| SALAMANCA | City in west Spain; home to the country's oldest university (9) |
| CORDOBA | City in Andalusia, Spain, home to the Great Mosque |
| LEIDEN | City in the Netherlands, site of the country's oldest university (6) |
| SNOWDONIA | Welsh national park home to the country's highest peak (9) |
| RONDA | Much-visited town in southern Spain which is home to the country's oldest bullring. (5) |
| COIMBRA | The capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260 and the seat of the country's oldest university |
| UPPSALA | Swedish city that contains the country's oldest university (7) |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape in the Spanish province of Cadiz, south-west Spain, where the British Admiral Lord Nelson won a major battle in 1805 (9) |
| BOLOGNESE | Of the city home to the world's oldest university; or, in a meat and tomato sauce (9) |
| STANDREWS | Scottish town which is home to the third oldest university in the Englishspeaking world (2,7) |
| PRINCETON | Fourth-oldest university in the United States, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746 (9) |
| METZ | City in northeast France, home of the country's oldest church |
| ONTARIO | Province in east-central Canada, home to the country's capital Ottawa (7) |
| MADRID | Capital of Spain, home to two prominent football clubs (6) |
| ALICANTE | Province of SE Spain home to tourist hotspots including Benidorm and Calpe (8) |
| ASHMOLEAN | World's oldest university museum (9) |
| RAWALPINDI | City in the Punjab province of Pakistan, adjacent to the country's capital Islamabad (10) |
| OKLAHOMA | US state that is home to the country's second-largest Native American population after California (8) |
| HARROW | One of the country's oldest and most famous public schools, founded by John Lyon in 1571 (6) |
| COCKLE | ___ Train - based at Goolwa in South Australia and which travels along the country's oldest steel-railed railway (6) |