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Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Mostly a hunch on my part, based on all the heating/cooling ventwork on the roof of that big building. Odd that there was so little traffic on those highways, and almost-empty parking lots. Photo must have been taken shortly after sunrise on a Sunday, I speculate.
Correct :yes:
It has a roller coaster on the inside ~D
Curses! I've lost my golden touch! ~:mecry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
On the upside, so has Sigurd... ~;p
LoL. But he gives great clue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Blowing up the baseball diamond area confirmed he was right about that, making it either US or Japan (or possibly the Carribbean). The building size smelt american... probably Texan. Before I went to Dallas, I remembered hearing about the huge Mall of America (I haven't been there). Typed it into Google earth, and saw Sasaki's image.Quote:
...a baseball pitch and a special building...
The next city is also a country capital, and boasts the largest sports stadium on its continent. More clues available if necessary.
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Are you sure it's the biggest? Wikipedia disagrees...
Me sure? Ha! Funny, I got that info from Wikipedia. So I guess I'll modify my clue to: 'purportedly has the largest sports stadium on its continent'Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
They may boast as much as they like but reality is:
Borg El Arab Stadium
Stade des Martyrs
Soccer City
Cairo International Stadium
Stade Mohamed V
Stade 5 Juillet 1962
June 11 Stadium
Stade 7 November
Abuja Stadium
Stade Moulay Abdellah
Lake Tanganyika Stadium
Stade Leopold Senghor
Moi International Sports Centre
National Sports Stadium
Odi Stadium
Ellis Park Stadium
Stade Mohamed V
Kings Park Stadium
Loftus Versfeld Stadium
Kumasi Sports Stadium
Newlands Stadium
Charles Mopeli Stadium
Stade 26 mars
Estádio da Machava
Fez Stadium
Stade Chahid Hamlaoui
Stade El Menzah
Mandela National Stadium
are larger African stadiums...
Yeah the red soil and the beach with surf gave it away... I just had to look at the costal capitals of Africa to find Monrovia, Liberia.
And we have a winner. Monrovia, Liberia is correct.
Come to think of it, a 40,000-seat stadium ain't all that huge. :)
new quiz:
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Tell me if you need clues...
Wot, no ocean or river? LoL :laugh4:
Judging by the length of shadows cast, that place has many large buildings. I see a couple large blue squares that suggest outdoor pools, implying hotels. You left the "item of interest" icon hovering over what looks to be an arena, stadium, or convention center.
So: the downtown area of a major city, which has laid out its streets in grid pattern. My first inclination is a US city, like Las Vegas, Nevada - but I don't see LV's distinguishing landmark casinos, so that can't be right.
One clue, please.
Alright... "item of interest" is the home of a basketball team... NBA if I am not mistaken.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
But there is another "square" of buildings that are more famous.
Indeed. The home of the Church of JC of Latter Day Saints, and the Jazz.
Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
Man, that Temple complex is large (and pretty at night), eh?
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Correct...Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Yeah... I saw it on TV when the city hosted the winter olympics.Quote:
Man, that Temple complex is large (and pretty at night), eh?
Quite impressive.
This city houses what Pele described as "... the stadium with the most beautiful view in the world".
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BJK Inonu stadium, Istanbul Turkey
Yes...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Did you google "the stadium with the most beautiful view in the world" like I did?
Hehe Kukri you give easy clues... well, if you don't consider the "largest stadium on its continent" one.
No, I used my amazing deductive abilities and knowledge of football https://img247.imageshack.us/img247/...colbertmt8.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
LoL. I was just trying to get more players involved, rather than throw down a real challenge.
Take it away, Sasaki !
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<--- Clue is here
Cincinnati? ~D
Lol it's not that obvious.
