Ray Spaxman passed this along from The Guardian:
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Spot the city skyline – quiz
Test your knowledge of the world’s great cities by identifying these silhouetted skylines. Can you recognise all 15?
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Some are easy:
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Others, not so much:
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To beat Spaxman, you have to do better than 13 out of the 15. Start here.
I got 10. I need to travel more!
I got 11. Spaxman’s good!
I too got 13, which was far better than I expected. Stockholm, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Chicago, Barca my least certain, and two are definitely wrong. Probably the first two?
I got 12 out of 15.
I got 14 but admit some were guesses. I missed:
You answered incorrectly
14. Is this … ?
Correct answer: Johannesburg
You answered: Tel Aviv
12 out of 15. Tel Aviv instead of Joburg was legit, but I call BS on New York and Paris. I take it those aren’t actual silhouettes, but those two aren’t close to anything. Just jumbles. NY doesn’t have One World Trade Center, which I think is topped out now, and has been under construction for ages, and Paris puts Sacre-Coeur between the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. That isn’t just re-sizing or simplifying, that’s butchering.
Oops. Checked on google to see if Sacre-Coeur can be made to go between the Arc and the Tower and it can from a viewpoint in the Bois de Boulogne. But from that viewpoint, the Societe Generale building in La Defense would be to the left of the Arc. So the diagram is still a botch job, but not in the way that I thought it was.
I got 14 of 15 – but they don’t tell you which you got wrong.
Edit – just saw the link with the answers – I got Chicago wrong – I answered Doha. Saw what could have been the Willis Tower, but the tower to the right looked too tall to be the John Hancock Tower.
I also got 14 out of 15, likewise misidentifying Chicago as Doha. The silhouette of the Hancock tower was: a) way too tall; and b) looked like One World Trade Center. I was confused, so guessed Doha because it didn’t look like Chicago to me.
Well that was easy. 15/15 first try. I almost screwed up the Barcelona one, but the Torre Agbar is a dead givaway.
I got 14, been to most of those places and I love a good quiz
15 out of 15. 🙂
I guessed on Prague.
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Fun quiz. 13/15. I counted 39 unique cities. I’ve been to just 8 (some nearly 40 years ago and only two this century), but seen photos of at least half. Had to guess a few times based on knowledge of predominant religions past/present, relative affluence, signature building that’s made the news.
Thought I saw a minaret so guessed Tel Aviv instead of Jo-burg. Also guessed Copenhagen instead of St. Pete.