World Tour REVEAL -- Wed 27th May 8 p.m.

Ready for the reveal ... tried to post but I have two devices open, lost my post (backed up so no worries) ... back in a min or two with the opening salvo.

Getting ready to post again, do people prefer that I just post one after another or leave time for any banter, insults, recriminations?

The horror, the horror ... I am scoring part nine as we speak, so will post parts three and four (as designed) and come back in another few minutes after that.


Q8 _ The airline)

Lots of airlines, lots of grounded planes ... let's find out who wants to fly which airlines.

The scoring will now switch to rank order (rather than order of entry as before) ...

I will list the airlines selected, starting with unique choices and working down to non-unique choices. As with other categories, you lose a point for every PEEHS who turns into a SHEEP.

Airlines selected by one world tour entrant ...

Etihad -- Y0ssar1an22

British -- Rikand

Air Canada -- Sixtoes

Air France -- Three More Big Sleeps

Fiji Airways -- sKeith

FinnAir -- Bubblypop

Singapore -- Irish Aris

Lufthansa -- The Purple Tin

Hainan --- Rainbow Trout

All Nippon -- Sawduck

Aeroflot -- Hello 2D Person Below

Malaysia -- Quickbeam


These airlines were selected by two or more entrants:

(2 guesses, 9/10)

El Al --- Homer J. Fong, Dave the Rave

Air NZ -- Mehaffey1, lassykk

Qatar --- Declan A. Walsh, Zaph

American -- Reberetta, Gru

KLM -- Trigger, Collie D


(6 guesses, 5/10)

Qantas -- AS LeVarBurton, Ted_YNWA, Aaron Jennings, Yozico, Strawberry Milkshake, Heidi Heidi

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The updated standings after airline selection ...


ENTRANT _________ guest __ budget __ airline ___ TOTAL


Irish Aris __________10______ 10 ____ 10 _____30

Sixtoes ___________ 10 ______10 ____ 10 ____ 30

Rikand ___________ 10 _______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 29

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 _______ 9 ____ 10 _____29

Zaph _____________10 ______10 _____ 9 _____ 29

Quickbeam ________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

Bubblypop _________10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

sKeith ____________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 ______ 9 _____ 10 ____ 29

Collie D ___________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Rainbow Trout ______9 _______9 _____10_____ 28

Gru ______________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Reberetta _________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Dave the Rave _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _______10 _____9 _____28

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 _____27

Sawduck __________ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 _____ 27

The Purple Tin ______9 _______8 _____ 10 _____ 27

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Trigger ___________10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Lassykk __________ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Heidi Heidi ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Ted_YNWA ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Yozico ___________ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Strawberry Milkshake_9 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 23

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(Q 2) Lake you wanted to visit

Hello, and thank you for flying Qantas, the choice of Irish travellers. Apparently. There's a free Fosters for everyone who chose us, and you still have seven chances for redemption. This is but one of them ... we will fly over every freshwater lake you chose, as long as it made the Wikipedia top thirty list. Now about that list -- M.T. Cranium had to write his own list when he found out that wikipedia had thrown in salt lakes (expressly forbidden see the rules) so that takes us down to about number 35 on their list, if we exclude the salty ones. Now, if you did not read the fine print and chose a salty one, you're advised to buckle up, turbulence is reported just ahead of us, advises the captain whose name of course is Bruce.

So, just for your edu-ma-cation, here are the eligible lakes in order, an idea of where they might be found, and the names of those who really really wanted to see them on this tour. Should they be so lucky as to be the only one, it's worth ten points. Every name associated costs each of them a point. Here we go. Remember now, the Caspian Sea is not a fresh-water lake, it may be number one for wikipedia, but for this contest, it is dead to us. But not as dead as the Aral Sea, 90% of which dried up (whoops, Uzbek cotton crop needed the water in 1960s).

1. Lake Superior -- Great Lakes -- Ted_YNWA, Strawberry Milkshake (9 pts)

2. Lake Victoria --- Africa

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crocodiles a problem?