Nagasasaki? :sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
sorry, I meant the clue was in the change of location from worcester to cincinnati. I drove. Perhaps on one of those very roads pictured ~;)
So, probably the I-90 out of Massechusetts, then (hmm..) the I-80 or I-70 across Pennsylvania. With all the 'green' surrounding your city pictured, I'm guessing it's of someplace in Penn (as Ohio is quite built-up, not much green seen from altitude). Is this correct?
edit: To answer myself, I was partially correct. I-70 (a.k.a. The Pennsylvania Turpike) carried our Sasaki through several States. Following it's path east-to-west, eventually you pass Wheeling, West Virginia, and Bridgeport, Ohio, which are pictured in our honorable Moderator's screenshot.
So Wheeling, West Virginia, Wheeling Island, and Bridgeport, Ohio are my guesses. Oui/Non?
Wheeling, West Virginia should be the correct answer...Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
I got lost in Japan.. those mountainous surroundings looks just like southeren island of Kyushu where the original Sasaki Kojiro served the warlord Hosokawa Tadaoki.
Yes, it's Wheeling :yes:
LoL. Our Sasaki is obscure that way, yes? Makes him a good player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Here's an easy one to kick off the weekend - recognizable monument... but in what city?
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Taj-Mahal, India says google Earth. Wiki says Agra, India
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) India ftw. :bow:
Take it away, Ichigo
Honolulu. :beam:
LOL reading the thread carefully are we Ichigo?
I guess not. Well Louis got it, but I guess it really wasn't that hard.:shame:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
It's all yours, Ichigo. Give it another shot. :yes:
Let's try this again shall we?
https://img141.imageshack.us/img141/...atplacezi8.jpg
San Antonio
American cities look so much like SimCity it's untrue. :laugh4:
The near-horizontal shadows tell me it's very much in the south of the US. It's a big city, but not a huge one like Atlanta or Dallas. Not on the coast. The river flows eastwards, so probably not in any western state.
Third time was lucky for me, after trying Austin and Baton Rouge it turned out to be: Houston, Texas.
:yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
too easy Louis..
Euro Disney, Paris
Meh, there I was, thinking it would be awfully confusing to y'all. :shame:
Hey, are you a Disney fan like me?
It was to me, but obviously not for Hawkeye-Fafnesbane. I suspected it was some kind of amusement park, theme-park of some kind. But which; there are so many. I never left the US, before Sigurd nailed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Yes I am a Disney fan...
Now, where on google earth is this? :
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Eastern coast (if North is up), breaking surf, building complex to the immediate east, strange, almost identical revetments, suggesting military, on the coast. Image from about 15k feet.
Cape Cavaneral, Florida (US), home of the Space Shuttle, showing older rocket launchpads?
Yep...Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
you are correct again... I guess you rule in US geography.
:wall:
Gah! Cape Canavaral was my first impression too, but I was too lazy too look it up. I went there once as a kid when we were in Orlando, and saw a midnight launch. It was spectacular, what a lightshow, what power!
Lucky guesses, so far, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Yeah those night launches are rare, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis
So, I give you another 'river city'; image taken from quite high up to provide some perspective.
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Ganz einfag! Berlin.
Ja, Berlin ist richtig.:bow: Nehmen Sie Ihre Umdrehung.:)
Berlin is correct. Your turn!)
A tough one this time. :knight:
https://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3128/bks2tr7.jpg
My thought was dubai but apparantly not.
miami beach, florida.
:furious3: Guessed already.
Miami is correct. Bitte, nehmen Sie Ihre 'Umdrehung'. :devilish: :sneaky:
Japan
Oopsie, that was the incorrect word? :sorry: Mein Deutsch ist so die 1980er Jahre, und Imperfekt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
I don't know Sasaki's image. Need 1 clue, please.
Hmm, just a guess here. Kyoto?
North is a decent size lake, not an ocean.
Okay, how about Luzerne?
nope.
It's in europe.
Large inland lake, Europe. Hmmm...
Hard, Austria (now that's funny!), on the SE tip of Lake Constance.
Luzerne is in Switzerland, btw.
The lake is the Bodensee, the cities are Listenau, Dombirn, near Sankt Gallen.
@Kukri. Umdrehung is a correct word, it means a turn-around, a reversal. But it doesn't work in that construction. The meaning made sense, it just sounded funny.~;) Did you use Babelfish?
