Just for your own information - Detroit - The big black cylindrical building is the Renaissance Center, or RenCen, and is what most from around here would recognize as the most iconic building in Detroit. And the body of water in front is the Detroit River which connects Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair, this is the river that the Ambassador Bridge and eventually the Gordie Howe Bridge span to connect Canada and the US.
The building in Detroit is iconic, that what they went with, I agree with. Denver, I lived in Denver and never seen downtown skyline without the mountains.
The Denver pic was taken from somewhere northwest of downtown (you can tell by the orientation of the Wells Fargo building), so the mountains are behind the camera.
@@verde7595 Oh that's what that was! I couldn't make out what the hell I was looking at, the picture was too small, but in hindsight that makes perfect sense lol
Watching from work in Billings and was happy to see we made the cut! You had Billings once before in a geoguesser video and ended up thinking it was Nevada because of all the little casinos we have here if I remember correctly
Good evening Tom! I request you continue your "areas with tragic or disturbing backstories" series! Found it really different and fun! Cheers! -Hippo Hippo
You might be the first person to ever confuse Phoenix with Birmingham Alabama haha. You did a lot better than I would with British cities though. Good job.
@@GryphonB Territorial waters obviously don't count but I'd still say there are more cities in Europe than in the U.S. I'd say Russia, Germany and Italy can almost match the U.S. number.
@@GryphonB USA is larger than Europe if you exclude non-European Russia. USA without Alaska/Hawaii fits surprisingly well superimposed over mainland Europe. Google images has a nice picture
Shouldn't feel too bad - I've been to Davenport (Iowa), Casper (Wyoming), Peoria (Illinois), and Albany (New York) and didn't recognize any of them, lol.
@@Magst3r1 that a lot of travelling. you ever want to settle down and just be a local killer? like buy a house and relax until they find all the bodies in the basement?
I about fell out of my seat when i saw the red bridge in Big Spring Park from my hometown of Huntsville in the extreme quiz. I would have never guessed we would make the cut, especially in a quiz from 2018. If the shot had been around the Space and Rocket Center with the Saturn V it would have been much easier.
The weird satellite dish building in Albany was an instant giveaway since you can see that from the highway driving through, but jeez. I didn't do nearly as well except on easy mode. Tougher challenge than it seems.
Great video Tom, always fun to see you attempt these more obscure quizzes, although I personally cannot wait for the next GeoDetective video! In the meantime enjoy your holidays!
Yes I was thinking that too. Wouldn't think Tom knows there's a lot of dup city names in US. Portland ME vs Portland OR. Wilmington DE vs NC. Charleston Sc vs WV just to name a few. He needs to brush up on his Florida cities, there's alot of big ones besides the 3 or 4 he named
I was hoping to see Albany pop up, and was excited when I recognized it right away. 4 year resident here, Albany gets a lot of shit from NYers, but I love it here. Glad to see it stumped and impressed you
Detroit is on a river! The Detroit River connects the great lake Lake Eire with the not great, but still big, Lake St Clair. Also, it's really cool to see the city of Davenport Iowa! My hometown is just across the river in Moline, Illinois.
I'm from Missoula and while he didn't mispronounce it in this video when he guessed it for Billings, I do hear a TON of people pronounce it like "miss-o-lua" and move around the vowels. I'm originally from spokane and we get a lot of people pronouncing the end more like cane as well xD
5:05 that is the Detroit River btw, pretty sure that photo was taken from Windsor, Ontario. Also it's interesting that you find the Guardian building the most recognizable, the Renaissance Center is the tall, modern one and I find that the most recognizable at least
It's nit-picking, I know, but Duluth is pronounced "da-looth." Even as I type this I can hear Molly Solverson from the first series of Fargo saying it. 😂 Love that series, but I digress.
Don't feel too bad mate, you ask me to name 5 cities in all of Great Britain, and I'm probably stumped after 3 guesses....then I just start appending -shire to random words!
I'm from the Nashville area and it hurt so bad seeing you miss that one haha the big distinctive building is the "Batman building." With its two spires it looks like Batman! That's what the locals call it, so it's probably permeated the rest of the country for anyone that's been here.
That building in Nashville is how I got it. I think they call it the Bat Tower or Batman Building, or something like that. It looks like Batman's mask.
