Can you name the world’s highest, southernmost and most Michelin-starred cities? Take our quiz and see if you’re a city slicker
It’s a long way from here to Timbuktu (pictured above), but where is the city?
Ethiopia
Mali
Mauritania
Sudan
What is the world’s highest capital
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Kathmandu, Nepal
La Paz, Bolivia
Quito, Ecuador
Brasilia has been the capital of Brazil since 1960, but where was the country’s first capital?
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Salvador
São Paulo
Three of these places in Wales are cities – which is the only town?
Bangor
Newport
St Asaph
Wrexham
Dutti-Galla, Batmania and Bearbrass were interim names of which southern-hemisphere city?
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Lima
Melbourne
Which is only city to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times?
Athens
London
Paris
Rome
Which city has the most Michelin-starred restaurants?
Paris
Lyon
Dubai
Tokyo
Which is the world’s most southerly capital?
Cape Town
Montevideo
Santiago
Wellington
And the most northerly?
Helsinki
Moscow
Reykjavik
Tallinn
Where is this skyline?
Newcastle-Gateshead
Saint Louis
Stockholm
Sydney
The hit single Pop Muzik by the band M references all but one of these cities. Which one?
London
Munich
New York
Tokyo
Which city has the world’s longest metro network?
Beijing
London
New York
Shanghai
And where is this stunning metro station?
Buenos Aires
Moscow
Stockholm
Vienna
Christopher Columbus airport serves which city?
Genoa
Havana
Lisbon
Madrid
Which city has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents?
Brussels
Dubai
Los Angeles
Sydney
This famous funicular railway line runs in which city?
Barcelona
Lisbon
Marseille
Naples
Leaving aside their impromptu private gig on the rooftop of the Apple building in London in 1969, in which city did the Beatles play their last concert?
Liverpool
Manilla
New York
San Francisco
Who wrote that the Paris slums were “a gathering-place for eccentric people – people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent”?
Ernest Hemingway
George Orwell
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Victor Hugo
Which city opened a Museum of Literature in 2019?
Dublin
Edinburgh
Manchester
London
Baron Haussmann is best known for the planning of which city?
Athens
Berlin
Paris
Rome
16 and above.
Well done, quite the city slicker
11 and above.
Almost an urban legend
0 and above.
Bit of an urban miss!
6 and above.
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Source: Gaurdian