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11-23-2017 , 06:44 AM
Surprised that the White House is grouped with the National Mall yet Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile are separate entries.
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11-23-2017 , 07:24 AM
Berlin Wall
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11-23-2017 , 08:32 AM
Dome of the Rock
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11-23-2017 , 10:25 AM
Blue Mosque
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11-23-2017 , 10:30 AM
Panama Canal
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11-23-2017 , 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Biesterfield
Nile River
More specific please. (Or a different answer entirely would be okay too)
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11-23-2017 , 07:12 PM
Bernina Pass
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11-23-2017 , 10:55 PM
Since everyone is in, we'll move on, but we'll need some replacement answers.

Biesterfield's Nile River is too vague, and I'm going to say that xander's Natural History Museum is too close to Central Park to consider it a different attraction. (I realize there's quite a bit subjectivity here, but I'm doing the best I can based on either what they say in the blurb or what I think they would say.)

We are saying goodbye to two players. ibav gets strike 3 with Park Guell, and sixfour goes down with the Bernina Pass.

derwi, D1iab, Vader and e_holle all stay alive with answers in the top 200.

Brian O'Nolan misses with the Brooklyn Bridge, leaving TN as the only player with 8 correct answers in a row.

Answers from that round:
43 Table Mountain
63 Berlin Wall
86 Dome of the Rock
104 Auschwitz
108 Bora Bora
146 Blue Mosque
186 Karnak
471 Panama Canal
N/A Brooklyn Bridge
N/A Napali Coast
N/A Park Guell
N/A Ubud Temples
N/A Bernina Pass

Full list:
1 Angkor Wat
2 Great Barrier Reef
3 Machu Picchu
4 Great Wall of China
5 Taj Mahal
6 Grand Canyon
7 Colosseum
8 Iguazu Falls
9 Alhambra
10 Hagia Sophia
13 Petra
15 British Museum
16 Sagrada Familia
17 Fiordland National Park
19 Galapagos Islands
21 Yosemite National Park
23 Salar de Uyuni
25 Giza Pyramid Complex
26 Piazza San Marco
27 Victoria Falls
28 Acropolis
29 Chateau de Versailles
33 Uluru
34 Charles Bridge
37 Louvre
38 Torres del Paine
40 Eiffel Tower
41 Pompeii
43 Table Mountain
45 Serengeti National Park
46 Hermitage
49 Ngorongoro Crater
51 Pantheon
52 Tate Modern
55 Notre-Dame de Paris
57 Sydney Opera House
58 Edinburgh Castle
61 Yellowstone National Park
62 Stonehenge
63 Berlin Wall
65 Ha Long Bay
73 Mezquita
77 Redwood National Park
78 Chichen Itza
80 Metropolitan Museum of Art
84 Monument Valley
85 St Peter's Basilica
86 Dome of the Rock
87 Red Square
88 Forbidden City
89 Uffizi
90 Everest Base Camp
97 Big Sur
100 Okavango Delta
101 Golden Gate Bridge
103 Giant's Causeway
104 Auschwitz
108 Bora Bora
109 Empire State Building
110 Niagara Falls
115 Vatican Museums
116 Easter Island
118 St Paul's Cathedral
135 Norwegian Fjords
138 Ephesus
139 Kruger National Park
144 Statue of Liberty
146 Blue Mosque
155 Walt Disney World
159 Neuschwanstein
160 Terracotta Warriors
163 Banff National Park
169 Royal Mile
170 Cristo Redentor
171 National Mall
177 Rocky Mountain National Park
186 Karnak
195 Korean Demilitarized Zone
202 Blue Mountain National Park
208 Times Square
217 Summer Palace
225 Museo del Prado
228 Alcatraz
233 Rijksmuseum
241 Cinque Terre
246 Burj Khalifa
255 Rhodes Old Town
267 Denali National Park
271 Angel Falls
278 Death Valley National Park
295 Dead Sea
296 Kilimanjaro
297 Cologne Cathedral
312 Petronas Towers
320 Bay of Fundy
333 Grotte de Lascaux
352 Himeji Castle
369 Amazon River
384 Komodo National Park
391 Mount Rushmore
435 Brandenburg Gate
450 Church on the Spilled Blood
459 Mount Fuji
467 Tower of London
471 Graceland
471 Panama Canal
491 Leaning Tower of Pisa
N/A Arc de Triomphe
N/A Baseball Hall of Fame
N/A Bernina Pass
N/A Big Ben
N/A Brooklyn Bridge
N/A Buckingham Palace
N/A Central Park
N/A Chartres Cathedral
N/A Checkpoint Charlie
N/A CN Tower
N/A Copacabana Beach
N/A Gateway Arch
N/A Glacier National Park
N/A Herculaneum
N/A Hollywood
N/A Kaaba
N/A Las Vegas Strip
N/A London Bridge
N/A Mammoth Cave National Park
N/A Monticello
N/A Mount Fukushima
N/A Napali Coast
N/A Painted Desert
N/A Palawan
N/A Park Guell
N/A Petrified Forest National Park
N/A Seattle Gum Wall
N/A Space Needle
N/A Sugarloaf Mountain
N/A Sydney Harbour Bridge
N/A The Alamo
N/A Tiananmen Square
N/A Tivoli Gardens
N/A Tongariro National Park
N/A Trevi Fountain
N/A Ubud Temples
N/A Western Wall
N/A Westminster Abbey
N/A Whistler

