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Uninteresting study of Canadian city (6)
Solution: DRYDEN.
Dryden is in Ontario, Canada. Also: Tucuruí is in Brazil, and Bauchi is in Nigeria.
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In today’s edition of “Eggheads”, there was a question on the flag of Equatorial Guinea.
I am not familiar with this flag – but I do know an interesting fact about Equatorial Guinea!
It is the only African country (i.e. sovereign state) which has Spanish as an official language. 
Cities in Equatorial Guinea include Bata, and the capital Malabo.
I am not familiar with this flag – but I do know an interesting fact about Equatorial Guinea!
It is the only African country (i.e. sovereign state) which has Spanish as an official language. Cities in Equatorial Guinea include Bata, and the capital Malabo.
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Medford, Natchez and Monroe are in the USA, Valle de la Pascua is in Venezuela, Imperatriz is in Brazil, Rundu is in Namibia, and Menongue is in Angola.
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Champaign is in Illinois, USA. This is mentioned in the episode “Beyond the Grave” of Midsomer Murders – an episode which makes reference to the English Civil War (1642–51).
I know that this War was fought between sides called Cavaliers and Roundheads. But I fail to see any connection between Cavaliers and homosexuals, as insinuated in the Midsomer Murders episode.
I know that this War was fought between sides called Cavaliers and Roundheads. But I fail to see any connection between Cavaliers and homosexuals, as insinuated in the Midsomer Murders episode.
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Asiatic leader finally died by opposing a Russian city (8)
Solution: KHANDYGA.
Khandyga is in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Also: Elliot Lake is in Canada, Fonte Boa is in Brazil, and Kyzylorda is in Kazakhstan.
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Chinese city is no-n-not co-c-cold (6)Solution: HOHHOT.
Hohhot (or Huhehot) is in Inner Mongolia, China. In physics, if something is hot, it has a high temperature.
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Sports governing body back to front in Saudi Arabian city (4)
Solution: AFIF.
ʿAfīf is in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia. Also: Young is in Australia, Val-d’Or and Rivière-du-Loup are in Canada, Bria is in the Central African Republic, Am Timan is in Chad, Boende is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangassou is in the Central African Republic, and Tongliao is in China.
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The 2014 FIFA World Cup was hosted in Brazil – and one of the subjects on today’s “Pointless” was World Cities!
I could not believe that nobody remembered anything about Recife, Manaus, Salvador – especially as this answer turned out to be the lowest-scoring by a mile.
These are of course three of the host cities of the last World Cup. The others were Brasília, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Natal, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and, famously, Belo Horizonte – where one of the semifinal matches finished Brazil 1–7 Germany. (Germany were out of this world in this match – while Brazil were out of that World Cup after that match.)
I mean, that World Cup was not so long ago, was it? I was so cheesed off that I stopped watching the programme after that round.
I could not believe that nobody remembered anything about Recife, Manaus, Salvador – especially as this answer turned out to be the lowest-scoring by a mile.
These are of course three of the host cities of the last World Cup. The others were Brasília, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Natal, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and, famously, Belo Horizonte – where one of the semifinal matches finished Brazil 1–7 Germany. (Germany were out of this world in this match – while Brazil were out of that World Cup after that match.)I mean, that World Cup was not so long ago, was it? I was so cheesed off that I stopped watching the programme after that round.
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Hans will ruin Australian city (4,4)
Solution: SWAN HILL.
Swan Hill is in Victoria, Australia. Also: Tanjung Pandan is in Indonesia, Savave and Tanrake are in Tuvalu, Moerai is in French Polynesia (France), Wichita Falls is in the USA, Comandante Luis Piedrabuena and Sarmiento are in Argentina, and Khamis Mushait is in Saudi Arabia.
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Wichita Falls, Texas is not to be confused with Wichita, Kansas. The character Dorothy Gale in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is from Kansas.
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Part of Humber rivals Australian city (5)
Solution: BERRI.
Berri is in Victoria, Australia. Also: Camarones is in Argentina, Makurdi is in Nigeria, and Dalnegorsk is in Russia.
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Double greeting for most of Tongan village (6)Solution: HIHIFO.
Hihifo is on the island of Niuatoputapu, Tonga. According to Wikipedia, the name in Tongan means “west”.
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Came out unsteadily, lacking energy, in Colombian city (6)
Solution: TUMACO.
Tumaco is in the Nariño Department, Colombia. Also: Woodward and Meridian are in the USA, Añatuya and Villa María are in Argentina, Letlhakane is in Botswana, and Choma is in Zambia.
