World Capitals Flashcards
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built about 50 years ago, it’s the only world capital to start with the letter “I”
Islamabad
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This African capital’s environs include Gezira & Roda, 2 islands in the Nile
Cairo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1857 this city was chosen to be the capital of what was then the United Provinces of Canada
Ottawa
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Montparnasse is one of this capital city’s Left Bank districts
Paris
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Ginza is this Asian capital’s shopping & entertainment center
Tokyo
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This port city became the capital of Jamaica in 1872, succeeding Port Royal
Kingston
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Israel is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
Jerusalem
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its name ends in the same 3 letters as its country, Iran
Tehran
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It makes sense that this is the sea closest to Dublin
the Irish Sea
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of the Dominican Republic was founded by Columbus’ brother Bartolome
Santo Domingo
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1949 it became the seat of the Chinese nationalist government
Taipei
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Sphinx stands less than 10 miles from the center of this capital
Cairo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Philippine capital’s intramuros, or walled city, was built on the design of a medieval castle
Manila
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Colombian capital sits over 8,000 feet up in the Andes
Bogotá
$2600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Scandinavian capital founded around 1050 lies at the head of a fjord
Oslo
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Alpine city is the capital of a canton as well as the capital of a country, Switzerland
Bern
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located about 30 miles south of the DMZ
Seoul
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Until 1918 & the collapse of the dynasty, it was home base for the Hapsburgs
Vienna
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, mon
Kingston (Jamaica)
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital’s original longer name translated to “Saint Mary of the Fair Winds”
Buenos Aires
$7200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| On a plane trip to this capital, you’d likely land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
Jakarta
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Biblioteca Nacional Venezuela is in this city
Caracas
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Slovakian capital with “slav” in its name was occupied by the Slavs in the 8th century
Bratislava
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 world capitals on the Rio de la Plata estuary
Montevideo & Buenos Aires
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Bangladesh is just west of the Meghna River
Dhaka
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Ghana is on the Gulf of Guinea
Accra
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Australian War Memorial is in this city
Canberra
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula
Athens
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1823 Costa Rica moved its capital from Cartago to this city where coffee plantations were prospering
San José
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital city is on a railway line between Fez & Casablanca
Rabat
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One way to see the sights on New Providence Island in the Bahamas is to get on a bus called a jitney in this port
Nassau
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Because of its altitude, this Kenyan capital rarely exceeds 80 degrees
Nairobi
$3400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Around 1050 Harald Hardrade founded this city on a fjord
Oslo
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A statue of Czech theologian Jan Hus stands in front of this capital’s Old Town Hall
Prague
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Central American capital, whose name means “holy savior”, has a town center laid out in the form of a cross
San Salvador
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Belarus was on a great trade route, thus its Russian name, meaning “exchange”
Minsk
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Haneda Airport serves this Asian capital
Tokyo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This new South American capital was dedicated on April 21, 1960
Brasilia
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Major projects to reclaim land from the sea have thrived here since the 1850s, before it was N.Z.’s capital
Wellington
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In the “Spring” of 1968, students in this capital were climbing on Soviet tanks & yelling, “USSR go home!”
Prague
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Minsk is the capital of this former Soviet republic
Belarus
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle
Reykjavík
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Budapest is the capital of Hungary; this is the capital of Romania
Bucharest
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The capital of India is not pronounced Cal-cut-ah or Cal-eh-cut, but this way
New Delhi
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This world capital is on the island of Java
Jakarta
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Laid out in 1874, the botanical gardens in this capital have an observatory with a statue of Tycho Brahe
Copenhagen
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city on the Malay Peninsula is the capital of Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Proverbially speaking, “all roads lead to” this city
Rome
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its name is Hebrew for “City of Peace”
Jerusalem
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The first written mention of this capital’s name was in a 1459 document of Vlad the Impaler
Bucharest
$1400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A castle in this world capital was once the home of the kings of Bohemia
Prague
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this judicial capital of South Africa means “Fountain of Flowers”
Bloemfontein
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Brandenburg Gate is a famous symbol of this city
Berlin
$2600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the world capital named for our fifth U.S. president
Monrovia
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| When the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, it forced most of this capital’s people to evacuate
Phnom Penh
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Ernest Hemingway’s Finca Vigia home on the outskirts of this city has since been turned into a museum
Havana
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Once a center of Jewish learning, this city was known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania”
Vilnius
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Dulles
Washington, D.C.
