Monday, September 20, 2010

Memorizing in a Quick Review

Here is a list of 60 cities ordered by population. Review them for 10 minutes (10 second per city), and then answer the following questions without second review of this list:

Shanghai - 13,831,900

Mumbai - 13,830,884

Karachi - 12,991,000

Delhi - 12,565,901

Istanbul - 12,517,664

São Paulo - 11,037,593

Moscow - 10,508,971

Seoul - 10,464,051

Beijing - 10,123,000

Tokyo - 8,887,608

Mexico City - 8,841,916

Jakarta - 8,792,000

Kinshasa - 8,754,000

New York City - 8,363,710

Lagos - 7,937,932

Lima - 7,605,742

London - 7,556,900

Bogotá - 7,259,597

Tehran - 7,241,000

Ho Chi Minh City - 7,162,864

Hong Kong - 7,026,400

Bangkok - 7,025,000

Dhaka - 7,000,940

Cairo - 6,758,581

Lahore - 6,318,745

Rio de Janeiro - 6,186,710

Chongqing - 5,954,800

Bangalore - 5,840,155

Tianjin - 5,800,000

Baghdad - 5,402,486

Kolkata - 5,138,208

Santiago - 5,012,973

Singapore - 4,987,600 (Singapore city is the capital of Singapore country)

Riyadh - 4,848,000

Chennai - 4,616,639

Saint Petersburg - 4,581,854

Surat - 4,523,022

Yangon - 4,350,000

Guangzhou - 4,261,800

Alexandria - 4,110,015

Shenyang - 4,101,197

Hyderabad - 4,068,611

Ahmedabad - 3,959,432

Ankara - 3,901,201

Johannesburg - 3,888,180

Los Angeles - 3,849,378

Wuhan - 3,807,950

Yokohama - 3,680,267

Abidjan - 3,660,682

Busan - 3,574,340

Cape Town - 3,497,097

Durban - 3,468,086

Pune - 3,446,330

Berlin - 3,426,354

Pyongyang - 3,255,388

Jeddah - 3,234,000

Kanpur - 3,221,435

Madrid - 3,213,271

Jaipur - 3,210,570

Buenos Aires - 3,050,728




Questions:

Q1. What is the fourth city in the list?

Q2. What are the maximum and minimum populations?

Q3. Is Santiago more populated than Riyadh?

Q4. Is the population of Pyongyang more than 4,000,000?