Pin the Tail on the Capital

tba · 23-01-2005 10:26pm #1

http://wetter.rtl.de/redaktion/gamechannel/europa_dart/index.php

Matthewthebig · 23-01-2005 11:14pm

i love it

tba · 23-01-2005 11:37pm

i missed Oslo by 3000 odd kilometers

JackKelly · 23-01-2005 11:46pm

lol.

i got a 6.Got 17 Km to dublin

Lump · 24-01-2005 12:02am

WTF They're in german.... WTF is WEIN?

John

RobertFoster · 24-01-2005 12:09am

I believe it's Vienna?

embee · 24-01-2005 12:10am

Whats the dealio with the ad at the bottom of the page? Trying to get Lisbon, Madrid, Rome etc was impossible.....

impr0v · 24-01-2005 12:15am

I'm putting this down to the lateness of the hour.

tba · 24-01-2005 12:17am

embee wrote:

Whats the dealio with the ad at the bottom of the page? Trying to get Lisbon, Madrid, Rome etc was impossible.....

its not near them for me

see attach

Guy:Incognito · 24-01-2005 12:26am

Is your resolution set to 800 x 600? that was the problem for me, increase it and you'll be fine

boo4842 · 24-01-2005 2:32am

I thought Ankara was in Morocco instead of Turkey... that completely skrewed me as I was off my 3600kms on that

aodh_rua · 24-01-2005 10:40am

I got 4 - but I've no idea what it means.

Wien = Vienna

Crucifix · 24-01-2005 11:59am

There's probably some horrible shame in missing dublin by 60 Km

seamus · 24-01-2005 12:12pm

Much more difficult:

http://www.geosense.net

Dr. Loon · 24-01-2005 12:26pm

Jaysus.... I am absolutely terrible at geography.

jor el · 24-01-2005 3:25pm

My Geography sucks A$$. And they say the yanks couldn't point out Ireland on a globe :eek:

Well at least I got within a few clicks of Dublin, Rome, London and Paris. I was a bit (or way) out on most of the rest.

pickarooney · 24-01-2005 4:14pm

3493km away in total. I at least managed to get the right country each time, so it's not too bad. Closest was to London (3km) and Lisbon (8km). Mostly I was within 50km, but there were one or two over 500km away.

Third_Echelon · 25-01-2005 12:03am

got a score of 5... bucharest fooked me up though.. 600 kms out :eek:

2457 kms out overall

JoeSchmoe · 25-01-2005 1:17am

jor el wrote:

My Geography sucks A$$. And they say the yanks couldn't point out Ireland on a globe :eek:

Well at least I got within a few clicks of Dublin, Rome, London and Paris. I was a bit (or way) out on most of the rest.

I teach English as a foreign language and generally when Chinese students come over first they are pretty ignorant of anything that isn't Chinese, one day I asked a recently arrived student to show me where China was on a map of the world, after a few minutes consideration he pointed at the whole of Africa!!! when I asked him why he chose that he said because it was the biggest and in the middle of the world, twas hard to hold back the sniggers.

Third_Echelon · 25-01-2005 9:48am

^^^ ah communism... gotta love it...

Civilian_Target · 26-01-2005 12:47am

Thought Kiew meant the capital of Estonia and missed by a huge margin...

RobertFoster · 26-01-2005 8:25am

I let my dad have a go - he got 4km from Dublin :eek:

arbeitsscheuer · 26-01-2005 11:39am

heheh, missed dublin by 10km, London by 26... Damn shaky hand

Victor · 26-01-2005 7:57pm

impr0v wrote:

I'm putting this down to the lateness of the hour.

Don't worry, CNN made the same mistake.

fjon · 27-01-2005 10:29am

Now do it for your country! Try to get Ireland's percentage up a bit - we're currently 124th - we can do better

http://www.geographyolympics.com/

Victor · 27-01-2005 5:35pm

Civilian_Target wrote:

Thought Kiew meant the capital of Estonia and missed by a huge margin...

R.I.G.A.

I didn't do too bad, but I don't know my score.

NotMe · 27-01-2005 6:00pm

JoeSchmoe wrote:

I teach English as a foreign language and generally when Chinese students come over first they are pretty ignorant of anything that isn't Chinese, one day I asked a recently arrived student to show me where China was on a map of the world, after a few minutes consideration he pointed at the whole of Africa!!! when I asked him why he chose that he said because it was the biggest and in the middle of the world, twas hard to hold back the sniggers.

I used to work with a Chinese guy who said they learned world history and geography in school including the history of Ireland (like the famine) and he said they had to know how to draw a map of the world and label all the main countries.

simu · 27-01-2005 8:00pm

What fun!

There's still a cold war in the geographical part of my brain, though - I know the west of Europe far far better than the east!

pickarooney · 27-01-2005 8:29pm

Victor wrote:

R.I.G.A.

I didn't do too bad, but I don't know my score.

OK, shoot me for not getting the joke, but Tallinn is the capital of Estonia.

/me attaches blinfold and leans against wall

Victor · 29-01-2005 7:08pm

pickarooney wrote:

OK, shoot me for not getting the joke, but Tallinn is the capital of Estonia.

Opps, I remember them alphabeticly (from north to south). I just got my alphabet mixed up.

Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland

Riga
Tallinn
Vilnius
Warsaw

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