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Orly
Paris
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Templehof
Berlin
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Jose Marti
Havana
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Schiphol Airport
Amsterdam
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A Caribbean nation: Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A European republic: Sofia
Bulgaria
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A Himalayan kingdom: Thimphu
Bhutan
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Bordering the Caspian Sea: Baku
Azerbaijan
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A relatively new country: Dili
East Timor
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| No, Aretha Franklin is not the queen of this Asian city made a capital in 1394
Seoul
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Frankly, my dear, this Syrian capital is only about 50 miles from Beirut
Damascus
$4000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this South American city translates to “fair winds”
Buenos Aires
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Let’s talk turkey: since 1927, this city’s province has grown from a pop. of about 400,000 to more than 4 mil.
Ankara
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Check our Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki raft in this city
Oslo
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Juan Peron died in this city in 1974
Buenos Aires
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353
Bern
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this Malaysian capital means “muddy confluence”
Kuala Lumpur
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Belize City, a port, was Belize’s capital until a 1961 hurricane; then the capital moved to this inland city
Belmopan
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to King Rama IX Royal Park
Bangkok
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1970 this capital’s Place de L’Etoile was renamed Place Charles de Gaulle
Paris
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital’s Cathedral of the Archangel Michael is the burial site for many czars
Moscow
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Sphinx lies just a few miles southwest of this capital
Cairo
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built on the site of the Aztecs’ capital, it later served as the capital of New Spain
Mexico City
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The old part of this European capital has 3 main squares: Dam, Leidseplein & Rembrandtsplein
Amsterdam
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Started in 1988 for this city’s 75th anniversary, a Springtime Flower Festival in September shows off its Commonwealth Park
Canberra, Australia
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s served by Keflavik airport
Reykjavik
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It has a museum devoted to composer Zoltan Kodaly
Budapest
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to the Holmenkollen ski jump
Oslo
$3400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch
Georgetown
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s on the Suriname River
Paramaribo
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The oldest part of this Northern European capital lies on Stadsholmen, or “City Island”
Stockholm
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital’s full name means “Our Lady of the Assumption”
Asunción
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its Gaelic name, Baile Atha Cliath, means “town of the ford of the hurdles”
Dublin
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital in the North Atlantic is Old Norse for “smokey bay”
Reykjavik
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this Middle Eastern capital is Persian for “warm place”
Tehran
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A 1958 coup in this city ended a monarchy; 10 years of political turmoil followed, then 35 years of dictatorship
Baghdad
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Charing Cross, a traffic square near the Thames, is usually regarded as this city’s center
London
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Founded as a railway settlement in Kenya in the 1890s, its name comes from the Masai for “cold water”
Nairobi
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Brittanica says its 4,082 streets range in size from 394-foot-wide avenue Foch to 8-foot-wide rue du Chat-qui-Peche
Paris
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1861 it became the capital of the United Principalities of Walachia & Moldavia
Bucharest
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1619 the Dutch East India Company took it over & began rebuilding it in the form of a Dutch city with many canals
Jakarta
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning “talker”
Lima, Peru
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Venezuela has a population of about 3 million
Caracas
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Calcutta was once the capital of India; this “New” city was made the capital in 1931
New Delhi
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the northernmost capital city in mainland North America
Ottawa
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 national capital cities located on the island of Hispaniola
Port-au-Prince (or Santo Domingo)
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| South Africa actually has 3 capitals: Bloemfontein, Cape Town & this one
Pretoria
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| By population, it’s the largest capital in the Western Hemisphere
Mexico City
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital is located on Luzon Island
Manila
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The famous Gold Museum in this Colombian capital houses a large collection of pre-Columbian gold objects
Bogota
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The world’s largest govt. building after the Pentagon is this city’s Parliament Palace, built by Ceausescu
Bucharest
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It may ring a bell that this capital of Belize also starts with “Bel”
Belmopan
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A 1972 earthquake destroyed most of the downtown area of this Nicaraguan capital
Managua
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital is surrounded by, but is not part of, the Flemish region of Brabant
