Find the Building: Solve the Clues & Show the Map!

[Jonathan Scott]

Not Knox again? But I still don't get it.

 

[tionis]

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Well, that's not what Amanda is actually saying. It looks like "I am you" although my lip-reading isn't good. But anyway, I still don't get it, regardless of whether the Knox is Henry or Amanda. There are various Knox-related places such as Fort Knox, Knoxville and the small town of Knox, NY, but nothing that seems relevant.

 

[collinsmark]

Me too (not getting anywhere); I've been trying to find some sort of hook or link to some sort of knowledge that I or google might know, or even might be able to look up and learn, but I keep coming up with nothing.

Perhaps a clue/hint that has some sort of semblance to general knowledge, even if indirect, would be helpful.

[Okay, maybe it's just me and I'm still on the wrong track on "our first president" of which I'm probably misinterpreting.]

 

[Jonathan Scott]

[Okay, maybe it's just me and I'm still on the wrong track on "our first president" of which I'm probably misinterpreting.]

I'm assuming that's about a friend of Washington, Henry Knox, whose name ends in "ox" (a more common term for "taurus bos"). And the picture appears to be Amanda Knox.

 

[tionis]

haha I'm not buying it

 

[Jonathan Scott]

haha I'm not buying it

Is that meant to be a clue? It's not helpful to me.

 

[hsdrop]

ok I'm lost you share this is in the U.S. ?

 

[tionis]

Is that meant to be a clue?

Yes!

 

[tionis]

ok I'm lost you share this is in the U.S. ?

This site is in the U.S., I think, so yeah I share it here.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Yes!

It's still not helpful to me.

 

[tionis]

It's still not helpful to me.

Then I don't know how else to help you

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I can find vague connections between things in the clues, but nothing which seems to help. For example, Lever House was designed by Gordon Bunshaft who also designed an extension to the Albright-Knox art gallery. Also Queens Theatre in the Park (as seen in Men in Black) is sometimes referred to as "QTIP". However, I can't find any connection between those nor any connection with "Look what God has given" (which however reminds me of Samuel Morse and "What hath God wrought"). So I'm stuck and I'm not going to spend any more time on it unless I get a more helpful clue.

 

[tionis]

I can find vague connections between things in the clues, but nothing which seems to help. For example, Lever House was designed by Gordon Bunshaft who also designed an extension to the Albright-Knox art gallery. Also Queens Theatre in the Park (as seen in Men in Black) is sometimes referred to as "QTIP". However, I can't find any connection between those nor any connection with "Look what God has given" (which however reminds me of Samuel Morse and "What hath God wrought"). So I'm stuck and I'm not going to spend any more time on it unless I get a more helpful clue.

You did your best. Thanks for playing

 

[wolram]

I think it is time to come clean and revel the answer to your riddle as every one is stuck

 

[wolram]

Okay time for another riddle, first come first go.

 

[tionis]

I think it is time to come clean and revel the answer to your riddle as every one is stuck

I already have. It's embedded in one of the clues

 

[tionis]

Okay time for another riddle, first come first go.

OK.

In the land of our first President
I stand piercing the sky
Although in terra firma
Space does come to mind

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I already have. It's embedded in one of the clues

Please can you be more helpful? I spent a lot of time looking at those clues without making any progress. If the name of the town is not well known, we may not have heard of it and would not recognize it.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

OK.

In the land of our first President
I stand piercing the sky
Although in terra firma
Space does come to mind

That sounds like the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. Trivial compared with the previous one (still unsolved).

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Please can you be more helpful? I spent a lot of time looking at those clues without making any progress. If the name of the town is not well known, we may not have heard of it and would not recognize it.

When I was checking on the "God has Given" bit previously I came across the fact that "Brother Jonathan" is a personification of New England, and a term used by George Washington and matching the "bro" part of the clue, but the character is fictitious and doesn't have a surname.

However, I've just noticed that in Wikipedia it says that some think this term relates to "Jonathan Trumbull", a historical Governor of Connecticut, and I see his surname also ends in another reference to "Taurus bos".

