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

[beefytee]

I didn't realize that Gritty was only 6 years old. I thought he had been around a little longer than that.

Gritty - Wikipedia

[Copelius]

40,022
1) 7028 pts 10 yrs off - 92.9 km : I settled on England and went halfway between London and Birmingham to hedge the bet
2) 8855 pts 3 yrs off - 245.2 km: Milan and too recent
3) 9161 pts 4 yrs off - 9.7 km: Hungarian road sign did the trick
4) 9990 pts 0 yrs off - 487.4 m: Gathering that big with that many different cities represented had to be London
5) 4988 pts 49 yrs off - 593.8 m: That boat gave off such a 70s vibe and I didn't know about Gritty either

[BigPiney]

43,953

1)9659 pts
2 yrs off - 10.2 km
2)9997 pts
0 yrs off - 166.4 m press shirt said monte carlo and another 201... got lucky on the year
3)7371 pts
10 yrs off - 7.2 km
4)8066 pts
5 yrs off - 334.4 km
5)8860 pts
5 yrs off - 1.2 km

[Bo Diddley]

41,638 - nailed the locations for the most part

1)9287 pts
4 yrs off - 625.1 m - Zuckerberg at Harvard

2)9597 pts
3 yrs off - 126.0 m - Got much closer than I expected. The bell bottoms got me close on the year.

3)8820 pts
5 yrs off - 3.7 km - Hard to find the exact location there. I hedged the date more than I should have. Those were late 50s cars.

4)8982 pts
3 yrs off - 117.6 km - I picked Brussels

5)4952 pts
26 yrs off - 1.7 km - enough clues to get you close to the location, but blew the time on this one. The radioactive symbol was the clue, but I picked 1960. I didn't make the Chernobyl connection.

[PaloAltoCougar]

48,813.

1) 9942 pts
1 yrs off. 424.2 m

2) 9782 pts
2 yrs off 920.9 m Picked random spot in Tokyo but was aware of McDonald's international expansion in the 70s.

3) 9944 pts.
1 yrs off. 280.0 m

4) 9683 pts
0 yrs off. 54.2 km. Assumed it was during the Spanish Flu epidemic right after the Great War, and the Dutch writing on the wall helped

5). 9462 pts. The "It's raining [radiation symbol]" was a Chernobyl tipoff but I couldn't remember the exact year.
3 yrs off. 9.4 km

[Pelado]

Damn, PAC. My best score was worse than your worst score.

33,612


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1)9299 pts - 4 yrs off - 66.4 m - thought back to when I was first aware of Facebook and then subtracted a few years. Didn't subtract enough.

2) 8335 pts - 7 yrs off - 2.8 km - random spot in Tokyo, a bit too late.

3)7454 pts - 9 yrs off - 1.6 km - got the wrong angle of the Haga Sofia, and a few years too early

4)3772 pts - 14 yrs off - 2185.1 km - didn't recognize the Dutch writing. Guys looked Russian to me so I went with Moscow. I was initially thinking WWI time frame, but I didn't notice any injuries, missing limbs, etc., so went much earlier. Didn't consider Spanish flu.

5)4752 pts - 24 yrs off - 37.0 km - Went to the east of Hanau instead of to the south. Thought it looked much older. Unlike Daniel, I couldn't read the writing on the wall.

[Bo Diddley]

4)3772 pts - 14 yrs off - 2185.1 km - didn't recognize the Dutch writing. Guys looked Russian to me so I went with Moscow. I was initially thinking WWI time frame, but I didn't notice any injuries, missing limbs, etc., so went much earlier. Didn't consider Spanish flu.

I very nearly did as well. But then a closer inspection of the writing made me think somewhere around Germany or Belgium (or the Netherlands ).

[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.

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.