Taj Mahal | Paulo Skyline | Guggenheim Museum | Charles de Gaulle International Airport

Picture This

Yes, the montage we threw at you was tough. But nobody ever said being a road warrior would be easy, now, did they? Compiled

Absolutely Fabulous

Slightly more than 9,000 of you took your best shot at the montage, and only two very sharp people correctly identified all 33 sites. That means 0.00021 percent of the class got an A+ - and totally screwed up the grading curve for everyone else. Another 20 people managed to identify all but one of the pictures. Congrats to the brainiacs:

Bryan Atnip
Gerardo Guerra

Brandr Beekman-Ellner
Mary Bowen
Beyat Christen
Christian Croes
Stephanie Crowe
Darren Doyle
Jenna Dran
Stew Ellington
Paras Goel
Christine Goulet
Andrea Guzman
Zdenek Holy
David Jackson
Sharon Jacob-Soo
Howard Laubscher
Tammy Redmon
David Roller
Yvonne Roller
Jonathan Umpleby
Stuart Warner

Cheat Sheet
Chances are we'll never use this montage again. But in case we do, clip and save this page for future reference.

Correct Answers (Percentage of entrants who got it right)

1. Great Wall of China 89%
2. Bourbon Street 89%
3. Gateway Arch 73%
4. Parthenon 71%
5. Machu Picchu 63%
6. Christ the Redeemer 59%
7. Mustangs of Las Colinas 56%
8. Fenway Park 49%
9. Iguazú Falls 46%
10. Louvre Museum 44%
11. Brandenburg Gate 43%
12. St. Patrick's Cathedral 41%
13. Burj al-Arab 40%
14. Denver International Airport 39%
15. Charles Bridge 39%
16. Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) 35%
17. Château de Versailles 35%
18. Trevi Fountain 35%
19. Atlas Statue 35%
20. Shanghai Skyline 33%
21. The Blue Mosque 33%
22. Lake Point Tower 33%
23. Guggenheim Museum 32%
24. 12th Hole at Augusta National 30%
25. U.S. Bank Tower 30%
26. Seville Cathedral 28%
27. São Paulo Skyline 28%
28. Palacio Nacional 28%
29. Lake Louise 26%
30. El Arco 25%
31. White Cliffs of Dover 23%
32. Safdarjung's Tomb 17%
33. Charles de Gaulle International Airport 16%

Wrong Answers

Taj Mahal 80%
Space Needle 36%
Wrigley Field 32%
Sydney Harbour Bridge 32%
St. Peter's Basilica 28%
Windsor Castle 23%
Great Sphinx of Giza 22%
National Museum of Natural History 21%
Brooklyn Bridge 20%
Vancouver Skyline 19%
Times Square 18%
Diamond Head 18%
Buckingham Fountain 16%
London Heathrow Airport 15%
Taipei 101 14%
Plaza de Cibeles 13%
Fremont Street 13%
Minneapolis Skyline 13%
Rijksmuseum 12%
Royal Castle 11%
17th Hole at TPC Sawgrass 10%
Nelson's Column 10%
Pittsburgh Skyline 9%
Cagayan Valley Caves 8%
Ulm Münster 8%
6th Street 8%
The Thinker 8%
Brooks Range 7%
Lake Chungará 7%
The Famous Five 7%
Bo-Kaap 4%

Upon Further Review …


So what have we learned? For one thing, most of you need a refresher course on the Taj Mahal. The iconic Indian tomb was incorrectly cited by 80 percent of respondents - easily outdistancing the next most misidentified site, Seattle's Space Needle.


What's a trip without a good slide show at the end? We asked for your best photos, and 2,953 of you obliged. (No, we still haven't organized them into photo albums … and don't hold your breath either.) You'll find a few of our favorites starting on page 64.


Of the 9,188 entries we received, most came from warm-weather states, with Texas (2,074), California (1,439), and Florida (895) taking the top three spots in terms of representation. Frankly, we didn't really feel the love from South Dakota and Montana (three each - one of which was a winner), North Dakota (two), and Wyoming (one).

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The stat geeks tell us that roughly half our readers are female - so we are kind of surprised that a lot more men (66 percent) put their brains to the test than women (34 percent). Take a look at the cover of this magazine; it doesn't say Field & Stream, folks.

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So you travel a lot, do you? Here's how many AAdvantage miles you people rack up per year:

Fewer than 25,000   34%
25,000 to 50,000     28%
50,001 to 100,000   24%
More than 100,000  14%

(You'll find the names of those who said they flew more than 100,000 miles on pages 70 and 71.)

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Let's put it another way: Every year, you take this many trips for business, personal, or leisure reasons (we're pretty sure those cover all the bases):

Fewer than 10   50%
10 to 20            23%
21 or more        27%