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The City Known As....

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Cities of the World : The City Known As....

Introduction:
"New York is the Big Apple, Paris is the City of Light. Do you know which cities go by the designations in this quiz? (My source is 'The Centenary Edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable')."


1. Which city is known as The City of a Hundred Towers?
    Pisa, Italy
    Pavia, Italy
    London, England
    Stuttgart, Germany


2. Which city is known as The City of Dreaming Spires?
    Aix-en-Provence, France
    Oxford, England
    Cologne, Germany
    Istanbul, Turkey


3. Which city is known as the City of Legions?
    Winnipeg, Canada
    Caerleon-on-Usk, Wales
    Algiers, Algeria
    Rome, Italy


4. Which city is The City of Refuge?
    Jerusalem, Israel,
    Beijing, China
    Rangoon, Myanmar
    Medina, Saudi Arabia


5. The city which bears the nickname City of Dreadful Knights is in the U.K., and that's all the help you're getting from me. Which one is it?
    Inverness, Scotland
    Cardiff, Wales
    Nottingham, England
    Ballymena, Northern Ireland


6. Which city is known as The City of the Violet Crown?
    Canterbury, England
    Florence, Italy
    Athens, Greece
    Parma, Italy


7. A Connecticut city is known as The City of Elms. Do you know which one?
    Hartford
    New Haven
    Andover
    Stamford


8. Which city is known as The City of the Three Kings?
    Damascus, Syria
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    Cologne, Germany
    Valletta, Malta


9. A British author dubbed this The City of Magnificent Distances. Which city is it?
    Brasilia, Brazil
    Washington, D.C.
    Alexandria, Egypt
    Stockholm, Sweden


10. This city is known as The City of Saints. Which one of these choices is the correct one?
    Montreal, Canada
    Santiago, Chile
    Rome, Italy
    New Orleans, U.S.A.


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