There's a town called Trumbull after him which has a crafts festival, and which has a Unilever R&D site which deals with products including Q-tips. Is that what you have in mind? If so, please explain how it is "embedded" in a previous clue.

 

[tionis]

That sounds like the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington.

Ah! I knew it was too easy lol

When I was checking on the "God has Given" bit previously I came across the fact that "Brother Jonathan" is a personification of New England, and a term used by George Washington and matching the "bro" part of the clue, but the character is fictitious and doesn't have a surname.

Jonathan was pals with GW, see below:

Trumbull was a friend and advisor of General Washington throughout the revolutionary period, dedicating the resources of Connecticut to the fight for independence. Washington declared him "the first of the patriots."[5] When Washington was desperate for men or food during the war, he could turn to "Brother Jonathan."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Trumbull#cite_note-6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Trumbull#cite_note-6

There's a town called Trumbull after him which has a crafts festival, and which has a Unilever R&D site which deals with products including Q-tips. Is that what you have in mind? If so, please explain how it is "embedded" in a previous clue.

You have now solved the riddle!

The answer is embedded in the gif

Over 2 U!

 

[Jonathan Scott]

The answer is embedded in the gif

I did spot that something was flashing up very briefly, but it just looked like a volume scale or similar, and I don't have any software on any of the devices I normally use to access PF which can freeze a gif or split it up into frames. (I have previously used online sites for that, but didn't expect to need to in this case, especially as I don't like being reminded of the very unpleasant Amanda Knox case).

I've not got any ideas for a new one at the moment, so it may take a while for me to come up with one.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

A silly one while I'm thinking of a proper one...

Identify the famous building which was demolished by a twinkle in the 1970s.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

(The building is real but the demolition was a not-very-special effect).

 

[tionis]

A silly one while I'm thinking of a proper one...

Identify the famous building which was demolished by a twinkle in the 1970s.

A toughy. Not sure if the demolition is literal or figurative as in demolished by a criticism or something lol.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

The demolition was fictitious and Twinkle was furry.

 

[1oldman2]

BT Tower

 

[Jonathan Scott]

BT Tower

Yes, that's it!

I was referring to the hilarious award-winning Goodies episode "Kitten Kong" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_Kong), in which they are looking after Twinkle the kitten and give it a bit too much growth compound, after which it does a "King Kong" on the BT tower but knocks it over. A picture from that episode featured in the titles of all subsequent episodes.

You're welcome to go next, as I don't have anything better at the moment.

 

[1oldman2]

A high tech center is what your looking for.
It shares its home town with the opening and
closing scenes in a very well read story, this
story begins with a Kepler quote,

"But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited?
...Are we or they lords of the world?...And how are all things
made for man?"

Schiaparelli must have been very amused by the
story I'm speaking of, if he were alive today he
would solve this puzzle in no time flat.
It's about the center, not the story, A name or G-Earth
screenshot would suffice.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

McLaren?

 

[hsdrop]

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3459604,-0.5464679,360m/data=!3m1!1e3

the main building looks like the pepsi symbol and then the landscape around it looks just like a table tennis paddle lol

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I've driven past the McLaren Technology Centre entrance just north of Woking a couple of times recently when trying to find my way home from London to near Southampton in the evening after the M3 motorway has been closed for roadworks. (On the second occasion, I found the A31 was closed just west of Farnham, and the diversion signs took me around a 15 mile loop back to where I started before I worked out which one I had to ignore).

 

[1oldman2]

McLaren?

Good show, that is correct. I thought I'd try a literary twist on the riddle this time.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Good show, that is correct. I thought I'd try a literary twist on the riddle this time.

Interesting landmark, thanks. The quote was familiar to me, and was confirmed by the Schiaparelli reference, but it was also very easy (perhaps too easy) to find using Google. I thought the War of the Worlds story started in Ottershaw (between Chertsey and Woking), but after a bit of Googling I guessed you meant Woking as the town. It took me a little searching and thinking to decide what hi-tech centre you had in mind, as I think of McLaren as being near Woking rather than in it.

The McLaren Technology Centre looks amazing. See the Wikipedia entry for more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Technology_Centre

I don't have another one at the moment. I'll see if I can think of one later, but again anyone else is welcome to submit a new one.