A Simple Geography Test for NT Members
A Simple Geography Test for NT Members
Get your brain out of politics for a few minutes and have a little fun meeting a simple challenge.
Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of 20 world cities.
Athens
Barcelona
Beijing
Boston
Cairo
Casablanca
Copenhagen
Dubai
Jerusalem
London
Moscow
New York City
Paris
Pisa
Rio de Janiero
Rome
San Francisco
Singapore
Sydney
Toronto
Now you will see below a series of 20 numbered images. Each of the images is of something important contructed located in one of the cities (in one case as in a movie). All you have to do is send me, Buzz of the Orient, in a PN your list of the cities with the numbers of the images that correspond with them. .
As an example, suppose a city named on the list were Washington DC, and one of the images was of The White House, and that image was numbered 9. You would write the number 9 beside the word Washington DC on the list of cities that you send me in a PN. Please do not write your answers or any kind of a hint in a comment below.
Remember that I am on the other side of the world of most of you and I could be asleep when you send the answers, but I will soon get around to seeing them and scoring them for you, along with what the correct answers are if you miss any. Remember, I don't deduct score for wrong answers, so even if you're not sure, guess.
Now, enjoy this opportunity for a little distraction, and have some fun.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
The administrator of this group reserves the right, along with the site moderators, to moderate all and any postings to this group, including the right to enforce the ToS, the CoC, and also including anything that the administrator deems within his sole discretion to be offensive or off topic, with the power to delete in exercising those rights.
It would be best, therefore, to be civil in posting on this group.
By now it should be well known that I am unable to open certain videos and pictures. If I cannot, I will ask that they be described and explained. If the poster refuses to comply, their comment will be deleted. Instagrams are banned.
Tags
Who is online
44 visitors
Please read what I said above the images carefully so that you don't make any mistakes, and remember, send your answers in a PN to me, Buzz of the Orient, and do not put them in a comment here, nor should you post any kind of hint or it will ruin this game for everyone else. I will get back to you with your score and corrections.
This game will close and the winners' circle will be announced Monday evening March 17th at 10 p.m. New York City time.
Ok I’m gonna try this one.
And so tried you did, and well you did as well.
Ahh yep will give it a fling..
Okay, have some fun.
looks like fun
A change of pace for sure.
Given the overall prevailing pace . . . its nice to have a change!
My concern about NT is that either there needs to be a change of pace, or decent members will seek a change of place.
Morning will send through my answers shortly...
Just sent it through...
'Got it, thanks.'
Arvo... excellent.. not really sure if it did as I just use my mobile phone and nothing comes up to say it's been sent etc...
Good to see technology does work some of the time..
Especially with the list of city names provided, this test is too easy, but at least I hope it's a welcome distraction and a lttle bit of fun, if not much of a challenge. Next one will be countries, rather than cities, and there will not be a list of country names provided, only the clues.
Some were a process of elimination..a baseball field and buildings were rather hard..
The equivalent would be a footy field here from some obscure location..🤣
But seeing I have been to most of the places certainly helps...
Yes, but it's not just ANY baseball field.
I'm not a baseball fan-- so I had no idea which teams uses that field. I found most of the buildings to be rather famous-- but there are some I'm pretty sure I don't know.
At first I had no idea what baseball fireld that was (and I'm not a big sports fan anyway). But then I discovered a "trick" of sorts that made its identification easy. Probably some other people discovered it.
But I won't mention it until the game is over because I don't want to post any clues.
Those who don't use "tricks" can feel good about themselves when they do well on a test, game or quiz, and those who do use "tricks" can lie to themselves about it. After all, these are the days of misinformation, disinformation and outright lies being perpetuated so that's the new normal. Walter Cronkite's no longer with us so nothing can be relied upon anyway.
I have all of them, except 10, which is so nondescript that it must be Toronto.
I bet you'll do much better than me on this quiz.
I had two unusual Zoom meetings today, will probably have time to do this one tomorrow.
You, of all NT members, should be the last person to not recognize number 10.
I was going to post that, but decided against it as it might possibly (?) be considered a "hint".
Incidentally, FWIW, I recognized it immendiately (and I'm a real doofus when it comes to these sorts of quizzes).
Doofus. I wondered if it was a real word. So I googled it:
noun
Doofus. I wondered if it was a real word. So I googled it:
noun
Or as any true Southerner can tell you, it should actually be:
One of the good 'ole boys"
You were not wrong, and I'm guilty as charged, but I'm exonerated because this is my article posted on one of my groups.
