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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 07:29:19
Message: <4853ab8f@news.povray.org>
"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> If it asks, say, "where is the capital of Spain?", all you really gotta
> do is click on Spain and you can't possibly be too far wrong.

Of course, that assumes you know where Spain is....


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 07:37:15
Message: <2bb754d4vut9pqgroisfst3bcrgprnjavl@4ax.com>
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:32 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
<initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:

>
>"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>news:4853a613$1@news.povray.org...
>
>> Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
>> click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
>> there's not much possibility of aiming.
>
>Seeing as I managed 10 km from Edinburgh for 1 question, and the difference
>in score between 100 and 500 is large, not really.
>
>How far did you get?
>
>
I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
from London and I live there ;)

I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 09:16:03
Message: <4853c493@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:32 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
> <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> 
>> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:4853a613$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>>> Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
>>> click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
>>> there's not much possibility of aiming.
>> Seeing as I managed 10 km from Edinburgh for 1 question, and the difference
>> in score between 100 and 500 is large, not really.
>>
>> How far did you get?
>>
>>
> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
> from London and I live there ;)
> 
> I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4

193842 Final level 6 on my first try - but I've got a hangover - I was
watching Holland beat France last night with a bunch of friends in The
Sports Bar :-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 09:26:30
Message: <jnh754lan935a1911t5loo7fmhdiok131f@4ax.com>
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:17:13 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom>
wrote:

>193842 Final level 6 on my first try - but I've got a hangover - I was
>watching Holland beat France last night with a bunch of friends in The
>Sports Bar :-)

Try it sober :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: pan
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 11:06:50
Message: <4853de8a@news.povray.org>
"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote in message 
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>A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across 
>the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
>
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that 
> level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
>
Level 10     334,145 pts
halway through level 11

The allowed radius of error diminshes each level
Within that circle some points can be got.

I went for speed as much as accuracy - could have got more
accuracy if I slowed down. No idea how much time is allowed
per level - I'm sure thatg dimishes with progress.


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 11:48:00
Message: <4853e830@news.povray.org>
"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
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> >
> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
> from London and I live there ;)

I was considering anything under 100km to be spot on. Sure it could be
bigger. Doesn't make it easy though. Harder if anything.
On some of the later levels, just finding the country's a challenge. Let
alone the city or point within the country


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 12:10:37
Message: <q5r754to5oecbljglgsnb1jelo4b7dbjmo@4ax.com>
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:49:34 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
<initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:

>
>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
>news:2bb754d4vut9pqgroisfst3bcrgprnjavl@4ax.com...
>> >
>> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
>> from London and I live there ;)
>
>I was considering anything under 100km to be spot on. Sure it could be
>bigger. Doesn't make it easy though. Harder if anything.
>On some of the later levels, just finding the country's a challenge. Let
>alone the city or point within the country
>
I got Jo'burg and Cape town mixed up also Vancouver and Toronto even
after using Vancouver as a base in my job before last :(
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Mueen Nawaz
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 12:48:49
Message: <4853F670.1080608@ieee.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
> 
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
> 
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.

	Got to level 11 but no further.

Total 445229
Score in Level 11: 43960 (need 55000)

	I played the game some months ago and didn't do near as well back then.

	I'm sure I can do better in terms of the overall score (made some dumb 
mistakes in the earlier levels because I was trying to go too fast) - 
not sure I can make it to level 12, though. Even getting to 11 may have 
been a fluke. As Andrew suggested, I for the most part knew where a lot 
of the countries were and just clicked randomly in that region.

	I tried to cheat. I agree that the map/scale is too small. So I tried 
to edit the HTML to make it bigger - by saving the file to the HD. 
However, it didn't work - the game only works from specific domains (I 
guess they didn't want people stealing their games and putting it on 
their site).

-- 
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 15:08:27
Message: <4854172b$1@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
> 
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
> 
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
> 
> 
> 
Fun 'test'
I got to Level 8 also.
Interesting what you 'know' without realizing it.  When's the last time 
I actually thought about where Perth, Australia is? Yet I snapped to the 
west coast of the continent w/o thinking.


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: How well do you know the world?
Date: 14 Jun 2008 15:20:57
Message: <48541a19@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter wrote:

> Fun 'test'

Not really - unless you *enjoy* loosing, that is...

> Interesting what you 'know' without realizing it.

I wrote a long post one this once - I forget where now.

For example, how many "well-known" animals can you name in a few 
minutes? The list turns out to be surprisingly extensive...

> When's the last time 
> I actually thought about where Perth, Australia is? Yet I snapped to the 
> west coast of the continent w/o thinking.

Psh. ALL Austalian civilisation is on the coast somewhere - nobody is 
insane enough to live in the desert interior... ;-)

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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