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

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  • Copelius
    Maker of eyeballs
    • Dec 2012
    • 4016

    #106
    40249
    The GI got me too on Trevi
    “Every player dreams of being a Yankee, and if they don’t it’s because they never got the chance.” Aroldis Chapman

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    • beefytee
      Board eye candy
      • Mar 2009
      • 7542

      #107
      Originally posted by Copelius View Post
      40249
      The GI got me too on Trevi
      Me too. Thought it was the end of WW2

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      • Clark Addison
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2008
        • 10287

        #108
        Originally posted by beefytee View Post

        The 42nd St sign was what confirmed to me that it was New York.
        That and if you zoom in down the street you saw one of those classic NYC skyscrapers with the setbacks.

        Like many, the GIs made me guess a few years early at the Trevi Fountain. I think I said 1948

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        • falafel
          loves to talk on things
          • Mar 2009
          • 37836

          #109
          40,191

          Picked Kyiv instead of Riga and was off on a lot of years.
          Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

          Dig your own grave, and save!

          "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

          "I know that you are one of the cool and 'edgy' BYU fans" -- Wally

          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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          • PaloAltoCougar
            Semper infra dignitatem
            • Nov 2008
            • 16910

            #110
            40,120. I thought the election celebrant was in Cairo, and didn't recognize Cobain.

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            • SteelBlue
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 8169

              #111
              43,575 today. Lebanon was toughest for me, went with Armenia for no good reason really. Tim Hortons and a Waterfront sign sent me to Vancouver but I went with 2018 thinking pre-covid.

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              • Northwestcoug
                Cocked and Loaded
                • May 2011
                • 17885

                #112
                Did me dirty today.Tombstone, Coliseum, and New Zealand were easy but I only nailed the NZ year. Thought the election was somewhere in South America. I was about to put Vancouver for the last one but what I could see on the license plates it looked more plain, like Ontario's. So I put Toronto. And then the film strip at the bottom?!? Cmon.

                28,436.
                "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                - SeattleUte

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                • Bo Diddley
                  Senior
                  • Jul 2012
                  • 18677

                  #113
                  Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
                  Did me dirty today.Tombstone, Coliseum, and New Zealand were easy but I only nailed the NZ year. Thought the election was somewhere in South America. I was about to put Vancouver for the last one but what I could see on the license plates it looked more plain, like Ontario's. So I put Toronto. And then the film strip at the bottom?!? Cmon.

                  28,436.
                  Yeah, me too.

                  38,519. Took a little while scrolling through the map in Vancouver, but I found the location. I think that's the first time I've gotten all 10,000 points.

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                  • beefytee
                    Board eye candy
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 7542

                    #114
                    41,303

                    Got 3 of the 5 within 50 m. I was a decade off the Cobain one, not recognizing him but strangely considered the grunge era but considered that later part and was way too late. I picked Spain for the Lebanon picture. I considered the Middle East and North Africa, but thought the apartment buildings in the background were pretty nice for those areas, so I picked Spain.

                    The Canada Place one was the easiest. I went to Expo 86, so I knew where that was right off the bat.

                    The Tombstone one was pretty easy too, but it took me a while to search the state I knew it was in.

                    I find the thing that helps me place the year the most are shoes and car models I recognize.

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                    • LiveCoug
                      LA Ute loves me
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 18477

                      #115
                      9600
                      9947
                      1012 (LOL that one killed me. I wasn't even close)
                      9009
                      9598

                      39,166

                      If I had even been close to the Lebanon one, I would have had a new record

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                      • Copelius
                        Maker of eyeballs
                        • Dec 2012
                        • 4016

                        #116
                        39,499

                        Having never been to the colosseum, the cross threw me off, so I guessed Europe in general. Went to South America instead of Lebanon and Aukland instead of Wellington. Best time performance yet, with an average of 3.6 yrs off.
                        “Every player dreams of being a Yankee, and if they don’t it’s because they never got the chance.” Aroldis Chapman

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                        • Bo Diddley
                          Senior
                          • Jul 2012
                          • 18677

                          #117
                          Originally posted by Copelius View Post
                          39,499

                          Having never been to the colosseum, the cross threw me off, so I guessed Europe in general. Went to South America instead of Lebanon and Aukland instead of Wellington. Best time performance yet, with an average of 3.6 yrs off.
                          Same.

                          I was pretty sure it was the colosseum. Made an educated guess the cross would be on the East side. I got really close on that one.

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                          • bluegoose
                            7th round draft pick
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 4101

                            #118
                            44,591. Got the Colosseum right, but missed it by one year. Got impatient looking for the cross street in Vancouver, so I missed it by 300m. Picked Aukland instead of Wellington, for no other reason than I had no idea and took a blind guess on the city. Lucky guess on Beirut, missing by 2k, but I was off by 6 years.

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                            • PaloAltoCougar
                              Semper infra dignitatem
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 16910

                              #119
                              39,250. Great on location, lousy on dates.

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                              • Jeff Lebowski
                                Corporate lackey for Jesus
                                • Nov 2008
                                • 69412

                                #120
                                32,299. Whiffed the location badly on a couple of them.
                                "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                                "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                                "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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