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City Nicknames
Big apples, eternal streets, pink walls and a city that swears it was never beaten. Can you match the world's great cities to their nicknames?
🌍 Geography
easy
20 questions
~6 min
What this quiz asks
- Which city is nicknamed after this fruit?
- Which European capital is known as the 'City of Light'?
- Which city is called the 'Eternal City'?
- Which US city is nicknamed 'Sin City'?
- Which city is nicknamed 'The Big Easy'?
- Which city do Brazilians call the 'Cidade Maravilhosa', the Marvellous City?
- Seattle's nickname, 'the Emerald City', comes from the green colour of the water in its harbour.
- Which US city is jokingly called 'Beantown'?
- Which US city is known as the 'City of Brotherly Love'?
- Is Singapore nicknamed the 'Lion City' even though lions never lived there in the wild?
- Select ALL of these nicknames that belong to New York City.
- Which Italian city is known as 'La Serenissima', the Most Serene?
- Denver is called the 'Mile High City'. Roughly how many metres above sea level does it sit?
- Which city is known as the 'City of a Hundred Spires'?
- Edinburgh's old nickname, 'Auld Reekie', refers to the smoke that once hung over the city.
- Which Indian city is known as the 'Pink City'?
- Select ALL of the cities known together as the 'Twin Cities' of Minnesota.
- Which Portuguese city is proudly nicknamed the 'Cidade Invicta', the Unvanquished City?
- Order these nicknamed cities from north to south.
- Which Irish city is known as the 'City of the Tribes'?