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[Northwestcoug]

34938

Had no idea that the Berlin Wall was built in the 60's. I thought it was closer to WWII.
Way off on the Copenhagen street, 10 years and 960 km (thought Switzerland)
Third guess was the worst. Cairo and 8 years off.
Last 2 guesses saved me from a terrible game. Took awhile to find the date on a magazine. Guess the right year for the Australian pic but guessed Sydney. I almost picked Brisbane

[beefytee]

35,526 Not sure why I do so poorly on the weekend. Most of my blunders where years but got roped in and whiffed on the last location.

1)

6949 pts
11 yrs off
1.9 km -- I brain farted the year here. I went with the 50's when I should have known better.

2)
7227 pts
7 yrs off
673.1 km -- They finally did Denmark instead of the Netherlands, and I picked the Netherlands.

3)
7679 pts
7 yrs off
221.5 km -- At least I clued in on the flags this time. Saw lots of tourists so I picked Casablanca.

4)
8859 pts
5 yrs off
1.3 km -- This is the only one I feel pretty good about. Saw all the French on the magazines. Saw a P and part on an A on a national geographic map, so I figured it was Paris even though that was probably a default guess anyways. Saw the magazine that referenced "Millennial", so I knew it was at least in the 2010's. Guessed too early though.

5)
4812 pts
2 yrs off
16685.9 km -- Going with the obvious clue finally didn't work out for me (although it was still pretty obvious). I didn't consider Australia here and went with Cardiff. The Bank sign and the immigration sign should have been big clues that I didn't pick up on.

[LiveCoug]

43218. Last one was tricky as I picked Sydney, seeing the New South Wales Sign. Brisbane? Bummer.

[Copelius]

37,775

[Bo Diddley]

Oof! 28,348. This with nailing Innsbruck.

[PaloAltoCougar]

39,762, I nailed the Guggenheim and did surprisingly well with Mandela. Otherwise, so-so, including guessing the wrong Olympics in Innsbruck and being way off on the Ukraine thing.

[Clark Addison]

I was doing ok. Not great, not terrible (would have been better if I had remembered that Innsbruck had TWO olympics), and then I concluded with a career-low 12 point guess on the last one. 21 Years and 10K km away. A truly awful performance. Ended with 32,370.

[Northwestcoug]

39662. Could have been worse.
Got Croatia and Ukraine within a reasonable time frame. One year off South Africa but man that's a big country. Could not for the life of me figure out where Innsbruck was, but searching around Central Europe I found a -bruck in Germany so I pinned it there. Fellas, the year was on her sweater. So lucked out there. Completely bombed the last one. Guessed Copenhagen and was 12 years off.

[beefytee]

39,162. I feel alright with this one.

1)
7616 pts
6 yrs off
283.9 km -- I originally thought this was about 1980, then I saw the sign Split Yugoslavia, so I picked a later date thinking it might be the lead up to the war in the 90s. Then I found Split on the map and picked it but didn't roll back the date. So, I was off on both date and place.

2)
9930 pts
0 yrs off
3.1 km -- Nailed this one. Instantly thought of the Ukranian uprisings that took place around the time of the Sochi Olympics.

3)
6489 pts
8 yrs off
510.5 km -- I got South Africa (obviously) but picked Soweto and way too late.

4)
6988 pts
13 yrs off
619.6 m -- Picked the wrong Olympics.

5)
8139 pts
3 yrs off
961.4 km -- I had no clue about this and had no idea there was a Gugenheim museum in northern Spain. I looked all over for this and much of my investigation was Northern Spain. I couldn't make out any writing except for MERSK (no help) and the flag could have been Spain's. I hedged on this though and went with Northern Italy, a nice central place for Europe. I figured it was late 90's because of all the cranes I saw and associated it with the construction boom of the time. The cars seems 90's Europe as well.

[Copelius]

35,259

[Bo Diddley]

42,761 - easy one today.

1) 9962 pts
0 yrs off - 1.1 km - the license plate says Roma

2) 9876 pts
0 yrs off - 5.9 km - the building says Paris

3) 8766 pts
5 yrs off - 8.5 km - the crane says Dubai Mall

4) 9158 pts
4 yrs off - 10.4 km - The prominent Greek letter Σ is the giveaway here

5) 4999 pts
35 yrs off - 51.8 m - Brighton Pier. I blew the year badly because I was thinking of the wrong pier that shut down in the 70's and went into disrepair and was finally demolished.

[PaloAltoCougar]

40,686 Getting zero points on the Brighton Pier date wrecked me. I also should have cheated and looked up the construction year of the building named after our nation's best passing center (but I don't do that...).

1) 9761 pts
2 yrs off - 1.2 km

2) 9310
4 yrs off - 4.4 km

3) 6918 pts
12 yrs off - 3.9 km

4) 9797 pts
2yrs off - 159.1 m

5) 5000 pts
24 yrs off - 36.6 m

[beefytee]

46,791

1)
9781 pts
2 yrs off
972.0 m -- Got pretty close but should have thought about going closer to the Spanish steps, since that was a big piece in Roman Holiday.

2)
8694 pts
4 yrs off
106.5 km -- Picked Orleans instead of Paris. I wasn't familiar with Paris Orleans. I assume it is a pretty famous restaurant.

3)
9992 pts
0 yrs off
403.0 m -- Nailed this one.

4)
9926 pts
0 yrs off
3.4 km -- Lucky guess to nail this one. Wasn't sure if that was a Sigma or a stylish E. Thought it would have been a lot earlier except it said Jet.

5)
8398 pts
6 yrs off
89.7 m -- Year was tough on this one. Not a lot to go off of. I went too recent.

[Copelius]

46,106
Got Rome, guessed 6 years later.
Only a year off but picked Orleans as well. Didn't see Paris on the sign, but was thinking Paris until I saw Orleans.
Only a year off. The unique architecture gave it away even that early in the construction.
Took a stab based on the Sigma and was rewarded. 4 years off.
Brighton Pier was the give away on locale. 4 years later than picture.

[Donuthole]

New personal best for me, today: 47,363

Rome but was off by 4 years
Nailed the year on this one, was off by a couple miles on the location in Paris.
Got the location, but missed by 4 years.
Also used the sigma (and the fact that the two men both looked Greek). Was off by 4 years.
Nailed the location, but was off by 4 years.