I thought Varso Tower would be among the easier ones to guess since its name sounds like Warsaw. The photo doesn't really do it justice, but Varso is currently the highest skyscraper in the EU and the highest in Europe in general, if we exclude Russia. I recognized Italy (Milan) because of the green building next to it. And MOL reminded me of Hungarian oil company. Other ones though - had no idea.

I thought you are gonna get Varso Tower fast as it literally has Warsaw in the name spelled a little differently.

I guess you and most people don’t keep up with trivia as much as I do. As I thought Laktha Tower (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and Varso Tower (Warsaw, Poland) are the easiest as they come up a lot as the tallest in Europe and in the European Union respectively 😅

Hey, I've worked in the Lachta centre in St.Petersbourg for over a year now. It's the tallest building in Europe and the infrastructure is phenomenal

Love to see you enjoyed Slovakia :))) No one really knows it so as a Slovak, I feel great knowing foreigners like visiting it :)

I'm from Switzerland and Roche was about the only skyscraper I knew. Roche is a Pharmaceuticals company. It's quite possible that my father worked in the Roche tower at one point. He does building automation and does it in various big buildings. The one from Lichtenstein was cute.

The Unicredit tower in Italy is in Milan, even though it's a big commercial skyscraper is built in a green pedestrian area, i think that's quite nice

MOL is a Hungarian oil company, Magyar Olaj in Hungarian

Turning Torso is no longer the tallest building in Sweden. The Karla Tower in Gothenburg, which is currently being built, overtook that spot in late september 2022. I don't think it's reached its final height of 245 yet, but I guess not since the crane's still there.

I can't lie, I always get excited when my tiny adorable country appears: Andorra. And of course more excited when people recognize it (or at least know about its existence) :) I also have the good fortune to say that I work on this exact building.

Hey! MOL is a Hungarian oil company and the tower is located in Budapest,on the Buda side,a little bit more south from the city centre. I live 2 kilometers away from it and I always take a look at it while travelling to university.

The amout of shouting at my screen for Austria, Switzerland and Norway was insane

The german one is in Frankfurt. Commerzbank is a bank so its logical to be in frankfurt, which is like the central hub for finance in germany. My father works for commerzbank so we had the ability to go to complete top of the building. Normally you cant go all the way to the top. Its pretty cool because frankfurt is like the only city with skyscrapers in all of germany, so its like cool to see all the other ones below.

Fun fact about the DC Tower 1 in Vienna (Austria), there was supposed to be a second one to be built, but for some stupid reason they had only allowed the one half to be built, the complete version of the design with the second half would have looked SO MUCH COOLER. Also, you can see parts of the Vienna International Center (AKA UNO-City Building) behind the DC Tower, it's one of the main UNO Buildings apart from New York and Geneva

Knowing that Roche is a big Swiss farmaceutical company would have helped ;) The Zalmhaventoren is in Rotterdam and is appartments mostly, but there are also some offices. It's still very new.

Hello from Czech republic. AZ tower is interesting because it's not in the capital Prague, but in Brno which is the second largest city in here :) Also the name is not an abbreviation, but the shape should resemble letters A and Z together. Like the whole alphabet

I'm living not far away from Lakhta Center (Russia, St. Petersburg). It was erected in St. Petersburg with the only goal in mind - to outshine Moscow where previously was erected the tallest skyscraper in Europe. Now the tallest scyscraper in Europe is located in the Europe's most nothern megapolis where it looks rather unnatural. The vast majority of city's cultural elite were strictly against the erection since they thought that this skyscraper will ruin the city's skylline. Thus the location of skyscraper was moved to the notherrn part of city with no sights of cultural sugnicance aroud it. It is still can be seen from within the city's cultural center but not as much as it would be on previous proposed location. It is located close to the bank of the gulf so if someone looks at it from across the gulf it kinda resebles the giant ship leaving the port. Not too far from it was build the soccer stadium resembling by its shape the giant spaceship. So when soneone wants to picture St. Petersburg as "modern" city they show photos with stadium and skyscraper together. Sorry for my bad English.

I didn't notice the Stockmann in the Estonian one. That's a Finnish department store chain. Notable for their flagship store in Helsinki which was the location of Finland's first escalators, hence the logo looking like escalators.

Smáratorg tower in Iceland is in an awful area near a shopping mall and surrounded by nothing but highways and parking lots. It's even in a valley so it doesn't look impressive. They tried to capitalize on it being the tallest building by having a restaurant on top but it's not very appealing when the view is just a suburban shopping mall, so now it's just offices.

