Yeah, I got a good chuckle out of him looking at Chicago. I would have been surprised if he got any of the cities in the UP, but was still remarkably surprised with how much of Michigan he covered unintentionally. We just have so many cities in our state with the same name as larger cities.
"Boyce" resident here to say it's nice to see Idaho represented so heavily in one of your videos, even if that representation is just a lack of remembering anything about us 😀
I'm pretty sure my uncle has a story about being stranded in Boise on a Greyhound bus tour across the country. I think the story goes that he eventually got a ride back to the East Coast as far as Knoxville, where my grandparents picked him up and drove him the rest of the way home.
The town you're looking for is "Merced." :) Tahoe was tricky because there are towns called "Tahoe City" and "South Lake Tahoe" but not simply "Lake Tahoe."
I remember when in Better Call Saul, main character Jimmy McGill (Saul Goodman) said that you can give him 100 tries and he still wouldn't spell Albuquerque correctly despite living in the city for so long. So Tom, you're not alone !
Whenever I think of that city, I can't help but think of the Weird Al song by the same name where at the end of it they try to spell it out as a cheer and give up halfway through. "Give me an A! L! B! U! ......querque!"
I think it's easier if you speak Spanish, that's my native language and I instinctively know how to spell it (despite not being a normal word in Spanish or anything)
I love how the quiz site has given up. "Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7, at which point it will resume being playable under the normal schedule."
It's the same problem that forced geoguessr behind a paywall as Google charges quite a lot of money. On the other hand, hugequiz has a lifetime mambership for $20, which is super low for what you get and totally worth it imo.
You covered basically the entire west coast and almost everything east of the 100th meridian, which, for an exercise like this, should for all intents and purposes be considered a success. If you notice in your results, there’s an almost perfectly vertical line dividing everything you got correct to the right and towns you missed to the left. This very closely follows the 100th meridian, which is a fascinatingly natural border between humid & arable land to the East (due to the Atlantic Ocean) and extremely dry & arid land to the West (very little rain due to the Rocky Mountains and moisture from the Atlantic not reaching that far). Pretty neat to see it show up in your results. That land is largely empty in your results because there are simply fewer big cities and people in general.
The song lyric you were not remembering is "I was standing on a corner in WINSLOW Arizona, such a fine sight to see. 'It's a girl my lord', in a flat bed ford, slowing down to take a look at me." Take it easy by the Eagles
I remembered the "A Town South of Bakersfield" - compilations. Showcasing the new/alt country/americana of the eighties. And, of course, the "Bakersfield sound". (No, I’m not a big CW fan, but good music is good music!)
I love watching you pronounce American cities, and thank you soooo much for the Mt. Airy shoutout.. I wish I had known you were coming through, we could’ve accommodated you! My favorite one from this video was SUNT LOUIE🤣🤣
You basically mapped the US by population density so well done. That line in the middle is where population, and green, fertile land falls off dramatically as you travel west.
It is so much fun to watch you do these videos (amazing)... but seeing Knoxville in the thumbnail definitely got an earlier click than normal.. lol great stuff!
Knowing the state capitals would really help, but even I don't know them all. There are many places in the US named after European cities and towns: Paris, Milan, Dublin, Budapest, Venice, Berlin, London and so on. There are a handful of town names that are present in many, many locations: Springfield, Washington, Arlington, Franklin and those would probably help a lot. I think you did surprisingly well for not being an American.
Greetings from Norway! Fire off with a lot of early/famous presidents, Madison, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln, Jackson, then add a lot of UK towns, UK kings, and European capitals, and half the map is covered. But the non-coastal west is harder! BTW, your sharing caused the game owners to restrict access! ;-)
@@maylloyd3348 The owner posted in the comments of the earlier video that the usage was so high after the video was posted that its costs were unsustainable. And that was why it was locked.
A full list of presidents is actually pretty effective: He'd have got most of Utah. Roosevelt gives you the north east corner, and Fillmore the western center.
