Songs about European cities quiz

David Whitley,

From David Bowie to the Beautiful South, you can do a pretty impressive tour of Europe in song lyrics. But do you know which songs are about which city? Test your knowledge with this quiz…

Songs about European cities quiz

From David Bowie to the Beautiful South, you can do a pretty impressive tour of Europe in song lyrics. But do you know which songs are about which city? Test your knowledge with this quiz…

1 / 10

Which European capital means nothing to Ultravox?

2 / 10

Montserrat Caballé teamed up with which rock legend to sing Barcelona ahead of the 1992 Olympics?

3 / 10

Which European city song title by the Beautiful South could conceivably be Liverpool or Rome?

4 / 10

In the Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles, the title characters drive from Paris to the Hilton hotel in which city, where they stay in bed for a week?

5 / 10

Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple is about a fire at the casino in Montreux. In which country would you find Montreux?

6 / 10

When David Bowie remembers standing by the wall in Heroes, which city is he in?

7 / 10

Which UK artist, later famous for hits including Shotgun and Green Green Grass, had singles called Barcelona and Budapest on his first album?

8 / 10

“We must say adios until we see Almeria once again” is the final line in the gloriously raucous Fiesta by which Anglo Irish folk-punk band, also famous for covering The Band Played Waltzing Matilda?

9 / 10

In Wind of Change, which city do earnest German hair rockers the Scorpions follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park?

10 / 10

Which band named after a Middle Eastern capital has released songs called Bratislava, Nantes and Gibraltar?

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