The Roche Tower is the headquarters of Roche. One of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

The unicredit tower is in Milan, you can allo see the "bosco verticale" behind it, very cool building covered with plants and trees

Bosnia was easy to guess, it was written in the name of the website in the lower righthand corner of the picture, and besides that Avaz is the name of their daily newspaprer. Varso was also easy to connect with Warsaw (at least when you read it out loud), MOL was easy for me because I passed next to MOL petrol station on my way to work this morning, and regarding the Ć letter, you can find it only in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, therefore the number of guesses was limited there, Č letter is more common than Ć and you can find that one in some other Slavic and some Baltic languages. Finland was also kind of obvious because of double K in the name, Finish has some combinations like that which are not too common in other languages.

MOL stands for Magyar Olaj (Hungarian Oil), a big oil company in south-east Europe. Also, Warsaw in Hungarian is "Varsó" , which makes it an easy guess for us.

I live in Slovakia. The Eurovea Tower was just completed. There is still many stores on lower levels that are not complete nor offices above and I am not sure about all the residential flats.

The Austrian building is in Vienna, close to the UN Headquarters in the "skyscraper-zone". The Vasco da Gama building is very cool, it has a funicular attached to it.

If you want to see really short buildings (honestly, one is three stories, they make Liechtenstein's skyscraper seem like The Shard!) then try the quiz "Tallest building of every country in Oceania". I had 13:56 left on the clock, I'm sure you'll beat my score of doing it in just over 6 minutes!

The funny thing about Estonia is that there's at least 2 buildings that are taller that the Swissôtel building. The tallest building should actually be the TV tower in Tallinn, which is 314m tall. There's also Oleviste church (123m) which once (allegedly) was the tallest building in the world.

I stayed at that "generic hotel building" in Oslo, but at the time i was there 22nd of july 2021, it was 10 years ago in which a tragic terrorist attack happened in Norway.. So we had a minute of silence all over, and there were quite a lot of police around at the time. The hotel was of course something to be a little worried about at that time, well especially since hearing that some VIPs also stayed there.

I know the Swissôtel in Tallinn well, I live close by. Majakka is lighthouse in Finnish, almost the same word in Estonian (majaka with one k)

i had a brain aneurysm when you said Lakhta Center looks greek, like bro it's to the north of 60° parallel

I died when you saw the most soviet like buildings and said that it look like something in czechia or slovakia💀

Until today I thought that Tower 115 was the tallest building in Slovakia. Not only was that wrong, Klingerka and Nivy Tower are both 120 m tall, but TIL that Eurovea has built a tower that is now the tallest building in Slovakia. I really need to get back to Slovakia, lived there once and haven't been back since 2019. EDIT: I also have to visit Denmark proper it seems. Never knew that Lighthouse 2.0 was a thing there. :O

12:58 A little hint: if you see the letter ć, it is definitely *not* Slovak or Czech language. Both have those diacritics, but never ć, only č, while some South Slavic languages have both ć and č.

If the Oslo Radisson is still tallest in Norway that's strictly embarrassing, all these new futuristic highrises and this old, smelly demolition fodder is still taller, I frankly want to move away if that's the case jeez

As a swiss from Basel, I can see the Roche tower from my window. Its pronounced R-O-S-H... and Basel doesnt speak french but it was founded by people from the french part of Switzerland

For me, there were two big clues you didn't/couldn't get. Roche ("rosh" not "roshé") is a big Swiss pharmaceutical company with its headquarters in Basel. "Parus" is the Russian word for "the sail". Most likely to be found in Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus. On the other hand, I might have gotten barely half of what you got. MOL is the leading Hungarian mineral oil company which I didn't know until I googled 5 sec ago and will have forgotten next week, lol.

Funniest part is him going through the pictures after 18 minutes saying 'no idea' to all of them while he actually had no idea from the start of the video already hahaha

Floreasca Sky Tower is located in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. It is not a skyscraper, due to it being 137 m high. We have 2 television towers that are both 150 m, but those are not considered 'buildings' but rather 'towers'.

DC (Tower) stands for Donau-City (Danube City) in Vienna DC is an area with most of the high-rise buildings in Vienna

The Hungarian MOL Campus stands for: MOL: Magyar Olaj means Hungarian oil. MOL is a big oil company spread in central-eastern europe, having its Campus in Budapest.

