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 collage theme: model railways (defoxed by Colonel_K)
atlas (Colonel_K)
ho (aergistal)
hornby (Colonel_K)
inglenook (Aergistal)
kato (Aergistal)
lima (Colonel_K)
louis-napoléon, prince imperial (Zwack23)
miniatur wunderland (Aergistal)
n (Colonel_K)
nem
rod stewart (Aergistal)
tarka line record attempt (Aergistal, Colonel_K)
trix
tt (Colonel_K)
výtopna railway restaurant (Colonel_K, Aergistal)
D – Happy Valley racecourse in Hong Kong
I – Arch of Victory/Avenue of Honour, Ballarat
https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.5530401,143.8131832,3a,75y,172.05h,89.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5xQ3Fr6nJS0kETowkW2K9w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
B – Museo Girón, Cuba
https://www.google.com/maps/@22.0677629,-81.0333092,3a,75y,67.26h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNDzBR7FWgn3_sx5LfH7Qdra2a4dF2rI8GootJo!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNDzBR7FWgn3_sx5LfH7Qdra2a4dF2rI8GootJo%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya65.66254-ro0-fo100!7i6080!8i3040?entry=ttu
The tank in the background is an SU100
It’s not an SU100, it’s a tank of some sort. A younger me would be ashamed of such an elementary mistake.
The plane is a Hawker Sea Fury.
I think the whole museum is about the Bay of Pigs.
H – Dundee United stadium Tannadice. –
https://www.google.com/maps/@56.4737578,-2.9686585,3a,75y,19.31h,97.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYLftB3SXDpCDoe_d_aQ8Qg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYLftB3SXDpCDoe_d_aQ8Qg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D136.00772%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
K – Voltalab Studios, Rochdale
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.6153835,-2.1538199,3a,70.5y,80.69h,90.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfjPNnJFFrP4qryb_6hDJVA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
The blue plaque is for the Kenion Street Music Building as it was then known. Joy Division among others recorded there.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5330827
First stab at a link but it’s a bit vague – Lancashire.
Happy Valley the TV series starred Sarah Lancashire
Whilst the nearest blue plaque in K is about the music studio, the far one on the building opposite is for Gracie Fields, or The Lancashire Lass.
G. NV Tower, Sofia, Bulgaria
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6622797,23.35441,3a,90y,233.13h,98.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siidWAyMCrV-jBR5UNEJ9Pw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
The road it’s on is Doctor G. M. Dimitrov, who I doubt is the top scorer/wicket-taker for Lancashire County Cricket Club.
(was also known as Gemeto and was an Agrarian politician)
E – Automobile Welt Eisenach
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9812458,10.3253071,3a,54.9y,200.36h,97.41t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMVu97P6IyY8H2Ci_RSznuqBdbpXTi3IqtTc_fX!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMVu97P6IyY8H2Ci_RSznuqBdbpXTi3IqtTc_fX%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya52.89606-ro-0-fo100!7i7680!8i3840?entry=ttu
On a road named after Friedrich Naumann – along with Dr Dimitrov, both politicians
A. Castlewellan Forest Peace Maze, County Down
(second largest hedge maze in the world)
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.2581366,-5.9529483,3a,90y,193.02h,82.56t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMg0EjRSXTGDC9r5dx1RS0LhAiP28NXq0RuV1iJ!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMg0EjRSXTGDC9r5dx1RS0LhAiP28NXq0RuV1iJ%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya10.8799715-ro-0-fo100!7i13970!8i6985?coh=205409&entry=ttu
L. World Trade Center Abu Dhabi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_Abu_Dhabi
Spindly thing left of centre is Burj Mohammed bin Rashid, the tallest building in Abu Dhabi. Named after the current ruler of Dubai (and also Veep, PM aaaannd Minister of Defense of the UAE)
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.4833721,54.3562058,3a,90y,23.9h,111.14t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNG7GRVrzCCDhcmsQcHhfFoSCQCFGDsKJuFADuk!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNG7GRVrzCCDhcmsQcHhfFoSCQCFGDsKJuFADuk%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya237.44943-ro-0-fo100!7i11264!8i5632?hl=en&coh=205409&entry=ttu
The address of the WTC is Khalifa Bin Zayed The 1st Street – Sheikh of Abu Dhabi and grandfather of the UAE’s founder. That might not be important as he wasn’t a politician, but it’s still ‘streets named after people’
J. The Frick Collection, Henry Clay Frick House, Manhattan, NYC
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7712697,-73.9672768,2a,50.9y,242.39h,81.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqQPW33i4AYrHJeHsfIuNHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&coh=205409&entry=ttu
No obvious politicians in the vicinity (with the possible exception of the beardy bloke in the portrait).
Just in case, the paintings we can see are Bellini’s “St Francis in the Desert” and Titian’s portrait of Pietro Aretino.
It’s probably also not cheerful adjectives (Happy Valley, Joy Division, Peace Maze, Trust Tower…)
You say that. But it _is_ St. Francis in Ecstasy.
Shades of Queen Victoria’s Dogs all over again.
Some answers fit Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotions,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification#Plutchik.27s_wheel_of_emotions
some need crowbarring to various extents:
Fit well:
E. AWE = Automobil Welt Eisenach
J. ECSTASY = St. Francis in…
K. JOY Division
L. TRUST tower
Close:
B. FURY – Hawker Sea…
G. ENVY = N.V. tower
Really reaching:
A. PEACE ? – not on the list
D. HAPPY ? – not on the list
H. TERROR – lesser used club nickname is The Terrors
i. VICTORY – too obvious?
Still not identified:
C.
F. (somewhere in Africa)
FWIW- In Nigeria, Dundee / Dundee United is fairly gentle slang for an idiot:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/11/the-unlikely-story-of-how-dundee-united-became-an-insult-in-nigeria
C – Shoals Club in Bald Head Island which is on the east side of the Cape FEAR River:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eCqpvkBq9toh2Uo57
F – HOPE Hostel in Kigali, Rwanda
I – The Arch of Victory is on STURT St:
Noun (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) disturbance; ANNOYANCE; care
A. Castlewellan Forest Peace Maze, County DOWN as in depressed maybe.