1. Los Angeles is often referred to as "The Shaky City". Do you know who started that nickname? 10-4 Over. Truckers on their CB Geographic examiners measuring seismic activity In a song A cinema production company

2. Slow Death is a nickname for San Diego. Where did that originate from? "Sounds" like a though question. The high desert death toll The San Diego music scene The boring inner city A disease

3. Venice in Italy is beautiful. Which city claims the right to call itself "The Venice of the North"? A lot of water everywhere. All these cities claim that name Budapest, Hungary Stockholm, Sweden Birmingham, United Kingdom

4. The Big Apple is the best known nickname in the world. Where did that odd name come from? (Not the first official use!) William Jennings Bryan in his campaign speech Apple Marketing Board The Apple from Adam and Eve Apple MacIntosh company

5. Jackson, Mississippi is called "Chimneyville". This is because . . Chimneys were all that remained after the American Civil War "Chimney" is a nickname for the locals Jackson has an very visible industry with a lot of chimneys to prove it Jackson has the highest number of cigarette smokers

6. Montreal, Canada is known as the City of Saints. In the French language it is known as "la ville aux cent clochers". What does it mean? The city of many homeless The city of one hundred saints The city of a hundred bell towers The city of libraries

7. In Ireland there is a town called Limerick. It has been mentioned as the "stab city" How did it get that gruesome name do you think? (Think "sharply") The name for a limerick poem is "stab" in Irish Gaelic It is short for Luimneashtab, which is the original Irish name for Limerick Because of the high level of assaults on people with knives The Normans renamed the Viking settlement after their god of fertility "Stabb"

8. Paris in France is the well known City of Lights. In the Netherlands, the locals also have a "Light-City", it is Eindhoven. Do you have a "bright" idea why? In the city centre all buildings are illuminated Airport Eindhoven looks spectacular from the sky. It's pilot lingo Eindhoven has a big soft drugs scene, you can get high (“light” in Dutch) easily It is the residence of a major light bulb manufacturer

9. The city Budapest is called "the pearl of the Danube" but actually, the river (Danube or Donau) does not cross the official city limits of Budapest. (Be aware, it is a negative question) True False

10. Everybody in Hollywood knows Bollywood, the little movie brother (no hint) in India. Were did that name come from? Hollywood is pronounced Bollywood by an English speaking Indian, due to the accent It is a combination of Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) and Hollywood Hollywood people think India only produces B movies Bhai means brother in Hindi, it started out as Bhaiwood