You got historical chops? The Timeguessr thread (spoiler alert)

[BigPiney]

43,840

Bombed the Warsaw one. Picked Moscow 15 years later for 4925. otherwise a very good day.

[Lost Student]

42,635. I believe this is my first 10,000 point guess. It only took the exact intersection, city, and year being written on the photo. Like several others, I picked WWII on the last one.


1)8773 pts

5 yrs off

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6.8 km

2)10000 pts

0 yrs off

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14.3 m

3)8931 pts

0 yrs off

-

568.8 km

4)9984 pts

0 yrs off

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804.1 m

5)4947 pts

21 yrs off

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2.1 km

[Copelius]

35,864
5878 - 16yr - 5.5km - Didn't recognize Scarlett and thought Murray looked a lot younger than 2002
10000 - 0yr - 14m - like everyone else said
6642 - 10yr - 357km - didn't notice the year on the flag when deducing the country. Went souther Germany as well.
8356 - 7yr - 1.5km - The words I could read seemed Polish so I stabbed at Warsaw, but went too recent
4988 - 24yr - 589m - Wrong war.

[beefytee]

35,512 -- Even with all the gimmes today, I did terribly.

1)
6870 pts
12 yrs off - 7.4 km -- Not familiar with the film. I never recognized Bill Murray, first instinct was it looked like Ted Cruz, but dismissed that pretty quickly. I thought it might be Scarlett Johanssen but wasn't sure. I went with the cars that were way too old for this millennium.

2)
10000 pts
0 yrs off - 12.3 m -- When it gives you the city, the names of the roads at the intersection, and the exact date of the picture....

3)
9144 pts
0 yrs off - 356.0 km -- Got the year and the country from the URL on the flag. I searched high and low for an ....erhof in the Black Forests and close to the Austrian border but found nothing. Finally, just guessed close to the Austrian border. Didn't think to look in central Germany.

4)
4553 pts
17 yrs off - 946.5 km -- Saw a sign that said Roxana's. I work with a Roxana from Romania, so I picked there. Picked way too late.

5)
4945 pts
24 yrs off - 2.2 km -- Wrong war. I pay too much attention to the location and too little about the year. If I had looked closer at the fashion and such, I probably would have concluded WW1.

[Bo Diddley]

38,589

1)4875 pts
21 yrs off - 6.1 km - flubbed the year badly. I never saw the movie.

2)10000 pts
0 yrs off - 21.9 m - The location and full date was written at the bottom.

3)8926 pts
0 yrs off - 573.8 km - The year was on the banner. And ".de" so obviously I go with Denmark.

4)9788 pts
2 yrs off - 588.8 m - This just spoke Eastern Europe to me. I was either lucky to get Warsaw or just picking up clues subconsciously. I wanted to go with 1960, but left it on default because I was a little sticious.

5)5000 pts
24 yrs off - 30.4 m - Location was a lock, but I picked the wrong war. BTW, I love seeing how things looked a century ago.

[PaloAltoCougar]

48,453. This one's a lot of fun, with at least three strong perfect score possibilities.

1) 9950 pts
1 yrs off -31.7 m One of the most famous intersections in the world and obs during Lost in Translation filming

2) 9600 pts
3yrs off - 14.8km Nice having the intersection written in the side note, but a 400 point penalty for being three years off?

3) 9113 pts
0 yrs off - 386.6 km Year reference on the banner; guessed Innsbruck

4) 9790 pts.
2 yrs off -502.2m. Whenever I see lots o' Zs in the wording, I go to Warsaw. Went with the default year.

5) 10000 pts
0yrs off 25.8m. Year was easy and picked the right angle for St. Paul's

[beefytee]

There was a British flag on one of the buildings, and an Air France signed as well. So I couldn’t figure out what country to choose.

I figured the one way up high was likely to be the correct one (can’t remember if it was on a high flag pole or the top of a steeple). Unfortunately I couldn’t correctly identify that one.

But yeah. Definitely a lot of conflicting signals in that photo.

[chrisrenrut]

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5)
7864 pts
4 yrs off - 936.4 km -- That flag looked very much like an Austrian flag. I hate all the black and white pictures with striped flags in them.

There was a British flag on one of the buildings, and an Air France signed as well. So I couldn’t figure out what country to choose.

[Pelado]

By the way, I'm playing Alex Trebek/Ken Jennings for the Jeopardy game we're presenting at tomorrow night's EQ party. I've written all the questions that cover a variety of topics. Here's one that I think will be easy, but maybe not: "He had U.S presidential aspirations and was asked to be George Wallace’s 1968 running mate until David O. McKay told him not to run."

