Ok, who know all the routes?

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Ewing99

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 09:26 am Click here to edit this post

It's very hard to understand some states and cities.

Has anyone a list of all the routes so far,
i tried it a little bit to collect?

Please complete or correct me for misspellings,
I'm not so familiar with all the cities, cause i moved to USA, NYC only one year ago.

1)pittsburgh to southfork cit
2)Phoenix to ?, Nebraska.."
3)Wyoming to concorde, New hampshire
4)Chicago, Illanois to ?
5)..to atlanta georgia
6)Los angeles to ..?illanois
7)..to ..idaho
8)..to..nashville
9)wyoming to pitsburgh
10)columbia, south carolina to..?
11)Atlanta georgia to...
12)Missisippi to Denver
13)naxville (or nashville?), tennessee to ..albacurque

14)mobio?, alabama to pittsburgh
15)Charleston, west virginia to concorde
16)..oyzeee to obelo
17)Dallas to seattle
18)chicago to maxwell
19)Charleston-concorde
20)denver to ..maine
21)bismarck to columbia, south california
22)concorde, new hampshire to madison
23)san francisco to little rock
24)philadelphia to atlantic city ?
25)mobio ??? to denver
26)sant louis to ?
27)los angeles to chicago
28)desmond ? to little rocks
29)charleston to virginia

and lots of more...

I'm working on the correct answers as well,
i hope i don't enter the asylum today!!

please help me first with the routes
and correct spelling of the towns!!

Ewing99

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 09:55 am Click here to edit this post

more routes, this is endless.
Do they have to learn everything in the states?

30)savannah georgia to salt lake city
31)denver to..?
32)Phoenix to bismarck
33)Cincinnati to Shrewport?
34)Charleston, virginia to ?
35)Portland, Oregan to?
36)Little Rock to..Indianapolis

[phhhew]

Marysafan

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:02 am Click here to edit this post

I think that they were given a list of 50 cities and had to know the routes from one to the other. Curtis figured out that if they used a "hub" city...they could memorize the routes to that city and then have only 49 routes to memorize.

Example: Des Moines as the hub city.

Pittsburg to Atlanta

Pittsburg to DesMoines to Altlanta.

Does that make sense?

Ewing99

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:05 am Click here to edit this post

Is anyone of them familiar with the old memory method of the egyptians, mnemonistic?

Ewing99

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:10 am Click here to edit this post

marysafan, thanks for the answer.
This drives me still crazy, but it's funny.

Teecee

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:11 am Click here to edit this post

Curtis was originally using a "hub city" strategy, I think with LA as the hub according to one of the live feeds, but he and Cass are well past that now and practicing direct routes. Eddie is in trouble since he is dyslexic and sees the numbers and everything backwards...it's a little unfair for him.

I haven't seen anyone practicing a mnemonic for the routes yet...

Flint

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:12 am Click here to edit this post

This is the latest challenge? *boggle*

Teecee

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:16 am Click here to edit this post

I have a list of almost 50 cities that they've used to practice with - I assume that they would only practice with cities that are going to be on the challenge:

Peoria IL Los Angeles CA
Minneapolis MN Dallas TX Philadelphia PA
Seattle WA Pittsburgh PA Peoria IL
Chicago IL Boise ID Charleston WV
Concord NH New York NY Nashville TN
Albuquerque NM Mobile AL Atlanta GA
Columbia SC Denver CO New Haven CT
Jacksonville FL Louisville KY Baton Rouge LA
Detroit MI Houston TX Las Vegas NV
Bangor ME Salt Lake City UT Madison WI
Bismarck ND Jackson MS Des Moines IA
St. Louis MO Indianapolis IN Butte MT
Wichita KS Phoenix AZ Caspar WY
Atlantic City NJ Little Rock AR Shreveport LA
Cincinnati OH San Francisco CA Portland OR

I think they have to memorize where the cities are, and then be able to give BB routes from any one city to any other...so you don't have to list the routes they are practicing with, it's the cities that are important...btw, Curtis is currently saying on the live feed that he LIKED this challenge, it was FUN. Ugh!

Janine

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:19 am Click here to edit this post

I don't think they were given a list of cities...I think they are just guessing at what cities BB might ask. And I agree it's unfair for Eddie but jump rope was unfair for George....lol. Pie eating is unfair for a beauty queen...lol..and the bike challenge was unfair for George too...lol.

Teecee

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:23 am Click here to edit this post

Eddie is practicing right now and actually sounds better than I thought he would, given Curtis and Cassandra were worrying about him yesterday. He's a smart kid.

Heh he just joked about being able to give directions to LA from midtown Manhattan.

Marysafan

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:53 am Click here to edit this post

I know that they were given a list of cities, I was watching when they got it. Karen looked it over and declared "there must be 50 cities on here!"

Ewing99

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 11:40 am Click here to edit this post

teecee thanks for the complete list of cities.
i was offline for a while.

At which LA-time BB wants them to start with this or is there no official time?

Ewing99

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 12:33 pm Click here to edit this post

Thanx to "Teecee", here are the routes of the challenge, no one failed! My browser crushed, so i couldn't report only listen to, very frustrating.

f4-
challenge

josh first
ms to detroit

ack! lost audio again,,,

going to f3

sorry missed some, but josh was correct

jamie next...

san diego to chicago

jamie: okay...so we're doing cities not on our list...oh! big brother!

BB: san diego is on list

HG: no it's not! we get a free one if she

BB: indianapolis to little rock

Ja: okay, okay, 65...south to 10, west all the way, 20 east to 30, east 30 to little rock

BB: that is correct.

Curtis next.

BB: Denver to Nashville

Curt: follow your map on this one too
n on 25, e on 80, s on 35, e on 40

BB: that is correct.

Cass next.

BB: minneapolis to san fran

Cass: 35 s to 80 w all the way to SF.

BB: that is correct.

Eddie next.

BB: seattle to albequerque

Ed: s on 5, e on 10, n on 25 to alb.

BB: that is correct.

Brit next.

BB: phillie to dallas

Brit: 95 n to 80 w to 35 s.

BB: that is correct (silent for a long time!)

George next.

BB: new haven to atlanta

George: 95 s to 10 back to...west...35 n...20 back east...(not sure...) Son of a bytch! Not sure! Tell me I'm right! ...lots of
yelling...

BB: Well...

Geo and HG yelling...I did it! They were gonna fry me! I did it!

All HG yelling and clapping...

Geo: You guys don't know how scared I was. I did it. They were waiting to fry me. When I'm under pressure, I pfft...

BB is silent.

Geo: I don't wanna look at another map either.
Brit: how much money do we have?

Curt is figuring it all up.

Sparky

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 12:43 pm Click here to edit this post

They won the challenge getting every question right. George was in a panic but still gave the routes from Newark to Atlanta (VIA Los Angeles!). (For non-Americans, Newark and Atlanta are both on the East Coast while L.A. is about 3,500 miles away (guessing)).

Teecee

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 12:49 pm Click here to edit this post

Sparky - check the live feed updates, George's was New Haven, CT (not Newark) via LA to Atlanta GA. Don't mean to be picky but I went to school in New Haven and we don't want to be confused with Newark :)

Sparky

Friday, August 18, 2000 - 12:52 pm Click here to edit this post

Teecee, I hear ya. I lived in NYC and wouldn't want anyone to think I lived in Newark either. You're doing a great job with the feeds, by the way. Really!

Teecee

Sunday, August 20, 2000 - 03:25 am Click here to edit this post

Thanks for the feedback Sparky - I appreciate it :)