I am from Europe and was stumped with many images, but somehow I pointed at the screen and said "That's Detroit" for the last image. I can't even tell you how I knew, never been there, don't know much about the city other than a few bullet points. "Cars, manufacturing, blizzards, Michigan, crime, poverty" are what comes to mind, nothing that could've helped me there.
I generally suck at skylines, but with Detroit but I saw the GM logo and immediately knew it had to be Detroit, because Detroit is a huge automotive city!
If Akron didn’t tell you anything you should know that is the city where both Lebron James and Stephen Curry were born, same hospital, same maternity ward. Not that can help you at all with the skyline.. but you know just as a piece of knowledge. Btw as an italian I wouldn’t have gotten more than 10 in total across all three quizzes so well done 👍🏻 😂
I remember watching you back when you still called yourself "GeoGuessr Wizard". GeoWizard sounds a lot better honestly lol. But yeah, I love the content still. Even the simpler videos such as this. I'm gonna watch that "tenner in my pocket" video after this. Looking forward to it. Thanks for the good videos man.
I am a U.S. citizen but your first guesses on the easy setting were better than mine! 😂. (Though I do know how to pronounce Los Angeles and St. Louis so there I have the edge. 😝)
@@macanaeh I see. And does that go for Detroit as well? And do you say Moskva or Moscow? And how do you pronounce Beijing? Thought that statement through much?
@@macanaeh OK, if you’re just having a laugh, I have no problem, but many people do seriously assert that the locals’ pronunciation of their own home towns is wrong, which I find amazing. Someone else in the comments just asserted it, as a matter of fact.
@@StamfordBridge I am just having a laugh, ultimately it doesn't matter how a city is pronounced, so I just decided to poke a bit of fun because you took a jab at Tom's pronounciation. No hard feelings (:
3:26 "Houston... Ohh, we have a problem..."
A slightly different take on an all time classic quote! 😂
Yeah very smooth joke he was propably waiting to pull for some time
Made me laugh
I came to see if anyone else noticed this 🤣
I’ve got a buddy that hates the Denver skyline. It’s “too eighties, too boxy”. Now I can tell him that things are clearly happening in Denver
Bostons looks awful 🤣
It could be a bunch of 80s stuff happening, though.
Yeah.. "things". City is sort of falling apart, actually. 16th Street is like a post-apocalyptic nightmare now.
@@mikecronis Appreciate your contribution to this discussion about architecture
@@gavinjenkins899 oh yeah absolutely 70-80s architecture
Oddly I recognized Atlanta, not from the skyline, but from the massive highway that runs through it.
Ditto!
Atlanta moment
The Varsity gave it away to me
Thats its defining feature keeps the city nice and hot
moving africans rapidly through atlanta
Just for your own information - Detroit - The big black cylindrical building is the Renaissance Center, or RenCen, and is what most from around here would recognize as the most iconic building in Detroit. And the body of water in front is the Detroit River which connects Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair, this is the river that the Ambassador Bridge and eventually the Gordie Howe Bridge span to connect Canada and the US.
You missed the difficult one Tom
You went from Easy to Medium and straight to Extreme
Ah, I thought the third round was ludicrously difficult!
Please do the difficult quiz as well tom!
Glad someone else noticed, I did a small faceplant here at home lol
That explains it, the jump in difficulty from medium to extreme felt insane.
Classic Tom tho
The building in Detroit is iconic, that what they went with, I agree with. Denver, I lived in Denver and never seen downtown skyline without the mountains.
The Denver pic was taken from somewhere northwest of downtown (you can tell by the orientation of the Wells Fargo building), so the mountains are behind the camera.
@@extravagantpanda7962 and the fact that Elitch is front and centre lol
@@verde7595 Oh that's what that was! I couldn't make out what the hell I was looking at, the picture was too small, but in hindsight that makes perfect sense lol
@@extravagantpanda7962 Too bad it's moving to Aurora. The gimmick is dead.
Yeah I live in Denver and didn't even recognize it. XD
Tom, no idea how you managed to pull out Duluth after missing Minneapolis however great guess
And it's pronounced duh-LOOTH.
@@mashtatoueful the new O-rey-gon
@@mashtatoueful why tell him? i love hearing tom mispronounce american city names
@@julianolotero6600or Mitch-igan
As someone who grew up near Duluth, I'm dying at your pronunciation of it. Holy moly, that was adorable and hilarious.