You did a really good job at covering ground here! I live in the U.S. midwest and I hadnt even heard of some if those pink dots you were naming off at the end haha
It's annoying though because the website owner could keep up with traffic just fine if they weren't using the expensive Google maps API. I guess we all just have to suffer. (Yes of course not being able to do geography quizzes is suffering)
@@user-en7dx1qp3k the owner of the website should get help, create a better functioning website, or sell it to somebody who will. Geowizard is literally driving so much traffic to the site, plenty of monetization opportunities besides putting up a premium paywall.
I started watching your videos for your adventures, but hearing that you might not do many in the near future is absolutely fine. I love these videos too, thanks for your uploads!
They actually moved this quiz to Premium for a week "Due to a Geowizard video", lol. Once it comes back, I'm gonna try two things: 1) see how much of the map I get with just 'Springfield' 2) see how much I get with the lyrics to 'I've Been Everywhere'
You’re really good with these! I recommend when youre doing west side of America and guessing cities, a lot of the areas where named after losses in translation. Using simple descriptors are also good guesses. Black Rock, Widowfield, Flower Plain, etc. While they aren’t actually cities, there’s a small chance they are. You do incredible though every time you do these.
@@JohnyG29 It's not silly at all, it's been renamed to reflect the language of the native people that live there. Wales, or Cymru (in Britain) is also heading in this direction, with the greater usage and revival of Welsh/Cymraeg language in general, and many places going back to their original names.
As someone from out west, you did a great job. Anyone can see on a population density map that it really is still a vast & mostly empty landscape out here. You were right about Barrow btw, but it has been renamed to its original name: Utqiagvik
I'm from Wyoming and I'm here to ensure our disappointment is properly represented! Although my city was close enough to Denver that it was covered. Love the channel still, keep up the good work!
Glad to see Knoxville in the thumbnail, since I live nearby! Tom also had a Geoguesser video with the University of Tennessee (which is located in Knoxville) not too long ago. It’s always nice to recognize places that you are very familiar with 😂. Great Video!
@@TheOnlyBit nah it wouldn't take 5 minutes because no one would shoot him in the coast areas of the country, the middle of the country is the problem
I had a go at this quiz and only used the names of places in the British Isles. Doing this completed 20 states and 19852/21397 places. There was the odd time when the quiz took the first part of a name like 'Man' fro Manchester. I started with Derby and covered 1977 places in four circles!
You're probably thinking of Merced, the most depressing place where there's also a University of California campus. Its in the middle of nowhere in the central valley of California.
As someone who grew up in central Utah, it was hilarious to watch you blank on the American west. Funny to realize just how few people really live out here compared to the coasts and the south/midwest. Congrats on the 968/1000!
Yes, I swear Tom was talking directly to me when he said "shut up, it's Or-RAY-gon" as I laughed at him. And as an Albuquerque resident, I'm ok with the inability to spell it. At least you know New Mexico is within the USA, when so many US citizens do not!
"Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2 combined with the costs of the Google Maps API, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7" Awww maaaaan
Another hugequiz I can really recommend is "closest coverage" on World (or Europe). There you also have to name cities but the circles don't have a set size, instead they stretch as far as needed to fill the closest (100/50/10) cities. It's very satisfying and fun!
I had a good chuckle when the last thing you typed in was Smithville. I actually grew up in Smithville, Missouri. I know there is a Smithville, Texas and Smithville, Tennessee. I’m sure there are others but those are the 3 I’m familiar with.
Thanks for trying to spell Albuquerque so many times! We live here so we know how to spell it. Usually, I have to spell it for people over the phone if I'm ordering something out of state. I was hoping you'd go for Santa Fe, the state capital, and one of the oldest cities (1607) in the United States. Albuquerque was founded in 1706 and was named after the Duke of Alburquerque (different spelling). We think you did really great on this challenge. You can name more US cities than most US citizens!
I was really curious how you were going to cover my hometown area of Southern Oregon on the California border. And you guessed my hometown by accident with that Jacksonville entry in Florida. JVille Oregon is 100% prettier than JVille Florida.
