Ordnance Survey Treasure Hunt: I've Hit the Wall
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
- Week 9 sees us follow Hadrians wall. Can I get full marks this week?
Pause the video and have a go yourselves first if you fancy it.
Here is the book if you want to try the hunt yourself: amzn.to/3TI02xc
Enjoy.
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How many were screaming "HADRIAN!" at their screens???
Are we on the wall?
I see a path
I'm lost for words! It's Hadrian! The emperor is Hadrian!
If he had just written Ceasar, he would have been correct. 😂
@@pkt1213 umm, it's Caesar
@@edh5043 😂
If only there had been some clues 😂
I think Question 3 is straight up a mistake in the book.
Thank you so much for doing these puzzles with us! Watching gives me always such a cozy and comfortable feeling of being in the good old pre-internet times 🙂
And never mind if you make any otherwise obvious mistakes. With my almost 60 years of life experience I know that we all do this from time to time.
Just let me give you one hint: If you ever have to do distance measurements again,. simply use a circle tool instead of a line. That make comparing much easier!
Morning @SciManDan and folks. Thanks for another wanting-to-shout-at-the-screen session while I enjoy coffee after a brunch. My Sunday is complete. Enjoy the bank holiday UKians 😀
Pretty sure it was Emperor Ridley! Oh, no, I've NEVER made a mistake in my life. Ha, ha, ha, ha! 🤣😂
I think you should mark your answer to #3 as correct. Clearly whoever wrote the question missed Bradley Burn.
Also, fun fact, the correct latin pronunciation for Julius Caesar is actually "You-lee-oos Keye-sar". We've all just said it wrong for centuries. Letters in the latin alphabet never changed sounds. The J in latin is pronounced as a Y. Vowels should always be pronounced as ah, ay, ee, oh and oo (a,e,i.o,u). C is always a hard C sound, S is always the soft s, and the ae together is a diphthong pronounced eye. When you know that, it's obvious that Caesar is where the German Kaiser comes from.
HADRIANS WALL. which emperror do you think it is then? HADRIANS WALL. dont know if i should laugh or cry XD
both?
I think it's essentially standard that when anyone does one of these you just add 1 to your score before you start as at least one question-answer is horse manure.
I woke up and screamed at the screen for 20 mins. Now I feel refreshed 😂 great effort
I know these don't get a lot of views but I appreciate the uploads. They are relaxing and I look forward to them over coffee on Sunday mornings
Emperor Hadrian not Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar isn't considered to be an emperor and never ruled that part of the world.
Was screaming "Limekilns" for the sounds warm one, not even there.....baffling.
Lol, Hadrian bro. Your trolling surely.
‘Are there any clues’ 😂😂
2:21 No other clue? I really can't wait for the end of this one.
7:50 You don't need a ruler since you're just comparing distances and not actually measuring them, and best of all, you already have everything you need at your desk. All you need is something you can hold up to the screen and mark a length. I use a pencil. I lay the pencil against the screen with the point of it at one location and I use (the edge of) my thumb to mark the second location. Then I adjust the position of the pencil on the screen. Comparatively speaking, it's easy to determine if this second length is longer or shorter than the previous one. If they're too close to tell going this rough way, I grab a piece of paper and use the edge of that paper, and use the pencil already in my possession to put a little mark on the edge of the paper for the first length. Adjust the paper to the second to be compared location and see if I get a better result. This is as precise as any ruler could get you since you're just comparing distances and if you can't figure it out this way, a ruler isn't going to help you do any better.
Same here, use any handy straight edge implement I have to hand. I get East Morwood as closer though?
I hate the questions that start with "Can you", because the correct answer is either yes or no.
I went for JC too! Then Knag Burn, Hotbank Crags and Limekiln. Think all answers are void on that though! 4/8 plus the KP. Get a bleedin' ruler and I'll say it again, look at the key at the start of the book!
I think you can give yourself the point if you have sound alternative reasoning. What's the book's reason for counting only two of the three burns? None provided!
It's a weird yes/no question: "Can you find 3 different names...?".
Yes, I can find 3, I can find even 4. If you want the names, be more specific. 😆
@@simond.455 I can find 5! Limekiln really was a hot place when it was running.
@@simond.455 My exact reasoning too. I read a question like that, my answer is yes/no, not to name them. I think the OS is merely providing examples of three different names, though not really explaining that they are examples.