ETB?

That's all I could think of.

You are both correct. How much did you wager?

I didn't know that, but ETB was my guess, too. My wager would have depended on the category.

[Pelado]

My best day in a while, I think. 41,358

9791 - 2 years, 457.0 m - Brisbane was obvious, was a little early on the release of Man From Snowy River (a quite enjoyable movie)

9154 - 4 years, 11.6 km - Looked like an airport but similarly didn't think they'd have access to an LAX runway so just plopped it down near Santa Monica as a hedge for whatever airport it was actually filmed at. Was a little early on the release of Speed

6873 - 10 years, 127.3 km - Should have considered Cannes. I went near Marseille, though I didn't notice any Marseille clues. The boat behind him being named "Atlant..." something or other made me think it was French Riviera. Went with default 1962.

8894 - 0 years, 606.0 km - Didn't recognize the structure in the background. Figured I'd try the Munich 1972 Olympics again, which got me the right year but not quite the right city or country. One of these times, 1972 Munich will be right.

6646 - 8 years, 354.5 km - Didn't recognize the location, went with London a bit too early.

[beefytee]

41,647 -- I'm not good with movie dates or Soccer.

1)
8894 pts
5 yrs off - 297.0 m -- Guessed too early. All the Farrah Fawcett style feathered hair took me back to the 70's when it really was the turn of the 80's. I also didn't know when The Man from Snowy River came out.

2)
9449 pts
3 yrs off - 12.6 km -- Figured it was speed but didn't remember the year. I thought it was after my mission, not before.

3)
7764 pts
7 yrs off - 135.8 km -- Saw what I thought was Marseilles on one of the boats, so I went there. Guessed too early.

4)
7676 pts
6 yrs off - 224.4 km -- I didn't think the big, connected balls were in Germany, but I was thinking Copenhagen. When I couldn't find them, I hedged and picked Dortmund. Guessed too late.

5)
7864 pts
4 yrs off - 936.4 km -- That flag looked very much like an Austrian flag. I hate all the black and white pictures with striped flags in them.


Wasn't there a book or something that just came out about the David O Mckay/ETB exchange about him running as VP? I recently heard a feature on it on Radio West... or maybe some other NPR program. I searched but can't find it.

[PaloAltoCougar]

You are both correct. How much did you wager?

[Bo Diddley]

ETB?

That's all I could think of.

[Copelius]

47,699. Easiest day in a while with some pretty clear hints with each one.

1) 9950pts
1 yrs off -39.5m There's a Queen Street Mall on the map so I went with that. Lucky with the year, but one can guess pretty close by her appearance and others' clothing.

2) 9450 pts
3yrs off - 12.4km Given the camera angle and the bus, thought it might be the Speed filming but I couldn't remember when that came out.

3) 9800 pts
2 yrs off - 25.3 m Given the boat registries and Hitchcock, Cannes was an easy guest, and I remember what he look like in the late '60s and early '70s.

4) 9998 pts
0 yrs off -79.7m. Lucky on the year but on the location as you wouldn't get the Atomium in the background if you went with the location they've designated

5) 8471 pts
4yrs off 329.1km - A weak finish--I was aware the department store is a German chain so I went with the center of Deutschland.


By the way, I'm playing Alex Trebek/Ken Jennings for the Jeopardy game we're presenting at tomorrow night's EQ party. I've written all the questions that cover a variety of topics. Here's one that I think will be easy, but maybe not: "He had U.S presidential aspirations and was asked to be George Wallace’s 1968 running mate until David O. McKay told him not to run."

ETB?

[Copelius]

46,678 (47,355)

9997 - 0 yrs - 168.8m - Didn't even notice QEII. I was just looking at Man From Snowy River
9323 (10000) - 1 yr - 127km - I have a bone to pick with this one. Speed was easy, and airport was easy, but I didn't think they would have closed down LAX, or even a part of one of the world's busiest airports for filming, so I picked a remote airport in Mojave. According to Wikipedia, I was right. Also, upon looking at Wikipedia, while the movie was released in 94, filming completed in Dec. 93. I spend way too much time analyzing this game.
9164 - 2 yr - 136km - Definitely an older Hitchcock and went with Marseilles, because one of the boats was from there.
8194 - 4yr - 606km - Picked Munich
10000 - 0 yr - 12.8m - Immediately recognized the Monument of the Dead in Amsterdam. My wife accuses me of being obsessed with the royal family. More of a fascination so the year was known.