I think you did very well!. My family immigrated to Canada in 1957, to Sault Ste Marie ON. Of course the "American Soo" is Sault Ste. Marie MI. Another UP (Upper Peninsula) city is Marquette. I've been to Port Angeles WA on a ferry from Victoria. That would catch some of that NW Washington. Barrow Alaska has a W. Oregon is pronounced more or less OR.uh.gin. Did you do Sacramento CA? Cheers!
Tbf the areas you didn't get _are_ quite sparsely populated. I'm not sure that I'd fare much better, even as an American myself. Though I know Alaska well enough that I'd probably be able to completely cover it.
7:34 British accent "Mobile... Atlanta... " Most American accent I've ever heard "Birmingham." British accent "Huh... whats here?" Whats here INDEED sir.... indeed.
@@cptn_chromo3189 Nah it costs a ton of money for Google Maps API nowadays. What they're doing is cool which is make it free for the majority until it causes a problem and then restrict it. They even gave a date when it becomes free again which is more than they needed to do.
I've found that once you get through all the places you know, just use Presidents, European capitals, every UK town name you can think of (including adding "New" in front of them), and then just take surnames, like Stevens, Foster, Willis, Jones etc. and then start tacking onto them all of the suffixes, like ville, dale, ton, mount, mont, port, branch, city, falls etc. And don't forget to do directions like North, South, East, West with the suffixes too. I even got Santa Claus. When I got desperate I just looked around the room and started naming random things - "Blanket" worked!! ROFL. Oh, and male first names like George, John, James etc. Animals like Moose, Bear, Deer, Eagle, and even state names with "city" after them.
This game shows just how many cities have the same name in the US. The fact that the entire mid west was covered by naming east coast cities shows we ran out of ideas fast and had to start reusing them pretty early on in the genocide.
"Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2 combined with the costs of the Google Maps API, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7, at which point it will resume being playable under the normal schedule."
Tom, you broke the internet: "Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2 combined with the costs of the Google Maps API, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7, at which point it will resume being playable under the normal schedule." I will have to come back to your video then because I want to try it out myself before I watch the video.
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o-ray-gun
11:50 "A ray gun"
I'm appalled 😂
"Ore again" is how we say it in Oregon
I have to ask though, how in the world do you know about Coos Bay?
Boyce 😂😂
I was so relieved when I heard he was recording
Very relieved indeed, close call there
My favourite videos are where he forgets to start recording
Me too. I was very worried there for a second.
This man shouldn’t doubt himself recording all the time. Iv never seen him not recording 😮
I was wondering if we were recording
The fact that you guessed “Coos Bay, Oregon” but couldn’t get Tampa, Florida cracks me up man. Brilliant video
Lol, I’m in Coos Bay…
I live in or and never heard of coos bay lol
He was zooming into the bay and the whole time I’m shouting “ITS TAMPA BAY” lol
I was also screaming Tampa Bay. oh well
Tallahassee (the state capitol) is showing off, apparently.
All you had to do was type European city names and you would've covered most of the US
Was going to say the same thing, Nearly every town/city in the Uk has a place in the States.
@@17Blower Also german city names. there's like a gazillion hanovers
He should just try the exact same cities he did in the UK round and see how much of the US he'd cover
Just name European capitals and you will find so many.
And the ones that aren't there, just add 'new'
I love how he knew Melbourne, but couldnt think of Tampa
As a Tampa resident I was screaming at him the hole time
@@ethanochs1570As a Lightning fan I was screaming lmao
At least he didn’t call it ugly like he did with Jacksonville😂
Even Gainesville
it was deeply infuriating when he came up with gainesville which would have finished florida but didnt know about the E
As a Duluth native I’m crying
Edit: also “I think I’ve already covered Detroit” as he zooms in on Chicago
How is it pronounced?
