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Kanazawa Quiz: 18 Questions to Separate the True Fans from the Fakes

Total Questions: 18 | Topic: Kanazawa | Updated: Jan 23, 2023

Kanazawa is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

Get ready to flex your Kanazawa muscles! This quiz features 18 questions on everything from the basics to the most obscure facts. Can you ace it? Find out more by taking this quiz.

Kanazawa is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

Get ready to flex your Kanazawa muscles! This quiz features 18 questions on everything from the basics to the most obscure facts. Can you ace it? Find out more by taking this quiz.

Who in the following pictures is the Mayor Of Kanazawa?

The Mayor Of Kanazawa is Yukiyoshi Yamano. Yukiyoshi Yamano took office on Dec 10, 2010. Yukiyoshi Yamano is a member of Liberal Democratic Party.

Kanazawa Geography Fact

Kanazawa has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by hot, humid summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall.

Kanazawa's flag is which of the following?

Can you guess what the population was in 2020?

591,973
675,219
462,479
652,095

Can you provide the name of the highest point in Kanazawa, which is 1,644.33 above sea level?

Mount Adatara
Mount Funaoka
Mount Nara
Mount Hongū

Kanazawa's highest point is Mount Nara with an elevation of 1,644.33 above sea level.

Kanazawa Education Fact

Aside from the above combined middle/high schools, Kanazawa has 11 public high schools operated by the Ishikawa Prefectural Board of Education, one public industrial high school operated by the city government and four private high schools.

What was the date of the establishment of Kanazawa?

Apr 1, 1895
Apr 1, 1889
Apr 1, 1886
Apr 1, 1894

Which of the following maps best describes Kanazawa's location?

Kanazawa shares a border with [url class="tippy_vc" href="#2089254"]Hakusan[/url], [url class="tippy_vc" href="#1940448"]Nanto[/url] & [url class="tippy_vc" href="#1296114"]Uchinada[/url]. [br] Can you guess which has a larger population?

Kanazawa shares a border with Hakusan, Nanto & Uchinada.
Can you guess which has a larger population?

Kanazawa
Nanto
Uchinada
Hakusan

The place with a largest population is Kanazawa. The population of the mentioned places is

Kanazawa
(462,479)
Hakusan
(110,135)
Nanto
(47,390)
Uchinada
(26,503)

Kanazawa Local Attractions Fact

When Kanazawa was finished in more or less its final form in the late 17th century, over three-quarters of it was samurai housing.

In which country is Kanazawa located?

Costa Rica
Canada
Japan
Kyrgyzstan

I was wondering if you might be able to tell me which of the following bodies of water is located in or near Kanazawa.[br](Select 2 answers)

I was wondering if you might be able to tell me which of the following bodies of water is located in or near Kanazawa.
(Select 2 answers)

Sea Of Japan
Asano River
Andaman Sea
Norwegian Sea

The following bodies of water are located near Kanazawa:

Sea Of Japan
Saigawa River
Asano River

Kanazawa Geography Fact

Average temperatures are slightly cooler than those of Tokyo, with means approximately 4 °C (39 °F) in January, 12 °C (54 °F) in April, 27 °C (81 °F) in August, 17 °C (63 °F) in October, and 7 °C (45 °F) in December.

Among the listed properties, which one is owned by Kanazawa?

Sunpu Castle
Soyu Stadium
Mizuho Park
Kanazawa Soccer Stadium

What is the timezone of Kanazawa?

UTC+01:20
UTC−09:30
UTC+11:30
UTC+09:00

Which of the following organizations has Kanazawa been a member of? [br](Select 2 answers)

Which of the following organizations has Kanazawa been a member of?
(Select 2 answers)

Creative Cities Network
Resilient Cities Network
League Of Historical Cities
DINAclub

The following organizations have been among those that Kanazawa has been a part of:

Title	Date
Creative Cities Network	2009
League Of Historical Cities

Kanazawa Local Attractions Fact

Samurai houses shared a similar basic pattern: a single-floored residence, usually fairly square or rectangular in plan, surrounded by a garden – both the vegetable and the decorative kinds.

Where is Kanazawa located?

Sagami Plain
Chikumano
Niikawa Plain
Kanazawa Plain

Kanazawa is located in Kanazawa Plain.

Kanazawa Local Attractions Fact

Though the Nagamachi area is promoted in the tourist brochures as the 'samurai area', the overwhelming majority of the houses are not samurai houses, but modern post-war housing.

Which of the following cities or administrative bodies are twinned to Kanazawa?[br](Select 2 answers)

Which of the following cities or administrative bodies are twinned to Kanazawa?
(Select 2 answers)

Chiyoda-ku
Leuze-en-Hainaut
Porto Alegre
Toyota

Kanazawa is twinned with:

Nancy
(1973- )
Irkutsk
(1967- )
Buffalo
(1962- )
Porto Alegre
(1967- )
Ghent
(1971- )
Suzhou
(1981- )
Jeonju
(2002- )
Toyota
Matsumoto
Okazaki
Shizuoka
(2009- )
Meguro-ku
(2017- )

Kanazawa Local Attractions Fact

(This is because after the Meiji Restoration the samurai found themselves bereft of their traditional income, and many of them ended up selling off their estates, which were turned into fields before being redeveloped as modern housing before World War II.)