Brussels
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Until 1924 this Mongolian capital was called Urga
Ulan Bator
$5400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| (<a>Christiane Amanpour of CNN delivers the clue.</a>) In 1992 I reported from the shores of this African capital when the U.S. military launched Operation: Restore Hope
Mogadishu
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the home of Belarusian State University
Minsk
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Jamaican seaport was founded in the 1690s & became the capital in 1872
Kingston
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| NATO is headquartered on Blvd. Leopold III in this European capital
Brussels
$5400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Emperor Menelik II established this city whose name means “new flower”
Addis Ababa
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Bratislava, on the left bank of the Danube, is the capital of this country
Slovakia
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Praca Marques de Pombal is at the top of the Avenida da Liberdade, a main street in this city
Lisbon
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 7 million & lends its name to a type of bean
Lima
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 17 million & built on the ruins of Montezuma’s capital
Mexico City
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 11 million & home to the “Gate of Heavenly Peace”
Beijing (Peking)
$4000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 1.4 million & occupied by Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989
Kabul
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 1.7 million & host of the world-famous Chopin piano competition
Warsaw
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Proverbially, it’s where “all roads lead”
to Rome
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s where the government of India meets
New Delhi
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| After the Khmer Rouge came to power, this city’s population dropped from about 2 million to 20,000
Phnom Penh
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Physicist Niels Bohr was born in this capital in 1885
Copenhagen
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this South African capital means “fountain of flowers”
Bloemfontein
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 2004 this Portuguese city is set to host the European football championship
Lisbon
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Now Jamaica’s capital, it was founded in 1693 to replace Port Royal, which was destroyed by an earthquake
Kingston
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A landmark of this Uruguayan capital is The Cerro, or hill, for which it’s named
Montevideo
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Commissioned by Malcolm III’s wife, the Chapel of St. Margaret is the oldest surviving structure in this capital
Edinburgh
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It ranks as the second-largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca
Rabat
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| 1 of the 3 national capitals in the Western Hemisphere that have “City” in their English names
(1 of 3) Guatemala City, Mexico City or Panama City
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Hellenic Star is a leading newspaper in this European capital
Athens
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| With seating for 50,000, the world’s largest arena for bullfighting is found in this Western Hemisphere capital
Mexico City
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Depending on the movie, Godzilla crushes either New York or this Asian capital of 8 million
Tokyo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In Mandarin, this city’s name means “northern capital”
Beijing
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A Pacino is an Oscar-winning actor; a paceno is a resident of this South American capital
La Paz
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Other than Washington, D.C., it’s the only world capital named for an American
Monrovia, Liberia
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| King Juan Carlos’ main home, Zarzuela Palace, lies just outside this capital
Madrid
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea; this is the capital of South Korea
Seoul
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Augustus Caesar said he found it “A city of bricks and left it a city of marble”
Rome
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s served by Saddam International Airport
Baghdad
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Ecuadorian capital is located near the foot of the volcano Pichincha
Quito
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Lucio Costa designed this new capital in 1957 to hold 500,000 people; today it has more than 3 times that number
Brasilia, Brazil
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Capitals with a capital “O” include Burkina Faso’s Ouagadougou & this capital of Canada
Ottawa
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| We should all make a pact to meet one year from now in Warsaw, this country’s capital
Poland
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Head to South America & you’ll discover its capital is Bogota
Colombia
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| If “Baywatch” moved to the beach in Beirut it would be in this country’s capital
Lebanon
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Nassau is the capital of this island group located between Florida & Haiti
the Bahamas
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Founded in 1840, this city is the world’s southernmost national capital
Wellington, New Zealand
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A large bay bearing its name borders this capital settled by the Spaniards in 1571
Manila, Philippines (Manila Bay)
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital is linked to the North Sea via the Thames River
London
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Indira Gandhi International Airport lies just outside this capital
New Delhi
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| As its name implies, this Middle Eastern capital was once known for its damascened steel sword blades
Damascus
$1500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| 1 of 2 capitals on South America’s Rio de la Plata