When you kept saying "That looks Nordic" and I'm like "Really? I'm originally from Norway that's doesn't look that much like the architecture we have" 😅 When I saw Radisson Blu I was like "Ah now THAT'S Norway" because where I'm originally from has also got a very tall Radisson Blu Hotel 😂

The Roche Tower is quite new and was built in Basel, so not the French speaking part of the country. The name stems from it being the headquarters of the huge pharmaceutical company "Roche". It's quite controversial here in the city, as Basel has a really old city core and it's "skyline" across the Rhine is quite remarkable. So naturally most people were opposed to the huge skyscraper dropped right in the middle of that. But on the other handside Basel has a huge economical benefit from Roche being there so nobody wants to oppose it too much lol. Having lived most of my life here it was hard to get accustomed to the tower but now it's kind of become a part of the city.

I just saw this video and i’m so so happy. Thank you for playing my quiz!!! Also thank you for the feedback, i’m trying to keep the quiz updated. I do have more quizzes so have fun ;)

I literally see Lakhta center from my window) it’s the tallest one in Europe btw

Pro Tip: You can skip a question on these types of Sporcle quizzes by hitting the 'Tab' key then 'Spacebar'

21:50 MOL stands for "Magyar ol", a Hungarian gas company.

Some tips that could help you guessing: Luxembourg: those are actually UE famous buildings, the court in this case. Iceland: the grass is very dead, so it gives me the hint of being a cold country. Plus, it's a tiny building. Russia: They are big, they are iconic, very glassy looking, very modern. Belarus: the soviet type buildings. They always give up the general location. Plus, they are so easy to identify.

(16:05 "Varso" is a clipping of the Latin name of Warsaw which is Varsovia. Weird choice.

An American has to play this game...

Haha on that Lithuanian tower I for some reason recognized the Lithuanian coat of arms before I saw the Lithuanian Flag. I guess I play too many map games lol

This video was the equivelant of throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks 😂

Is no one going to mention that the Bosnian picture had the answer in the bottom right corner? 😂 22:25

Majakka is a high rise residential building in Kalasatama, Helsinki. It’s the first and the middle one out of the three in Kalasatama that was built. I think it was finished in 2019, not too sure though. It’s attached to Redi shopping center and the Kalasatama metro station. If i remember correctly it’s over 130meters tall. And it has 34 or 35 floors. There has been some problems with the building like elevators not working and the apartments being too hot. Although i live in Helsinki I’m not too well versed in the building and personally i find it a bit of an eyesore, but i would never live there anyway its way too expensive.😂

I recently moved to Malmö and now I can see the Turning Torso in the distance pretty much as soon as I step out onto the main street. It's a cool building, quite emblematic for the city. I've also seen the Sky Tower in Bucharest before. It's located right next to a shopping mall. Apparently it was designed to tolerate strong earthquakes (Bucharest is in direct line of sight from a very earthquake-prone region of Romania and has been severely impacted by previous strong earthquakes e.g. 1977). Today I learned that it's also the tallest building in all of Romania! :D This was a very cool quiz! I really enjoyed watching the video and I learned about some new tall buildings today.

Since the Eiffel Tower is a building, and it's 99 meters higher than the Tour First, it should on the list instead of the Tour First. I would've been very surprised if the City of Paris and the French authorities had let any bulding overshadow the Eiffel Tower (so I checked)

The tallest building in Liechtenstein is actually the St. Laurentius Church in Schaan with 81 meters. de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfarrkirche_St._Laurentius_(Schaan)

MOL stands for Magyar OLaj (Hungarian Oil), a very large company in Hungary.

About those buildings that you haven't guessed. Hungary was to easy because MOL is on of the biggest Oil and Gas companies in Europe... and it is hungarian company. That Smáratorg Tower I would gues some of the nordic nation because of that name. BTW. I did not understand why you were not guessing only the smallest countries (like Luxemburg, San Marino,... etc.) for those smallest buildings at first... it was to easy. ;) And thanks for those nice words about Bratislava / Slovakia. :D

European cities and countries don't tend to pride themselves on tall buildings, with some exceptions like London and Frankfurt, so it follows most of these are really obscure abroad I live in Germany and only got 40%, mostly relying on city names and languages, and getting tired of brute-forcing the rest Some language-related notes: Polish uses the letter W instead of V, and Hungarian doesn't allow consonant clusters at the beginning of words

i didnt recognize the highest building of my country lol

MOL stands for Magyar Olaj, it is the HQ of the Hungarian Oil company. Fun fact, Hungary had a strict law on how tall buildings can be, and they gave a special permission for it to be built since it is taller than the allowed 100m. Unesco also threatened Hungary for it to lose world heritage title on the Danubes sight in Budapest, since the tower is visbile from the city centre, although it is located in the south of the capital.