I saw that Detroit mix up lol
@@JohnyG29Duh-Looth, stress on the second syllable
Yeah, I got a good chuckle out of him looking at Chicago. I would have been surprised if he got any of the cities in the UP, but was still remarkably surprised with how much of Michigan he covered unintentionally. We just have so many cities in our state with the same name as larger cities.
Naw he zoomed in on Gary Indiana and to be fair it’s basically the same 💀
"Boyce" resident here to say it's nice to see Idaho represented so heavily in one of your videos, even if that representation is just a lack of remembering anything about us 😀
Yeah it’s pretty funny. Especially with his pronunciation
boyce literally took me out because ive NEVER heard someone pronounce that like that
I'm pretty sure my uncle has a story about being stranded in Boise on a Greyhound bus tour across the country. I think the story goes that he eventually got a ride back to the East Coast as far as Knoxville, where my grandparents picked him up and drove him the rest of the way home.
@@shork819 iirc there is some town in the south called Boise Valley where its pronounced like that, but thats a totally different place
The Mountain West team *Boyce* State Broncos
The town you're looking for is "Merced." :) Tahoe was tricky because there are towns called "Tahoe City" and "South Lake Tahoe" but not simply "Lake Tahoe."
He had reno, so it covered the area anyway
I was screaming Merced cus I had an old friend from there.
@@NayVar I think the only reason I've heard of it is because they opened a new UC there around the time I was looking at colleges.
I'm still waiting for the April fools where Tom uploads a video where he asks "are we recording?" Immediately followed by 30 minutes of black screen
The American accent on "Birmingham" really caught me off guard, well done
The American accent on "Birmingham" really caught me off guard, well done
7:40 for anyone wanting to hear that missed it the first time
although he completely mispronounced mobile like a few seconds earlier lol
The American accent on "Birmingham" really caught me off guard, well done
Dude it sounded like Lucifer’s brother Michael from the Netflix show 😮
I love the way brits say "jography" - I always picture a little figure jogging all over a map .. which is apt for The Wizard!
I remember when in Better Call Saul, main character Jimmy McGill (Saul Goodman) said that you can give him 100 tries and he still wouldn't spell Albuquerque correctly despite living in the city for so long. So Tom, you're not alone !
It's actually remarkable you spelled "living" wrong in that comment haha
Whenever I think of that city, I can't help but think of the Weird Al song by the same name where at the end of it they try to spell it out as a cheer and give up halfway through. "Give me an A! L! B! U! ......querque!"
I think it's easier if you speak Spanish, that's my native language and I instinctively know how to spell it (despite not being a normal word in Spanish or anything)
@@VegetaLF7you can't blame him, he was malnourished from years of sauerkraut for breakfast
@@mikoajnierada7857 it's embarrassing on my part to be honest.
Honestly think you did really well! Missing Boise was probably the biggest blunder.
Boiss
Tampa!
I love how the quiz site has given up. "Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7, at which point it will resume being playable under the normal schedule."
Yeah the guy commented on one of the previous videos that every time Tom uploaded he was paying hundreds of dollars in API fees to google lol
It's the same problem that forced geoguessr behind a paywall as Google charges quite a lot of money.
On the other hand, hugequiz has a lifetime mambership for $20, which is super low for what you get and totally worth it imo.
Just noticed that too haha :D can't blame them tbh
The other one is available though
its still unplayable lmfao
As a Missourian I love the "it's Missouri... It's really quite remote..." 😂
Being from Albuquerque myself, a lot of people have trouble spelling it and Tom got so close with spelling it right. The E killed me but hats off!
Haha, even you can't spell it right.... Wait... that IS the correct spelling?! 🤨😅
Same, lol
i died at him leaving "alber" up there and just changing the ending
no word should contain that my "U"s
I say it like al-boo-kwer-kweh in my head to remember the spelling
You covered basically the entire west coast and almost everything east of the 100th meridian, which, for an exercise like this, should for all intents and purposes be considered a success.
