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PostSubject: Geography Game   Geography Game EmptyWed 19 Jun 2013, 15:58

A little something to pass the time. 

http://geoguessr.com

use the map in the top right of the screen to click on an answer. Remember to use the + function, to zero in. (try and get the right continent unlike a certain dinosaur) 5 rounds per game.
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PostSubject: Re: Geography Game   Geography Game EmptyTue 18 Oct 2016, 22:25

That's actually quite fun. I was feeling quite pleased with myself after the first round having got the right continent each time - although normally hundreds of miles out. With one of them I was only 80 miles off. Must have been a fluke. Second round I was way off and wrong continent every time.
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PostSubject: Re: Geography Game   Geography Game EmptyWed 19 Oct 2016, 11:37

Wahay! I got to just 100 metres from the correct location!!! Although I'll admit I could read the roadsigns and see that the pic was just taken outside a chateau, on the D28 road in Aube, equidistant between two named villages, and so with a quick wiki ...

But it is quite good for testing geographic reasoning and knowledge:
Is it a dirt track or well made road?
Do they drive on the right?
What sort of vehicles are on the road: battered toyota pickups or smart suvs?
What's the vegetation?
Can you get clues from language or alphabet used on signs?
Any flags visible?

... mind you the numerous straight road through pine forest ones could be nearly anywhere.

Enough! ... Back to work.
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PostSubject: Re: Geography Game   Geography Game EmptyMon 19 Apr 2021, 22:32

How well do you know your Roman provinces?

The Roman Empire 117 AD: Provinces and Client States - Map Quiz Game

If, like me, you don't know your Pannonia Inferior from your Moesia Superior or your Hispania Tarraconensis from your Mauretania Caesariensis then this will be the perfect remedy.
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PostSubject: Re: Geography Game   Geography Game EmptyTue 20 Apr 2021, 21:23

Having worked my way through all Lindsey Davis' 'Falco' novels during confinement, and now being part way through Steven Saylor's 'Roma Sub Rosa' books, both series set in Imperial Rome, I did quite well, though the location of the province of Asia rather caught me out.

That, and the other puzzles about recognising countries/states/counties just by their shapes, brought this bit of silliness to mind:

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