Tag: Unidentified Earth

And here we are again, after last week’s abject failure to keep up. Unidentified Earth 19 proved to be the easiest one to date, apparently; my readers beat it up and took its lunch money. It was, of course, St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. I’m probably supposed to award Quatloos to everyone who got it right, but it turns out that nobody used the church’s official name, the Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat. So no Quatloos for anyone! Ha! (Sure, that’s unfair, but they’re my Quatloos, dammit.)

By the way, it turns out that the Cathedral isn’t part of the Kremlin at all, but merely resides next door to the Kremlin. I always thought it was on the Kremlin grounds, but both the Cathedral and the Kremlin are on Red Square. OK then.

Anyhoo, time for this week’s puzzler:

Where are we?

As always, rot-13 your answers, please!

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Wow. One week, and last week’s entry is still unidentified, despite the hint from yesterday. So I’ll leave this one unidentified for now, but here’s another hint: it’s in the Pacific Northwest.

Meantime, staying right on schedule, here’s the next entry:

Where are we?

Rot-13 your answers, folks!

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Here we go again! Last week‘s answer will be familiar to anyone who has ever driven Interstate 90 westbound across South Dakota, and read the hundreds of billboards along that road: Wall Drug, of Wall, SD.

And now for this week’s puzzler:

Where are we?

Rot-13 your answers!

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And now we’re back in the swing of things! Before we go on, though, the unofficial entries from the other day are the Fox Plaza in Los Angeles (which served in Die Hard as the Nakitomi building), and the West Wing of the White House (you can see the oval roof of the oval office).

That aside, time for the new entry. Here it is:

Where are we?

(Rot-13 your answers, please!)

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I know that the newest installment of Unidentified Earth was supposed to run this past Thursday, but some logistical stuff prevented me from having the post ready. What logistical stuff, you say? Er…I forgot to do it. Sorry, folks.

So, Unidentified Earth will indeed return to its normal schedule this coming Thursday. For now, though, here are a couple of freebies that should be very easy:

And:

Where are we?

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Wow! Either this recurring feature has seriously dropped off in popularity, or I managed to come up with stumpers two weeks in a row, as last week’s entry is as yet unidentified. In fact, no one even hazarded an actual guess! What’s up with that? I might start giving hints, but for now, concentrate on the corners of the image there; they may help clarify the type of thing we’re looking at.

And with that, it’s time for this week’s entry, which is admittedly quite a lot easier.

Where are we?

(Rot-13 your answers!)

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UPDATED BELOW with the answer.

OK, I’m not going to give this one up quite yet, but I’ll try and make it a little more clear. I must admit it now: I may have played unfairly with Unidentified Earth 14, where instead of showing a photo of a famed locale, I showed the satellite image of the road that leads to that famed locale. Now, a bit of that famed locale is visible in the image I used, but maybe that wasn’t enough. So, here’s another image of that locale:

Does that help?

UPDATE, 8-19-07: Well, that made it a lot easier, didn’t it! Within hours, two correct answers came in. The site is Machu Picchu, in Peru. In the original photo I used, I slid east a hair and used the switchback road that runs up the mountainside to the site, with just a bit of the famed city itself visible at the upper left.

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