3. Lake Huron

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Great Lakes -- Y0ssar1an22, Yozico, Homer J. Fong, Heidi Heidi (7 pts)

4. Lake Michigan -- Great Lakes -- Dave the Rave, Collie D (9 pts)

5. Tanganyika

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Africa

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Lassykk (10 pts)

6. Baikal

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Siberia

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Irish Aris (10 pts)

7. Great Bear

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n. Canada --- Gru (10 pts)

8. Malawi

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Africa

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Quickbeam (10 pts)

9. Great Slave

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n. Canada --- Rikand, Aaron Jennings, Trigger, Rainbow Trout (7 pts)

10. Erie (fresh? maybe not) GL --- Reberetta, Declan A Walsh (9 pts)

11. Winnipeg

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Canada

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Sawduck (10 pts)

12. Ontario

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Great Lakes -- not that into it myself

13. Ladoga --- east of St. P in Rus - big weekend destination for Novgorodites

(note next entry is salt, Balkhash in central Asia)

14. Bangweulu -- Africa

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I can't find it either

15. Vostok -- under the ice, Antarctica (dodgy, nobody chose it anyway)

16. Onega -- southeast of Lake Ladoga -- only for the select few, so I'm told

17. Titicaca -- Andes, South America -- The Purple Tin (10 pts)

18. Nicaragua

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Nicaragua

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sKeith, Hello 2D Person Below (9 pts)

19. Athabasca --- n. Canada

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Three More Big Sleeps (10 pts)

20. Taymyr

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n. Russia

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AS Levar Burton (10 pts)

21. Reindeer Lake -- Canada

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Mehaffey1 (10 pts) It thaws out just in time to freeze up

(note, Turkana in Africa, Issyk-Kul and Urmia in Asia, all salty) thank Allah nobody chose these

That gets us to 26 on the wikipedia list, five to this point are salty and aren't eligible.

The Aral Sea used to rank larger than Lake Huron back in the day, now it's just a few ponds.

22. Vanern

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Sweden

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Bubblypop, Zaph Wallander often finds corpses near here

23. Winnipegosis -- Canada

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not a disease, but a lake west of Lake Winnipeg

24. Albert

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Africa

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Sixtoes this one feeds one of the Nile headwaters, Dr Livingstone I presume?

25. Mweru

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Africa

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sure it's lovely enough

Now we are at 30 on the list, but the next five (fresh) would count if anyone picked them.

26. Nettilling ---- Baffin Island, Canada --- I saw this from a plane, biggest lake on an island, ice free for ten minutes in August

27. Nipigon

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north of Lake Superior -- the islands and bays are for sportsmen (also)

28. Manitoba ---- Canada

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it's a twin of Winnipegosis, much easier to say

29. Saimaa

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Finland

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Wonder if it means reindeer, then there's two

30. Lake of the Woods -- U.S.-Canada border -- It's a maze of islands, don't go out there without a map and a valid will.

(34 on their list, Qing'hai in China, also salty).

Anyway, nobody chose those last five that got onto the list when the salt lakes dropped out.

(as would have been any other salty lake or sub-top-thirty, first of which by the way is that one Khalka, just outside Vladivostok, I'm sure you've often dreamed of spending a weekend there between Russia and China, pretty high on my bucket list after maybe Gary, Indiana? The mosquito-bear combo is to die for.)

So with the lake visited, points are now as follows:


ENTRANT ________ guest __budget __airline __lake ___ TOTAL


Irish Aris __________10______ 10 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 40

Sixtoes ___________ 10 ______10 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 40

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 39

Quickbeam ________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 ___ 10 ____ 39

Bubblypop _________10 ______9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ____ 38

sKeith ____________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ____ 38

Gru ______________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____10_____ 38

Zaph _____________10 ______ 10 _____9 ____ 9 _____38

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _______10 _____9 ____10 ____ 38

Collie D ___________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Reberetta _________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Dave the Rave _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Sawduck __________ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 ____10 ____ 37

The Purple Tin ______9 _______8 _____ 10 ___ 10 ____ 37

Lassykk __________ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____ 37

Rikand ___________ 10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 _____ 36

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 _____ 36

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 ______ 8 _____10 ____ 9 _____36

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 36

Rainbow Trout ______9 _______9 _____10____ 7 _____ 35

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 7 _____ 35

Trigger ___________10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 7 _____ 34

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ____10 _____ 34

Ted_YNWA ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____9 _____ 33

Strawberry Milkshake_9 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____9 _____ 32

Heidi Heidi ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____7 _____ 31

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 _____ 31

Yozico ___________ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____7 _____ 31

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So in the lakes round, ten had unique guesses and scored the max, eight shared seven points for being in foursomes, and everyone else was paired off (in five pairs) for nine points each. Nobody is out of the contest yet, I would say ... next reveal will be the sea, or see the bee? Here again, a lot of seas in this world, but they have to be oceanic ... uh oh ...