Well, what's the worst that could happen?
Trump could put a tariff on me?
(And anyway if he ddi he's probably rescind it in a few days).
OK... so now I've cheated, with Google's Image Search.
And it IS Toronto. I'm sure we went here when we passed through Canada many years ago... but c'mon! NOBODY is gonna remember something this... Canadian.
The only reason I didn't delete your comments is because you were wrong.
But, but, but....
Yew spelt it rorng...it shud be spelt "Canadien".
So if someone instead posts something that is correct...does that mean you will delete that comment?
That is the end of ANY discussion about this issue. I will delete any further comments about it.
(DELETED)
(Deleted not just because of the image, but because of the contempt and offence of posting it after my last comment)
To be even more effective...you should threaten to put a tariff on them!
No only an ignoramus doesn't realize that imposing a tariff is also going to cost his own people financial problems.
I'm so bad at the movie quizzes I no longer attempt them.
But I'm going to do this one, I should do better than with movies.
The movie quizzes might give you a problem. The movie games, like the one presently posted, would enable an intelligent person who knows how to 'seek and find' a perfect score without having seen even one movie in their lifetime. Practise makes perfect.
Actually I'm already pretty good at that. I didn't spend much time on them, but over time, through various quizzes, I did get maybe 5 or so correct--- none of which I've actually seen. (Well, maybe I saw one, don't remember)
Morning..so I am assuming first prize is a nice big jar of Vegemite..
That way I can bump off all the opposition..🐨
See you can even buy a 2.5 kilo tub of it..just think if the tariff war continues send it to the States...it can be Canada's secret weapon with our compliments...🐨
I tried to find it in the big box METRO store where I buy imported foods, but no luck.
Most stores in the U.S. don't carry it. (You have to go to Asian Specialties stores).
Do they have Asian Specialty Food Stores in China?
Amazon and Walmart both sell Vegemite online...
Although I suppose would be a classic case of "Coals to Newcastle"?
(No insult to the fine people of Newscastle intended!
)
I guess that shouldn't be surprising. Amazon sells a lot of different stuff. IIRC they now sell cars (?). And definitely sells houses (prefab).
And not that I was looking for it ya gotta unnerstan-- but they do sell a wide variety of "sex toys"-- including a lot of accesories for B&D and ...S&M!
(I could get more specific, but I'm not sure if it would violate the NT TOS. . . ?)
Let's just say that the head of one of Amazon's purchasing departments. must have read "Fifty Shades of Gray" (or seen the movie if there is one?).
You're kidding, of course.
I'm nolrmally exceptioally tolerant of "off topic" but let's not carry it too far.
Hehehe!
OK.
(Thanks for the warning
)
Perhaps it would be OK if I posted it in French?
Perrie would have to delete the translation...
And the French.
Mon dieu! Quel horreur!
And Trump would put a tariff on it!
Or more likely-- after he tried to put a tariff on NT-- he would rescind it (and falsely claim he got some concession to do it!)
Umm that's probably not a bad thing..if the Chinese acquire a taste for it there would be a massive shortage and riots here..
We can't have that happening..
My cousin's son who just broke up with his Chinese fiancee, she loves Vegemite...her mum is coming out to Australia permanently the end of next year so could have another convert...
Slowly but surely we are gaining world control..
You are lucky!
If Donald Trump was your President, he'd probably put a tariff on it-- for which foreign Vegemite producers would retaliate with their own Vegemite tariffs-- a long and very nasty Trade War ensuing!
!!! NO TARIFFS ON VEGAMITE !!!
If Trump put tariffs on Vegemite, vast hordes-- angry mobs!-- of Vegemite lovers will fill the streets with outgraged protesters!
The protesters will bring back Vegemits-- tariff free!
And Yuge numbers of eponymous Vegemite eaters will Make America Great Again!
And vast numbers of Asian Specialties stores will spring up thoughout the land!
Do you mean Make Australia Great Again?
Selling canned King Pau Chicken and Sweet and Sour Pork to convert the masses.,
Nah..we already are... Don't have to make us anything...
Marvellous Australia Great Always...
And anything with Black Bean Sauce . . . "with Chinese Vegetable" of course!
And if they don't like With Roasted Chicken or With Beef or With Fish (because they're Vegetarian), there's always some "with Bean Curd"!
