This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
To fully defox the following geofoxer, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s cluster foxer:
the disappearance of lars mittank (defoxed by Phlebas)
a1. golden sands (Phlebas)
a2. lars (Colonel_K)
a3. kostov (Phlebas)
a4. werder bremen (Zwack23)
a5. hotel color varna (Phlebas)
the 1964 movie ‘the train’ (defoxed by Phlebas)
b1. jeu de paume (ylla)
c1. lancaster (Colonel_K, Phlebas)
d1. christine (Zwack23)
e1. waldheim (Electric Dragon)
b2. pont-a-mousson (Electric Dragon)
words beginning with ‘her’ (defoxed by Colonel_K)
c2. herm (Colonel_K)
b3. hermann hesse (Electric Dragon)
c3. hermes (Electric Dragon)
d3. hermila galindo (Aergistal)
c4. hermit (Zwack23)
leonardo da vinci painting, lady with an ermine (defoxed by Colonel_K)
d2. cecilia (Colonel_K)
e2. ermine (Phlebas, Electric Dragon)
e3. czartoryski museum (Colonel_K)
d4. walnut (ylla)
e4. the monuments men (Zwack23)
artificial islands (defoxed by Colonel_K)
b4. spike island (Phlebas)
b5. burj al arab (Phlebas, Viscount)
c5. dejima (Colonel_K)
d5. harbor island (Phlebas, Colonel_K)
e5. kankūjima (Aergistal)
@Tim
Oddly tagged “Solo Foxer” instead of “Friday Foxer” this week.
Re: L
The bin looks to have the biohazard symbol on it => Needle Drop Box ?
Safeworks supervised consumption site (as then was in April 2021), Calgary, Canada
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0407213,-114.0722492,3a,75y,32.46h,78t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZ4L8X5ZArNIllT40UWlJ9w!2e0!5s20210401T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Thanks. Roman will be scowled at.
A – The Bexley Arms in Windsor – https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4810376,-0.619357,3a,75y,6.29h,93.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIlFo9elYLkNNVjuz3OqpmQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Probably least difficult image Roman has had in a geofoxer.
K is Portsmouth (although I expected it to be more obscure and went looking at Cork first!)
Just north of ‘The Ayrton Berth’ – based solely on that, F1 racing drivers?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Liegeplatz+Aida+Portsmouth/@50.8121014,-1.0961832,17.58z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x48745d001849f833:0x861ae98764b8b268!8m2!3d50.811912!4d-1.0938866!16s%2Fg%2F11lcym1yp4?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu
C is the Daily Show studios on 11th Avenue in New York
Picture taken from here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7671177,-73.9936409,3a,42.1y,261.7h,98.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sm4sTAEjd9Fr8ieA9ldJcJg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu
J – Drivers and Wipers memorial in Melbourne.
https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.8295721,144.9741837,3a,49.3y,286.28h,87.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1su_oIvs-X8FbtOA8LSx_41g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Du_oIvs-X8FbtOA8LSx_41g%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D72.391304%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Windscreen wipers: Invented by a woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(inventor)
Ideas for jumping off points for possible connections:
A – this pub is on Vansittart Road – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vansittart,_1st_Baron_Vansittart
C – across the road from Dewitt Clinton park – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton
E. Consolidation 2-8-0 steam loco ‘137’ at Cochrane Railway & Pioneer Museum, Ontario
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.0604759,-81.0225603,3a,46.4y,158.59h,88.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFbKuQ2KGWBWuHuz5T2pqpw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu
Nicholas VANSITTART (A), first Baron BEXLEY (also A) was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In 1816 he slunk out of a meeting when Lord COCHRANE (E) arrived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Vansittart,_1st_Baron_Bexley
F. Tuk Tuk Thai Restaurant, Graham Street, Hong Kong Central
https://www.google.com/maps/@22.2828255,114.153333,3a,90y,49.89h,86.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sneqB4ES3dBQDJ9KCinpXFA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu
Tuk-tuks don’t appear to have been invented by a woman, so how about Bette Nesmith GRAHAM, inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of a Monkee?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham
G – Jeremy Raymer Outdoor Art Gallery in Pittsburgh. Mural shows Hedy Lamarr.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4644152,-79.9671187,3a,75y,159.07h,89.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smTLqpHPX-q_7Jla84oLznA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Female engineers?
Henrietta VANSITTART (A)
Hertha AYRTON (K)
HEDY LAMARR (G)
Josephine COCHRANE (E) invented the dishwasher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane
H – Shilling St, Lavenham (looks like the house is called Shilling Grange)
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1076953,0.7991932,3a,75y,6.6h,76.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9wsWALWIl6xaI41X18OaoA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu
Beatrice SHILLING
https://www.kenleyrevival.org/content/history/women-at-war/beatrice-shilling-revolutionising-spitfire
D. Melitta Household Products, Minden.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2987723,8.9067937,3a,75y,287.13h,92.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shEcXBeSY_455wY8sFdY16g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Named for founder Melitta Bentz, who invented the paper coffee filter
C. Anna Connelly – inventor of the predecessor of the modern outdoor fire escape, patented in August 1877
Less confident about an answer for L: Lillian Moller Gilbreth ?
– inventor of the pedal bin in the 1920s; picture doesn’t show a pedal bin, obviously
(also added shelves to the inside of fridge doors)
Many of the answers given so far can be found on this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_innovators_and_inventors_by_country
which, in typical Wikipedia error fashion, has Melitta Bentz as both German and UK. In her UK incarnation she’s credited with creating the Berkley Horse, a BDSM apparatus, your honour, eighty years before she was born.
B – Burg Kronberg
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nDHtUFahEypKYzBW9
in the town of Kronberg im Taunus
not that I can find anybody called either Kronberg or Taunus linked to the theme.
Ninni Kronberg?
Inventor of powdered milk!
I – Delos A. Blodgett House so maybe Katharine Burr Blodgett
Inventor of anti-reflective glass!