Thread: Guess the Google Map: Winter Edition

Welcome to Volume III of Guess the Google Map, one of Bulbagarden's oldest games originally started by @Evil Figment, revived with his blessings.

How to Play:
A user will look up a map on Google (in satellite mode), find a location, screen cap it without labels and post it here for everyone to guess. Please spoiler any maps larger than 800px wide.

When taking a screen cap, please make sure the 45 degree mode is disabled (as shown in the spoiler) and to make sure all distinguishing labels are off.

Once posted, users will try and guess the landmark or location indicated by the current map. The current map poster is to provide the type of location they're looking for specifically be it a city, road, object, building, body of water or other geographic feature. They must also provide the specific continent the location is featured in.

When making a guess, please do either of the following so that your guess can be confirmed quickly.
1. Quote the post (that has the picture)
2. Mention the person that posted the picture (done by putting @ in front of the username)

Additionally, the current map poster may offer a simple hint to start with, but they don't have to. They may also offer a trivia type question related to the map itself earning users extra points. This is also not mandatory.

If there are no appropriate guesses after a week, the current map poster should provide a suitable hint.

The user who gets the location right earns the chance to post the next map and some points. They may offer to pass their turn off if they don't wish to post a map. You may not pass on a map more than twice (you must post a follow up map after your third guess or subsequent maps guessed don't contribute to your score).

Scoring:
Life is no fun without a little friendly competition. Traditionally these points represent the number of maps a person has found and serve no real meaning. They still won't but to allow newer players to catch up and not feel left behind, we'll have a new scoring method where we keep track of 'seasonal' winners: players who can earn the most points over the course of 3 months.

The next rotation period will occur on March 1rst, 2012.

Point System
4 Points [Guess a map within 24 hours of being posted]
2 Points [Guess a map within a week of being posted]
1 Point [Guess a map any later than a week after being posted]
2 Points [Bonus points for any trivia questions answered]
Two tallies will be kept, the traditional one for overall maps found and the seasonal score. The overall map score will remain cumulative for the life of this thread while the seasonal score will be reset every 3 months.

Here are the locations that have been the subjects of maps so far (A big thanks to Sourcandy for compiling this!)

Code:

            Location                   Answered by         Trivia
         
     Google Headquarters (USA)           minimag        Solar Panels
     Wellington City (New Zealand)       Hellion        Beehive
     British Museum (London)             coolking503    15 January 1759
     Busch Stadium(Missouri)             Hellion        Gateway Arch  
     The Guggenheim(Spain)               Neonsands      Jeff Koons' Puppy and Tulips
     Bern(Switzerland)                   Hellion        Lindt and Toblerone
     New Orleans                         Mintaka        $1.50
     San Francisco                       Hellion        April 19 1937
     Roosevelt Island                    Rayne          2 miles 
     Three Mile Island                   Mintaka        1979
     Durban                              Hana™          Germany Vs Australia/Fifa 2010
     Vitoria(Brazil)                     Mintaka        Deputy Darcy Castelo of Mendonça
     Munich                              Hana™          Allianz Arena
     Iguazu Falls                        Hana™ 
     Incheon International Airport       Hellion
     Pantheon Santa Maria della Rotonda  Hana™          Assassin's Creed:Brotherhood
     The Diomede Islands                 Hellion
     Sydney Opera House                  JJM            Danish
     Lord's Cricket Ground               MuddyMudkip    Cricket
     Lugou Bridge                        Hana™          Beijing/2008
     Beijing, China                      Mintaka        Zhang Yimou
     Castel Sant'Angelo                  Derier44       Floria Tosca
     Mount Everest                       Hana™          Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay
     Epidaurus                           Hana™          Asclepius
     Musée du Louvre                     Hana™          Ieoh Ming Pei
     Lake Gordon/Lake Pedder             Rayne          Lake Pedder's Earthworm
     Cape Canaveral                      Hana™          Cape of the Cane
     The Nile                            Derier44
     Abbey Road                          Hellion        The Beatles 
     Taj Mahal                           Mintaka        Mughal/Shah Jahan
     Hershey Park                        Hana™
     Central Park                        Exordia        The Catcher In the Rye 
     Arecibo Observatory                 Hana™          Ellie
     Aswan dam                           Exordia        The Nubian Monuments
     Baghdad                             Exordia        dira'a
     Carrot Tower                        Tsuness        April 26, 1989
     Black Rock Desert                   Hana™          The  Burning Man
     Pico de Orizaba                     Mintaka 
     Sidney                              Exordia        Tae Kwon Do/Trampolining
     Toledo(Spain)                       Hellion        Emiliano García-Page Sánchez
     Topkapi Palace                      Exordia        Melina Mercouri
     Lisbon Portela Airport              Hana™          118.1 MHz
     Mozambique Channel                  Mintaka        Coelacanth
     Wolfe Island                        Hana™
     Genoa                               Exordia
     St-Basil's Cathedral                Hellion
     Knossos                             Exordia        Sir Arthur John Evans
     Piazza Navona                       Exordia        Innocent X
     The Kremlin                         Tsuness        1990
     Faneuil Hall                        Mintaka        Larry "Legend" Bird
     Mackinac Island                     Exordia 
     J. Edgar Hoover building            Hellion        FBI
     The Palais Garnier                  Derier44       Rossini
     Nintendo of America (USA)           Mintaka        Playing Cards 
     Blackpool                           Hellion
     The Grand Bazaar                    Hana™ 
     Liberty Island                      Buoysel.       Statue of Liberty
     Stonehenge                          Hana™ 
     Area 51                             Exordia        The Ex-Files
     Jefferson Memorial                  Mintaka        University of Virginia
     Cologne(Germany)                    Hana™          1996
     Tower of Pisa                       Exordia 
     National Air and Space Museum       Mintaka        Gyo Obata
     Dubai                               Exordia
     The White House                     Hellion
     Tokyo Bay                           Santabomb
     Shirakawa(Gifu)                     Hellion        Hinamizawa
     Place du Panthéon                   Exordia        Patrick Bruel
     Arc de Triomphe                     Pokemad
     Easter Island                       Santabomb     Dutch
     Bamako and the Nile                Sourcandy    Bamako
     Maracaibo, Venezuela             Exordia        Moon 
     Chicago                                  Sourcandy
     Niagara Falls                            Mintaka
     Miami                                     Exordia

