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

[Pelado]

I have a lot of weaknesses in this game: country flags, car model years, fashion trends, etc.

One of those blind spots is that unless the Sydney Opera House is part of the picture, I almost never even think of Australia. I stared at that picture for several minutes thinking "There is no way that is the UK", but also not getting a feeling of any US city. I went through Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and a couple of others before deciding that 75% of US pictures are in New York so let's hops this is in some weird part of Brooklyn I haven't seen or something. Australia for some reason never even entered my mind.

Same here

[Clark Addison]

I have a lot of weaknesses in this game: country flags, car model years, fashion trends, etc.

One of those blind spots is that unless the Sydney Opera House is part of the picture, I almost never even think of Australia. I stared at that picture for several minutes thinking "There is no way that is the UK", but also not getting a feeling of any US city. I went through Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and a couple of others before deciding that 75% of US pictures are in New York so let's hope this is in some weird part of Brooklyn I haven't seen or something. Australia for some reason never even entered my mind.

[beefytee]

To err is human
to arr is pirate

Nice! Thanks!

[Copelius]

I couldn't quite make out the punchline on the one shirt with a pirate theme that said something like "You are what you eat" and underneath the pirate image "Ye arrr...." something....

I guess I'll never know.

To err is human
to arr is pirate

[Bo Diddley]

That was one of the main datapoint I took for it being Australia. The license plates shape disqualified North America as well.

Yep. And steering wheels on the right.

[beefytee]

"Guns and ammunition" advertised--nope not London.

That was one of the main datapoint I took for it being Australia. The license plates shape disqualified North America as well.

[Bo Diddley]

5)4612 pts - 3 yrs off - 16992.9 km - Didn't clue in on Australia, went with London. Should have stuck with the default 1962.

"Guns and ammunition" advertised--nope not London.

[beefytee]

3)7849 pts - 5 yrs off - 551.1 km - the partial city names on the signs (-zburg, -inz, etc.) made me think Germany and I found some ciites near Frankfurt that mostly fit. Should have stuck with the default 1962.
2.9 km - Didn't clue in on Australia, went with London. Should have stuck with the default 1962.

My rule that I learned is that if the license plate starts with "W", it is in Vienna (Wien)

4)2982 pts - 8 yrs off - 5088.0 km - thought I saw some Spanish on at least one of the shirts so I considered Barcelona but the landscape and attire led me away from that to England. Oh, check that, New England.

I couldn't quite make out the punchline on the one shirt with a pirate theme that said something like "You are what you eat" and underneath the pirate image "Ye arrr...." something....

I guess I'll never know.

[Pelado]

I'm feeling like the answer to the thread question is no, I do not have historical (or geographical) chops.

31,511

1)8568 pts - 4 yrs off - 231.6 km - maybe I would have guessed correctly if we had made it to Florence as part of our Eurotrip last spring. Should have stuck with the default 1962.

2)7500 pts - 8 yrs off - 9.1 m - Went with 1987 thinking it was just before the crash

3)7849 pts - 5 yrs off - 551.1 km - the partial city names on the signs (-zburg, -inz, etc.) made me think Germany and I found some ciites near Frankfurt that mostly fit. Should have stuck with the default 1962.

4)2982 pts - 8 yrs off - 5088.0 km - thought I saw some Spanish on at least one of the shirts so I considered Barcelona but the landscape and attire led me away from that to England. Oh, check that, New England.

5)4612 pts - 3 yrs off - 16992.9 km - Didn't clue in on Australia, went with London. Should have stuck with the default 1962.

[beefytee]

42,320 - A little tougher today.

1)
6106 pts
9 yrs off - 893.8 km -- Wasn't sure at all on this one. Some of the cars looked like VW bugs, so I went along the Rheine in Dresden. I was thinking the upside-down sign might have been German with a word ending in "IG". The statue writing looked like it ended in "ER" as well which could be a Romantic or Germanic language.

2)
8899 pts
5 yrs off - 56.5 m -- Picked too late. I thought he looked pretty old in the picture.

3)
8849 pts
5 yrs off - 1.9 km -- Haven't we seen the Ritter Cafe before on here?

4)
8685 pts
2 yrs off - 614.9 km -- I went with Edinburgh.

5)
9781 pts
2 yrs off - 941.0 m -- Looked like previous Sydney pictures to me.

[Copelius]

44,449
1) 7255 pts
4 yrs off- 1090.6 km - I thought I saw german on the statue base so I went with the Hamburg flood

2) 9999 pts
0 yrs off- 58.7 m - I think that is my first 9999. Apparently 50m is the threshhold for 5000

3) 9300 pts
4 yrs off- 36.5 m - Would have been closer if I just left the default 1962 time

4) 8998 pts
1 yrs off- 451.7 km - Picked Ireland

5) 8897 pts
5 yrs off- 140.6 m - See 3 above.

[Bo Diddley]

41,446

1)9226 pts
1 yrs off - 224.0 km - I was down in Rome

2)7499 pts
10 yrs off - 56.4 m - picked a decade too early

3)6951 pts
12 yrs off - 1.8 km - still a decade too early, but enough clues to get Vienna

4)8535 pts
4 yrs off - 264.8 km -I was in Cornwall instead of the Isle of Wight. I never got to that side of the island.

5)9255 pts
4 yrs off - 1.6 km

[PaloAltoCougar]

45.111

1)9290 pts. Recognized Firenze
4 yrs off. 502.3m

2)10000 pts
0yrs off7.8 m Recognizerd that smug face from when his company went public. It was around the time he beat up Ivana for recommending a lousy hair surgeon.

3)9746 pts. Around the time of my mission there
2 yrs off. 2.1 km

4)7983 pts
6 yrs off. 79.2 km. Thought it was Brighton

5). 8092 pt. Thought it was Melbourne
4yrs off. 708.3km

[Copelius]

37,546


1) 9944 pts 1 yrs off - 321.4 m - today's gimme

2) 9739 pts 2 yrs off - 2.5 km - starting to think I am rolling today

3) 8356 pts 6 yrs off - 1.5 km - wrong angle on Hagia Sofia and starting to slip on years

4) 2012 pts 11 yrs off - 11395.7 km - way out thought this. Some patients looked kinda brown so I went with Dutch East Indies in Jakarta. It didn't help to be 11 yrs off either.

5) 7495 pts 8 yrs off - 272.7 m - just south of my old stomping grounds. I went to the Hanau Ward when stationed over there and Hanau had the best PX within an hour's drive of my place. I didn't even think about the nuke sign, just figured grafiti

[beefytee]

44,637 -- 4 pretty good guesses and one stinker.

1)
9950 pts
1 yrs off - 39.9 m

2)
9854 pts
1 yrs off - 4.8 km -- Figured it was Tokyo. Based the date on the fashion, signage and prices.

3)
9938 pts
1 yrs off - 588.8 m -- Picked the wrong bridge but was still pretty close.

4)
4962 pts
1 yrs off - 6391.6 km -- This one had me all over. Catholic decorations. Was that Queen Victoria or Queen Elisabeth over the door? (No it wasn't). I couldn't really make anything of the writing, but it did look Germanic. I thought the patience might be Indian, so ignoring all the other clues, I went with India. I should have thought of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his mustache. At least I was close on the year.

5)
9933 pts
1 yrs off - 837.5 m -- I was thinking Chernobyl and thought it was 87. Totally lucked out picking the right town. Decided to pick an area where several cities ended in Hausen.