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[garbon]

What are your closest tacks so far?  6 klicks from Bilboa and 10 klicks from Paris.

12 clicks from London and 10 from Istanbul

9 from Bristol.

[mongers]

What are your closest tacks so far?  6 klicks from Bilboa and 10 klicks from Paris.

12 clicks from London and 10 from Istanbul

I got a few in the 4-12 range on the 4 goes I had, I think at the resolution of the browser window it's pretty much pot luck below 15.

[Josephus]

72014.

I didn't get any Malta questions...though really, any Maltese city and you should nail it.

Not if you don't remember where in Med it is

For shame!

[mongers]

Got 84k on my second try, once I realized that shooting quicker is better than trying to pinpoint the location.

Ah that explains why I got 87k on the 4th try, whilst only on average 13kms nearer but 0.4 sec faster at 3.9 secs. 

[DGuller]

Up to 88.6k!

[CountDeMoney]

I won by not taking the quiz.

I could definitely tell that I played more Western Front games than Eastern Front games in my youth. 

I did nail Minsk within 11 klicks, though.

[jimmy olsen]

77219 first try, 10 klicks from Paris was my best, but I averaged 150 km off in 4.1 seconds. 

[DGuller]

Up to 90.9k!  I got within 3 km of Vienna.

[mongers]

Up to 88.6k!

92.55k on 5th go, you're right shooting from the hip works, averaged 2.8sec each one.

[Ideologue]

A fun little Cities of Europe Geography browser quiz

http://www.geography-map-games.com/geography-games-Cities-of-Europe-_pageid44.html

I didn't break 70,000 until my 3rd try.    I blame Paradox for my poor knowledge of European geography.

83,439.

Completely muffed Seville, which i should have gotten close to from reading about the Spanish Civil War.

Put Zagreb in Bosnia. Fortunately Yuro countries are so dinky you can be a country off and only miss by 80 klicks.

For anyone else playing, you get a time bonus so don't around for 15 seconds getting the exact spot of the city.

78,919.  Cannes was my Waterloo.  I thought it was near the Channel Coast.  I think I may have been thinking of Caen.

Also Dortmund or something, a city I have literally never heard of.

They break the test by giving you the name of the country, though.  Anybody knows where Cyprus is, so you automatically get like 4500 points even if you wouldn't have been able to immediately recall where or what Nicosia even was.  Not me.  I don't mean me.  I knew where it was.

[The Larch]

90k on my 1st try.

[CountDeMoney]

Stupid Bratislava.

[DGuller]

Up to to my 5th attempt, and got 93.5k!

[DGuller]

Stupid Bratislava.

The Balkans are really a balkanized clusterfuck.  It's hard to remember where all those new countries are, and that damn Croatia is so stretched out that even knowing where it is doesn't help.

[CountDeMoney]

Stupid Bratislava.

The Balkans are really a balkanized clusterfuck.  It's hard to remember where all those new countries are, and that damn Croatia is so stretched out that even knowing where it is doesn't help.

Stupid Ljujubeanlj.