Buenos Aires/Montevideo
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In this capital on the Danube you can stroll the Nagy Korut (Great Boulevard) or the Kis Korut (Small Boulevard)
Budapest
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital’s name is from the Greek for “Three Towns”
Tripoli, Libya
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Staszic Palace in this capital is the headquarters of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Opera lovers know the Royal Danish Opera is based in this city
Copenhagen
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| James Joyce’s nephew sometimes conducts tours of the James Joyce Cultural Centre in this city
Dublin
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Now Haiti’s capital, this city once known as L’Hopital was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1751
Port-au-Prince
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| You’ll find this city’s Museum of Moroccan Arts inside a former royal palace
Rabat
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Kremlin sits atop Borovitsky Hill in this capital city
Moscow
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital of Belgium might remind you of “sprouts” that Mom tries to make you eat
Brussels
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Toronto is the capital of Ontario, but this other Ontario city is the capital of Canada
Ottawa
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Key West, Florida is only about 100 miles away from this foreign capital
Havana, Cuba
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital of Argentina means “fair winds” or “good air”
Buenos Aires
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| During the Middle Ages, this capital was mostly confined to Stadsholmen & Riddarholmen islands
Stockholm
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the center of this Bulgarian city celebrates its liberation from the Turks
Sofia
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In this capital you can watch the sun turn the Tagus’ estuary into Mar de Palha, the “sea of straw”
Lisbon
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Diplomats live in the Chanakyapuri section of this capital designed by Edwin Lutyens & Herbert Baker
New Delhi
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1936 to 1961 this Caribbean capital was known as Ciudad Trujillo in honor of dictator Rafael Trujillo
Santo Domingo
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The bear is the heraldic symbol of this Swiss capital whose name means “bear”
Bern
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale life ended in this capital August 4, 1875
Copenhagen
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Batu Cave in this Malaysian capital is noted for its Hindu temple
Kuala Lumpur
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country’s first president
Sucre
$1500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s situated on numerous islands including Helgeandsholmen, where the house of Parliament is located
Stockholm, Sweden
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city was once known as Dong Kinh & to Europeans as Tonquin
Hanoi, Vietnam
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| At 420 feet, Montmartre on the right bank is this city’s highest natural point
Paris
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Haitian capital was founded in 1749 by the French, who named it L’Hopital
Port-au-Prince
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital city’s port, Piraeus, lies on the Saronic Gulf
Athens
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Among the parks in this Costa Rican capital are Morazan Park, Bolivar Park & John. F. Kennedy Park
San Jose
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It was chosen in 1394 as the capital of the kingdom of Choson
Seoul
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 European capitals closest to the United States
(1 of) Lisbon or Reykjavik
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Cuba has a colonial museum & not surprisingly, a Museum of the Revolution
Havana
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1561 King Philip II chose this city as the capital of Spain, perhaps because he was born in the area
Madrid
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It “reigns” as Jamaica’s chief port
Kingston
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Temple of the Reclining Buddha is the largest temple in this capital of Thailand
Bangkok
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A revolving restaurant spins atop the hot water storage tanks on this northern capital’s Oskjuhlid Hill
Reykjavik
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Among this capital’s 32 boroughs are Tower Hamlets, Hackney & Westminster
London
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Szechenyi Chain Bridge is the oldest one linking the Danube’s banks in this capital
Budapest
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A square museum & office building in this capital are named for Simon Bolivar, who was born there in 1783
Caracas (Venezuela)
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In late winter northwesterly winds from the Gobi Desert shroud this city in yellow dust storms
Beijing
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Muslim section of this north African capital is dominated by the Casbah, a 16th century Turkish fortress
Algiers
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In English, Peking is also commonly referred to by this name
Beijing
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| You’ll find Red Square at its center
Moscow
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Great Mosque in this Syrian capital supposedly contains the head of John the Baptist
Damascus
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital has 2 districts: Karkh on the west bank of the Tigris & Rusafah on the east
Baghdad
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located about 240 miles west of the Persian Gulf & 480 miles northeast of Mecca
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Spaniards named it for the Virgin of the Fair Winds for bringing them safely across the Atlantic
Buenos Aires
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Costa Rican capital is named for the country’s patron Saint Joseph
San Jose
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to the Glinka Music Museum & the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Moscow
