Look Smart Trivia: New York By Decade
5To paraphrase one of the city’s most famous daughters: New York gives good face. Sometimes it’s exquisite, sometimes it’s not even pretty, but it always has presence, magnetism, charisma. And as these photos show, it always has. Name the decade during which each of these shots were taken - if you’re the first to get all 5 correct, you’ll win a $5 Meh coupon. Insert signoff catchphrase here!
It took lots of detective work, collaboration, and just plain guessing, but @Fduch came the closest to complete answers for all five of our Written Languages last Friday. Some of you might have considered that game a huge pain in the ass - but the forum action was exactly what I was hoping for when I started this trivia thing. You guys are fun!
- Ge’ez script/Amharic language
- Tamil
- Ukrainian (it’s got a couple of letters that Russian doesn’t anymore)
- Arabic script/Farsi language
- Cherokee/Tsalagi
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@cinoclav
It’s always the damned 80’s.
/giphy “damned 80’s”
@medz #4 is really difficult to distinguish. It could be the 1890’s.
@cinoclav or 1908
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-charles-evans-hughes-inaugurates-the-hudson-tunnel-1908-37008934.html
@medz That site is blocked here at work. No wonder I couldn’t find it.
@cinoclav
/giphy that’s a shame
They’re all stills from recent New York-based period pieces.
Also, does #5 make anyone else really want to watch The Warriors?
@Limewater
/image “Sorry, Boppers.”
I can dig it.
1960s based on the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls
1920s guess
1940s based on the 2 cars
1900s based on 1908 picture mentioned above
1980s based on womans hair style and condition of subway car
Just FYI New York is a whole entire state. You probably meant New York City. Because people from the rest of the state get pissed off about that.
@sammydog01 isn’t New York City in New York?
@medz Yes but lots of other places are too.
@sammydog01 still, all these things are from the state of New York.
@medz They’re also all from the Milky Way Galaxy. So? And now I want chocolate.
@medz @sammydog01
@Barney @medz Fucking New York Citiers.
@sammydog01 I’ve never been to New York – city or state.
@Barney There are cows, lots of cows. Most people don’t think of New York as an agricultural state, but it is.
/image New York cow
@sammydog01 We have lots of cows in Kansas. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. So, I guess I don’t need to go to New York.
/image Kansas cow
@Barney True. But we have this thing that’s pretty cool too.
/image Niagara Falls
@sammydog01 Well… We have this.
So there!
@Barney @sammydog01 But the Horseshoe Falls are primarily Canadian and they’re the nicer falls!
@Barney @cinoclav But where is the best view of Horseshoe Falls? New York.
/giphy I win
@cinoclav @sammydog01 Yes, but does Canada or New York have a great view like this? Notice how flat it is!
@Barney @sammydog01 On the contrary, you can barely see Horseshoe Falls from the American side. The second picture is the view from the Canadian side.
@Barney @sammydog01 A friend of mine biked across the country a few years ago. He said he was absolutely dreading the part where they would get into the Rockies. Turned out the absolute worst part of the trip was going through the flatlands with the wind pushing against them. By the time they got to the Rockies their legs were so built up that it was pretty easy.
@cinoclav @sammydog01 Ha, it does get a bit windy here. I never knew how much until I moved to Colorado and found that I no longer had to keep my body hunched over and leaning at a severe angle when I stood up.
@Barney It’s like that where I work. I’m in a somewhat rural farmland area in New Jersey. The winds are brutal. I particularly enjoy watching trucks swaying from side to side on my drive back to PA.
1.1960’s
2.1930’s
3.1940’s
4.1920’s
5. 1970’s
@readnj sorry, this is yesterday’s trivia. The answer was already revealed in today’s trivia which is stuck at the top of the threads.
@RiotDemon Well obviously I didn’t know that since I got the answer wrong!! LOL I check early morning EDT and late at night. I must be missing the publication timing. Thanks.
@readnj @RiotDemon 11am EST more or less. Join us today?
Now I have the jingle from Castro Convertibles stuck in my head. Didn’t even know it was still in there anywhere.
I’ve been eagerly refreshing the forums to post the answers for the cold war video, is that thread not up yet?
@paulg1982 I don’t remember that one- do you have a link to the quiz? He posts the answers with the next day’s quiz.
@sammydog01
@sammydog01 I’m chomping at the bit, know the answers and the history. Except not so familiar with #4, to the point that I thought it happened under Ike before double checking.
@paulg1982 That was published today so I bet it’s this morning’s quiz. You get a head start! Check back around 11 EST.