Comments on: Special Weekend Quiz #2: A Sense of Direction

By: jdb

jdb — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:42:17 +0000

80%..not bad for 3 guesses.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:11:18 +0000

I got an 80!!!

When I was 8, I lived in West Des Moines, Iowa.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:16:04 +0000

70 percent.

For #9, it looks like “South Palm Beach” should also be a correct answer. I’m not sure whether “North Palm Beach” would be a correct answer, as it appears to be at a latitude barely above Grand Bahama.

Probably TMI for most readers, but I grew up in Palm Beach County, and South Palm Beach and North Palm Beach are real place names. West Palm Beach is the biggest of the “Palm Beaches,” though.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:26:17 +0000

7/10

The pop culture references were easiest. Except Lucy? West Jamestown? Have no idea what that is from, but I am a youngster.

By: Meliza

Meliza — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:53:00 +0000

Yay! 7/10.

& I was told that I suck at geography. I proved you all wrong! :)

By: Mary Okragly

Mary Okragly — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:49:09 +0000

Wouldn’t “South” Detroit be Windsor, Ontario, Canada?

By: Meagan

Meagan — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:43:49 +0000

Only 5 out of 10, but at least I got #3 right . . . and since I lived there (it’s not as crime ridden as ppl believe) for a year, I should get it right!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:30:43 +0000

Interestingly, the opposite sometimes happens also. A few years back, the town of East Detroit, Michigan voted to change it’s name to Eastpointe in order to disassociate itself from it’s urban ghostland neighbor of Detroit.

By: Janel

Janel — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:49:03 +0000

I did pretty terrible, 3/10. But you have succeeded in getting the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song stuck in my head. Way to go!

By: Pragmatic Cynic

Pragmatic Cynic — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:33:16 +0000

And what of West St. Paul, Minnesota which is south and east of St. Paul but west of South St. Paul?