I have always pronounced it as Da-Luth but am not sure that is correct.
@@1320fastback duh-LOOTH
This video was the first time I ever heard about Duluth. Just checked and it is the 404th (lol) most populous city in the U.S.
The only reason I know how to pronounce is because of Fargo Season 1 😂
Dallas.... Houston.... we have a problem. haha nice. 😂
Watching from work in Billings and was happy to see we made the cut! You had Billings once before in a geoguesser video and ended up thinking it was Nevada because of all the little casinos we have here if I remember correctly
Putting Wichita Falls in this quiz is crazy. It’s not the city in Kansas
Good evening Tom! I request you continue your "areas with tragic or disturbing backstories" series! Found it really different and fun! Cheers!
-Hippo Hippo
+1
I could watch paint dry with tom on the commentary and watch every second😂
Tom sees water with clear bridge going over it (not a long girder style 10 mile bridge): ‘ah yes, a coastal town!’
You might be the first person to ever confuse Phoenix with Birmingham Alabama haha. You did a lot better than I would with British cities though. Good job.
I’m from phoenix and that skyline angle was awful.
@@matt962 agreed. The Hyatt with the rotating restaurant on top was the main giveaway but you wouldn’t know that unless you’re a local.
I live in Phoenix and didn’t recognize it lmao
@@GeorgioSubsI lived there for 2 years and couldn’t tell lol I’ve def seen better pictures
So happy Pittsburgh got the thumbnail! It's a gorgeous skyline
Not so much the skyline as the Arial view of the river splitting
As someone from Albany, NY who loves your channel, I can't express how happy this makes me!
Never forget the Batman building in Nashville 😂
I find it incredible just how many cities there are in the USA.
Especially given how few people live there. Half the population of Europe, three times the area. And not a giant desert in the middle like Australia.
@@KaiHenningsenEurope is like 2.5 time bigger than the US actually and a good chunk of the US is Alaska and our territorial waters.
@@GryphonB Territorial waters obviously don't count but I'd still say there are more cities in Europe than in the U.S. I'd say Russia, Germany and Italy can almost match the U.S. number.
@@GryphonB USA is larger than Europe if you exclude non-European Russia. USA without Alaska/Hawaii fits surprisingly well superimposed over mainland Europe. Google images has a nice picture
The "Batman Building" is iconic for Nashville.
Came to the comments to say this.
Shouldn't feel too bad - I've been to Davenport (Iowa), Casper (Wyoming), Peoria (Illinois), and Albany (New York) and didn't recognize any of them, lol.
Same except for albany that building is pretty unique
I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottowa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I'm a killer
@@Magst3r1 that a lot of travelling. you ever want to settle down and just be a local killer? like buy a house and relax until they find all the bodies in the basement?
That last round was unbelievably hard. I got 7 right naming just about any city I could think of.
The building in Nashville that you pointed out is known as the Batman building and its pretty recognizable
I about fell out of my seat when i saw the red bridge in Big Spring Park from my hometown of Huntsville in the extreme quiz. I would have never guessed we would make the cut, especially in a quiz from 2018. If the shot had been around the Space and Rocket Center with the Saturn V it would have been much easier.
The weird satellite dish building in Albany was an instant giveaway since you can see that from the highway driving through, but jeez. I didn't do nearly as well except on easy mode. Tougher challenge than it seems.
It's called The Egg and it's a concert venue. The plaza with all the towers is the Empire State Plaza and it's connected to the NYS Capitol building
Great video Tom, always fun to see you attempt these more obscure quizzes, although I personally cannot wait for the next GeoDetective video! In the meantime enjoy your holidays!
Albany is actually a lovely city with some historic buildings. It's bigger than I thought.
Best steamed hams on Earth, after Utica
The tall building in the Albany photo is the Corning Tower. It’s the largest building in the state outside of New York City.
3:26 I love how he unironically says "Dallas and Houston....oh we have a problem" 🤣
11:01 That building in Nashville is called the "Batman building" by the locals because if viewed head on it resembles batman's head
It was never one of the answers but he named every Florida city under the sun except Tampa and I was screaming TRY TAMPA at my monitor
Glad that when I played this I wasn’t alone in just devolving into “name every city I’ve ever heard of”
The "Batman Building" in Nashville makes for one of the most distinct skylines out there.
its
I live in Memphis and couldn't recognize my own cities' skyline without the Bass Pro Shop pyramid...
