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Mystery Destination Quiz

Following the directions below, figure out which city you are going to. All distances are "as the crow flies."
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: September 4, 2018
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First submittedSeptember 7, 2009
Times taken20,294
Average score61.1%
Rating4.43
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Toronto
north 542 miles
east 3412 miles
London
Montreal
south 331 miles
west 24 miles
New York City
Seattle
south 934 miles
east 234 miles
Los Angeles
Seoul
south 130 miles
east 717 miles
Tokyo
Liverpool
south 5 miles
west 135 miles
Dublin
Copenhagen
south 218 miles
east 34 miles
Berlin
Mumbai
north 660 miles
east 256 miles
Delhi
Detroit
south 1145 miles
east 175 miles
Miami
Madrid
south 169 miles
east 1496 miles
Athens
Montevideo
north 19 miles
west 126 miles
Buenos Aires
Moscow
south 1547 miles
east 391 miles
Baghdad
Mexico City
north 129 miles
west 3784 miles
Honolulu
Johannesburg
north 3882 miles
east 192 miles
Cairo
Sydney
north 132 miles
west 2075 miles
Perth
Minneapolis
south 1036 miles
east 191 miles
New Orleans
Kabul
north 81 miles
west 996 miles
Tehran
Shanghai
south 426 miles
east 9 miles
Taipei
Hanoi
south 502 miles
west 319 miles
Bangkok
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Level 45
Apr 20, 2011
i just named big, well-known cities
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Level 62
Jun 21, 2011
That was really fun. Got all but DC.
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Level 22
Oct 27, 2015
DC was not on the quiz...
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Level 92
Dec 10, 2015
May have been 4.5 years ago, when he commented.
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Level 37
Jan 14, 2012
Ooh, very fun. Damn Honolulu, I kept thinking that that far east of Mexico City sounded like the Ocean, didn't think of Hawaii. 13/18, not bad for not knowing where any of the smaller, less mentioned in movies and TV US cities are
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Level 49
Oct 31, 2015
I was the same. I kept thinking SE Asia.
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Level 65
Jan 17, 2012
100%! Tehran was the most difficult for me.
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Level 28
Mar 20, 2012
Fun quiz that bends your brain!
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Level 47
Apr 11, 2012
Got them all, started guessing random big cities before I even looked at the distance and knocked out about 12; the other six I had to think and refine my guess. Edmonton was the hardest, I was like 'dang no one lives in the middle of Canada.'
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Level 34
May 21, 2012
got edmonton 100 % !!
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Level 19
Jun 28, 2012
I went to Google maps and did directions on this. And there is an actual way from Mexico City to Honolulu that requires you to go Kayaking through the Pacific Ocean (Starting from Seattle)!!!!! And last year I searched 4 Johannesburg to Cairo and said that it could not calculate directions. And this year there is a way!!!!! (U make an S through Africa!!!!!)
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Level 24
Jan 2, 2013
easy quiz 20/20 with 5:57 left... WOOT!
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Level 75
Mar 7, 2013
Too easy. 8:59 left and I didn't even try.
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Level 82
Mar 19, 2013
I had an idea for a quiz like this based on my upcoming road trip plans... never got around to making it though.
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Level 82
Mar 19, 2013
and, like several people here, I got many of the answers by accident when typing in big cities. But I wasn't doing it on purpose. Like I would guess Tehran for Baghdad but Tehran was also on the list... I got everything eventually with about 4 minutes left but it wasn't that easy, even for a geography expert.
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Level 82
Oct 26, 2015
I actually have finished this quiz now... KalBahamut's Travel Across Europe Quiz or something like that.
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Level 14
Mar 19, 2013
Great quiz
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Level 19
Mar 19, 2013
15/18. I can't believe I got Edmonton and Baghdad but not New Orleans. Fun quiz though.
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Level 12
Apr 10, 2014
fun quiz 100% ;)
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Level 85
Apr 24, 2014
100% correct! and I wasn't just typing in large city names. used distance as clues to narrow down to logical choices. but only had 40 seconds left due to misspelling of buenos aires.
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Level 86
May 6, 2014
I'm pretty proud to have made a 100% on my first try. It was far from easy, very nice quiz.
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Level 85
Oct 26, 2014
I would disagree Frindle! I got 100% with 3:31 left. yes I admit I did type Baghdad for another city so got that one on a "guess" all others I got because I know my world map so had very good sense of what city would be that distance.
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Level 76
Oct 26, 2015
Maybe have the yellow box? I fluked a couple of "corrects" to questions I wasn't attempting!
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2015
agreed...thats what i was clumsily trying to say below
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2015
Bro if wanna challenge yourself play with one eye closed and with your clothes on backwards but please don't make it harder for the rest of us! XD
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2015
great idea, thanks....only suggestion is to format it so you have to answer a specific clue rather than be allowed to just type in a list of cities at will....then we'll see how many bleat "so easy"..thanks again
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Level 56
Oct 26, 2015
Well that was definitely one of the hardest - but most intriguing - quizzes I've done here. I was tempted to use a map but resisted, hence my score of 10! Would love doing more of these. But please!! In response to other quizzers, it's not just the US that uses miles. I'm in the UK and wouldn't even try to do this in km.
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Level 66
Oct 26, 2015
Why it has to be in miles?
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2015
To all the miles/km people: JetPunk serves as a place to test your knowledge and (hopefully) expand it. This could be one of those quizzes that gives you an idea of the concept of miles. Even though most of the world goes by km (like me, as a Dutchman), it is never a waste of time to grasp the concept of miles, inches and so forth.

