You begin with two Europe countries/US states shown in the grid. Upon starting, your job is to sort the countries/states in order from largest to smallest by max elevation (so countries/states with the highest max elevation first). The order is represented by the '1st' thru '16th' in each box. You can click on a country/state to move it to a higher position in the list - simply click once and it will turn red, then clicked another higher-ranked country/state to position the first country/state before it. Click submit to check your answers...if they are in order you will get a new country/state added to the end which needs to be positioned correctly, and so on until you either get one wrong or complete all 15 levels.
PLEASE NOTE: Only the portions of each country geographically in Europe are counted to determine the highest points. So no Asian portion of Turkey/Russia, African portion of Spain/Portugal, Greenland, etc.
hugequiz Premium members will see country/state max elevations when the quiz is over.
Sources I’ve checked show it’s 193 miles from Columbia to Atlanta, but the map seems to indicate it’s just a shade over 200.
I can only use what the Google Maps API says is the distance…obviously minor discrepancies will exist. I’ll double check that the quiz is using routes based on shortest distance and not factoring time into the route choice.
Wait… are you using routes to determine distance? Saying “within 200 miles” seems to indicate that you’re using an as-the-crow-flies measurement, not a travel measurement.
oh whoops I was thinking this was a route based quiz without even looking above at what it was haha…no this is as the crow flies, so the difference is due to coordinates.
also consider the coordinates used – the coordinates I have for a city are not likely the exact coordinates some services use when just typing in the city name and requesting directions. mine are based on Geonames coordinates, whereas different directions services may use city hall, or some other area within the city as the endpoint.
Yes it’s working here too now, must have been a bug or something…or my score was too low…
Although I’m logged in, my scores won’t save at all..
hmm – i just tested twice and worked here – you sure you hit all 50 capitals? did you immediately leave the page after completing the quiz?
i fixed the bug with the score saving even though all capitals weren’t completed – i did remove the 23 score, if it was good sorry, you’ll have to post again.
The top score of 1 is pretty amazing. If it were true, though, all U.S. state capitals would be within 200 miles of each other.
yeah fixing this right now. that’s quite the sweet spot if it were legit!
For the leaderboard, there needs to be a mechanism to require you to finish the quiz to have your score posted. I got called away after 4 moves, and after time expired, my score was posted.
oh yeah forgot about that…I’ll fix shortly for both this and world one.