Players and strikes:
1 aaronk56
2 Biesterfield (need 2 answers this round)
1 Brian O'Nolan
3 chuckleslovakian
3 CrimsonFox
2 D1iabol1cal
2 derwipok
3 DWetzel
2 e_holle
2 filthyvermin
3 iamnotawerewolf
3 ibavly
3 JMurder3
1 mic_check12
2 rtspurs
3 sixfour
1 soma84
2 TehVader
0 True North
1 xander biscuits (need 2 answers this round)

ROUND 9: GO!
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11-23-2017 , 11:07 PM
Aurora Borealis in Iceland
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11-23-2017 , 11:30 PM
Matterhorn
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11-23-2017 , 11:31 PM
Hey eb, if we can give a good description of somewhere but can't remember the name of it, is that good enough?
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11-23-2017 , 11:37 PM
Everglades National Park
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11-23-2017 , 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by D1iabol1cal
Hey eb, if we can give a good description of somewhere but can't remember the name of it, is that good enough?
Eb says that's good enough in the original post.
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11-23-2017 , 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by D1iabol1cal
Hey eb, if we can give a good description of somewhere but can't remember the name of it, is that good enough?
Yes, just give as good a description as you can and I'll do my best to match it to what you're talking about.
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11-23-2017 , 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by aaronk56
Eb says that's good enough in the original post.
Oops, guess I missed that part. I tend to zone out if there are more than 2 sentences in a post.
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11-23-2017 , 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by eyebooger
If you can't think of the name exactly, just give as good a description as you can, and I'll do my best to match it to a site.
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Originally Posted by D1iabol1cal
Hey eb, if we can give a good description of somewhere but can't remember the name of it, is that good enough?
I wish I had faith in John Bull and Jane Q. Public to vote correctly. I'm cycling through 3-4 answers, all of which should be in the book. The big wheel is stopping on Indianapolis Motor Speedway . It's hard not to try to steal Biesterfield's adjusted answer.
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11-23-2017 , 11:51 PM
If I fail this round, I'm Googling the rest. I may have to get that book. I'm hooked on this.
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11-23-2017 , 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by e_holle
If I fail this round, I'm Googling the rest. I may have to get that book. I'm hooked on this.
You would have really liked our vacation draft last year.
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11-24-2017 , 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by eyebooger
You would have really liked our vacation draft last year.
I'll keep a lookout for the next one. I think it was just about a year ago that I left the rest of 2+2 for POG.
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11-24-2017 , 12:31 AM
National Gallery, London
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11-24-2017 , 01:16 AM
maldives
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11-24-2017 , 01:57 AM
Virunga volcano/national park/mountain gorillas
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11-24-2017 , 02:16 AM
Gg thanks for running

Shouldn't checkpoint Charlie have gotten credit for Berlin wall?
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11-24-2017 , 02:32 AM
The Liberty Bell
St Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin)
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11-24-2017 , 05:03 AM
Mont St Michel
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