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Though only 90 miles from the equator, this Kenyan capital has a moderate climate
Nairobi
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Saudi Arabian capital has long been visited by Muslims on their way to Mecca
Riyadh
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Named for a British monarch, it’s the capital of Guyana
Georgetown
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Once the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, today it’s the capital of Belgium
Brussels
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the capital of Taiwan
Taipei
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Hapsburgs
Vienna
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of this city’s top attractions is the masuoleum of Kemal Ataturk
Ankara
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the city where the Althing, the world’s oldest parliament, is located
Reykjavik, Iceland
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Many homes in this city are heated by near-boiling water pumped in from hot springs at Nesjavellir
Reykjavik, Iceland
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| St. Margaret’s Chapel, the oldest surviving building in this Scottish city, may date back to the 11th century
Edinburgh
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This legislative capital is nicknamed the “Mother City of South Africa”
Cape Town
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Biblioteca Nacional in this capital of Chile is one of South America’s largest libraries
Santiago
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum in this city displays Franz Liszt’s gold baton & St. Stephen’s crown
Budapest
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Ilya Chavchavadze Boulevard in this capital of Georgia is named for a Georgian poet
Tbilisi
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s no longer forbidden to visit the Forbidden City in this capital of China
Beijing
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the world’s northernmost national capital
Reykjavik, Iceland
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This European city is alphabetically last among the world’s national capitals
Zagreb, Croatia
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Wangfujing Street, this city’s most famous shopping district, is located east of Tiananmen Square
Beijing
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of the Czech Republic is known as the “City of 100 Spires”
Prague
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Afghan city was capital of the Mogul Empire from 1504 to 1526
Kabul
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this largest African city is Arabic for “The Victorious”
Cairo
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| 1 of 2 capitals located on South America’s Rio de la Plata estuary
Buenos Aires & Montevideo
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Swiss capital is the headquarters for the International Copyright Union
Bern
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina is from the Turkish for “palace”
Sarajevo
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The street that runs along this city’s western dike is known as Nieuwendijk, or New Dike
Amsterdam
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| During the Roman & Byzantine Empires, this Jordanian capital was known as Philadelphia
Amman
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located on Liberia’s Bushrod Island & Cape Mesurado
Monrovia
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Dutch city has more than 400 bridges linking its approximately 90 islands
Amsterdam
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital was founded in 1538 close to a Chibcha Indian center called Bacata
Bogota, Colombia
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Islamic University of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud & the Abdulaziz Military Academy are in this city
Riyadh
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1768 the Gurkhas captured this city & made it their capital
Kathmandu, Nepal
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Jose Marti Monument is a 450-foot tower in the Plaza de la Revolucion in this capital
Havana, Cuba
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The viceroy of India lived in the Rashtrapati Bhavan in this city; now the president does
New Delhi
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Kenyan capital is the starting point for many safaris
Nairobi
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built for the Asian Games in 1962, the Hotel Indonesia was this city’s first high-rise
Jakarta
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1988 Bela Bartok’s remains were moved from the U.S. & reburied in this capital city
Budapest, Hungary
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1920 to 1939, this Lithuanian capital was controlled by Poland
Vilnius
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| When visiting this Portuguese capital you can sample port wine at the Port Wine Institute
Lisbon
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Ottawa, the capital of Canada, lies in the southeastern part of this province
Ontario
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Church of St, Francis in this Peruvian capital is noted for its eerie catacombs
Lima
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| You’ll find the Kyongbok Palace at the foot of Mount Pugak in this South Korean capital
Seoul
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Aleje Ujazdowskie has been called the “Champs-Elysees” of this Polish capital
Warsaw
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Danish city was named the 1996 Cultural Capital of Europe
Copenhagen
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea & Port-Au-Prince is the capital of this island nation
Haiti
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The once-numerous canals of this Thai city earned it the nickname “Venice of the West”
Bangkok
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1962 Kampala succeeded Entebbe as the capital of this country
Uganda
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It was formerly the capital of East Bengal and East Pakistan
Dacca
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Old Capitol Building in this Cuban capital resembles ours in Washington, D.C.