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Sound of vehicle in American city? (3,4)Solution: VAN HORN.
Van Horn is in Texas, USA. It is named after James Judson Van Horn (1834–98), an army lieutenant.
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Reveal sad American city (4,3)
Solution: SHOW LOW.
Show Low is in Arizona, USA.
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Ha! A burk is confused in Uzbek city (7)Solution: BUKHARA.
Bukhara is in Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan. In today’s edition of “The Chase”, there was a question on the gymnast Oksana Chusovitina, who participated in a record 7th Olympic Games in Rio 2016 at the age of 41: she was born in Bukhara. Other Uzbek cities include Samarqand, Nukus and the capital Tashkent.
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I thank you, but I rejected a Brazilian city (8)
Solution: ITAITUBA.
Itaituba is in the state of Pará, Brazil. Jacareacanga, Oriximiná, Itacoatiara and Parintins are also in Brazil.
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Solution: FORSAYTH.Australian town in favour of utter tosh, first and last (8)
Forsayth is in Queensland, Australia. Another cryptic clue might be: “Comedian digesting article in Australian town (8)” – but this is not as nice as the one above. The late Bruce Forsyth was famous for his catchphrase “(it’s) nice to see you – to see you nice”.
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Wildly bait a world organization inside a Brazilian city (8)
Solution: ITABUNA.
Itabuna is in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Nanuque is also in Brazil.
Wrong attire for Algierian city (6)
Solution: TIARET.
Tiaret is in Tiaret Province, Algeria. Biskra, Laghouat, El Bayadh and Djelfa are also in Algeria.
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Solution: GUELMIM.The Spanish I’m backing gets caught in sticky substance in Moroccan city (7)
Guelmim is in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region, Morocco. The capital of Morocco is Rabat, but its largest city is Casablanca. And, who can forget the classic film Casablanca? Though the movie won the Best Picture Oscar, what a shame that neither Humphrey Bogart nor Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for their roles in it. But Bogart did win the Best Actor Oscar for The African Queen, while Bergman won Best Actress Oscars for Gaslight and Anastasia.
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Casablanca would be Spanish for “Whitehouse”.
A member of body first to run, expecting to enter Brazilian city (8)
Solution: ALEGRETE.
Alegrete is in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Araçatuba, Governador Valadares, Uruguaiana, Umuarama, Jataí, Ituiutaba and Bauru are also in Brazil.
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Solution: JEQUIÉ.French person speaking who is Portuguese in Brazilian city (6)
Jequié is in Bahia, Brazil. Je and qui are French for “I” (person speaking) and “who” respectively, “is” in Portuguese is é. I think it’s quite an elegant cryptic, even if it does not make much literal sense.
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Vehicle in reverse almost ran into two in Brazilian city (7)
Solution: NAVIRAÍ.
Naviraí (which is actually a municipality) is in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Ariquemes, Ji-Paraná, São Borja, and Araxá are also in Brazil.
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Solution: MORONI.Stupid one in Comorian city (6)
Moroni is the capital of the Comoros. Mongolia however goes one better …
Solution: MÖRÖN.Stupid Mongolian town (5)
“Ö” is a transliteration of the letter Ө in Mongolian Cyrillic.
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Bird back in Pakistani city (4)
Solution: SIBI. Sibi is in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Cub is nearly turned back in Malaysian town (4)
Solution: SIBU. Sibu is in Sarawak, Malaysia.
Three or four elements in Romanian city (5)
Solution: SIBIU. That is: (1) silicon, bismuth, uranium, or (2a) silicon, boron, iodine, uranium, or (2b) sulphur, iodine, bismuth, uranium. And it’s in Transylvania, Romania.
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Solution: SEVEN HILLS.Even in silence, problems for American city (5, 5)
Seven Hills is in Ohio, USA – as we learn in the last episode, “Overseas”, of the present series of QI, in the part where we also learn that Rome was built on eight rather than seven hills (the Vatican Hill not traditionally included in the list for some reason or other) and where Alan Davies and Bill Bailey off on a tangent discussing hilly and not so hilly places in the world. According to the two of them, there is no crime in Holland and Belgium because these two countries are so flat that everyone can see each other for miles.
But then it might be because the countries are so flat that everyone is on the level.
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So do I, by the sound of it, in Colombian city (4)
Solution: MITU. Mitú is in Vaupés, Colombia.
So do I, by the sound of it, in Ethiopian town (4)
Solution: METU. Metu is in Oromia, Ethiopia.
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The matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup are being played in 12 venues over 11 cities: Moscow (Luzhniki Stadium and Spartak Stadium), Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, Volgograd.
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