 08:26 GMT	0 points
	My suggestion is also to put less time. Although excellent quiz!

	olly26c:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 15:48 GMT	2 points
	I might have got them all had I not spent so many seconds for each one hammering Istanbul into the keyboard. Brain block of the month.

	mcbain:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 17:17 GMT	9 points
	This was hard even after I started cheating. Fun quiz.

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	smreidy113:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 18:43 GMT	9 points
	wrensidestorey: this quiz was made for sporcle (and un) standards, meaning that the uk is its own country.

	gnatural:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	3 points
	Time is good, at this point, since I made it with :27 left. I think giving distances is possibly helpful, since it gets tricky to remember if you've been to every nearby country. With a map, this would be a whole different (and still fun) ballgame.

	Golden:	Jul 20th, 2010 at 00:28 GMT	6 points
	The balkans was the hardest series of countries, but ironically the other thing that had me stumped for the longest time was Reykjavik... only a handful of countries to go and all the others were in my head but I was wondering what country i was missing...

	bigalsirkp:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 GMT	3 points
	Superb quiz. Original Geography quizzes are the best and this take well known content and makes it fresh. Thank you!

	Brabant:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 15:17 GMT	3 points
	Darn, I knew the last four countries, but somehow made the classic mistake of typing Istanbul instead of Ankara.

	Endasil:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 05:01 GMT	2 points
	For the even more masochistic: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Endasil/capital_tour. Although I give you the distance _before_ you answer :-).

	Endasil:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 05:01 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz btw, limiting it to a continent makes it a bit more feasible. Got stuck on Warsaw cause I was SURE I had entered it already!

	Rhys:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 09:51 GMT	4 points
	I got through the first bit easily enough and then after Monaco I just typed in every country I could think of left until eventually I figured out there were no more countries available to name and I was just thinking this idiot must have added one too many spaces in the quiz. Give up. Andorra la Vella. Ah curse you.

	WCRoentgen:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 18:34 GMT	3 points
	Outstanding quiz. 5/5. Very original twist on previous European geography quizzes. Nominated. This was impossible for me to complete after several tries. Then, I cheated with a map of Europe, crossing out countries one by one, and it was still challenging (the scale of my map precluded Iceland and Andorra)!

	samkrum:	Nov 14th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	-1 points
	i say start with reykjavik, but still very good quiz

	finnoztoffee:	Nov 29th, 2010 at 00:38 GMT	5 points
	San Marino!!! Going fine until then.

	pottedstu:	Feb 20th, 2012 at 21:52 GMT	1 point
	It's a pretty strange tour of Europe that goes to Ankara. (Some people would say that Nicosia's in Asia too.) Maybe change the words to say that it's countries in Europe or partly in Europe.

	Sjoerd:	Feb 21st, 2012 at 20:21 GMT	4 points
	I'd probably be best to write explicitely you include Russia Turkey ans Cyprus and not Armenia Georgia Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan

	KillerFromCro:	Feb 22nd, 2012 at 14:49 GMT	5 points
	When I got to Reykjavik it took me a while to figure out what capitals I got left to go to.

	marpocky:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 19:04 GMT	3 points
	It always makes me wince just a little bit when Ankara gets called a European capital, or Moscow gets called an Asian capital. I understand the argument for counting them that way, but it still feels wrong.

	Netorack:	Mar 7th, 2012 at 15:05 GMT	1 point
	My head almost blows off several times. Well done!

	myapplemonkey:	Mar 28th, 2012 at 03:21 GMT	1 point
	I couldn't get Chisinau to work, and then I couldn't figure out what was closest to Warsaw (did not see that one coming!), and then it went bam, bam, bam. Forgot, forgot, forgot all about Moscow, too. And Cyprus. I was looking at a map, and was all "OH! CYPRUS!!" And then it went really smoothly from there. Thank you for this great experience! :D Great, great quiz! :D

	grover173:	May 15th, 2012 at 16:54 GMT	3 points
	One of the most challenging geography quizzes I've ever taken. I managed to get 40 before I got stuck--at that point I couldn't keep track of which countries I'd already visited because my travels had crisscrossed the continent so many times. Once I got past Dublin, though, the last few were easy to get. Doing this quiz without a map in front of me is extremely difficult. I loved it!

	guepart:	May 15th, 2012 at 18:10 GMT	1 point
	Great work and good quiz...

	Sepultallica9:	May 16th, 2012 at 03:09 GMT	1 point
	Was doing well until I got stuck at Ljubljana... then at Warsaw... then completely and utterly stumped at Dublin. I completely forgot about it's neighbour's existence! Great quiz.

	nickos:	May 16th, 2012 at 12:50 GMT	1 point
	Got hard trying to remember which countries I'd visited. Great quiz, I'll be back for another shot soon :)

	Berubium:	May 16th, 2012 at 19:06 GMT	2 points
	Damn Ankara threw me off... I wasn't even thinking about Turkey knowing that its capital was in Asia. Oops...

	mightbewrong:	May 17th, 2012 at 03:52 GMT	1 point
	Really? I get Ljubljana and the one after it stumps me?

	ChileNoseJam:	May 17th, 2012 at 17:11 GMT	-1 points
	I knew I hadn't been to Athens, Nicosia or Valletta and kept wondering why none of those worked for the fourth answer from the end. Eventually I guessed that you must have counted Ankara as being in Europe - which is definitely wrong.