Duck pond? DUCK POND!
Really enjoying this series! As a map nerd I’d looked at getting one of these OS quiz books years ago but all of the Amazon reviews talk about the problems with answers being wrong, it’s as if no one at the publisher is bothered to proof check it.
Never thought of Hadrian either, don't know who he was other than the name of the wall lol.
Harder to read the map today, it wasn't very clear until you zoomed in and yeah stitched up with question 3.
I have such good memories from Hadrian's Wall 😊
The non-map questions should not be allowed!!
Good morning
I just started and I'm screaming at the screen Hadrian. 😀
You really need to get a Scrabble set or two for those Anagrams! 😂
Julius Caesar was long dead before Hadrian ascended to the throne.
I thought Tweed for the River.
Isn't the bird symbol used for a bird sanctuary?
Don't you be hitting our wall, We have enough trouble with southerners! 😂
The River Esk one was a crappy question to ask. It wasn't on the map! Surely all the questions should relate to what's actually there?
They throw one of these on every hunt. I think it's implied that you can consult outside sources on these, either that or they are just "Final Jeopardy" questions to cut down on people getting 100%
@@davidg4288 Even then it's complete nonsense since a) The Esk is in Yorkshire and literally goes nowhere near Scotland...must be 70 or 80 miles away at least...and b) it doesn't cross the whole country either by any means so it 'separates' nothing. Closest river anyone will probably know off the top of their heads would be the River Tweed...but then the clue would have to be different...and that doesn't separate anything either. BS question.
@@vallejomach6721 The publishers need to take feedback and issue a new edition with less unfair questions.
There are seven different River Esks in the UK. 3 in Scotland. 4 in England.
Question 3 asks "can you find three...?" You found three. Give yourself the point for it.
Morning
Why are the signs different for OS maps and "tourist" signs for Nature Reserve?
Does the intro to the book say anything about using additional resources outside of the map? These days that would likely mean consulting the net, which would somehow seem against the "feel" of these hunts, but map hunts stem from pre-internet days when you would have been expected to rely upon general knowledge, (and perhaps other people's knowledge and/or books). Anyway, for the purpose of these videos outside research would seem unwieldly, unless it were being done live and viewer knowledge could be tapped into in real time.
Q.2 facepalm!! Oh dear. Thanks Dan. I look forward to Sunday mornings now. Julius Caesar invaded southern Britain in 54 and 53BC. Hadrians Wall was built in northern Britain c170 years later
You got 6 out of 9. Nothing to say there are only 3, Just can you find 3
Hmmm who is the emperor?..."it's Hadrian" ...This is an easy question ... Yes, easy, you are at Hadrian's Wall...it is Emperor Hadrian" ...So I'll go for the obvious... "Yes! The obvious, Hadrian's, Wall,.. HADRIAN"... Julius Caesar!!!! ..."*sigh*
Don't hold back. Let it all out. It is good for the nervous system.
And breath in... and out.
There, Better?
I certainly would have counted the 3 Burns as correct. I think that's their error.
Is it worth you spending 10 minutes or so just looking over the key to OS maps so you have some of those odd little things.. like Nature Resrve.. ahem, in the back of your memory?
I was shouting, the names in the wall, lmao
Biggest duck pond I’ve ever seen 😂
The duck icon was actual size.
oh yours is the treasure hunt mine is the puzzle book no wonder K can not them lmao great fun make my morning can not wait to the next one.
In addition to the others who pointed out that Hadrian was the answer to question 2, Caesar never was emperor of Rome. Octavian (emperor Augustus), his successor, became the first emperor.
I just found my book of the Ordnance survey Puzzle book but it is different to yours as on page 52 i have nothing and i have not got Hadrian's walls or any of the ones you have done before this
Ah Hadrians Wall……! I know the place well 😂
something I find odd is that often there are closed questions, for example question 3, and instead of answering it with a yes or a no, you elaborate... WHY????
I'm by no means an expert in UK geography or history, but isn't River Esk 80 km south of Hadrian's Wall and 100 km south of the England/Scotland border?
You may be thinking of the River Esk in Yorkshire which flows into the North Sea at Whitby. This is a different river with the same name that flows into the Solway Firth and acts as the border between Scotland and England for less than a mile of its course.
There are many rivers called Esk in both England and Scotland, including that one that forms part of the border.
