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eye in the sky
QUIZ: Can you tell these international cities from satellite photos?
Think you learned nothing from geography?
TIME TO RECALL all that geography you learned in the two weeks before the Leaving Cert!
Can you tell these cities from the air? Do you spend a lot of time on Google Maps? Will I ever need this knowledge in the “real world”?
Let’s start…
This is....
Vancouver
Ottawa
Toronto
Edmonton
This is...
Boston
New York
Detroit
Chicago
This is...
Paris
Madrid
Rome
London
This is...
Paris
London
Berlin
Rome
This is...
Rome
Dubrovnik
Berlin
Venice
This is...
Bangkok
Tokyo
Beijing
Shanghai
This is...
Jakarta
Tokyo
Kuala Lumpur
Beijing
This is...
Sydney
Melbourne
Canberra
Brisbane
This is...
Los Angeles
San Diego
Seattle
San Francisco
This is...
Madrid
Seville
Bilbao
Barcelona
You scored out of !
You are a satellite
You're constantly staring at Earth from this angle. It's terrifying that you are sentient enough to access and complete a quiz like this. We don't know whether to fear to adore you.
You scored out of !
You are a very clever crow.
You're used to flying over these places everyday so identifying them is old hat to you. Well done on mastering the English language and figuring out how to use a computer.
You scored out of !
You're Ferdinand Magellan
You used to travel around a lot, but things have changed, so you missed a couple.
You scored out of !
You got a B3 in Leaving Cert Geography, didn't you?
A couple of the curve-balls threw you, which is a pity since you did so well in the mocks.
You scored out of !
You were in a plane. Once
Eh....not great.
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