Ooh, very fun. Damn Honolulu, I kept thinking that that far east of Mexico City sounded like the Ocean, didn't think of Hawaii. 13/18, not bad for not knowing where any of the smaller, less mentioned in movies and TV US cities are
Got them all, started guessing random big cities before I even looked at the distance and knocked out about 12; the other six I had to think and refine my guess. Edmonton was the hardest, I was like 'dang no one lives in the middle of Canada.'
I went to Google maps and did directions on this. And there is an actual way from Mexico City to Honolulu that requires you to go Kayaking through the Pacific Ocean (Starting from Seattle)!!!!! And last year I searched 4 Johannesburg to Cairo and said that it could not calculate directions. And this year there is a way!!!!! (U make an S through Africa!!!!!)
and, like several people here, I got many of the answers by accident when typing in big cities. But I wasn't doing it on purpose. Like I would guess Tehran for Baghdad but Tehran was also on the list... I got everything eventually with about 4 minutes left but it wasn't that easy, even for a geography expert.
100% correct! and I wasn't just typing in large city names. used distance as clues to narrow down to logical choices. but only had 40 seconds left due to misspelling of buenos aires.
I would disagree Frindle! I got 100% with 3:31 left. yes I admit I did type Baghdad for another city so got that one on a "guess" all others I got because I know my world map so had very good sense of what city would be that distance.
great idea, thanks....only suggestion is to format it so you have to answer a specific clue rather than be allowed to just type in a list of cities at will....then we'll see how many bleat "so easy"..thanks again
Well that was definitely one of the hardest - but most intriguing - quizzes I've done here. I was tempted to use a map but resisted, hence my score of 10! Would love doing more of these. But please!! In response to other quizzers, it's not just the US that uses miles. I'm in the UK and wouldn't even try to do this in km.
To all the miles/km people: JetPunk serves as a place to test your knowledge and (hopefully) expand it. This could be one of those quizzes that gives you an idea of the concept of miles. Even though most of the world goes by km (like me, as a Dutchman), it is never a waste of time to grasp the concept of miles, inches and so forth.
Should you not want to learn about the imperial system, then you can always create a similar quiz in km, for the Americans and British to try :)
16/18 on my first try...I was so pleased with myself I thought I'd have beaten 95% of test takers. NOPE. Pushed back to where I belong below the hordes of Jetpunk nerds :P
Good quiz, but distance has to be in km according to the international system. Impossible for me to complete it due to miles. I wonder how many people are in the same situation. Maybe add the distance in km.
It is really not that hard to make the conversion in your head, you know. 1 mile = 1.6 km approx. So 50 miles is 80 km. Multiply the miles by 1.6, or if you prefer divide by 5 and multiply by 8. Thus 1500 miles is 2400 km, everything in proportion. Who has a good idea exactly how far 2741 miles (or whatever) is anyway. Rule of thumb gives me 550*8 = 4400 km approx in seconds.
It's certainly not hard to do the conversion, but it slows you down and throws off your intuition - and I'm relying on my intuition far more than knowing the exact relative distances of cities here.
But only barely. The northern suburbs of Montevideo line up roughly with Quilmes, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires. Montevideo's city centre lines up with La Plata, in Buenos Aires province. Essentially, if you put both cities' centres on the same longitude, Montevideo would be engulfed by Buenos Aires' southern suburbs.
quizmaster i beg you add km, maybe alongside miles for anyone who still uses miles but please this quiz would have been 5/5 but i wasted my time trying to visualise things in 1.6km instead of 1
To those complaining that the measurements are in miles rather than km: honestly, that sounds like your problem. You have the Internet. There are websites that let you convert miles into km. In fact, you can use Google. Use them and stop whinging.
ah yes. using google while doing a quiz. totally not cheating. extremely convenient and totally not impossible in the time this quiz gives you and its only 36 numbers that you have to type in the 8 minutes or so that this quiz gives you, all whilst remembering which city is which. and after you used 80% of your time converting into km, uh oh: you only have one minute left! but who in the world needs more than one minute to calculate the positions of 36 cities and their distance from each other and type all of them in. needing that much time would be crazy, right?
honestly, as a non-american youre prob'ly gonna be better off just typing random cities, hoping to randomly get one or two and i'm not the only one asking, as visible so please just add km
are other people actually using the distance numbers? Mostly I was using the sense of "big number = far away" and "small number = close" for all of them, and I'm pretty sure that putting them in km wouldn't be too helpful
This felt like a really fun challenge while still being extremely doable. Maybe the most challenged I've ever felt while still getting a perfect score first try
Should you not want to learn about the imperial system, then you can always create a similar quiz in km, for the Americans and British to try :)
honestly, as a non-american youre prob'ly gonna be better off just typing random cities, hoping to randomly get one or two and i'm not the only one asking, as visible so please just add km