Were you going to say something there?
I was multi-tasking-- sometimes I overdo it and mess up . . .
Production (& consumption) of large amounts of Vegemite are definitely the keys to world domination!!!
Sent.
Received.
still trying to figure out a few
Okay, I'll wait.
Just now got started, been busy.
At least back on the front page.
Still lots of time.,
Sent them in. some I knew, some I figured out and some by elimination and what
picture would fit with the city. A fun and good little brain exercise, some going back to
grade school classes.
Okay, got them.
i am trying it tonight still 2 or 3 "undecideds" to go!
i am trying it tonight still 2 or 3 "undecideds" to go!
I was curious to see how many of these cities I've been in. Haven't traveled much in the last few years-- but I've been in 12 of the cities listed here. Although haven't been to some of the sites shown here.
Also one more city (but merely drove through it on the way to somewhere else, so didn't see much of that city.)
And four or five cities listed here I haven't been to and I'd like to visit .. .
That test has done more for you than I realized it would do for all who played. In your mind it took you to those places. I've only been to seven of those cities, but if it was countries in which those cities were located, I've been to 10 of the countries.
Evening...been to 14 of the countries...so that certainly helped...
That had to have been a big help.
Haven't been to any of them. My work doesn't involve work in cities just out in the countryside and small towns inside the US.
My only outside of the US was when I was in the sixth grade and all the students with perfect attendance went to a Tigers game in Detroit, the teacher thought it would be cool to take us through the tunnel to Canada and back over the bridge, which took about ten to fifteen minutes, good thing he didn't get stopped and they found that he was transporting minors over the border.
Well, of all the foreign countries in the world, at least you visited the best one.
Wow-- that's a lot.
(Obviously you love to travel!)
Morning Krish...yes in my younger days very much but not so much now...
Spent 1.5 years travelling through Europe, Israel, Egypt and the UK, but avoided Ireland..the IRA were very active at the time..was there 1984/85..
Then in 1987 did Scandinavia and Russia for 4 weeks when it was still the USSR... complete with KGB rolling up after a rock was thrown through the tour bus window..all added to the excitement....
Been to NZ 4 times as well, Fiji and the USA...but always wanted to go back to the States but avoid the tourist traps...would like to see the Midwest and Montana really appeals for some reason...and throw in Canada for good measure...
And so typical have the time and money but not the health which is a bit of a bummer..but hey glad I travelled when I did and never regretted a minute of it..
Made two life long friends from NZ while in Europe and we are in regular contact to this day..they have been over here for a visit and I have been over to NZ for a visit...
So travel while you can and have your health..✈️✈️
Most of my travelling was in my younger days as well, Although I never got to Israel, Jordan and Egypt until I was in my early 60s, and in accordance with Bilbo Baggins in Return of the King, his last words in the Rings series, then an aged man, were: "I think I'm quite ready for another adventure" and when the opportunity arose for me to go to the magical land of Kubla khan at the age of 69, I echoed Bilbo Baggins, took the step and will remain in that magical land forever.
Morning Krish...yes in my younger days very much but not so much now...
I also traveled a lot in the past but not lately.
In the late 1960s I lived up in NYC & was a public school teacher, so I had summers off. My girlfriend at the time and another couple decided to drive cross country all the way to San Francisco with many stops in between, (My frind has a nice Red Rambler convertible which was nice).
When we got to Colorado, they wanted to go West, but my girfriend wanted to go to Mexico, so we split up. Since we didn't have a car we decided to hitch-hike. But just before the New Mexico border we got a bus (all the way to Mexico City as we had found out hitch-hiking was illegal at the time in New Mexico).
Spent 1.5 years travelling through Europe, Israel, Egypt and the UK, but avoided Ireland..the IRA were very active at the time..was there 1984/85..
Then in 1987 did Scandinavia and Russia for 4 weeks when it was still the USSR... complete with KGB rolling up after a rock was thrown through the tour bus window..all added to the excitement....
Been to NZ 4 times as well, Fiji and the USA...but always wanted to go back to the States but avoid the tourist traps...would like to see the Midwest and Montana really appeals for some reason...and throw in Canada for good measure...
I Took a semester off when I was in college, with 3 other friends from college took a student ship to Rotterdam in late August. Hitchhiked up to Copenhagen, was going to travel around Scandinavia then South but it was getting cold and was thinking off taking classes at the sorbonne, so hitchiked down through Germany, Belgium, and on to Paris. Spent a month in paris, 5 days a week, all day, in conversation French class (to prepare foreign students to attend the regular classes starting soon).
