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Picture Quiz #5; At last!
Topic Started: Apr 29 2012, 01:33 AM (628 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

I bet you thought I'd forgotten, didn't you :P ? Due to a combination of returning to university and wanting to try out some other contests, this has been a while in the making, but at last, the fifth picture quiz is here!

This time, the subject will be natural features. Below are 20 pictures of waterfalls, mountains, glaciers etc., and your task is to try and identify each one. You will win 10 posts for each feature you guess correctly, and because I'm feeling nice, you'll win 5 posts if you guess incorrectly, but get the country right (so, for instance, if there was a picture of Mount St. Helens, and you guessed the Grand Canyon, you'd win 5 posts for at least being in the correct country).

Also, to stop one person from just running away with this, I'm going to introduce the following rules (which may be tweaked in future editions of the contest, depending on how well they work):

1) No more than FIVE guesses per post, and;
2) No more than one post containing guesses per person per 24 hours.

(so, if you make a post containing guesses, you need to wait 24 hours before you can make any more guesses). Any guesses made beyond this limit will not be counted.

Once again, using tools like Google and Wikipedia to help you IS allowed. Now that we've got that out of the way, here are the pictures. I've thumbnailed them since they're both huge:

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17) Answered correctly by Jarkko
18) Answered correctly by Jarkko
19) Answered correctly by Jarkko
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You have one week in which to enter. If there are any left at the halfway point, I will tell you which country each feature is in to make it easier.

Good luck!
Edited by CJ, May 11 2012, 08:38 PM.
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HeroineDark
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Give the order to deploy the glaive.

3) Mt. St. Helens
9) The amazon
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CJ
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Unfortunately, neither of those is correct. Good try, though!
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Jarkko
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

1. Uluru (Ayers Rock)
3. Mount Fuji
12. Sugarloaf Mountain?
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CJ
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First two are correct. Maybe I made this too hard?
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Jarkko
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

Not sure, but I think #4 is Grimsvötn
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CJ
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Good guess, but no. Better luck next time!
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childlimbs
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♡ sad flower ♡

golly this is hard
is 18 the amazon
also just throwing this out this is probably wrong i just wanna see what happens
no one judge me this is just a rly wild guess andit's probably wrong
um is 14 the sahara?
also what is 19 supposed to be
is it like....a diagram or is it rly a thing
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Jarkko
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

No, 19 is Fakaofo Atoll in Tokelau

And that's my last permissible guess for today. :P
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CJ
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@Splatticakes, Unfortunately not. Good guesses though.
@MILH: Yep, that's it :) !
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Jarkko
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

New day = new guesses.

12 is Zuma Rock in Nigeria.
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childlimbs
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♡ sad flower ♡

ahahahahahahahahahaha i should just give up now
i'll submit more guesses................eventually :v
there is still a chance for me to wIN
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CJ
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Jarkko
May 1 2012, 05:12 PM
New day = new guesses.

12 is Zuma Rock in Nigeria.
Yep. 4 guesses left.
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17 - Bonneville Salt Flats?
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CJ
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No, but you're thinking along the right lines.
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CJ
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I'm afraid I'd sort of forgotten about this contest, so here's some help:

2 is in the :united-states: United States of America.
4 is in :iceland: Iceland.
5 is in :australia: Australia.
6 is in :china: China.
7 is in :russia: Russia.
8 is in :canada: Canada.
9 is in :mexico: Mexico.
10 is in :bolivia: Bolivia.
11 is in :norway: Norway.
13 is in the :ireland: Republic of Ireland.
14 is not in territory claimed by any state.
15 is in :thailand: Thailand.
16 is in :ecuador: Ecuador.
17 is in :botswana: Botswana.
18 is in :costa-rica: Costa Rica.
20 is in :jersey: Jersey.

Also, I'll be extending this to Sunday 13th May at 11:59pm GMT.
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT, I had the country right for 4 and you never told me?

D: :headdesk:

KIFAIL!!!

Anyway:

4 is Eyjafjallajökull.
17 is the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans
6 is Huangguoshu Falls
13 - Giant's Causeway?
11 - Geirangerfjord?
Edited by Jarkko, May 11 2012, 03:24 AM.
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CJ
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Whoops.....sorry about that D:

Anyway, the first three are all right. Keep going with the last two, though!
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

7 is Mount Elbrus
9 is the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco
16 is Tungurahua
18 - the Monteverde Cloud Forest?
13 - Cliffs of Moher
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CJ
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All correct :) .
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Jarkko
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

Being how it is currently 14 May, this should actually have been shut down some time ago. :P
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CJ
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Thanks for spotting.

Looks like you're the only winner this time. 120 posts, and the right to run the next one if you wish.
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Jarkko
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Christian. Exterminator of Spammers.

So what were the eight I didn't get?
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CJ
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2 was Lake Tahoe.
5 was the Nullarbor Plain.
8 was the White Glacier. (This confused me a bit, because there are several different glaciers with that name, but this one's the one in northern Canada, at 79°30'N / 90°50'W I should probably have made that one later than #8.)
10 was the Cerro de Potosí. (I expect this might be easier for anyone with Civ 5, and even then only if they have the Spain/Inca DLC pack.)
11 was the Aurlandsfjord.
14 was the Valles Marineris canyon system, on Mars.
15 was the Erawan Waterfall.
20 was Beauport Bay, which I went to a few years ago. (And by "a few", I mean 10. Scary.)
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