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Post by rincew1nd on Jun 27, 2012 23:15:56 GMT
Change electoral roll address, check. Think about phone/Broadband/TV packages, check. Transfer TV licence, check. Sort out utilities, check. Post the quiz, ermmmm, oh yeah. Seeing as I've lots to do I thought we'd break out the insets for you all: Question: (click for a larger version) For ease, the insets are numbered according to the diagram below So, main and insets one to six please. Answers on a postcard, though I've already had my first piece of mail; a bill!
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Post by Deep Level on Jun 27, 2012 23:19:58 GMT
Inset 1: ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower Inset 2: Natural History Museum? Inset 6: Something on sale at London Transport Museum? Inset 4 was used recently and I remember the answer but didn't get it right on that occasion so it wouldn't be fair to answer now .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 23:21:42 GMT
Inset 1 looks like the top of the Olympic Park sculpture Inset 4 is the cabmen's shelter at Temple
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 27, 2012 23:21:58 GMT
5 = Canada Water?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 7:47:54 GMT
The main looks like Woodside Park...
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jun 28, 2012 9:06:24 GMT
I sent in answer too. It wasn't published, presumably because it was very similar to (but less precise than) Hugo's.
However, it can't be quite correct, because the Alert memorial answer he specifies has Lancaster gate (and only Lancaster Gate) as the nearest station. The furthest point from a tube station (or any random set of points) must be equidistant from three of those points. In the example Lancaster Gate is 1015m away and Gloucester Road and South Kensington both about 1200m. If you move 85m south, they will all be about 1100m away.
Similarly the Mount Pleasant example: if Angel is 1km away, you can move a little closer to it, taking you further than the quoted 829m from both Farringdon and Russell Square.
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Post by Deep Level on Jun 28, 2012 9:15:14 GMT
I sent in answer too. It wasn't published, presumably because it was very similar to (but less precise than) Hugo's. However, it can't be quite correct, because the Alert memorial answer he specifies has Lancaster gate (and only Lancaster Gate) as the nearest station. The furthest point from a tube station (or any random set of points) must be equidistant from three of those points. In the example Lancaster Gate is 1015m away and Gloucester Road and South Kensington both about 1200m. If you move 85m south, they will all be about 1100m away. Similarly the Mount Pleasant example: if Angel is 1km away, you can move a little closer to it, taking you further than the quoted 829m from both Farringdon and Russell Square. Sorry, have I missed something?
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Post by Chris M on Jun 28, 2012 10:31:49 GMT
I too am confused. Lancaster Gate was last used in February, Gloucester Road in early May and South Kensington in July 2011. The Albert Memorial has never been used as an inset, and while I'm still compiling a record of all the bonus questions, the phrase 'Albert Memorial' doesn't appear on any monthly answer sheet and the word 'Memorial' doesn't appear on any individual answer sheet for 2012.
Mount Pleasant has similarly never appeared in any form, Angel was last used in February, Russell Square in January and Farringdon in August last year.
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Post by cso on Jun 28, 2012 11:33:31 GMT
I think he's commented on the wrong thread.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jun 28, 2012 13:30:14 GMT
I think he's commented on the wrong thread. Sorry, yes I did. Apologies for the confusion
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Post by v52gc on Jun 28, 2012 17:57:43 GMT
Inset 1: Orbit +2 Inset 2: T-Rex at the Nat History Museum in South Ken Inset 4: Cabbie shelter at Temple near Aldwych station +1
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Post by gantshill on Jun 28, 2012 18:58:48 GMT
One of the insets is, I think, a photograph that I took. I won't guess that one and I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue about any of the others.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jun 28, 2012 23:02:43 GMT
OK, so we have some. In order they are: Main Location - Points to Dave A: Woodside Park - northbound waiting room [londonstuff] (click for a larger version) Inset 1 - Points to Deep Level: "Orbit" viewed from the Greenway near the View Tube [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Inset 2 - Points to v52gc rather than Deep Level on this one, if only for the extra little bit of detail: Dinosaur head in the Natural History Musuem [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Inset 3 - No guesses, this version may help: (click for a larger version) Inset 4 - Points to neutron for this one: Taxi shelter in Temple Place [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Inset 5 - No correct guesses yet, this version may help: (click for a larger version) Inset 6 - Again no correct guesses yet, this version may help: (click for a larger version) @ gantshill yes, one of the insets is your picture.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jun 29, 2012 7:28:14 GMT
Inset 3 - town wall at caernarfon Inset 6 - is that a tube safety advert?
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Post by Chris M on Jun 29, 2012 13:05:39 GMT
Inset 3 is the town walls at Caernarfon, but inset 6 isn't a tube safety anything.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2012 21:45:28 GMT
the tower in 5 looks pretty new - it's not at Salzburg airport is it?
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Post by Chris M on Jul 23, 2012 22:41:31 GMT
Inset 5 is much closer to the main location than Salzburg.
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Post by compsci on Jul 24, 2012 9:21:12 GMT
Inset 5 - Roof of Woolwich Arsenal station
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Post by cso on Jul 24, 2012 9:27:15 GMT
That does for me: Inset 5: Woolwich Arsenal - cupola on National Rail station building [Chris M] (click for a larger version)
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Post by compsci on Jul 24, 2012 9:34:49 GMT
Inset 6 appears (after copious use of google) to be a "beer art" bottle (annual commission of local young artists to design interesting bottles) at the Stiegl brewery in Salzburg.
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Post by gantshill on Jul 24, 2012 9:41:39 GMT
As I took the photo I agree with compsci, I took it during a tour of the Stiegl brewery earlier this year. Stiegl we were told means steps, hence the logo of the steps and the inscription on the roundel/bullseye.
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Post by cso on Jul 24, 2012 9:51:31 GMT
Inset 6: "Mind the Step" beer bottle, Stiegl-Brauerei Brauwelt exhibition, Salzburg, Austria [Gantshill]. (click for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 24, 2012 23:38:15 GMT
Inset 6 appears (after copious use of google) to be a "beer art" bottle (annual commission of local young artists to design interesting bottles) at the Stiegl brewery in Salzburg. Google eh? Sneaky! Next you'll be Googling a location and a date to try and find a link between them!
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Post by compsci on Jul 25, 2012 8:56:21 GMT
I am reminded of a dodgy online programming test that I had to take to get an interview for a job a while back. Somebody had decided that it was possible to determine ability to write software based on intimate knowledge of the most obscure features of Java that nobody ever bothers to memorise.
But the preamble did say that I was allowed to use whatever reference materials were available to me. Google was available to me owing to the existence of the internet.
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Post by melikepie on Jul 25, 2012 12:46:40 GMT
That does for me: Inset 5: Woolwich Arsenal - cupola on National Rail station building [Chris M] (click for a larger version) so much for me thinking this was some modern prison tower
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