Can you name the North American city by a photo of one of its landmarks?

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North American City by Landmark II Quiz

by jonesjeffum

Created Sep 3, 2010 in Geography
Featured Oct 18, 2011
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	jonesjeffum:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:12 GMT	-2 points
	If you like my quiz you might also like this one.. with all 50 states represented: http://www.sporcle.com/games/jonesjeffum/usstatelandmark

	fifteenkeys:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:22 GMT	43 points
	Wow, how did I miss Austin, what with its unique capitol building with a dome unlike so many others out there...

	Jordan117:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:26 GMT	37 points
	#22: MEANWHILE, AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE...

	drn211:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:28 GMT	9 points
	For all those noting the similarities, yes the Hall of Justice from Super Frieds is based on Union Terminal in Cincy.

	tstenz:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:31 GMT	30 points
	...an airport?

	pfrijiritr:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:36 GMT	6 points
	I literally put in Paris for the Las Vegas one, momentarily forgetting the North American condition.

	Hal_10000:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 04:38 GMT	26 points
	Some of these landmarks were difficult to distinguish in the tiny pictures. I couldn't even tell what the canal one was. Thought it was modern art.

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	object_holder:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 05:10 GMT	10 points
	I should have guessed Austin just because everything in that city is painted orange.

	plaidgoat:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 05:28 GMT	17 points
	i live in portland, and pioneer courthouse is not a famous landmark people recognize

	allcaps:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 06:41 GMT	48 points
	It is, and always will be, the sears tower

	General:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 06:46 GMT	5 points
	3/25. When it comes to these quizzes it sucks being an Aussie. Ha ha. :D

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	AriesLA:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 08:13 GMT	35 points
	Because its the only field with a green monster in left !

	Ulkomaalainen:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 10:35 GMT	8 points
	Got 7, should have gotten 8, and need a decent headslap for confusing "US" with "North American" when usually I am one of the first to point out said difference. Feel free.

	historybuff1861:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 11:12 GMT	0 points
	Panama City eh never would have gotten that in a million years good quiz though.

	Tony_A:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 11:50 GMT	-1 points
	No Fort McHenry?:(

	AnotherSchmoe:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 11:53 GMT	-4 points
	Cool quiz. People are just crying because they couldn't get any and they're too used to the super easy ones. I still only got 8 but it was fun. Good thing I went to San Diego this summer or I would have only gotten 7. ;)

	SgtPeppers:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 12:09 GMT	1 point
	I missed Austin, and I live here... I also have the spoon and cherry as my phone wallpaper, and I somehow skipped over it.

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	Tony_A:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 12:47 GMT	16 points
	@decorativeed, I'm not disagreeing with you, but Fenway, being the oldest ballpark in use today, makes it a shoo-in. The only other possibility in my opinion would be Wrigley, but there's no way that Fenway and Wrigley can be confused with each other, no matter what the size of the photo is. And this is coming from someone who is in no way a Red Sox fan.

	save_ferris15:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 13:31 GMT	4 points
	I really couldn't tell that that was an airport from the picture.

	aharm:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 13:45 GMT	4 points
	Quizes are not supposed to be easy. This was a good one.

	steel03:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 14:40 GMT	6 points
	Some of these seemed a little odd to me. Is Denver's airport really that different from any other airport? Especially from that distance. And Austin really likes to tout its capitol as somehow better than others, but it looks just like 90% of all the other state capitols out of context.

	tjconn728:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 14:58 GMT	10 points
	It's one thing to be challenging, it's another to use pretty obscure structures and call them "landmarks." I didn't get the Cincinnati one, but if it inspired the Hall of Justice at least some people must know it. On the other hand, I just went to Portland this summer and no tour guide I saw even mentioned Pioneer Courthouse as a notable site for either architecture or history. And maybe I'm just being ignorant, but I can't figure out why anyone would recognize a rather undistinguished bridge in a city that not that many people either live in or visit.

	Blimpyboy:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 15:13 GMT	1 point
	Wow, what an ENORMOUS dropoff between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh! I liked the quiz overall - a fairly good mix of instantly-recognizable and obscure-enough-to-inspire-thought. I'm not so sure a few of them really stand out enough to be guessed by anyone who doesn't see them regularly, though. I've been to Austin and seen that building, but it isn't very dissimilar from dozens of other capitol buildings across North America.

	jonesjeffum:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 15:14 GMT	2 points
	25% of people got Denver- that's pretty good considering all the complaining that it is their airport

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	chriswbennett:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 16:12 GMT	15 points
	@Mackadal - because "Chateau Frontenac" is not a North American city

	tomahaha:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 16:17 GMT	1 point
	very nice, well done! What bothered me was missing a few I actually KNOW and others I had guessed a right city, wrong picture (a few lucky guesses in there as well)

	ClintT13:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 16:54 GMT	4 points
	It's really a bit sad that only 3 percent of sporclers can recognize the National World War I Memorial -- AKA the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. If a memorial isn't in Washington, people seem to overlook it.

	ClintT13:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 16:56 GMT	13 points
	Also, anyone who has ever been to Denver should have got the airport right away. That place IS a landmark. How many cities have a tent for an airport?

	Akhoya:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 16:57 GMT	3 points
	I agree that the Panama picture is weird, but it's still sad only 12.8% of people realize the whole canal connection...

	Disclaimer:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 17:48 GMT	4 points
	I half agree with plaidgoat. I think anyone who spends any time in downtown Portland would recognize the Pioneer Courthouse, but there's no reason anyone else would. Even though I live in Portland, I tried a couple other things for it first, before I realized why it looked familiar. The particular picture chosen actually made it harder, because all of the flowers and plants in the foreground are actually temporary flower pots set up in a town square. Makes it look like it's sitting in a park, which threw me off.

	Beatlezfann:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 19:27 GMT	2 points
	so the the cathedral in Guadalajara is just called "Cathedral". Come on Guad! Pick a saint, any saint!

	mynicka:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 19:55 GMT	3 points
	the green monster gave away boston, 10/25

	booklover12:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 20:18 GMT	1 point
	Hm, guessed Minneapolis for several pictures, just not the RIGHT one.