Havana
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A bullet train runs between this capital & Fukuoka
Tokyo
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1886 Freud set up a private practice in this capital
Vienna
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The statue of Leif Ericson in this country’s capital of Reykjavik was a gift from the U.S.
Iceland
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1930 the name of its capital was changed from Angora to Ankara
Turkey
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The capital of Albania is named for this other world capital
Teheran, Iran
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Although in a predominantly Flemish region, most of this city’s inhabitants speak French
Brussels
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital lies only 7 miles inland from the Caribbean Sea
Caracas, Venezuela
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In ancient times this Libyan capital was known as Oea
Tripoli
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It controls the main approaches thru the Khyber Pass to Pakistan & India
Kabul
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital is probably from Sinhalese for “port” or “ferry”
Colombo
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It was founded by the Gauls as a fishing settlement in the Seine River in the 3rd century B.C.
Paris
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Every 4 years this Polish capital hosts a Frederic Chopin international piano competition
Warsaw
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Schonbrunn, the Hapsburgs’ summer palace, is a top tourist attraction just outside this capital
Vienna
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Bahamian capital served as a supply base for Confederate blockade runners in the Civil War
Nassau
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A prominent landmark in this Australian capital is the 258-foot-tall Australian-American Memorial
Canberra
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The University of San Marcos, Peru’s oldest school of higher learning, was founded here in 1551
Lima
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1936-1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo
Santo Domingo
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as capital of the Khmer Empire
Phnom Penh
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Windhoek is the capital & largest city of this newly independent former mandate of South Africa
Namibia
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| When in this European capital, don’t forget to see the Antonin Dvorak Museum and the tomb of St. Wenceslas
Prague
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city’s royal palace was built for Philip V on the site of an ancient Moorish fortress
Madrid
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1822 to 1960 this city served as Brazil’s capital
Rio de Janeiro
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Belmopan takes its name from this Central American country & a Mayan Indian tribe
Belize
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The National Museum in this Northern European capital was co-designed by E. Saarinen
Helsinki
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Caribbean capital lies near the foothills of the Blue Mountains
Kingston (Jamaica)
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Simon Bolivar is buried in the National Pantheon in this capital of Venezuela
Caracas
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Almost 1/3 of New Zealand’s population lives within 100 miles of this city, the nation’s first capital
Auckland
$3400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Central American capital was destroyed by earthquakes in 1931 & 1972
Managua, Nicaragua
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This suburb of Manila was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948-1976
Quezon City
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This troubled capital lies 5,890 feet above sea level in the Hindu Kush mountains
Kabul, Afghanistan
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| “The Rome of the North” is how famed sculptor Rodin described this Czech capital
Prague
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Foreign embassies are located in Jiddah, some 500 miles from this country’s capital, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” refers to the capitals of these two countries
Mexico & Libya
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Founded in 1496 by Columbus’s brother, this Dominican capitol is the oldest European city in the new world
Santo Domingo
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Construction of this planned Asian capital began in 1912; the government was moved there in 1931
New Delhi, India
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called “the Venice of Asia”
Bangkok
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Fabled city of Arabian Nights’ caliph Harun-al-Rashid where Israelis bombed nuclear reactor in 1981
Baghdad
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Long noted for its universities, this Colombian capital is called “the Athens of South America”
Bogotá
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Encyclopedia Americana implies this Swiss city is boring, but Birnbaum’s Guide mentions topless sunbathers
Bern
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Excluding East Berlin, 2 of 3 capitals of East European Communist countries that begin with “B”
(2 of) Bucharest, Budapest & Belgrade
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Half a city, it’s capital of East Germany
East Berlin
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The only national capital to begin with a “Q” is this, Ecuador’s
Quito
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| While Paris is on the Seine, this Belgian capital is on the Senne
Brussels
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1979 Soviet troops began occupying this Afghan capital
Kabul
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, was called this when the country was Rhodesia
Salisbury
$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Costa Rican capital people might know the way to
San Jose
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s divided into the Kanda, Marunoucki, Asakusa & Ginza districts
Tokyo
$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Home to NATO & little green sprouts
Brussels
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital’s street signs are in English, Arabic & Hebrew
Jerusalem
$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| If the other twin had founded it, it might have been called “Reme”
Rome