But I decided i wanted to see Morocco, so I ;eft Paris with one of my friends, hitchiked down to Barcelona, then slowly down the coast ,to Gibraltar, then took ferry to Morroco.
Arvo...sounds like you are also well travelled...
Wanted to go to Israel and work on a Kibbutz-- was going to hitch across N Africa to Egypt... but might be dangerous so went to U.S. Embassy in Tangier. The guy I spoke to told me Algeria at the times was danerous, so I crossed back to Spain, told a third class train, a few days in Rome, eventually to Bari (SE Italy), took deck passage boat to Piraeus (Greece). It wasn't planned but I arrived the day before Christmas-- Athens was all decked out in Christmas decorations
Wanted to finally get to a kibbutz, so finally I gave up on hitchiking, took plane from Athens to Israel (IIRC it was about a fifty minute flight). Stayed in Jerusalem a while (at that time it was divided) hitchhiked to Beersheva, worked on a Kibbutz (Hatzerim) for a while, hitched down to Eilat. Eventually came back to U.S. and at the last possible day I late registerd and was back at UNC.
You've lived an amazingly adventurous life.
One of my favourite countries was Mexico-- there are unique cultures in different parts of the country, so there'slots of variety. (Its almost like there are several different countries in one!) I spent three or four summers in Mexico.
My first summer there I was in Patzcuaro, in state of Michoacan, High in the mountains. (people back in the states were having hot humid summers in the 90s-- where I was the weather was pleasant, drier and in the 80s...
The first time I went I was with a Universalist Church (non religious) Human Develop project building a school.
(It hard to believe but way back then there there was no drug problems, no gangs!)
Montana is one of the "Rocky Mountain States"-- in many parts the scenery is breath-taking!
IIRC that means Montana and Wyoming. Parts of Idaho and Colorado.
(Also that mountain chain extends up into Canada),
And not only travel . . .
(I was involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the South in the 60s-- some scary moments there...)
Okay, got your answers.
lets see if a like and a comment bumps it back to the front page , no guarentees , been a busy posting day it seems .
Thank you, I think you succeeded, in fact right to the top. There's still a few more days to participate, so let's go geography mavens.
Comb your hair and take a wiz
It's time for the geography quiz
There's still a few more days to play,
Eleven have tried, and that's quite good,
I'm going to post a new one, I say
It's tougher, so to try how many would?
Hark!
A poet herein is!
You're a poet
And you don't know it.
I have them ready, just haven't had the time to enter them yet, talk about being busy. Try tomorrow morning.
Okay, still lots of time.
Sent in and took a quick look into the Hopkins one.
Hope that those who did this test would try the Hopkins movie game.
This test is now closed, but will remain open for comments. Eleven NT members took the test, and all but one achieved a perfect score of 20, or 100%. The following members, listed in the order in which they submitted their answers, each achieved a perfect 20 score: Tacos!, Dig, shona1, Vic Eldred, sandy 2021492, Gsquared, JohnRussell, charger 383, Thomas and Krishna .
bccrane stood second with a score of 18. By getting one questi on wrong, it automatically meant that two questions would be wrong. That is because I provided a list of the answers in alphabetical order. There will be no list of answers in the new geography test that I am about to post, wherein the clues will vary, such as structures, items known to be from the country, customs, traditions, etc. and the answers are to be the country names. Hope all will give it a try - it will be open for a week.
For those who either didn't have the time to squeeze a little fun in with a really easy challenge or just didn't know much about the world we live in, here are the answers:
1 Rome
2 Copenhagen
3 San Francisco
4 Beijing
5 Dubai
6 Athens
7 London
8 Casablanca
9 Toronto
10 Paris
11 Boston (the Green Monster)
12 Rio de Janiero
13 Pisa
14 Cairo
15 Moscow
16 Jerusalem
17 Barcelona
18 Sydney
19 Singapore
20 New York City
The new geography quiz is now posted here is a link to it if it gets wiped off the Front Page:
LINK -> Guess The Country - Buzz Of The Orient | The NewsTalkers
Evening..whhooo hoooo...I will have to break out the Vegemite and celebrate..
Thanks for the quiz Buzz it was fun..🦘🐨