Players	Maps Guessed Right (Overall)	Points Earned (Winter 2012)
Sourcandy	19	20
exordia	15	26
Mintaka	15	17
Hellion	12	10
Derier44	3	0
Tsuness	2	0
Rayne	2	0
Santabomb	2	8
Buoysel.	1	0
coolking503	1	0
J J M	1	0
mariowie	1	3
minimag	1	0
Muddy Mudkip	1	0
Neonsands	1	0
Pokemad	1	4
Guardian of Johto	0	0
Zhwoobatte	0	0

Previous Winners:
Summer 2011 edition: Hellion
Fall 2011 edition: Sourcandy
Winter 2012 edition: exordia

Without further ado, let's begin, shall we :D

This one may not be so hard if you think about the topic this thread is dealing with.


What is the name of the compound featured here?

Continent: North America

Bonus Trivia: What are the tiny rectangles scattered throughout the roof of the buildings?

Is it the Google Headquarters (Googleplex)?

The one located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, USA?

No idea, but the tiny rectangles are solar panels. I think.

Its the google headquarters, I'd guess, so I'd think minimag got it right. As for the rectangles, they are probably solar panels.

Minimag gets the location right and Neonsands gets the question. Way to go guys!

Posting the name is just fine. I don't expect anyone to post a full street address.

For the trivia, yup, they're solar panels alright. Google has an array of 9212 Solar Panels producing enough energy to power about 1000 homes daily but in actuality, only supplies about 30% of the total power Google needs at peek hours.

For all intents and purposes, you can answer the question right but the round won't move on until the map has been guessed. With this scenario, I'll have to make the absolute limit on answering the question "Up and to when the current map poster verifies that the map guess is correct. If the question hasn't been answered before that, then the question won't count and no bonus points will be awarded that round."

So now it's Minimag's turn to post a map.
@minimag;

Alright then.

Here we go!

What city is this in?

Hint-It's in the Southern Hemisphere...
In Oceania.

Bonus Trivia-What is the name of the circular, bronze coloured building in the middle?

The city is Wellington
The building is the Beehive

@Hellion-You are correct.

Your location helped a bit.... : P

Alright, here's the next map then...



What precisely is the building with the blueish roof at the bottom of the picture (name and city)
Continent: Europe
Hint: That's where you'll find a software that'll help you learn other languages.
Question: On what date (Day/Month/Year) was this building, under its current name and use, was open to visitors for the first time?

I'm going to guess University of Salamanca in Salaamanca (duh!). Uh I really don't know, I'm just guessing.

The British museum in London, where the rosetta stone is kept.

also the date is 15 January 1759

coolking503 is correct on both counts!

continent: North America
Hint: You can see two different states in this image
trivia/quiz: What famous landmark is visable while seated in the stadium?

Yankee stadium? and Hudson River? lol I dunno :P