That is definitely a great picture of detroit you know the area, the Reniassance Center is the largest and most distinctive feature on the skyline
Tbh hes not really identifying the skyline, he naming random cities and towns and seeing if the coincidently match😂
I appreciated the “Houston we have a problem”
I was quite happy just to chip in with Albany in that final one! Happy New Year Tom :)
I think it’s fair to say The Spaces Needle and Seattle skyline is the most iconic and easily recognizable in the USA, maybe even the world
That’s actually Wilmington, Delaware not North Carolina
I lived in Newark DE nearly my entire life and didn't even recognize it 😅
Yes I was thinking that too. Wouldn't think Tom knows there's a lot of dup city names in US. Portland ME vs Portland OR. Wilmington DE vs NC. Charleston Sc vs WV just to name a few. He needs to brush up on his Florida cities, there's alot of big ones besides the 3 or 4 he named
I was hoping to see Albany pop up, and was excited when I recognized it right away. 4 year resident here, Albany gets a lot of shit from NYers, but I love it here. Glad to see it stumped and impressed you
3:27 “we have a problem” is absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂
as a minnesota native Duluth is pronounce Duh-looth
"I'm gonna try Dallas.. Houston.. oh, we have a problem."
S-tier comedy
Being from Albany, this was very entertaining to see my city pop up!
This makes me appreciate how huge America is and why they don’t know much about the rest of the world. They are in a vast land with many large cities
the states is frigging enourmous. 50 states the size of european countries.
Detroit is on a river! The Detroit River connects the great lake Lake Eire with the not great, but still big, Lake St Clair.
Also, it's really cool to see the city of Davenport Iowa! My hometown is just across the river in Moline, Illinois.
3:27 had me laughting Tom, that was a smooth transition
Made me laugh for a good few seconds
Im in Ohio and I didn't know that was Akron lol!
Gotta love the stare of despair thumbnail lol
A friendly FYI - Duluth is pronounced dah-looth :) Yes my city was on there - Chicago.
With stress on the second syllable.
Wow I was not expecting Columbia to be on there. Even on the extreme list. But I knew it IMMEDIATELY from the Finlay Park Fountain.
as someone from Albany I was screaming when I saw the corning tower and the egg!
Another video, another "Boyse" appearance 🤣 love the content as always, was great to play along from Boise!
Omg as a Boisean I cringe so hard lol, now I know how O-ray-gun feels 😆
I'm from Missoula and while he didn't mispronounce it in this video when he guessed it for Billings, I do hear a TON of people pronounce it like "miss-o-lua" and move around the vowels. I'm originally from spokane and we get a lot of people pronouncing the end more like cane as well xD
5:05 that is the Detroit River btw, pretty sure that photo was taken from Windsor, Ontario. Also it's interesting that you find the Guardian building the most recognizable, the Renaissance Center is the tall, modern one and I find that the most recognizable at least
The guardian building was also in the photo (at least partly), so he must not know it THAT well
You should do the same thing for Canada. Not as many big skylines, but enough to make a video on for sure.
I live in Huntsville and I might not have gotten the one of Huntsville just because I never would have expected to see it on this quiz lmao
He knows the skylines better than I do ... And I'm American and have been almost everywhere in this big ass country...
3:27 is iconic. 😂
Damn well done on Duluth! Nice little quiz.
As a minnesotan, the way you pronounce Duluth made me giggle.
It's pronounced like dew•loo•th
It's nit-picking, I know, but Duluth is pronounced "da-looth." Even as I type this I can hear Molly Solverson from the first series of Fargo saying it. 😂 Love that series, but I digress.
Or even just d'looth. Barely a vowel in there at all!
@@littlegreensprouts you're not wrong to be fair!
Du lith. Lmao I love you Tom. Pronounced Doo Lou th
I saw the akron skyline and got jumpscared by my hometown lol
Don't feel too bad mate, you ask me to name 5 cities in all of Great Britain, and I'm probably stumped after 3 guesses....then I just start appending -shire to random words!
I'm from the Nashville area and it hurt so bad seeing you miss that one haha the big distinctive building is the "Batman building." With its two spires it looks like Batman! That's what the locals call it, so it's probably permeated the rest of the country for anyone that's been here.
