QUIZ: Can you tell these international cities from satellite photos?

Think you learned nothing from geography?

TIME TO RECALL all that geography you learned in the two weeks before the Leaving Cert!

Can you tell these cities from the air? Do you spend a lot of time on Google Maps? Will I ever need this knowledge in the “real world”?

Let’s start…

This is....

Vancouver

Ottawa

Toronto

Edmonton

This is...

Boston

New York

Detroit

Chicago

This is...

Paris

Madrid

Rome

London

This is...

Paris

London

Berlin

Rome

This is...

Rome

Dubrovnik

Berlin

Venice

This is...

Bangkok

Tokyo

Beijing

Shanghai

This is...

Jakarta

Tokyo

Kuala Lumpur

Beijing

This is...

Sydney

Melbourne

Canberra

Brisbane

This is...

Los Angeles

San Diego

Seattle

San Francisco

This is...

Madrid

Seville

Bilbao

Barcelona

Answer all the questions to see your result!

You scored out of !

You are a satellite

You're constantly staring at Earth from this angle. It's terrifying that you are sentient enough to access and complete a quiz like this. We don't know whether to fear to adore you.

You scored out of !

You are a very clever crow.

You're used to flying over these places everyday so identifying them is old hat to you. Well done on mastering the English language and figuring out how to use a computer.

You scored out of !

You're Ferdinand Magellan

You used to travel around a lot, but things have changed, so you missed a couple.

You scored out of !

You got a B3 in Leaving Cert Geography, didn't you?

A couple of the curve-balls threw you, which is a pity since you did so well in the mocks.

You scored out of !

You were in a plane. Once

Eh....not great.

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