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Metro station quiz: 20 station names, six cities. Can you place them?

Dover, Rome, Europe, Argentine, Stadium. Every one of these is a real metro station in the game, and most of them are not where the name suggests. Answers at the bottom.

The Brunel Museum near Canada Water, a London station with a name from across the Atlantic
Photo: Bryan Jones · CC BY-SA 2.5

All twenty names below are stations you can type in HelloSubway. Each one is in Seoul, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo or Singapore. Write down a city for each before you scroll to the answers. One of them is a trick question.

Round one

1. Dover. 2. Rome. 3. Canada Water. 4. Argentine. 5. Bowling Green.

Round two

6. Europe. 7. Expo. 8. Angel. 9. Stalingrad. 10. Commonwealth.

Round three

11. Court Square. 12. Temple. 13. Lavender. 14. Swiss Cottage. 15. Liberty Avenue.

Round four

16. Pyramides. 17. Stadium. 18. Bank. 19. Kudanshita. 20. Sinchon.

Answers, round one

1. Dover is in Singapore, on the East West Line, next to Singapore Polytechnic. 2. Rome is in Paris, on Line 2, beside the tracks running into the Gare Saint-Lazare. 3. Canada Water is in London, on the Jubilee line, near the Brunel Museum. 4. Argentine is in Paris, on Line 1, on the Avenue de la Grande-Armée with the Arc de Triomphe at the end of the street. 5. Bowling Green is in New York, on the 4 and 5 trains, named after the park laid out in 1733 that is the city's oldest public park.

Moberly Amphitheatre, Singapore Polytechnic, near Dover station
The Moberly Amphitheatre at Singapore Polytechnic, by Dover station. Not the English Channel.Photo: Live!. · Public domain

Answers, round two

6. Europe is in Paris, on Line 3, at the Place de l'Europe, beside the bridge over the Saint-Lazare railway tracks. 7. Expo is in Singapore, on the Downtown Line, next to the Singapore Expo halls. 8. Angel is in London, on the Northern line, in Islington. 9. Stalingrad is in Paris, where Lines 2, 5 and 7 meet at the Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad. 10. Commonwealth is in Singapore, on the East West Line, near the Sri Muneeswaran Temple.

Answers, round three

11. Court Square is in New York, in Long Island City, Queens, near MoMA PS1. 12. Temple was the trick: there is a Temple in London, on the District and Circle lines beside Temple Church, and another in Paris, on Line 3 by the Square du Temple. Either answer scores. 13. Lavender is in Singapore, on the East West Line, near the shophouses of Jalan Besar. 14. Swiss Cottage is in London, on the Jubilee line, beside the Hampstead Theatre. 15. Liberty Avenue is in New York, on the C train in Brooklyn.

Answers, round four

16. Pyramides is in Paris, on Lines 7 and 14, at the square with Emmanuel Frémiet's gilded statue of Joan of Arc, unveiled in 1874. 17. Stadium is in Singapore, on the Circle Line, at the National Stadium. 18. Bank is in London, on the Central and Northern lines in the game, by the Bank of England. 19. Kudanshita is in Tokyo, the stop for the Nippon Budokan. 20. Sinchon is in Seoul, on Line 2, the station for Yonsei University.

The statue of Joan of Arc, near Pyramides station
Frémiet's Joan of Arc on the Place des Pyramides, above Pyramides station.Photo: Glorious 93 · CC BY-SA 3.0

How did you do?

Sixteen or more and you know your metros. Ten to fifteen is a good traveller's score. Under ten, and you have just found twenty reasons to ride a new line. Paris and Singapore supplied most of the names that sound as if they belong somewhere else; if Dover and Commonwealth caught you out, try the East West Line, where both of them are. For Seoul names that are easy to mix up, see how Seoul station names are romanized.

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