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Cities that Begin with T

Bruce

50 questions

Michal Forišek

1. The tallest tower in the world - the Skytree - can be found in which East Asian capital city whose other landmarks include the Imperial Palace and Shibuya Crossing?

Tokyo

2. The tallest tower in the Western Hemisphere - the CN Tower - can be found in which largest city of Canada whose other landmarks include the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Royal Ontario Museum?

Toronto

3. From 2004 to 2010, the 101-story tall building pictured here was the tallest in the world. It can be found in which East Asian city, whose other landmarks include the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and the Shilin Night Market?

Taipei

4. The Azadi Tower, built by the last Shah of Iran to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, is a major landmark of which capital city?

Tehran

5. Each time Estonia becomes independent, it is traditional to mark the occasion by raising the Estonian flag from one of the towers of Toompea Castle. This castle, which houses the Estonian parliament, can be found in which capital city of Estonia?

Tallinn

6. The mud-brick Djinguereber Mosque is one of the most notable landmarks of which famously remote city in Mali? During the Middle Ages this city was anything but obscure, as it was an important center of Islamic scholarship and a center for the trans-Saharan trade of ivory, salt, and gold.

Timbuktu

7. This European capital city is home to a large glass and concrete pyramid that was built by the dictator Enver Hoxha as a museum about himself. Today is a youth center where young people can learn IT and computer skills.

Tirana

8. In 2003, a section of this Israeli city known as the "White City" was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its large concentration of buildings in the Bauhaus style. Indeed, since this city was largely built during the 20th century it is home to a lot of modern architecture.

Tel Aviv

9. A great equestrian statue of Tamerlane stands in Amir Timur Square in which city, the capital of Uzbekistan?

Tashkent

10. The Aztec Empire built this magnificent capital city on islands in Lake Texcoco - it was connected to the mainland via causeways or by boat. Religious life in this city centered on a pyramid called the Templo Mayor in Spanish, which was dedicated to the war god Huitzilopochtli and the rain god Tlaloc. Mexico City was built on top of the ruins of this city.

Tenochtitlan

11. Speed skater Cindy Klassen (pictured) became the first Canadian to win 5 medals in a single Olympics at the 2006 Winter Olympiad held in which Italian city?

Turin

12. The amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann is best known today for discovering the ruins of which city in modern-day Turkey, whose legendary leaders included Priam and Hector?

Troy

13. If you commit a war crime and then are foolish enough to enter a country that is a party to the Rome Statute, you may be arrested and sent to which Dutch city in South Holland where, a few years later, you may have a slow and ineffective trial in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is also located in this city.

The Hague

14. Located on the Tagus River, this city in central Spain is famous not only for being painted by the artist El Greco but also for its many historic buildings, including several churches, mosques, and synagogues dating to medieval times.

Toledo

15. This capital city of Tunisia is home to the Bardo National Museum, which houses an excellent collection of Roman and Carthaginian era mosaics, including the oldest known depiction of the poet Virgil (pictured). In 2015, terrorists stormed the museum and killed 22 foreign tourists.

Tunis

16. Nidaros Cathedral is the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world and is built over the burial site of Saint Olav. It is located in which third-largest city of Norway?

Trondheim

17. AirBus planes are manufactutred in a factory just outside of which French city in Occitania? For much of the middle ages this city was the capital of an independent state ruled by a Count of this city.

Toulouse

18. This Chinese city is located just 75 miles / 120 km southeast of Beijing. Its position as a port on the Bohai Sea makes it an important center for goods entering or leaving the Chinese capital. It is largely surrounded by, but is not a part of, Hebei Province.

Tianjin

19. In Greek mythology and literature, Oedipus was the king of which city in Boetia? King Creon of this city ordered that his dead rival Polynices was not allowed to be buried, an order defied by his sister Antigone. In another work, seven champions lead an Argive army against this city.

Thebes

20. In 1545, the Catholic Church convened a church council in this city in northern Italy. The council, which lasted until 1563, was intended to settle and codify Catholic theology and respond to the Protestant Reformation. Among other things, this council resulted in the namesake Latin Mass that the Church used until 1969 (and some traditionalists still use today).

Trent

21. This Italian city on the Adriatic Sea was, before World War I, the primary seaport of the Austrian Empire. It is barely connected to the rest of Italy and is mostly surrounded by Slovenia. In the speech in which he coined the term "Iron Curtain", Winston Churchill described the curtain as running from Stettin in the north to this city in the south.

Trieste

22. If you have ever wanted to take a traditional Georgian sulphur bath, an excellent place to do so is the historic Abanotubani neighborhood of which city, the capital of the Republic of Georgia?

Tbilisi

23. Landmarks in this capital city of Libya include the Sidi Darghut Mosque, which is home to the tomb of the famous Ottoman admiral Dragut, who had served as governor of this city after reconquering it from the Knights of Malta in 1551.

Tripoli

24. A white statue of Christ on top of the hill known as El Picacho is a major landmark of which city, the capital of Honduras?

Tegucigalpa

25. Little is known about the builders of this large abandoned city located just northeast of Mexico City. We do know that from about AD 1 until about AD 700, it was a major power in Central America and cities as far away as Tikal in Guatemala fell under its rule. Today visitors here can climb surviving structures such as the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.

Teotihuacan

26. In 480 BC, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought a much larger Persian army at which location in Greece, whose name translates as "hot gates?"

Thermopylae

27. The Ano Poli - or "high town" - is the historic Byzantine section of which second-largest city in Greece? This is the largest city in Greece's region of Macedonia, which of course is not to be confused with the former Yugoslav Republic of North Macedonia.

Thessaloniki

28. In 732, the French general Charles Martel defeated a Muslim army in a battle named for this city in the Loire Valley of France. Traditionally, this battle was credited with preventing Western Europe from becoming Muslim. Edward Gibbon famously wrote that had this battle gone the other way, "the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mohammed." These days, many historians believe that the Moors were not in fact trying to conquer France and that Martel simply defeated a small army that was trying to raid the wealthy monastery of St. Martin.

Tours

29. Some critics say that this complex, which is the headquarters of the US state of Florida's government, looks like a phallus and testicles. It is located in which city, the capital of Florida? Rappers T-Pain and Flo Rida are both from this city, which is also home to Florida State University (FSU).

Tallahassee

30. This traditional house with a turf roof can be rented for just 200 euros per night on Airbnb in which city, the capital city of the Faroe Islands?

Toshavn

31. The 1989 revolution that overthrew Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu began in which city, which historically was the capital of a region known as the Banat? Indeed, the Banat was often referred to as the "Banat of [THIS CITY]" in historical sources.

Timisoara / Temesvar

32. The early Christian leader St. Paul (born Saul), whose many letters to early Christian churches are now included as part of the New Testament, was from which city in modern-day Turkey?

Tarsus

33. The Aula Palatina, built by the Emperor Constantine around AD 300 as a public basilica, is one of the largest surviving Roman structures in the world. Today it is used as a Lutheran church. It is located in which German city on the Moselle River, located in the Rhineland-Palatinate near the border with Luxembourg?

Trier

34. This city of 67,000 people in southern Tunisia is home to a unique style of cave-like dwelling that keeps the local Berber population cool in the desert. George Lucas picked this town as a filming location for the 1977 film "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope."

Tataouine

35. The soccer/football club FC Sheriff has won the Moldovan Super Liga 21 times since 2000. Ironically, FC Sheriff is from which city, the capital of the breakaway self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria, which does not consider itself to even be part of Moldova?

Tiraspol

36. In June of 1942, Axis forces under Erwin Rommel captured this fortified city in Libya on their second attempt. Some 33,000 British and South African soldiers who were defending this city were taken prisoner - one of the largest surrenders in British history.

Tobruk

37. Today, this city in Lebanon is on a peninsula. However, in ancient times this Phoenecian city was an island whose fortifications were said to be invincible. Alexander the Great conquered this city by building a causeway from the mainland to its walls, allowing him to assault it with his army.

Tyre

38. This small city of 31,000 people in Japan shares its name with one of the straits that separate Japan from Korea. In 1905, that strait was the site of a decisive naval battle between Japan and Russia.

Tsushima

39. This English town in Glouchestershire stands at the confluence of the Avon and the Severn. It is most famous as the site of a 1471 battle during the War of the Roses that ended with a decisive victory for the House of York over the House of Lancaster.

Tewkesbury

40. This large bay on the Carribean coast of Florida is named for which city of nearly 400,000 people? It is often considered a twin city alongside neighboring St. Petersburg, Florida.

Tampa

41. This third largest city of Morocco is located in the far north of the country, near the Strait of Gibraltar. Its location close to Europe has made it an important industrial and commercial port.

Tangier

42. Under legendary coach Nick Saban, who retired following the 2023 season, the University of Alabama won six national championships in American college football. The University of Alabams is located in which city in the US state of Alabama, whose name means "Black Warrior" in a Native American language?

Tuscaloosa

43. Tourists are allowed to walk on top of the Ferreres Aqueduct (also known in Catalan as the Pont del Diable), a real Roman aqueduct located in which Spanish port city in southern Catalonia?

Tarragona

44. This city in the Aragon region of Spain is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its Mudejar architecture, but several decades ago hardly any tourists visited it. Then, this city began a marketing campaign consisting of signs that simply said "[THIS CITY] exists" - it was very successful and now many tourists visit each year.

Teruel

45. This city in Quebec - the second-oldest French settlement in Canada - was famous during colonial times as a center for the fur trade. Here, explorers called voyageurs got into their canoes to venture deep into the wilderness and acquire beaver pelts, which they would then bring back here to sell.

Trois-Rivières

46. Each August, this English market town of over 64,000 residents holds a flower show in Vivary Park that is said to be the greatest flower show in England west of London. It is the county town of Somerset.

Taunton

47. The only human settlement in Cornwall with city status is this cathedral city of 18,000 people. Anyone with an interest in the mining and engineering heritage of Cornwall, or who wishes to see minerals from Cornwall, should visit this city's Royal Cornwall Museum.

Truro

48. This city in northern Iran is the capital of Iran's East Azerbaijan province. A visitor to this city could be excused for assuming they are actually in Azerbaijan, since a majority of this city's residents actually speak Azeri as their first language.

Tabriz

49. The oldest and most prestigious university in Estonia can be found in which second-largest Estonian city, long considered the intellectual capital of Estonia? The Estonian supreme court is also headquartered in this city, meaning it can be considered Estonia's judicial capital (though I've never seen anyone refer to it that way).

Tartu

50. For thousands of years, this city in northern Israel has been one of the leading urban centers of Galilee, the region that Jesus was from. It is perhaps the single most important city located on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Tiberias