New game - geographic trivia with Google

JonT posted a pic said Thu, Jul 3rd 2014 at 2:33pm ET

http://smartypins.withgoogle.com/

I've always been terrible with geography but pretty decent at general trivia. Some of the questions are much easier than others, and the hints can be real giveaways but it's still challenging.

I've only done a few runs, but here's my high score so far:

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JonT said Thu, Jul 3rd 2014 at 2:45pm ET:

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katylava said Thu, Jul 3rd 2014 at 3:07pm ET:

In my first attempt I answered only 5 questions. I had the wrong coast for where The Wire takes place (never seen it).

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- 18 on my second try, but the hints made it pretty easy.
  
  katylava said Thu, Jul 3rd 2014 at 3:16pm ET
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ceagee said Thu, Jul 3rd 2014 at 10:05pm ET:

21 It said something like "bow down peons"
which sounds about right : )
It didn't like my mac. I couldn't copy the thing at the end to show my score. I should of taken a screen shot. But it was too late once I committed to the copy and post option. AND I should of had 2 more points but the stupid marker was so sensitive and I kept enlarging the map to try and get the right town and it would give me the next town over. Sigh. I finally quite because it was giving me a headache.

tl;dr : I rule

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- That's quit not quite.
  
  ceagee said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 6:32pm ET
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- You need to leave. That's hardly mediocre.
  
  joshaw said Tue, Jul 8th 2014 at 2:07pm ET
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- @joshaw -- scroll down for response. Can't post image here.
  
  ceagee said Tue, Jul 8th 2014 at 9:18pm ET
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Thumperchick said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 12:06am ET:

This took to my 4th or 5th round (I kept picking the wrong Canadian city!)

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capguncowboy said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 10:05am ET:

http://smartypins.withgoogle.com/share?s=28

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Once I realized that you have time to wait for the clue, and the bonus was just additional miles, I did much better

It asked where Wayne Gretzky started his career. I'm not a hockey fan, so I waited for the clue. It gave the clue "Home of the Oilers" Naturally, I selected Houston instead of Edmonton. Oops!

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katylava said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 10:38am ET:

Got up to 23 -- was doing really well (with some really obvious hints) and was down to 770 miles... then I got a question where i was 1100 miles off!

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veedubtdi said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 1:25pm ET:

Is it cheating to Google the answers if it's a Google game? Pegman thinks I'm smart at 31 questions.

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- yes
  
  ceagee said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 6:30pm ET
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- eh... we're not really competing against each other, so if it's still fun for that way then go for it
  
  katylava said Fri, Jul 4th 2014 at 7:21pm ET
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- The questions start to get really difficult the farther you go. There are some really obscure ones!
  
  veedubtdi said Sat, Jul 5th 2014 at 11:17am ET
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ceagee said Tue, Jul 8th 2014 at 9:17pm ET:

@joshaw

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