Where in the World? A new game.

[notoppings]

Lets see if I can get the point of this game across.

You give a cities/countries/states Motto or Nick name or Sports team or well know slang name.

Then the next person guesses the place that you mean. Then they enter their clue for the next place.

Sample: The Big Apple. Answer New York.

OK seems easy enough so I'll get it started with an easy one and see where in the world we end up at.

The city of lights.

[notoppings]

The answer is Paris. Come on folks that was easy.

Next clue: The windy city.

[Nikita]

Chicago


Next: Steppes (additional clue: Nomads)

[Zzyber]

Mongolia?

Next: Mount.

[notoppings]

I had to ask for a clue to nail it down, the answer South Dakota Mount Rushmore.

Next clue: The Emerald City.

[azelismia]

seattle,

the city of angels

[Zzyber]

Los Angeles.

Next: Don't mess with it.

[putupon]

Texas

The City of Brotherly Love

[Nikita]

Philadelphia


MS-13 (origin)

[notoppings]

El Salvador, Thats a scary one.

Next: The Big Easy.

[putupon]

LA?

Fightertown USA

[notoppings]

Miramar, Ca.

Try The Big Easy again.

[putupon]

New Orleans, thought MS-13 was LA

The Garden State

[rwyatt365]

New Joisey

Next: The Rock (...no, not HIM...)

[Harmony]

Alcatraz (sp!?)

Bengals (football)

[rwyatt365]

Cincinati (sp?)

The Ducks

[notoppings]

Anaheim Ca.

Next: The city of seven hills.

[rwyatt365]

Rome

Next; The Forbidden City

[notoppings]

Beijing China.

Next: The Mile High City.

[Zzyber]

Denver.

Next - Sunshine

[rwyatt365]

Florida

Next: ...from Muskogee

[putupon]

Oklahoma

Next: Beantown

[Nikita]

Boston


Doge's Palace

[putupon]

Venice

Big Sky Country

[altoid]

Montana

Next: Show-me

[notoppings]

Missouri

Next: Down Under.

[Nikita]

Australia


Elton John's birthplace

[notoppings]

Pinner Middlesex England (I had to look it up) and he's an Aries.

Next: The land of the rising sun.

[Nikita]

Japan


Red Square

[notoppings]

Moscow.

Next: The Sleeping Giant.

[Nikita]

China


Caribou Barbie

[Zzyber]

Montana?

Gigantic ferris wheel.

[altoid]

Caribou Barbie

Alaska? LOL




Gigantic ferris wheel.

London?


Next: "The lost city of the Incas"

[rwyatt365]

Machu-Pichu (I'll Google it later for the spelling)

The Saints

[Nikita]

Montana?
Alaska? LOL

Alaska ;)

The Saints

New Orleans


Torii

[NHere]

Japan.


Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyay amahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesma hasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamph rasit

[Nikita]

Bangkok


Moai

[rara avis]

Easter Island


jet city

[Nikita]

Seattle ;)


Hiva 'Oa

[rwyatt365]

The Marquesas

Pinatubo

[Nikita]

Luzon (Philippines)


Who's the Boss?

[SRVcardsfan27]

Tony Danza?

The Gateway to the West:

[Nikita]

Tony Danza?

No, the game is where in the world. You have to identify the place associated with the clue.

The Gateway to the West:

this has multiple meanings...St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Winnipeg...there might be more, but those are the only ones that come to mind


Reposting:

Who's the Boss?

[Rudy]

Fairfield, Connecticut?

Modern day name of capital of chief rival of early Rome.

[rwyatt365]

Carthage?

Tinsel Town

[Rudy]

Close. The answer is Tunis, which is the modern day name of Carthage.

Hollywood for yours.

Nation's capital which is an anagram of a former capital of the same nation.

[daydreamer]

tokyo and kyoto japan

blue chip city

[putupon]

Cincinnati

City of a Thousand Minarets

[Rudy]

Cairo.

This city witnessed possibly the greatest loss of knowledge in human history.

[daydreamer]

alexandria

this city was once burnt down by old lady leary's cow

[Rudy]

Chicago.

Some say it requires a certain "state of mind".

[Nikita]

New York


Meet me here and meet me at the fair.

[altoid]

St. Louis

18th and Vine

[Nikita]

Kansas City


6th Street

[altoid]

Austin

Beale street

[Nikita]

Memphis


Mall of America

[Rudy]

Minnesota.