Should you not want to learn about the imperial system, then you can always create a similar quiz in km, for the Americans and British to try :)

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Level 73
Oct 27, 2015
Double thumbs up
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Level 67
Feb 20, 2024
I disagree. We already have Latin as a subject to learn, we don't need more pointless knowledge.
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Level 22
Oct 27, 2015
100% with 7:47 left!!! BEAT THAT!!!
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Level 56
Oct 27, 2015
difficult but interesting
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Level 76
Oct 27, 2015
The Minneapolis one was the only one I didn't get, because I have no idea which state it is in.
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Level 75
Aug 30, 2016
Minne-apolis, Minne-sota. Think of it that way and maybe it will be easier to remember.
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2015
16/18 on my first try...I was so pleased with myself I thought I'd have beaten 95% of test takers. NOPE. Pushed back to where I belong below the hordes of Jetpunk nerds :P
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Level 68
Oct 27, 2015
Took about 2 minutes to get LA, I was way off... got rest pretty quick though.
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Level 70
Oct 28, 2015
Canada uses kms
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Level 46
Oct 29, 2015
As a Canadian I absolutely do not know anything in miles. Please add km.
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Level 65
Nov 17, 2015
Honolulu and Perth got me :(
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Level 77
Dec 15, 2015
100% easier than I thought
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Level 75
Aug 30, 2016
For Shanghai I kept wondering why Taiwan wasn't working. Duh.
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Level 54
Aug 30, 2016
I am tired of all of these Earth-centric quizzes.
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Level 84
Aug 30, 2016
Challenging, but fun. Got them all - but with only a few seconds left!
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Level 68
Jun 11, 2017
Got 15, didn't miss any obvious ones.
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Level 51
Jan 24, 2018
I'll Take 14 :)
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Level 25
Aug 7, 2018
Good quiz, but distance has to be in km according to the international system. Impossible for me to complete it due to miles. I wonder how many people are in the same situation. Maybe add the distance in km.
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2018
Well it's a quiz, some people are better prepared than others.
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Level 58
Oct 15, 2019
Really fun, but i think it would be much better with a yellow box seeing as its really easy to get a high score by just guessing big cities.
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Level 68
Feb 5, 2020
I somehow only missed Perth because my scale of distances got way out of wack and I was guessing cities in South Africa lol
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Level 58
Mar 12, 2020
Great quiz! But please do consider converting from miles to kilometers so people from civilized world can even somewhat comprehend the distances.
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Level 72
Mar 28, 2020
It is really not that hard to make the conversion in your head, you know. 1 mile = 1.6 km approx. So 50 miles is 80 km. Multiply the miles by 1.6, or if you prefer divide by 5 and multiply by 8. Thus 1500 miles is 2400 km, everything in proportion. Who has a good idea exactly how far 2741 miles (or whatever) is anyway. Rule of thumb gives me 550*8 = 4400 km approx in seconds.
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Level 82
Nov 15, 2021
It's certainly not hard to do the conversion, but it slows you down and throws off your intuition - and I'm relying on my intuition far more than knowing the exact relative distances of cities here.
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Level 71
Sep 12, 2020
TIL Montevideo is further south than Buenos Aires.
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Level 82
Nov 15, 2021
But only barely. The northern suburbs of Montevideo line up roughly with Quilmes, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires. Montevideo's city centre lines up with La Plata, in Buenos Aires province. Essentially, if you put both cities' centres on the same longitude, Montevideo would be engulfed by Buenos Aires' southern suburbs.
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Level 57
Aug 20, 2021
Baghdad got me
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Level 76
Oct 25, 2021
I got so few, I lost in miles maybe you could add the kilometres as well
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Level 70
Apr 12, 2022
quizmaster i beg you add km, maybe alongside miles for anyone who still uses miles but please this quiz would have been 5/5 but i wasted my time trying to visualise things in 1.6km instead of 1
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Level 79
Jul 31, 2022
The vast majority of the users of this site are from countries that use the metric system, yet this quiz is in miles. Go figure.
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Level 48
Sep 4, 2022
To those complaining that the measurements are in miles rather than km: honestly, that sounds like your problem. You have the Internet. There are websites that let you convert miles into km. In fact, you can use Google. Use them and stop whinging.
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Level 49
May 16, 2023
ah yes. using google while doing a quiz. totally not cheating. extremely convenient and totally not impossible in the time this quiz gives you and its only 36 numbers that you have to type in the 8 minutes or so that this quiz gives you, all whilst remembering which city is which. and after you used 80% of your time converting into km, uh oh: you only have one minute left! but who in the world needs more than one minute to calculate the positions of 36 cities and their distance from each other and type all of them in. needing that much time would be crazy, right?

honestly, as a non-american youre prob'ly gonna be better off just typing random cities, hoping to randomly get one or two and i'm not the only one asking, as visible so please just add km

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Level 39
Jan 10, 2023
I won't do this quiz as I don't know miles, only meters.
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Level 56
Mar 4, 2023
kilometers?
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Level 49
Apr 22, 2023
My Canadian brain trying to visualise miles...
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Level 73
Dec 24, 2023
My American brain wanting to "correct" visualise
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Level 82
Sep 8, 2023
are other people actually using the distance numbers? Mostly I was using the sense of "big number = far away" and "small number = close" for all of them, and I'm pretty sure that putting them in km wouldn't be too helpful
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Level 67
Feb 20, 2024
Yes, it helped me get Krung Thep.