I probably won't be anywhere near a computer until tomorrow, so if my answer is correct, the first to post can 'take my reversal'. ~;)
Edit:
That is the same as my answer. You edited it in just before I posted. Gah, I'm beaten to it.Quote:
Hard, Austria (now that's funny!), on the SE tip of Lake Constance.
LoL. I used this place to translate "turn", then re-translated back to English to check, and it worked. Silly translation services (but it's free, so I guess I got what I paid for). :laugh4:
Who knew there were so many inland lakes in Europe? Not me, until now.
I'm gonna have to do some digging to find another "funny" place-name, to match Sasaki's.
edit: I wanted to present "Saint Louis Du Ha! Ha!", Quebec, Canada - but the resolution was lousy, and no one would ever find it. Bummer. :)
GAH!!!
Can't get Google earth to work at my new workplace... damn proxies.
Wait wasn't there a website with the same maps?
I'm using this, I can't get Google Earth to work on my computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myrddraal
These are the names I remember seeing. But if you say kukri has the same place then he gets it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
In the news frequently:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/c12.JPG
Guantanamo I presume?
Korrekt-a-mundo. See? I'm multi-lingual... I speak New Jersian. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Gitmo was too easy?
Or did you use a HUMINT analysis? (Hmmm, Kukri, US, ex-military, news-hound, showing an image of orderly-built buildings on a seacoast).
HUMINT analysis all the way - your mind reads like an open book to me...:fortune:
Right-o:
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Apparently some kind of planned community. I first thought: "Trailer Park", and sought out the 'world's largest' of those, but no luck yet.
It's striking how similar those structures are.
I remembered seeing one of those giant round things in Asia once... In New Dehli...
When searching through Google earth ... "nope this is not it".
We need a clue here.
Ok... I think the "park" around this suburban is actually a golf course.
Anyone up for googling a circular golf course/housing with some kind of mall in the middle?
I did but didn't get anything.
Cambodian Temples didn't check out, nor US trailer parks (all square or rectangular). Golf courses seems a stretch, but the image does look very well-landscaped, so maybe.
A tiny clue, please.
Three tiny clues: they are houses, that is a golf course, it is not in Asia.
I'm embarrassed to admit this was so challenging. I took all the clues and our guesses, and finally a light dawned...
retirement community, where old folks drive around in golf carts, instead of cars. Biggest US retirement magnets are Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California.
Using GoogleMap's "Find Business" feature, I asked for "Golf Course Community" while hovering about 60,000 feet above the US southwest, and finally discovered
Sun City, Arizona, US,
where that circular-housing pattern is repeated 5-6 times in the area. Population: about 40,000, median age: 75(!).
Well done. I was getting worried about my choice.
This sooo made me sweat. :sweatdrop:Quote:
Anyone up for googling a circular golf course/housing with some kind of mall in the middle?
Because, if you google circular housing for Images this is your very first return:
http://www.kmzlinks.com/files/CircularHousing.jpg
Sun City Arizona is part of a chain of Del Webb communities across the Sun Belt of America. They usually have an age restriction, only age 55 and over are allowed to live there. There are a few dozen, in Texas, California, Florida an elsewhere. This is the original one. The architecture and design is very interesting, very much geared towards it's specific target. Many architecture or planology books feature it.
You can maybe try Wikipedia if you're as interested as me in this sort of thing and have never heard about it:
Del Webb
Sun city
My own current hometown (Escondido) tried to duplicate Sun City's success in the 70's and early 80's, after the local vineyards and orchards failed. But they tried to do it on the cheap, buying those fields for pennies on the dollar, and building mobile home parks to attract retirement age folks.
They came, but they weren't the retired bankers, lawyers, doctors, etc that the city had hoped for. Instead they were rust-belt blue-collar workers with limited income.
So Escondido has given up that tactic, and is trying to re-acquire that land, to build high-end condos for the yuppies they hope will come to work in our (so far unbuilt) high-tech industrial area (ala Silicon Valley).
Anyway...
Our next city:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/70.JPG