And the word "Esk" comes from a Celtic root meaning "water".
I love these videos. And don't feel bad about the Hadrian question, I missed it too lol. I felt like such a fool when the answer was revealed.
It;s an old trick. Send someone on a hunt for a tiny detail only the answer is plastered across the entire map.
Hey! Are you planning a video on long term effects of the covid vaccine now we have more data? Would be reassuring if you did
Hadrian was an emperor. I believe ceaser was a title not a name but could be wrong on that.
That's correct. It's a title. It's also where the word Tsar comes from. Like Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Tweed
@SciManDan I have a question for you.
Flat earthers claim that gravity could be a force from the flat earth rising (moving up) at a constant speed. They also claim that satellites never leave the dome and that they are just up near the top of the dome. If the flat earth is rising at a constant rate, how come the earth never catches up to the satellites? How do flat earthers explain that? Do they think the satellites are continually rising?
Obviously, there are numerous fallacies with flat earth, but they never explain this aspect.
I have never heard of that particular explanation for gravity; they seem to be convinced it is buoyancy. With regards to the satellites. you must have encountered a flat earther who actually believes satellites exist; most seem to think they are fake, because their existence would disprove flat earth.
Constant speed would not produce a gravity-like effect, it would have to be constant acceleration. And what would the result of that be??
No other clue? Is there not another name? Think of Rocky!
Oh so it's not the ice wall. 😥
No that is Antarctica and it goes round the earth.
@@larswilms8275 But I thought the earth was flat?
@@ryankahn2334 If we are to take the gleason map, and all its variants, as a flat earth 'model' than it goes round the outside of the earth. It still goes round the earth.
So no matter what you believe about the shape of the earth the antarctic ice wall goes around the earth.
What? Julius Caesar was about 160 years dead before Hadrian's Wall was even begun.
The rivers traditionally separating England and Scotland are the Solway and the Tweed. Since England nicked some territory North of the Tweed estuary "at its narrowest point" probably means it's the Tweed.
Ah, got that wrong with Eskdale in the middle. Part of the "debatable land" for several centuries. Not debatable between Scotland and England, but between people who could agree on only one thing - that both Scotland and England could f*** off as far as they were concerned. "Debatable" is a bit of a stretch too, unless endless blood feuds count. They did have "truce days" from time to time when issues such as who rustled whose cattle could be negotiated. The rules about all parties being able to travel to and from the meeting place peaceably were frequently broken. Those who thought they'd lost out in negotiation often had parties hidden somewhere to ambush the perceived winners. More slaughter, more blood feuds. Scotland and England each appointed three Wardens of the Marches who were supposed to police all this. But the only way to hold such a position was to be the biggest and most murderous gangster of the Eastern, Middle or Western March respectively.
Solway Firth is not a river
"Ceaser". Wrong person, wrong spelling ... Caesar! 😂 Oh well, It's only easy if you know I guess. Should be 6 out of 9, the " Burns" should count.
It doesn’t say can you find out from the map. That leaves it open for using Google. Fun anyway a
Dan.
Anyone else get East Morwood as the answer to Q4?
SMH, it's called Hadrian's Wall. Why name was Hadrian? Love these vids, looking forward to future ones!
Esk? Aren't all the questions (admittedly some are rather dodgy) meant to be based on the map somewhere? I'm 17,000km away! No chance here of an answer. 😂
Yeah, it's not dfair asking a question that can't be gleaned from the map you are working on at the time.
I have said this several times now. I don' t believe that this "Treasure Hunt" is mean t to be stand-alone. They are encouraging you do do some research from external sources !
Think you've hit the nail on the head. Are you not supposed to use the book only.
Nah.. just do KSP
Give yourself a point for answer 3, their answer is clearly incorrect (also, what about Limekiln?!). Although if I was being _really_ pedantic, I would deduct a point for question 8, because you gave a five-word answer, not four. You wrote Beggar Bog: yes, it's on the map, but just above it is New Beggarbog, and BEGGARBOG was the answer they were looking for.
Unless it is explicitly forbidden in the foreword or instructions, use a search engine for the general knowledge questions that cannot be answered by anything on the given map, otherwise you are never going to get 9/9.
Your science knowledge is great, but I think you really need to brush up on your history. That'll go a long way into helping you out here
Just play KSP
Hopefully KSP with less failure, but to be fair he is just starting out.