[Thread Game] Where am I?

[TommiR]

This is a quiz kind of thread game. The basic idea is that somebody posts a picture of a famous building, landmark, site, or whatever, maybe gives a couple of clues as to what it is, and then others try to identify what it is that's in the picture. The person who gets it right gets to post the next picture.

I'll start things off.

Hint: it is located in a city that is famous for it's mercantile history.

 

[Jax]

Disneyland?

 

[TommiR]

Nope, old continent.

 

[strawman]

I'd play, but I dope with performance enhancing websites like tin eye, so I can only participate in non sanctioned forum games.

 

[TommiR]

Ah, well, this game operates on the 'honor' principle, so such reverse search websites would kind of ruin things. But other forms of performance enhancers are completely allowed; I myself for example rarely start threads without a few pints.

Hint: the city partnered with another one to become a big fish (HUGE) in the trading networks of medieval Europe.

 

[HCGLNS]

I'll have you know I am very proud of my 56% final grade in high school German class.

 

[TommiR]

Very warm. So what would be your answer, HCGLNS?

 

[HCGLNS]

It's the Holsten Gate in Lubeck.

 

[TommiR]

It's the Holsten Gate in Lubeck.

Correct.

As to your picture... hmm, a native american statue, the color might suggest a copper or bronze coating in rather good shape, so it's not very old. The evergreen trees seem to suggest northern US or Canada, though the statue's lack of clothes on the upper body might be more fitting for a plains indian (or at least a warmer climate).

To google!

 

[bhamv3]

It's the Holsten Gate in Lubeck.

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I've found the answer to this one, but I did it by cheating.

Spoiler

GHC&M'kM

 

[HCGLNS]

You're a witch!

 

[TommiR]

You're a witch!

I have to say I'm stumped. Any hints?

 

[HCGLNS]

I have to say I'm stumped. Any hints?

HCGLNS

 

[TommiR]

Got it. Truro Nova Scotian indian statue.

Though I did google that.

 

[bhamv3]

Now that TommiR's got it, I can reveal that I cheated by googling the image's file name.

 

[HCGLNS]

WITCH!!!

 

[TommiR]

Would that be from Palmyra?

 

[HCGLNS]

You're only a 5 hour drive away!

 

[TommiR]

Well, I understand there are plenty of cave churches in that area. The only ones I can say from the top of my head that would be at something of an appropriate distance would be at Antioch?

 

[HCGLNS]

Colder.

 

[TommiR]

Petra.

 

[HCGLNS]

Nuts, I had a really good clue too.

Now try this on for size;

 

[TommiR]

Eyjafjallajökull?

 

[The_Khan]

Nuts, I had a really good clue too.

Now try this on for size;

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it's a witch!

 

[TommiR]

it's a witch!

... A good play on words, if your answer is correct.

 

[The_Khan]

... A good play on words, if your answer is correct.

according to the file name, it's a witch!

 

[TommiR]

according to the file name, it's a witch!

That is what I understood from your previous post. Witch as in Hekla. Personally I try not to look at filenames.[DOUBLEPOST=1358477056][/DOUBLEPOST]Now one from me.

Hint: sometimes they walked, sometimes they swam. You can't explain that.

 

[Dirona]

Now one from me.

Hint: sometimes they walked, sometimes they swam. You can't explain that.
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St. Michael's Mount. I think. It's been a while since I've been there.

 

[TommiR]

Correct! Mont Saint Michel, a tidal island with a monastery, located in Normandy.

 

[jwhouk]

WITCH!!!

Ooh, Petra!

 

[Chad Sexington]

WITCH!!!

Whoever didn't know this was Petra immediately isn't a big enough fan of Indiana Jones.

 

[bhamv3]

Whoever didn't know this was Petra immediately isn't a big enough fan of Indiana Jones.

I didn't know it's Petra, I would've answered "the Grail place from Indiana Jones."

 

[Chad Sexington]

I didn't know it's Petra, I would've answered "the Grail place from Indiana Jones."

Accepted.

 

[Ravenpoe]

That is what I understood from your previous post. Witch as in Hekla. Personally I try not to look at filenames.[DOUBLEPOST=1358477056][/DOUBLEPOST]Now one from me.

Hint: sometimes they walked, sometimes they swam. You can't explain that.
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Mont Saint Michel in France?

 

[HCGLNS]

That is what I understood from your previous post. Witch as in Hekla. Personally I try not to look at filenames.[DOUBLEPOST=1358477056][/DOUBLEPOST]Now one from me.

Hint: sometimes they walked, sometimes they swam. You can't explain that.
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Ugh, my sister in law sent me 8 million photos of her trip there last year. Also, my place is not a witch, that's just a way with wich to catch you witches.

Clue: Jay