The Online Geography Game
This is a minumum security prison near the town of Wooloroo. Wooloroo can hold up to 360 inmates and includes a large industrial complex, which produces goods and food for inmates and for external contracts.
Prisoners can work under supervision in the local community and take part in traineeships.
Those who avoided getting busted:
These needed parole with the help of a hint:
For those in trouble down under.
This location is the birthplace of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
When Andrew and I first saw the suggestion from long term contest player Ashwini Agrawal (who automatically receives 2 points), we were somewhat surprised that the previous admins of this contest had never used this site. We had many other locations to look through, but this one was the only one that elicited that reaction from us.
Those who found the site besides Ashwini included:
And after the hint:
This ends this series with Lighthouse and Garfield both coming away with perfect scores!
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
We went through at least 25 suggestions, and this one seemed to resonate the most. Many others were usable, and we will be using them (and automatically granting points to the person who suggested it) in future contests.
Here is your #400 contest:
The Philadelphia Cricket Club is the oldest country club in the United States.
Founded in 1854, the main sport here was cricket initially, but golf and tennis quickly became primary. The cricket league was disbanded in 1929, but revived in 1998, and has become quite popular here.
Those who batted a century before being dismissed included:
and those who needed an extra:
Not exactly where you would expect to find a cricket pitch…
On May 22nd, 1960, at 3pm local time, the largest earthquake ever recorded by modern instruments was felt near Lumaco, Chile.
Registering at magnitude 9.5 on the Richter scale, the quake caused widespread damage locally, served as the focal start of a tsunami with waves up to 25M felt in areas of the Chilean coast. One set of 10M waves devistated Hilo, Hawaii, nearly 11,000 KM away, causing 61 deaths there, and a day later, northern Honshu, Japan, over 16,000 KM away, was hit with 5.5M waves that destroyed 1600 homes and killed 185 people. Estimates of the total loss of life range from about 1,500 to as many as 6,000.
The quake caused a volcano, Cordón Caulle, to erupt with in a rhyodacitic fissure eruption. Some geologists have contended that the changes in the structure of the Nazca and South American plates caused by this earthquake were direct causes in the 2010 8.8 magnitude quake whose epicenter was 250 KM north of this spot, making that quake effectively an aftershock of the one 50 years before.
Those who shook out the answer:
After the hint: