Capital Cities Trivia Questions and Answers

Two hundred capitals, and the useful thing about them is that they are unambiguous — there is nothing to argue about after the reveal, which makes this one of the fastest topics to play. The easy tier is the capitals that share a name with something famous. The middle is the countries whose capital is not their largest city, which catches almost everybody at least once: Turkey, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Switzerland. The hard tier goes to the recently renamed and the recently moved, plus a few nations that run two or three capitals at once and have a good reason for it.

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  1. 1. What is the capital of Switzerland?Medium

    • Bern ✓
    • Zurich
    • Geneva
    • Basel

  2. 2. Valletta is the capital of which country?Medium

    • Malta ✓
    • Cyprus
    • Monaco
    • Montenegro

  3. 3. What is the capital of Romania?Medium

    • Bucharest ✓
    • Budapest
    • Sofia
    • Belgrade

  4. 4. What is the capital of Bulgaria?Hard

    • Sofia ✓
    • Plovdiv
    • Varna
    • Bucharest

  5. 5. What is the capital of Sweden?Easy

    • Stockholm ✓
    • Gothenburg
    • Malmö
    • Uppsala

  6. 6. What is the capital of Estonia?Medium

    • Tallinn ✓
    • Riga
    • Vilnius
    • Helsinki

  7. 7. Helsinki sits across the Gulf of Finland from the capital of which country?Hard

    • Estonia ✓
    • Latvia
    • Sweden
    • Denmark

  8. 8. What is the capital of Indonesia?Medium

    • Jakarta ✓
    • Surabaya
    • Bandung
    • Denpasar

  9. 9. What is the capital of the Philippines?Medium

    • Manila ✓
    • Cebu City
    • Davao
    • Baguio

  10. 10. What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?Easy

    • Riyadh ✓
    • Jeddah
    • Mecca
    • Medina

  11. 11. What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?Easy

    • Abu Dhabi ✓
    • Dubai
    • Sharjah
    • Ajman

  12. 12. What is the capital of Iran?Easy

    • Tehran ✓
    • Isfahan
    • Shiraz
    • Mashhad

  13. 13. What is the capital of Lebanon?Medium

    • Beirut ✓
    • Tripoli
    • Sidon
    • Byblos

  14. 14. What is the capital of Zimbabwe?Hard

    • Harare ✓
    • Bulawayo
    • Lusaka
    • Gaborone

  15. 15. What is the capital of Chile?Easy

    • Santiago ✓
    • Valparaíso
    • Concepción
    • Antofagasta

  16. 16. What is the capital of Colombia?Easy

    • Bogotá ✓
    • Medellín
    • Cali
    • Cartagena

  17. 17. What is the capital of Venezuela?Medium

    • Caracas ✓
    • Maracaibo
    • Valencia
    • Barquisimeto

  18. 18. Which city is Bolivia's constitutional capital, home to its Supreme Court?Hard

    • Sucre ✓
    • La Paz
    • Santa Cruz
    • Potosí

  19. 19. What is the capital of Mexico?Easy

    • Mexico City ✓
    • Guadalajara
    • Monterrey
    • Cancún

  20. 20. What is the capital of Jamaica?Medium

    • Kingston ✓
    • Montego Bay
    • Ocho Rios
    • Negril

  21. 21. What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?Hard

    • Santo Domingo ✓
    • Santiago
    • Punta Cana
    • Port-au-Prince

  22. 22. What is the capital of Haiti?Hard

    • Port-au-Prince ✓
    • Cap-Haïtien
    • Santo Domingo
    • Gonaïves

  23. 23. Which purpose-built city replaced Karachi as Pakistan's capital?Medium

    • Islamabad ✓
    • Lahore
    • Rawalpindi
    • Peshawar

  24. 24. By what name was Saint Petersburg known during the Soviet era?Hard

    • Leningrad ✓
    • Stalingrad
    • Moscow
    • Kiev

  25. 25. Which Gulf country, bordered by Iraq and Saudi Arabia, was invaded by Iraq in 1990, triggering the Gulf War?Easy

    • Kuwait ✓
    • Qatar
    • Bahrain
    • Oman

  26. 26. Which capital is nicknamed the "City of Light"?Easy

    • Paris ✓
    • Vienna
    • Rome
    • Madrid

  27. 27. Which river flows through Bangkok?Hard

    • Chao Phraya ✓
    • Mekong
    • Irrawaddy
    • Salween

  28. 28. Which capital is regularly ranked the world's coldest?Hard

    • Ulaanbaatar ✓
    • Astana
    • Moscow
    • Ottawa

  29. 29. Pyongyang is the capital of which country?Hard

    • North Korea ✓
    • South Korea
    • Mongolia
    • Vietnam

  30. 30. Apia is the capital of which Pacific nation?Medium

    • Samoa ✓
    • Tonga
    • Fiji
    • Kiribati

  31. 31. Christ the Redeemer overlooks Rio de Janeiro, but which city is actually Brazil's capital?Easy

    • Brasília ✓
    • São Paulo
    • Rio de Janeiro
    • Salvador

  32. 32. Which tiny city-state is home to the Pope and St Peter's Basilica?Easy

    • Vatican City ✓
    • Monaco
    • San Marino
    • Malta

  33. 33. Cairo is the capital of which country?Easy

    • Egypt ✓
    • Morocco
    • Algeria
    • Libya

  34. 34. Dakar is the capital of which country?Easy

    • Senegal ✓
    • Mali
    • Ghana
    • Ivory Coast

  35. 35. What is the capital of Montenegro?Medium

    • Podgorica ✓
    • Sarajevo
    • Tirana
    • Skopje

  36. 36. What is the capital of North Macedonia?Medium

    • Skopje ✓
    • Sofia
    • Tirana
    • Podgorica

  37. 37. What is the capital of Moldova?Hard

    • Chișinău ✓
    • Chernivtsi
    • Odesa
    • Iași

  38. 38. What is the capital of Bhutan?Hard

    • Thimphu ✓
    • Kathmandu
    • Lhasa
    • Paro

  39. 39. What is the capital of Suriname?Hard

    • Paramaribo ✓
    • Georgetown
    • Cayenne
    • Bridgetown

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