If you notice in your results, there’s an almost perfectly vertical line dividing everything you got correct to the right and towns you missed to the left. This very closely follows the 100th meridian, which is a fascinatingly natural border between humid & arable land to the East (due to the Atlantic Ocean) and extremely dry & arid land to the West (very little rain due to the Rocky Mountains and moisture from the Atlantic not reaching that far).
Pretty neat to see it show up in your results. That land is largely empty in your results because there are simply fewer big cities and people in general.
So glad you finally said Springfield, there's so many.
What is it in 42 or 43 states that have a Springfield? i think there’s just as many Franklins as well
Did he miss Washington, or did I miss him doing it? Washington is basically a cheat code for this game.
Oh so glad does. Haven’t watched the whole video yet but I’m screaming Springfield over and over xD
Theres actually like 6 springfield Wisconsins. Heres a wikipedia page for them en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Wisconsin
Starts of with Springfield an instantly completes 3 more states =)
The song lyric you were not remembering is
"I was standing on a corner in WINSLOW Arizona, such a fine sight to see. 'It's a girl my lord', in a flat bed ford, slowing down to take a look at me." Take it easy by the Eagles
The California Central Valley city you couldn’t remember was Merced! Great job, especially for remembering Bakersfield coming from a native :)
I remembered the "A Town South of Bakersfield" - compilations. Showcasing the new/alt country/americana of the eighties. And, of course, the "Bakersfield sound". (No, I’m not a big CW fan, but good music is good music!)
It do be like that, we're just sort of there on the 99.
The gateway to Yosemite!
I'm in the UK but would remember Bakersfield from Running Man - The Butcher Of Bakersfield 🙂
merced from river merced
I love watching you pronounce American cities, and thank you soooo much for the Mt. Airy shoutout.. I wish I had known you were coming through, we could’ve accommodated you! My favorite one from this video was SUNT LOUIE🤣🤣
You basically mapped the US by population density so well done. That line in the middle is where population, and green, fertile land falls off dramatically as you travel west.
As someone from Oregon, you're pronunciation is a new one.. Can't say I'm happy with it either
There WAS a Barrow, Alaska, but they recently renamed it to a native name - Utqiagvik. Always love this content Tom!
i.e there IS Barrow, Alaska but a few call it something else
@@rearlafull2870 A few yes. Like the natives that live there. And the U.S. government.
@@rearlafull2870 no, it is officially only Utqiagvik, or Utqiaġvik. Barrow is no longer.
How do you pronounce that new official name?
@@cockenbawlz2552OOT-kee-AHG-vik
i love how there is no sound but he still wears headphones. anyway, glad you DID record, and gave us more awesome content. Keep it up mate.
I do know most of these cities by name, but no way in hell would i be able to place them in the right state! this was really impressive!
Well, for this game, you don't need to.
It is so much fun to watch you do these videos (amazing)... but seeing Knoxville in the thumbnail definitely got an earlier click than normal.. lol great stuff!
Knowing the state capitals would really help, but even I don't know them all. There are many places in the US named after European cities and towns: Paris, Milan, Dublin, Budapest, Venice, Berlin, London and so on. There are a handful of town names that are present in many, many locations: Springfield, Washington, Arlington, Franklin and those would probably help a lot.
I think you did surprisingly well for not being an American.
Tennessee alone has Memphis, Milan, Paris, Moscow....
i live 20 minutes away from venice florida 💪💪
You did great GeoWizard! As always big pleasure watching your videos! :)
Greetings from Norway! Fire off with a lot of early/famous presidents, Madison, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln, Jackson, then add a lot of UK towns, UK kings, and European capitals, and half the map is covered. But the non-coastal west is harder! BTW, your sharing caused the game owners to restrict access! ;-)
They did that the last time he did a new map - I would have had to wait a fortnight to play it for the fuss to die down.
@@maylloyd3348 The owner posted in the comments of the earlier video that the usage was so high after the video was posted that its costs were unsustainable. And that was why it was locked.
My tact wouldve been just do it as if it was britain
@@maylloyd3348 fortnite*
A full list of presidents is actually pretty effective: He'd have got most of Utah. Roosevelt gives you the north east corner, and Fillmore the western center.
You did a really good job at covering ground here! I live in the U.S. midwest and I hadnt even heard of some if those pink dots you were naming off at the end haha
Tom's video made so many people go to the site already that they had to restrict it to premium members, lol.
Its a stupid thing to do. Money grab and now I won't ever use Darin's shitty little site.
Happened last time as well
It's annoying though because the website owner could keep up with traffic just fine if they weren't using the expensive Google maps API. I guess we all just have to suffer. (Yes of course not being able to do geography quizzes is suffering)
lowkey wish geowizard stopped making videos about this website lol, every time he does, stuff stops working on it
@@user-en7dx1qp3k the owner of the website should get help, create a better functioning website, or sell it to somebody who will. Geowizard is literally driving so much traffic to the site, plenty of monetization opportunities besides putting up a premium paywall.
I started watching your videos for your adventures, but hearing that you might not do many in the near future is absolutely fine. I love these videos too, thanks for your uploads!
They actually moved this quiz to Premium for a week "Due to a Geowizard video", lol.
Once it comes back, I'm gonna try two things:
1) see how much of the map I get with just 'Springfield'
2) see how much I get with the lyrics to 'I've Been Everywhere'
Don't forget to get your kicks on route 66
I want to see how much map is filled with georgetown
Interestingly there’s like 13 Lebanon’s I rlly wanted to try too
It would be interesting to just start down this list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._place_names
You’re really good with these! I recommend when youre doing west side of America and guessing cities, a lot of the areas where named after losses in translation. Using simple descriptors are also good guesses. Black Rock, Widowfield, Flower Plain, etc. While they aren’t actually cities, there’s a small chance they are. You do incredible though every time you do these.
There is a black rock city I've seen
Thanks for the shout out! Loving the current videos and glad to see you're doing well.
There is a Barrow Alaska, but I think the website you’re using uses the indigenous name for it which is Utqiagvik.
Barrow, Alaska got renamed quite some time ago. It's Utqiagvik now.
Wow! Good to know. Thank you for sharing!
Well that's much easier to remember
Well that's just silly 🤣
Let's see Tom try to spell that one ;)
@@JohnyG29 It's not silly at all, it's been renamed to reflect the language of the native people that live there. Wales, or Cymru (in Britain) is also heading in this direction, with the greater usage and revival of Welsh/Cymraeg language in general, and many places going back to their original names.
Albuquerque "is believed to stem from Latin alba quercus, the white oak". It's also used as a family name in Spain and Portugal.
As someone from out west, you did a great job. Anyone can see on a population density map that it really is still a vast & mostly empty landscape out here.
You were right about Barrow btw, but it has been renamed to its original name: Utqiagvik
I reckon Barrow is easier to say! 😂
When in doubt, just start naming ancient Greek cities. The US has tons of towns that are named after Ancient cities in Europe.
I'm from Wyoming and I'm here to ensure our disappointment is properly represented! Although my city was close enough to Denver that it was covered. Love the channel still, keep up the good work!
Cheyenne sucks casper superior
I'm also from Wyoming, so our disappointment might even be over represented
Same. I was thinking he might at least get Jackson Hole since everyone goes there. 307 gang will just have to sit this one out.
Shout out to yall from Colorado
As someone from knoxville the video thumbnail makes me very happy.
clicked on this because I am from Knoxville! Hello from TN! Missed you on your America trip!!
Glad to see Knoxville in the thumbnail, since I live nearby! Tom also had a Geoguesser video with the University of Tennessee (which is located in Knoxville) not too long ago. It’s always nice to recognize places that you are very familiar with 😂. Great Video!
Enjoyed watching you struggle with north-central Florida.
Taking the format to the USA.... I like it. When are you planning to cross the country in a straight line?
He would get shot for trespassing five minutes into the challenge. Other than that, he would propably die in the dessert or the mountains.
