36,439
1)9940 pts
1 yrs off- 505.2 m Washington Monument, lucky guess on year
2)6993 pts
12 yrs off- 331.0 m Nice sign but the bug and bus threw me off. In retrospect the construction and architecture should have gotten me closer on time.
3)9308 pts
1 yrs off- 142.4 km Right country and cars in posters helped me realize how early but went with Budapest.
4)5971 pts
13 yrs off- 528.6 km Guessed up near the bay area because the trees in the distant background didn't look like palms. Went way too early
5)4227 pts
27 yrs off- 273.4 km Just picked in the middle of Germany, but the open collars on the uniforms pushed me into the 70s even though the kids clothes didn't appear that late.
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I totally overlooked that. I reasoned it out successfully from the road signs.Originally posted by beefytee View PostGoing through it again, I see it says Basel on the sign.
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35,450 -- Lots of old pictures making the years very tough.
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6994 pts
14 yrs off - 289.6 m -- Not much there that gives the date away. I got a "Boy in the Boat" vibe having seen the movie recently, so I went with 1938. I completely missed the Washington monument until I was about to put in a random guess. Luckily, I saw it in time.
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8043 pts
7 yrs off - 64.4 km -- Saw the signs to Germany and Zurich. Couldn't make out much else in there on the signs. I picked just outside Zurich. Picked too early. Going through it again, I see it says Basel on the sign.
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6177 pts
13 yrs off - 323.4 km -- Was not sure on any of this. I went with Prague. I think I picked too early.
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9674 pts
2 yrs off - 6.6 km -- I need to remember there are a lot of related photos that recur. Just guessed at LA. All the top-siders help me narrow down the year.
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4562 pts
26 yrs off - 84.4 km -- I thought the picture he was holding up might be Lenin. The Helmet looked WW1 to me. He was wearing what looked like wooden clogs, so I picked WW1 and Amsterdam.Leave a comment:
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47,166 Helpful clues for every location, and lucky not to be too far off on the dates...
1) 9800 pts
2 yrs off -- 49.3 m. Easy to get close.
2) 9563 pts
3 yrs off - 1 km A sign and what looks like a Corvair helped a lot
3) 9158 pts.
3 yrs off - 85.4 km Signage suggest a region near Austria but not Austria
4) 9135 pts
4 yrs off 886.16.3 km Didn't recognize the actual event
5) 9510 pts
1 yrs off - 84.9 km. Shoes and haircut were the giveaways (thought I typed the correct year but the bar must have slipped)Leave a comment:
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38,021. Not great but at least I salvaged it from my worst guess ever.
1) 829 pts - 37 yrs off - 3356.6 km - I beat Cope's low score! I guessed SF in 1900.
2) 8346 pts - 2 yrs off - 954.0 km - I guessed London.
3) 9862 pts - 1 yrs off - 4.2 km
4) 9185 pts - 2 yrs off - 115.2 km - I guessed a spot in Dublin.
5) 9799 pts - 0 yrs off - 25.4 kmLeave a comment:
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29,602
Got detroit but the quality of the picture made me think oughts.
Oslo and way too late
Hanoi and post war
Dublin and 8 off. I cannot even remember if I was early or late.
LA and 1 yr late. Guessed year of release instead of year before because of the Bond one that was same year and lost 50 points.
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Yeah seeing Norsk, I looked in Oslo for a couple minutes, but reasoned that some sort of Norsk Bureau was probably in another Scandinavian country, so I went with Denmark. That was probably a little lucky.Originally posted by beefytee View PostLeave a comment:
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45,362 -- Might be weekend brain, but I thought it was a little tougher today. So I'm pretty happy with my score.
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9245 pts
4 yrs off - 2.2 km -- Looked like prohibition times. The street cars were on the right side of the road so I'm thinking US. I search for Woodward in NY, NJ, and Philly for a while and then I see the "Detroit" on the other side of the streetcar.
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8317 pts
4 yrs off - 483.3 km -- Figured it was somewhere in Europe. I missed any clue that pointed it to Copenhagen. Saw a sign in the background that says Norsk, so I went with Oslo. Guessed too recently.
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9867 pts
1 yrs off - 4.0 km -- Lots of Chinese characters but saw the writing on the wall in the background that made me think, Thai, Cambodia, or Vietnam. I figured chances are it was during the Vietnam war.
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9185 pts
2 yrs off - 115.1 km -- Italian flags and the different country stuff were really confusing. I knew it would be Europe. I figured Ulster Bank and St. Pattrick's day would be Ireland or Northern Ireland. All the banks I saw on the map were foreign banks and I couldn't find any Ulster banks, so I went with Dublin. I also saw a kid carrying a Teletubby doll, which pushed be back into the aughts. I should have considered that probably would have been a Northern Ireland thing with the English influence and the BBC and all.
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8748 pts
5 yrs off - 13.1 km -- Wasn't sure when Planet of the Apes came out. I guessed too late. I guessed closer to Hollywood.Leave a comment:
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40,996
I did this on my phone, so not easily copied. I did really well on locations, getting the right cities in all but the Ireland one where I was in Dublin. A little surprised to get within 1km of the last location in LA.Leave a comment:
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I got 26,000 today. I doubt any of you chumps could beat that!Leave a comment:
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40,516
9950 - 1 year, 11.6 m
7492 - 8 years, 418.4 m - Almost selected the spot within a few meters but didn't look like the road went through there to "Espanya". I went with 1978 since my dad drove a 1978 Datsun 810 in my youth.
8830 - 5 years, 3.1 km - thought it was the Bastille monument. went with the default 1962.
4962 - 1 year, 16,994 km - As usual, didn't consider Australia. Went with a spot in the Theatre District of London. Pretty pleased on how close I was on the year, though.
9282 - 4 years, 908.2 m - picked a random spot in Stockholm in 1980.Leave a comment:
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