Just part five in this post, going to slow down a tad so I can keep ahead ... yes Canada, lots o' lakes ... maybe almost too many? Lots o' islands also. Big uninhabited freezing cold islands.

Q6 _ Seas the moment)

The rules clearly (by my standards) stated that your choice of sea had to be part of the global ocean, not land-locked such as the Caspian Sea. After all, we can't afford to haul the luxury cruise ship we rented (dirt cheap, I must admit) across land and then leave it for who knows how long ... I refer you once again to the fine print. Here's your list of seas, any of them is valid -- no top thirty, if it exists and you can get there from an ocean, then it's all good. I was able to steer a few clear of the shoals.

Here again, I reserve the more popular choices (that you didn't want) to the end of this list.

10 points for these solo mariners ...

Irish Sea -- Y0ssar1an22

Davis Sea -- Zaph

Black Sea -- Sixtoes

Weddell Sea -- Aaron Jennings

Molucca -- Quickbeam

Norwegian -- Rainbow Trout

Aegean Sea -- Homer J Fong

Amundsen -- Three More Big Sleeps

Adriatic -- Declan A Walsh


9 points for these selections ...

Coral Sea -- Mehaffey1, AS LeVar Burton

Sargasso Sea -- Rikand, The Purple Tin

Bering -- Strawberry Milkshake, Gru

Tyrrhenian -- sKeith, Heidi Heidi

North Sea -- Yozico, Ted_YNWA


8 points for those who shared with two other choices ...

South China Sea -- Reberetta, Dave the Rave, Collie D

Baltic -- bubblypop, Irish Aris, Hello 2D Person Below

Arabian -- lassykk, Trigger, sawduck




The updated points from previous rounds with this one:


ENTRANT ________ guest __budget __airline __lake __ sea ___ TOTAL


Sixtoes ___________ 10 _____10 ____ 10 ____10 ___10 ___ 50

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____10 ___10 ____ 49

Quickbeam ________ 10 _____9 _____ 10 ___ 10 ___10 ____ 49

Irish Aris __________10_____ 10 ____ 10 ____10 ___ 8 ____ 48

Zaph _____________10 _____ 10 _____9 ____ 9 ___10 ____ 48

sKeith ____________ 10 _____9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ___ 9 ____ 47

Gru ______________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 10 ___ 9 ____ 47

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _____10 _____9 ____10 ___ 9 _____ 47

Bubblypop _________10 _____9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ___ 8 ____ 46

The Purple Tin ______9 ______8 _____ 10 ___ 10 ___ 9 ____ 46

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 _____ 9 ____ 10 _____7 ___ 10 ____ 46

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 9 ____10 ____ 46

Collie D ___________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ___ 8 _____ 45

Reberetta _________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ____8 _____ 45

Dave the Rave _____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ___ 8 _____ 45

Sawduck __________ 9 _____ 8 _____ 10 ____10 ___8 _____45

Lassykk __________ 10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 10 ___ 8 ____ 45

Rikand ___________ 10 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 ____ 9 ____ 45

Rainbow Trout ______9 ______9 _____10____ 7 ____10 ____ 45

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 7 ___ 10 ____ 45

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 _____ 8 _____10 ____ 9 ____ 8 ____ 44

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____10 ____ 9 ____ 43

Trigger ___________10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 7 ____ 8 ____ 42

Ted_YNWA ________10 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____9 ____ 9 ____ 42

Strawberry Milkshake_9 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____9 ____ 9 ____ 41

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 ___ 10 ____ 41

Yozico ___________ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____7 ____ 9 ____ 40

Heidi Heidi ________10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 ____ 9 ____ 40