@@TheOnlyBit nah it wouldn't take 5 minutes because no one would shoot him in the coast areas of the country, the middle of the country is the problem
@@Rickyrichhch Thats true. He could also walk from north to south. That would make the trip shorter and he could avoid desserts.
doing it during in summer man is going to die of heat exhaustion- heat stroke mid journey
It’s hard to avoid desserts in the USA.
Every state in America has a town or city named Concord.
Best possible opener
Would love to see you do a "how not to travel Australia" what an adventure that would be
They'd be killed by the drop bears in the first episode.
That would be absolutely sick
But he has to travel from East to West not up/down the east coast!
@@lukeguccii skateboard across the Nullarbor
So long as he charms his way onto the spirit of Tasmania haha
Love the random American accents every now and then. Not at all bad either.
I love this series
this was one of the funniest vids you've made. the excitement when you got a nice result :D
I love how you say Oregon even though you know how to pronounce it correctly. Don't ever change, I love this channel. 😂
It made me sad
I had a go at this quiz and only used the names of places in the British Isles. Doing this completed 20 states and 19852/21397 places. There was the odd time when the quiz took the first part of a name like 'Man' fro Manchester. I started with Derby and covered 1977 places in four circles!
You're probably thinking of Merced, the most depressing place where there's also a University of California campus. Its in the middle of nowhere in the central valley of California.
And does stink of cows
@@JordanBoydGraber As someone from Fresno who frequently drives through Merced? Yes, yes it does :)
As someone who grew up in central Utah, it was hilarious to watch you blank on the American west. Funny to realize just how few people really live out here compared to the coasts and the south/midwest. Congrats on the 968/1000!
As an American, you may know more cities than me, but at least I can pronounce them correctly
In the mid-2010s, Barrow changed its name to Utqiagvik. It's very hard to spell.
Yes, I swear Tom was talking directly to me when he said "shut up, it's Or-RAY-gon" as I laughed at him. And as an Albuquerque resident, I'm ok with the inability to spell it. At least you know New Mexico is within the USA, when so many US citizens do not!
I loved when you just guessed "American sounding names"
That is the most unique way I’ve ever heard someone pronounce Duluth! 😂
I only know how to pronounce it because of the SNL sketch to be fair
"Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2 combined with the costs of the Google Maps API, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7"
Awww maaaaan
Another hugequiz I can really recommend is "closest coverage" on World (or Europe). There you also have to name cities but the circles don't have a set size, instead they stretch as far as needed to fill the closest (100/50/10) cities. It's very satisfying and fun!
I love these types of videos,
Please keep it going Tom!
My favourite part of every GeoWizard video is when he checks to see if he is recording
Fun fact: Barrow, Alaska is large enough to be on the list, but it was renamed Uqtiavik
The "M" town in California you were thinking of was Merced, not Mercer.
or Murrieta
you know, i don't blame you for not getting Barrow, especially since it's name got changed to this Utqiagvik.
Next adventure could always be another episode of real life geoguesser
Yeah that was a fun video, could bring it out of the UK as well
I had a good chuckle when the last thing you typed in was Smithville. I actually grew up in Smithville, Missouri. I know there is a Smithville, Texas and Smithville, Tennessee. I’m sure there are others but those are the 3 I’m familiar with.
can we PLEEASE get a west coast adventure in the USA?
I believe he was thinking of Merced, California. It’s on the drive to Yosemite from just about anywhere west of it.
I would have guessed Springfield will light up the whole map.
And Franklin!
Thanks for trying to spell Albuquerque so many times! We live here so we know how to spell it. Usually, I have to spell it for people over the phone if I'm ordering something out of state. I was hoping you'd go for Santa Fe, the state capital, and one of the oldest cities (1607) in the United States. Albuquerque was founded in 1706 and was named after the Duke of Alburquerque (different spelling). We think you did really great on this challenge. You can name more US cities than most US citizens!