It's art nouveau Northern European architecture

how can you not know the tallest skyscraper in Europe?!

Sweden has a new tallest. Karlatornet

The Norwegian one sucks. I remember going there as a kid just to ride the glass elevator and get a view of Oslo, which was fun back then. But after having been to the US it's very underwhelming, like you said, pretty much just an average hotel. We also went to the Eifel Tower when I was a kid, and it's three times taller than the Oslo Plaza, really puts it into perspective.

Parus being in Belarus is quite good as they both end in rus

Found your channel yesterday and its exactly what I like to watch🙏🧡

4:17 you can rent a place here btw on rbnb

Tour First is actually 70 meters shorter than Eiffel Tower... Pretty strange they actually did not put this one for France in the quizz ? Maybe my definition of "building" is wrong tho

Avaz twist Tower is amazing is in Sarajevo and is famous caffe and viewpoint in Sarajevo

The MOL Campus is Budapest, Hungary, not Finland. They just finished it last Christmas.

Do you know some European companies, like UniCredit, Roche, Radisson or MOL?

The AZ Tower in Czechia is not in Prague, but in the second largest city Brno. It's kinda in the middle of nowhere, guess we built it so people would make fun of us less or we could be first in something (making fun of Brno is something like the only in Ohio meme, but it doesn't have an expiration date and everyone does it)

In fact, the tallest building in the uk is not the shard. It is the Emley Moor Towe.

Never seen that icelandic building before and never been to iceland. But i immadietly knew this is there😂

Bosnian one literally had halabosnia website watermark in bottom right... weird how he didn't look for clues, it was so obvious... and also quiz is lazy by not removing such watermarks...

Sad u didnt get the AZ Tower, but the photo is quite bad. And its in the 2nd largest city Brno, not Prague and it have around 120m. In Prague is few meter shorter "V-Tower" in shape of V and looks amazing. In future, we should get almost 300m towers in 3th largest city of Ostrava.

Majakka is not the tallest building in Finland. It is the tallest residential tower though. Tallest building is the Näsinneula tower.

12:27 - litterally says “hallabosnia” bottom right of your screen man! I was screaming at my screen but you couldn’t hear me 😂

Would be a fun test to guess the city it is, since it's not always the capital city or largest city.

The MOL campus in Budapest is a fairly new building (got finished last year) and it's not too close to the city centre. I'm volunteering at the World Athletics Championships at the nearby stadium and I see it every time I go there

UniCredit is an international banking group, the main headquarter is in milan (probably the reason why it doesn’t give the typical mediterranean vibes together with the more typical northen italian architectural style),. If you are into architecture you might spot the “vertical forest” complex in the same picture

What Sporcle should do is to have each answer on the side in a list, and as you answer, they get removed. This would be an optional thing to display to make it easier. This would be valid for when you do quizzes like these were you know all the answers, just not where they go. To make it more interesting, quizzes like these could also include fake answers (optional to include). Not really valid in this quiz, but more valid in other quizzes.

The DC Tower in Vienna was quite controversial when it was built, as it overshadows nearby buildings and sticks out of the skyline like a sore thumb.

14:03 this skyscrapers are in Milan, my city 😍

21:46 As someone, who sees that building literally everyday I am a bit sad that it was your first mistake MOL is the biggest Hungarian oil company btw

Did it before watching the video and got all of them but Montenegro. But I have to admit I got a lot of them by trial and error

2:47 I love how the country name is literally in the picture 😂

The tower from Luxembourg, is actually the new building of the European Court of Justice.

Czechia really did you dirty on this one, cause the tower looks really bad for our country. :´(

Turning torso is not the tallest anymore

MOL is an olil company in Hungary it was built from 2018-2022 it took over the Esztergom Basilica and Mol is one of the biggest companies in Hungary it is 144 m tall and 120 with the usable floors it has so little amount of stories because the ground floor and the lookout floor are really tall

It's the Aquavetro tower in Ireland, not Capital Dock

THE UniCredit tower is in Milan, I live about near Milan and when I went there they let people go up at the top floor and the view was amazing

Fun fact: Finland's Majakka is going to have 7 same-kind skyscrapers around it (now there's 4)🏙

eurovea tower, and az tower

Eiffel tower is definitely taller than tour first.

21:50 MOL is an oil company, I think something like Magyar Oil

That's weird. Lithuania's tallest building is the TV tower in the same city as the Europa Tower. If I'm not mistaken, the second tallest building is a building in Klaipeda.

MOL is hungarian oil company.