The crown jewel of the Mali Empire.

[Nikita]

Timbuktu


Where Garfield tried to mail Nermel many many times.

[Rudy]

Abu Dhabi!

This marked the furthest extent of the Roman Empire in Britain.

[daydreamer]

britannia, hadrian's wall :) lol

this city is nestled between high mountains and at high lattitude, has over 15 large mirrors a quarter of a mile away reflecting sunlight into the town during the dark months

[Rudy]

Rattenberg, Austria.

This location waits for you, according to one songwriter.

[Nikita]

Vienna


"She had more curves than the ****** grand prix and was twice as dangerous."

[Rudy]

Monaco.

Along with Mesoamerica, Egypt, Mesopotamia and China, this location was one of five places where writing emerged independently.

[Nikita]

Indus Valley


Number 4 Privet Drive (not looking for the fictional town)

[Rudy]

Surrey

Clue: "Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"

[daydreamer]

manhattan lol j/k
white sands missile range, new mexico

currently this country has more wind turbines than any other and is world's biggest market for photovoltaics and solar thermal collectors

[Rudy]

Germany.

A book was first printed with a printing press at this location.

[daydreamer]

mainz germany

city of the big shoulders

[Nikita]

Chicago


Big Brother is watching you

[Rudy]

London, Oceania?

The battle at this location was the inspiration for the movie "300".

[Nikita]

Thermopylae


Nope, reposting:

Big Brother is watching you (I'm looking for the reference, it relates to a certain country under a certain leader)

[daydreamer]

kremlin, moscow, russia, ussr ? lol

scratch that, romania, so i've been told :)
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in this city a 3-way refers to a dish of greek chili

[altoid]

Cincinnati?

Giant ball of twine

[daydreamer]

yep, cin city

darwin, minnesota

this north american island is located in a time zone 3.5 hours behind greenwich mean

[Rudy]

Newfoundland

This group of islands was named after the many fires lit by its original, native inhabitants.

[Urania]

Fraser Island.

Best quality of life, money, chocolate, cheese and punctuality?

[Rudy]

Sorry, wrong answer. Group of islands, not island.

Hint: South America

[rewhu]

Tierra del Fuego?

If so, then this is next:

Crop Over festival & rum

[Rudy]

Answer to Urania's is Switzerland.

Answer to rewhu's is Barbados.

This city was the center of culture, learning and debate in the colonies prior to the American Revolution (and a little bit afterward too.)

[rwyatt365]

Philadelphia?

City where the famous "Eau Rouge" corner on a F1 racetrack is located.

[Rudy]

Spa, Belgium?

The most decisive and important battle in the Norman conquest of England took place here.

[rwyatt365]

(Spa, or Francorchamps, is right)

Hastings

home of Le Moulin Rouge

[daydreamer]

paris

location of spaceshipone flights

[ElstonGunn]

Mojave, CA.


A group of islands that actually don't have anything to do with little birds.

[daydreamer]

canary islands

home to north america's ice hotel

[Rudy]

Québec

The iconic beginning of the French Revolution occurred at this location.

[zibber]

The Bastille in Paris?

Dam Square is here.

[Rudy]

Amsterdam

The first international war the United States waged after gaining its independence, was against this region.

[Nikita]

France? (Franco-American Naval War)
or Barbary Wars against Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, & Tripoli?
if it's neither of those, it's the War of 1812 against Great Britain


Birthplace of Madonna's David

[putupon]

Malawi

Wo ist der Schwarzwald?

[Nikita]

Baden-Wurrtemberg (Germany)


Where was the first skeleton of Cro-Magnon man found?

[Rudy]

France?

More specific answer (which I google-cheated for): Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.

Where were the skeletons for the "hobbit-like" non-human species found a few years ago? (They were determined not to be homo sapiens, but were closely related. A very significant find.)

[Nikita]

Flores island

Yes, but where in France? (isn't specificity a bitch? :p)


Holden Caulfield's school, Pencey Prep. (which state is it in)

[Rudy]

Pennsylvania, I'm pretty sure.

This is Mr. Darcy's main residence (either the town, or the name of the residence itself is fine.)

[Nikita]

(yep!)

Derbyshire...I think


Wanted (the movie, which city it's set in)

[Rudy]

Chicago.

In Anna and the King, what country is "the King" the head of?

[daydreamer]

thailand

"standing on a beach with a gun in my hand..."

[Rudy]

Algiers (To be up front, I had to be given many hints by daydreamer before I got this =D)

"the land of cotton"

[rwyatt365]

Dixie (does it need to be more exact?)

Where the US is closest to Russia

[daydreamer]

alaska

50 million square kilometers where the IWC has banned all types of commercial whaling

[Rudy]

Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (band of ocean around Antarctica)

The "Monroe Doctrine" applies/applied to this area.

[altoid]

Americas

Napoleon's death place

[Rudy]

St. Helena

This separated the Union from the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War.

[daydreamer]

mason dixon line? not sure...

this us hiking trail passes through 14 states

[Rudy]

Appalachian Trail, I think.

He wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. Where was he from?

[daydreamer]

greece, or macedonia

"sold down the river" is an expression that started here. think underground railroad.

[Rudy]

Mississippi River, I imagine, which slaves were shipped down on.

The Powder Keg

[daydreamer]

close, the ohio river

the balkans?

turkish iraq

[Nikita]

Turkmeneli? (it's where the Iraqi Turks live...)


its Capital City is Baku

[Rudy]

Azerbaijan

This is the youngest mountain range above sea level.

[Rudy]

The answer was the Himalayas =p

Here's an easy one, since no one got that:

When Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, what was his intended destination?

[Tragic Hero]

India.

The Big Banana

[jazziejazzay]

What is the Caribbean?

Caernarfon is a castle in ....?

[Rudy]

What is the Caribbean?

Caernarfon is a castle in ....?
India.

The Big Banana

Sorry, Tragic Hero was correct. That's actually why Native Americans were called "Indians," doncha know. Columbus thought he had reached India at first. So the next clue is:

"The Big Banana"

[Tragic Hero]

I'm replacing 'The Big Banana' clue{too obscure} with the clue...

Caernarfon is a castle in ....?

[Rudy]

Wales, right? The spelling gives it away...

By the standards of many historians, the fall of this city marked the final end of the Roman Empire. (Not Rome.)

[ElstonGunn]

Constantinople? What with the Byzantines pretending to still be the Romans...?

The Szlachta's homeland.

[Rudy]

Poland.

The ocean reaches it's deepest point here.

[Nikita]

Mariana Trench, I believe


Splash Moniker (do you guys need a hint?)

[Nikita]

^ Hint: think Hollywood

[Nikita]

Splash moniker

Hints: hollywood movie, Big Apple, mermaid, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah..."moniker" = where did the name come from, not looking for the city name, it's a street name

[Rudy]

Madison Avenue! (Which I only got with about... 3,000 hints)

In this land's creation myth, the first land was formed by drops from the tip of a spear, which congealed to form islands.

[Nikita]

Japan


This Norwegian island is further south than Cape Town.

[Rudy]

Peter the First Island.

Most legends about the "Fountain of Youth" in the New World placed it here.

[Nikita]

Florida

(Peter the First isn't what I was looking for, though it does fit, too.)


Sappho

[Rudy]

Lesbos Island, Greece.

This U.S. State was once its own country.

[Nikita]

Texas


Ruins of Niya

[callmemigs]

Xinjiang, China


"We speak Singlish here, lah! Ang mos are always welcome here, wor!. They just so darn power leh!"

[Rudy]

Singapore.

Here's an easy one:

A type of running competition derives it's name from this location.

[Nikita]

Xinjiang, China

That works. I was looking for Tarim Basin.

A type of running competition derives it's name from this location.

Marathon, Greece


the marble for Michelangelo's David came from a quarry here

[heyejanli]

the marble for Michelangelo's David came from a quarry here

Carrara, Italy.

The only city that sits in two continents.

[Nikita]

Orsk in Russia


known as The Friendly Islands

[Rudy]

Tonga

The emerald isle

[heyejanli]

Orsk in Russia

Wiki says that's one possible answer. The one I was thinking of, however, is much more populous (12.6 Million versus 275,000) and famous - Istanbul. So I guess neither one is the "only" answer. Guess it's time for me to post again on the "things I learned today" thread.

And Emerald Isle, totally Ireland.

How about this beaut?

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I'll give you a hint: it was built by the Abbasids.

[callmemigs]

Samarra, Iraq

General Douglas MacArthur's famous quote: "I came out of *youranswer* and I shall return".

[jazziejazzay]

YAY! It's Bataan?

"Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary" ?

[heyejanli]

"Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary" ?

Lake Chaubunagungamaug, aka Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg aka Lake Webster. Near Webster, Massachusetts.

I never thought I could exceed my daily intake of the letter G until now. Wards off the scurvy, you know.

Approximately 107,000 Lhotshampa have fleed this country since 1990. Most of them have been in exile since then or living in refugee camps. (Luckily the US agreed to grant refugee status to 60,000 of them in 2008.)

[Nikita]

Bhutan


the Bari tribe is an ethnic group in this country

[heyejanli]

Bari people are found in Venezuela and Colombia.

Also in the Sudan.

Which one did you mean?

Microstate in the Pyrenees.

[Rudy]

Andorra!

This small Arab emirate has the highest GDP per capita (using purchasing power parity) in the world.

[heyejanli]

UAE. I always wanted to see Dubai, especially the Burj.

This amazing city is also known locally as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.

[Rudy]

Bangkok! (I think)

And your answer was wrong, I'm afraid. It's even smaller than UAE (though not a Micro-state.)

So: This small Arab emirate has the highest GDP per capita (using purchasing power parity) in the world.

[Nikita]

Qatar?


"Here's lookin' at you, kid."

[Rudy]

"Why did you come to Casablanca?"
"For the water."
"There's no water in Casablanca!"
"I was misinformed."

A super easy one because I'm feeling lazy:

This location is the famous primary inspiration for Darwin's theory of natural selection.

[Nikita]

Galapagos Islands


Europe's 3rd largest city (by population within legal boundary)

[Rudy]

London St. Petersburg, when considering the legal city limits only.

According to the Bible, Moses and the Israelites wandered in this area for 40 years.

[heyejanli]

Are you looking for Sinai or are you looking for the biblical reference?

This country used to be called East Pakistan. Right now it has more than 200,000 Pakistani refugees.

[Rudy]

Sinai is what I was looking for.

You are looking for Bangladesh.

This region is the most commonly asserted home of "Bigfoot."

[callmemigs]

Pacific Northwest, North America

The name of the most famous island in the world. Hint: *youanswer* software, *youanswer* programming language, *youanswer* rice, *youanswer* coffee, *youanswer* jive, *youanswer*-nese cat and *youanswer* man.

Another clue: The most populous island in the fourth most populous country in the world famous for its earthquakes and volcanic soil. Now that is easy!

[Nikita]

Java (how is Java the most famous island in the world?)


the blue grotto

[callmemigs]

Capri, Italy

@Nikita: It's Java, not Japan. Japan is composed of four islands.

Where two famous volcanoes ,with perfect shaped-cones, are located: There are two possible answers, should be name of countries.

[Rudy]

Philippines.

"From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli" refers to what two countries?

[Arminius]

Mexico and Tripoli. Specifically the Mexican war and the Barbary wars(The second one is kind of a guess, I can't remember if Tripoli was an independent state of it's own or the capitol of one).





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I guess I'm supposed to leave the next clue:

What country is Tamerlane buried in?

[Nikita]

Uzbekistan


Skeleton Coast

[callmemigs]

Namibia

Goyol Fashion Festival

[Rudy]

Mongolia?

This part of China was the last European territory in Asia, handed over to China in 1999 by the first European country to claim Asian territory.

[callmemigs]

Mongolia?


Correct.

Answer: Macau

Question: The region where the sun never sets during midsummer.


EDITED

[heyejanli]

Arctic Circle.

The 40-ray sun on the flag of this country symbolizes the forty tribes of Manas who united them against the Mongols.

[Nikita]

Kyrgyzstan


Mount Tarvurvur

[heyejanli]

Papua New Guinea. Incidentally, that place is home to like 70 different languages, mostly unrelated. Apparently people from one valley rarely venture into a neighboring valley. Considering some of the practices there (cannibalism and ceremonial limb amputation come to mind), I'm thinking I wouldn't want to go far from home either.

This city's name means "Pool of the Nectar of Immortality" (poetic, right?) and is home to the House of God, gilt and holy.

[Nikita]

Amritsar (in India)...i think


the current name of the town of Boudica's tribe

[heyejanli]

Norfolk, England.

Amritsar is correct.

The mountain where Pliny the Elder was killed trying to evacuate people in a natural disaster. Pliny the Younger wrote about the situation in great detail to his friend Tacitus.

[Nikita]

Mount Vesuvius


city & state where the original Playboy mansion was built

[gestalt]

Milwaukee, WI. Hometon of Chris Farley, that beautiful hunk of man-meat.

*I didn't read the directions, are we supposed to be serious?* laugh

[Nikita]

wrong answer, and yes this thread is serious, you post the location related to the clue then post a new clue yourself


reposting:

city & state where the original Playboy mansion was built

[The DOCTOR]

Chicago.

-> greatest country in the world, number one exporter of potassium?

I think I just killed this thread. :knife:

[INTJoe]

Khazakstan

State where the Marfa Lights are found.

[intellael]

Marfa, Texas

The place of Stonehenge.

[Nikita]

Wiltshire county, England


Treaties of --------------- (name of the series of treaties is also the name of the city in which they were signed) ended the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678).

[Rudy]

Nijmegen.

The first automobile assembly line went into use here.

To clarify, the first conveyor-belt assembly line.

[Nikita]

Detroit / Ford's Highland Park, Michigan


its indigenous people gave the country this name: Aotearoa

[charolastra]

New Zealand


You would visit the Karahnjukar Dam in which country?

[Nemesis]

Iceland

The place where you would find a dish called Poutine

[heyejanli]

C eh? N eh? D eh? Quebec in particular. Cheese curds on fries? Sounds like the French to me.

I got an email today talking about how incensed they are that System of a Down is coming out with a new song "against" them. The song title is purported to be (in the language of the email "kopekler ve _______ girmez." It means, "No dogs or _____ allowed." If you know where Serj Tankian hails from, you can figure out what country this email was sent from. They are historical enemies, and there were massacres back and forth across the borders of the respective countries.

What country was that email I received sent from?

EDIT: Serj Tankian's country of origin calls itself Hayastan, and the country I'm looking for borders it.

[Nemesis]

Armenia.

What is the oldest established city in N.America

Hint: It is pre-colonial

[heyejanli]

Teotihuacan, Mexico, founded around 300 BC.

Not Armenia. I was looking for the country of origin of that email.

[heyejanli]

Apparently I killed the thread. The answer was Turkey. Let's see if we can revive it:

New question: While sailing on board the Beagle, Charles Darwin came up with his theory of natural selection after visiting which archipelago?

[Dolores]

Galapagos Islands


An international conference that was called in order to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I.

Took place in...

[Stratego]

Vienna (Congress of...)

How about a song reference to a city?

Some of the lyrics:

Some folks like to get away
take a holiday from the neighborhood.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach, or Hollywood--
But I'm taking a Gray Hound, on
the... River Line--
I'm in a ...... state of mind.

What city does this song refer to?

[paleoeco]

Vienna (Congress of...)

How about a song reference to a city?

Some of the lyrics:

Some folks like to get away
take a holiday from the neighborhood.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach, or Hollywood--
But I'm taking a Gray Hound, on
the... River Line--
I'm in a ...... state of mind.

What city does this song refer to?

New York.

What is the most northern US state capital named after a President?

[deicruxified]

washington

pearl of the orient

[MrWho100]

Shanghai

The Little Apple

[Cincinnatus]

Manhattan, KS

The Glass City

[Jonathan Brewer]

Toledo


Little Italy?

[Winston]

New York City

Orioles?

[paleoeco]

Baltimore


"The Sail City"





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What is the most northern US state capital named after a President?

washington

Actually, this is incorrect...Washington isn't a state capital.

[Jonathan Brewer]

The Sail City

Auckland, NZ, by chance?

Actually, this is incorrect...Washington isn't a state capital.

Madison, WI




The Garden Island?

[Boyd]

Kauai, HI

Cabbagetown?

[Dolores]

Toronto

Oahu Beach?

[skycloud86]

Hawaii.

Bridge of the World, Heart of the Universe?

[Night Runner]

Panama

The biggest little city in the world.

[paleoeco]

Reno, NV

Goat racing capital of the world.

[themuzicman]

buccoo, tobago

The Great Lake State

[paleoeco]

Michigan.

The destination of the Trieste, Kaiko, and Nereus.

[themuzicman]

Mariana Trench

Lincoln's birthplace





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Mariana Trench

Lincoln's birthplace

[Nikita]

Hardin County, Kentucky (assuming you mean Abraham)


Headquarters of the Ford Motor Company (city and state)

[schwartzie]

dearborn mi (a college roomie said she grew up in the shadow of the plant)

this place has a waterfall and was at the end of an underground railway

[Aristarce]

The gristmill in St. Johnsville New york.

They have their own girl pipers and a Ford plant.