I was really curious how you were going to cover my hometown area of Southern Oregon on the California border. And you guessed my hometown by accident with that Jacksonville entry in Florida. JVille Oregon is 100% prettier than JVille Florida.
I think you did very well!. My family immigrated to Canada in 1957, to Sault Ste Marie ON. Of course the "American Soo" is Sault Ste. Marie MI. Another UP (Upper Peninsula) city is Marquette. I've been to Port Angeles WA on a ferry from Victoria. That would catch some of that NW Washington. Barrow Alaska has a W. Oregon is pronounced more or less OR.uh.gin. Did you do Sacramento CA? Cheers!
People often butcher the pronunciation of Oregon but you took it to the next level 🤣
I expected him to get it wrong, but...
Man this pained me xD
Albuquerque had me rolling! (Lives in NM)
Thanks for this. I know I'm late but that was entertaining!
I'm from the US and got like 32 states covered. You did well as the West has such remote areas. Your finished map mostly looked like mine.
Take It Easy by The Eagles and Rock 'n Me by Steve Miller Band are some of my favorite songs and I'm glad you mentioned them.
Tbf the areas you didn't get _are_ quite sparsely populated. I'm not sure that I'd fare much better, even as an American myself.
Though I know Alaska well enough that I'd probably be able to completely cover it.
I love how there was just a void in Oklahoma for most of the video, it about sums up how much people know about the state
I am clicking on this video cause i wanna watch him do "springfield" and be done
7:34
British accent "Mobile... Atlanta... "
Most American accent I've ever heard "Birmingham."
British accent "Huh... whats here?"
Whats here INDEED sir.... indeed.
When in doubt start naming European and especially English cities. Places like Rome, Paris, London, and Leicester all exist in the US also
Very impressed, really entertaining watch, thanks Tom!
you actually got the quiz locked off for the general public
Will be free in a few days then on the Google maps schedule I have for what is free and what isn't.
@@hugequiz Nice money grab.
@@cptn_chromo3189 Nah it costs a ton of money for Google Maps API nowadays. What they're doing is cool which is make it free for the majority until it causes a problem and then restrict it. They even gave a date when it becomes free again which is more than they needed to do.
"Detroit is pretty much covered"... proceeds to zoom into Chicago.
How dare you? 😂
wow theyve blocked people from doing the quiz because of this video
I love how Northern Michigan is completely untouched due to all the wacky names
Watching him try to spell Albuquerque was absolutely hilarious
I've found that once you get through all the places you know, just use Presidents, European capitals, every UK town name you can think of (including adding "New" in front of them), and then just take surnames, like Stevens, Foster, Willis, Jones etc. and then start tacking onto them all of the suffixes, like ville, dale, ton, mount, mont, port, branch, city, falls etc. And don't forget to do directions like North, South, East, West with the suffixes too. I even got Santa Claus. When I got desperate I just looked around the room and started naming random things - "Blanket" worked!! ROFL. Oh, and male first names like George, John, James etc. Animals like Moose, Bear, Deer, Eagle, and even state names with "city" after them.
I think someone needs to do a "How not to travel" on The West Coast :D
8:18 Corpus Christ and Portland Tx (filled when you went for Portland Maine) are literally right across the Corpus Christi Bay from each other lol
Next video: "can I completely cover the world by randomly naming cities"
This game shows just how many cities have the same name in the US.
The fact that the entire mid west was covered by naming east coast cities shows we ran out of ideas fast and had to start reusing them pretty early on in the genocide.
I could listen to Tom pronounce WA state cities all day😂
crying at ya-keee-ma
"Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2 combined with the costs of the Google Maps API, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7, at which point it will resume being playable under the normal schedule."
15:19 tom struggling to spell albuquerque is something i didn’t know i needed in my life
Perhaps because you didn't.
Tom, you broke the internet: "Due to a Geowizard video on 7/2 combined with the costs of the Google Maps API, this quiz is only playable for Premium members until 7/7, at which point it will resume being playable under the normal schedule." I will have to come back to your video then because I want to try it out myself before I watch the video.