That picture is way behind the times though! That looked like 90s/00s era.
Nashville = Batman Building
Being from San Diego him calling it Milwaukee hurt the soul.
That building in Nashville is how I got it. I think they call it the Bat Tower or Batman Building, or something like that. It looks like Batman's mask.
It’s the Batman Building. Instantly recognizable.
Used to live in Minneapolis.
Recognized the IDS Tower immediately.
They should have just used a street view of crack houses for Detroit that would have been easy :P
sitting here shouting, "Akron!!!" 😂😂
13:32 I wasn’t expecting to see Huntsville al here!
did you intentionaly make the "houston we have a problem" joke?
Pittsburgh has by far the best skyline
It was the most recognized in that round too.
Tom thank you for another quality year of entertainment. Every single video has been brilliant
You missing Nashville with the iconic "Batman Building" (the AT&T building) front and center hurt me.
the way you say some of these place names is killing me 🤣
As someone from greensboro, I laughed so hard when you put it in for the picture you was looking at
I find myself looking but cannot help but scroll through.. hello!
I am from Europe and was stumped with many images, but somehow I pointed at the screen and said "That's Detroit" for the last image. I can't even tell you how I knew, never been there, don't know much about the city other than a few bullet points. "Cars, manufacturing, blizzards, Michigan, crime, poverty" are what comes to mind, nothing that could've helped me there.
As someone from Akron, I love the exposure
As a Detroit native I find it funny you said you’d recognize other buildings here, but not our most iconic one and the only one really in frame 😂
"It had that look about it. With the buildings" Top notch commentary lol
Happy New Year from Portland, Maine!
I love how he can’t stop guessing Fort Myers meanwhile I grew up in the Midwest and I’m not certain I’ve ever even heard of Fort Myers.
well he did travel the east coast. if you haven't seen that series i highly recommend it.
I generally suck at skylines, but with Detroit but I saw the GM logo and immediately knew it had to be Detroit, because Detroit is a huge automotive city!
If Akron didn’t tell you anything you should know that is the city where both Lebron James and Stephen Curry were born, same hospital, same maternity ward. Not that can help you at all with the skyline.. but you know just as a piece of knowledge. Btw as an italian I wouldn’t have gotten more than 10 in total across all three quizzes so well done 👍🏻 😂
Finally a quiz I got higher scores
Wow, as someone from Duluth Minnesota I was pleasantly surprised when you spit balled that one!!
Good work! As an American, I beat you in easy and medium with 15/15 and 12/15, but I only got 3/15 on the extreme difficulty.
I remember watching you back when you still called yourself "GeoGuessr Wizard". GeoWizard sounds a lot better honestly lol.
But yeah, I love the content still. Even the simpler videos such as this. I'm gonna watch that "tenner in my pocket" video after this. Looking forward to it. Thanks for the good videos man.
I am a U.S. citizen but your first guesses on the easy setting were better than mine! 😂. (Though I do know how to pronounce Los Angeles and St. Louis so there I have the edge. 😝)
The only right way to pronounce Saint Louis is the French one
@@macanaeh I see. And does that go for Detroit as well? And do you say Moskva or Moscow? And how do you pronounce Beijing? Thought that statement through much?
@@StamfordBridge All city pronounciations are only correct when pronounced the French way:
Moscou
Pékin
Detroit
Nouvelle Orléans
Londres
@@macanaeh OK, if you’re just having a laugh, I have no problem, but many people do seriously assert that the locals’ pronunciation of their own home towns is wrong, which I find amazing. Someone else in the comments just asserted it, as a matter of fact.
@@StamfordBridge I am just having a laugh, ultimately it doesn't matter how a city is pronounced, so I just decided to poke a bit of fun because you took a jab at Tom's pronounciation. No hard feelings (:
Those locations for the extreme level are crazy. Peoria, IL is only 100k and unless you live in central Illinois I doubt you've ever heard of it.
I remember Billings from one of your geoguessr videos, you did a good detective work there
Thanks for the Greensboro shoutout! I have lived here my whole life! Wish you would come back to visit!
I lived in Denver for 2 years and I didn't recognize the skyline when I tried the quiz. They made a skyline based on city clip art.
“Dallas and Houston…oh we have a problem” 😂😭 nahhh
I'm in the UK but was stupidly pleased to see Billings, as I know someone who lives there.