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Yes, I am now begging for help to get all the answers!

monkey fingers, 30 July, 2008 at 18:02 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 30

Hello my parents friends set them a quiz and I want to find the answers!

The trouble is I am rubbish at geography! Thr closest I have come to finding out where they are, is by going through a list of Saga destinations!

The 5 I think I have found are

#2 Havanna

#7 Dubrovnik

#11 Cape Town

#12 Hong Kong

#13 Athens?

All the destinations are either sea or river based towns or cities,

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/2717424498_af03434f73_b.jpg

Can anyone help me with the others please, or correct me if any of my above answers are wrong!

It is just a friendly quiz but I was awake till 1am trying to find the places on goodle images!

Thank you anyone and everyone xxx

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Latest activity by neffi, 2 August, 2008 at 21:38
  • Ladelley
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    13 looks like Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background.

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  • NickJ
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    Top right is bangkok

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  • monkey fingers
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    Thank you! I have slapped Mr MF for giving me the wrong answer! (o; x

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  • monkey fingers
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    =]

    Brilliant thank you!

    However, I am not very good at left and right, is it the one with the temple thingy or the boat ?

    I know, I know I am a stoopid!

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  • Moomoo
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    I may be thoroughly, utterly and completely wrong, but is number 5 prague? what does that building look like there with the clock on it? i'm almost certainly wrong, i wouldn't trust me ?

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    Thank you x

    There isn't a clock on number 5, but number 4 has a tower with a clock?

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  • Lady Falafel
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    I'm not sure, Vesuvius has more of a dip in the middle at the top I thought?

    ETA, might be pedantic, but pompeii is also a few miles inland. Not sure how strict the sea-based criteria thing is though.

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  • monkey fingers
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    My brain hurts, I thought Pompeii was Portsmouth and now I find it's another country AND it has a dip in it!

    Thank you xx

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  • Hoobygroovy
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    Oh bless you. I think you mean Pompey. ?

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  • Lady Falafel
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    Waaah MF. That's Pompey.

    I dunno, it might be though, it might be a funny angle.

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  • Ladelley
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    You could be right. If it's still Vesuvius in the background, it could be Herculaneum.

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    Ahh ok ! Thank you x

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  • monkey fingers
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    Thank you to everyone who has helped me, can anyone suggest methods of looking up places to see if I recognise them from the pictures?

    I have mainly been using google images and just typing random countries and asking for tourist attractions or landmarks.

    xx Thank you all xx

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  • monkey fingers
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    Do I write Herculaneum instead of pompeii?

    ?

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  • monkey fingers
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    Just bouncing in case anyone can help, tonight is my last chance!

    xx

    Thank you x

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  • Cath
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    Ok, can't see them too well, but I think number 1 is Aswan, something Egyptian, anyway. Number 13 looks like Taormina on Sicily, with Vesuvius in the background.

    probably too late now, but ...

    9 is Budapest

    6 is Singapore

    3 MIGHT be Venice, not sure if the Doges' Palace has that much frontage on the lagoon though

    think 5 is either Warsaw or Krakow

    14 I think is somewhere Austrian. If it's the place I think it is I've used the image a million times. And can't remember where the feck it is. Hallstatt, possibly. Although that's on a lake. Bugger.

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  • monkey fingers
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    Thank you so so so so much, this is all fab. Thank you x

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  • monkey fingers
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    A shamless /ful boing! I now have another night- me obsessed? I just want to impress people for once!

    xx

    Thank you all and sorry ( I am hoping that now lots of people have sorted their login problems there might be a rush of people with answers)

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  • Champagne
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    I think:

    1. Aswan, Egypt (have been there)

    2. Havana, Cuba

    3. Venice, Italy?

    4. ??

    5. Madrid, Spain?

    6. ??

    7. Dubrovnik

    8. Bangkok

    9. Sydney

    10. ??

    11. Cape Town

    12. Hong Kong

    13. ??

    14. Lake Bled, Slovenia

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  • monkey fingers
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    Thank you!

    Can I be cheeky and ask how many of those you are certain on, as for a few I have a couple of different answers, and so I am hoping someone recognises places for sure!

    Thank you so much xxx

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  • Ladelley
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    Wouldn't it be Etna if it's in Sicily? Vesuvius is a bit far away to be visible.

    I'm pretty sure no. 9 is not Sydney.

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  • monkey fingers
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    Oh my head hurts!

    I really wish I wasn't bothered about the quiz, but the people who have set it have really irked me and don't expect anyone to guess them all, I know they have been to all of the places but they travel everywhere and have been travelling for about 30 odd years.

    I am so grateful for everyone trying to help me, but it has just added to my annoyence because I think the people's whos quiz it is have obviously looked for photos that make it impossible to recognise places! If Hitched doesn't have all of the answers I am fairly sure no one else does, unless they are their travel agents!

    Thank you again everyone for trying! (Could someone also give me a definitive answer on 13?)(

    (I am just going to put the baby to bed, so not ignoring anyone)

    Thank you all, if I manage to get them all right, I will be so grateful thank you thank you thank you x

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    Why don't you just put Mount Vesuvius? It could be either Pompeii or Herculaneum. If they are deliberately being obscure then Herculaneum is a better bet as Pompeii is more obvious.

    ETA having looked again and I've been to Pompeii several times I'm not sure it does look like Pompeii

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  • monkey fingers
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    Thank you xx Do you think I should pop down Mount Vesuvius with Hervulaneum in brackets?

    xx

    Thank you x

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    MF, I don't know!! I'm not even sure it's Vesuvius now but I don't know of any ruins near Volcanoes like that. We need a second or third opinion ?

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    Thank you, thank you, I didn;t think it was Vesuvius but couldn't work out what it was if it wasn't ?

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  • monkey fingers
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    Thank you all.

    These are our answers

    #1 Aswan

    #2 Havanna

    #3 Venice?

    #4

    #5 Madrid (though I can't find any pictures of this yellow building online)

    #6 Singpore

    #7 Dubronnik

    #8 Bangkok

    #9 Budapest

    #10 Petra, Jordan (Port Aqaba)

    #11 Cape Town

    #12 Hong Kong

    #13 Etna

    #14 Some where in cyprus (Going to have a look through some of the ports tonight to see if I can recognise it)

    Thank you so much everyone for your help, a few of them I have had to guess and number 4 is driving me mad, I have been googling so many random things in hope it will bring up a picture of the tower!

    Thank you, for your help, I am really pleased I got more than my original few

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  • janeyh
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    Is 14 monaco?

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    ooh is it, I thought Monaco was in France! ( I did rubbish in geography)

    xxx

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  • neffi
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    The only one I know is the top left with boat and temple on hill is Aswan in Egypt

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