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Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 26 May 2008, 15:30
by jamesthegill
Deadline is Sunday June 1st at 8pm - any entries after this time will be disregarded, even if I haven't closed off the quiz.
Correct answers: 10. Wrong answers: 7.

Re: Photo Quiz 12
Posted: 26 May 2008, 15:48
by tubeguru
Easy.
Re: Photo Quiz 12
Posted: 26 May 2008, 23:17
by jbom1
The twin circular arcs supporting the screens remind me of the contraption (also in the middle of a roundabout) visible from SWT trains looking north at Wandswoth Town station, which is the doppleganger of the alien machine from the movie Contact.
Re: Photo Quiz 12
Posted: 27 May 2008, 00:34
by CrunchySaviour
jbom1 wrote:the alien machine from the movie Contact.
Do you mean the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, also used in GoldenEye? It's one of my favourite structures.
Re: Photo Quiz 12
Posted: 27 May 2008, 06:07
by tubeguru
Erm, he means the machine they built to travel through time in the film Contact which is purely a fictional construct, as opposed to the rather more tangible Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Re: Photo Quiz 12
Posted: 27 May 2008, 09:44
by jbom1
Tubeguru, you are correct; I mean this
http://www.thames-path.org.uk/images/th ... tney25.jpg
- though the Arecibo Observatory is indeed better looking.
Re: Photo Quiz 12
Posted: 27 May 2008, 12:56
by CrunchySaviour
Oh, OK.
Re: Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 01 Jun 2008, 20:33
by jamesthegill
Correct answers:
tubeguru
Richard
CrunchySaviour
dudey
jbom1 (who found the photo I nicked for the quiz)
Nigel
Lancaster Gate
editorsfoot
joy54
nozzacook
Wrong answers:
jonny
Sam
Starkey7
Steeevooo
Going Underground
palkanetoijala31
uefacup81
Wrong guesses:
Waterloo
Vauxhall x 3
Elephant and Castle x 3
Clues? Well, the large Congestion C on the road suggests it's in zone 1, and looking at the stations on the edge of the C zone only three were next to large roundabouts - and only one of those has a whacking great ad hording on it.
Re: Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 01 Jun 2008, 21:06
by Going Underground
Unless I missed that answer where is it then?
Re: Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 01 Jun 2008, 21:10
by Root
Old Street, isn't it?
Re: Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 01 Jun 2008, 21:13
by dudey
jamesthegill wrote:
jbom1 (who found the photo I nicked for the quiz)
as did i

Re: Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 01 Jun 2008, 21:32
by tubeguru
Naturally you've credited the person who took the picture ...
*hint*
Re: Photo Quiz 12 (now finished)
Posted: 02 Jun 2008, 00:07
by Root
Under the Creative Commons License that photo was released under, distribution of the work is permitted if certain criteria are met, one of which is attribution to the original author, and another of which is a link to the terms of the license, which can be found
here. The photo can be found
here.