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Mar 25th, 2016, 5:04 pm
Are you north of latitude 58N?
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:04 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:44 pm
Are you at the Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial Museum ?
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:44 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:49 pm
Are you at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum?
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:49 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:53 pm
Are you at Grizzly Bear Prairie Museum?
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:53 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:57 pm
Are you west of a line following the Smoky and Peace rivers?
Mar 25th, 2016, 5:57 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 7:04 pm
Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
https://dinomuseum.ca/
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THE PHILIP J. CURRIE DINOSAUR MUSEUM IS AN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING DEDICATED TO ALBERTA’S PALAEONTOLOGICAL HERITAGE, THROUGH RESEARCH, COLLECTION, PRESERVATION, EXHIBITION, PUBLIC PROGRAMMING, PUBLICATIONS AND INNOVATIVE OUTREACH.

PALAEO-HERITAGE

Named after Canada’s leading Palaeontologist Dr. Philip Currie — one of the foremost professional voices around the globe – the new museum honours his lifelong commitment to the discovery and study of palaeo-heritage. However, the story begins when a young school teacher by the name of Al Lakusta stumbled upon something exciting while out on a nature walk one day at Pipestone Creek. His findings that day in 1974 would eventually be identified as bones of a yet to be discovered species Pachyrhinosaurus – a type of horned dinosaur, which subsequently was re-christened Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai after Lakusta.

In the meantime, palaeontologists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum, including Dr. Currie, had started travelling to the area to excavate these intriguing fossils. They examined the area identified by Lakusta and soon realized that there were thousands of bones in an area as large as several football fields; in fact, this bone bed was a mass grave where hundreds of dinosaurs of all ages died, creating one of the densest sites in the world.

Following this initial discovery, other finds in the area include hadrosaurs (duck billed dinosaurs), tyrannosaurs (predatory dinosaurs), nodosaurs (armoured dinosaurs), plesiosaurs (marine reptiles) and pterosaurs (flying reptiles), to name a few.

CANADA’S NEWEST MUSEUM

Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is a world-class facility in the heart of the Peace Country on a 10 acre complex. Designed by Toronto-based Teeple Architects, Arndt Tkalcic Bengert (ATB) and Structural Engineers Fast & Epp, it has been featured in several architectural/design publications including AZURE, NUVO and MUSE magazines.

The museum features extensive gallery spaces angled onto a unique set of beetle pine timber 7-beam nodal trusses, two classrooms, the 60-seat Aykroyd Family Theater, research and collections areas, the Dine-O-Saur restaurant, the Kaleidosaur gift shop, an outdoor discovery fossil walk and large outdoor playground. Triple glazed zinc roof creates an exceptionally energy-efficient and sustainable building envelope, to handle temperature extremes in the Grande Prairie. The efficiency of this design allows the entire building to be heated and cooled by a displacement ventilation system, located under the concrete floor of the museum.




This is why I answered no to avo's question 30: (besides first hand knowledge of the specific area)
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Mar 25th, 2016, 7:04 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 7:38 pm
Sounds like an interesting place to visit :)

congrats Alessa!
Mar 25th, 2016, 7:38 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 7:46 pm
Wow, I totally didn't expect to win! Thanks! :D

Good going, Ice! :)
Mar 25th, 2016, 7:46 pm
Mar 25th, 2016, 8:07 pm
Congrats Alessa :D :clap:
Mar 25th, 2016, 8:07 pm
Mar 28th, 2016, 1:13 am
Congrats Alessa!! Looks like an interesting place to visit, Ice!
Mar 28th, 2016, 1:13 am
Apr 5th, 2016, 5:45 pm
Congrats Lessa!!! Good job!!
Apr 5th, 2016, 5:45 pm
Apr 7th, 2016, 4:53 pm
Alessa9 found avoran with 1 question and so gains 5 wrz$... :D
However it took 59 questions to find her so 13Ice gets 295 wrz$.
Alessa9 is invited to be the next guest after sending me a pm with the location for approval.
Apr 7th, 2016, 4:53 pm
Apr 18th, 2016, 8:24 pm
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Round 36


Start guessing! :D

Q & A

01. Dreamy - Are you on a island? - No
02. Amilcar - Are you in Europe? The continent, not Jupiter's moon. - Cannot be answered with a yes or no
03. Zoie - Are you in near water? - No
04. avoran - Is this an indisputably real place? - No
05. 13Ice - Are you in the Western Hemisphere? - No
06. anarae - Are you in Asia? - No
07. Zoie - Are you outside of Earth? - No
08. coolcat - Are you at a fictional place from a book? - YES
09. old.smobilee - Are you at Santa's workshop/home? - No
10. agamal - Are you at a fictional place from a movie? - No
11. 13Ice - are you set in a place from the future? - No
12. avoran - Is this place from a sci-fi setting? - No
13. anarae - Are you in at a fictional place from a book that has been adapted to a TV show? - No
14. meals3891 - Are you in the USA? - No
15. Amilcar - Are you in Africa? - No
16. avoran - Does the book fall into one of these genres: children's lit, mystery/crime, fantasy, thriller, romance, historical novel? - No
17. old.smobilee - Is the place from a sword & sorcery fantasy book? - No
18. 13Ice - In this fictional setting, are the names of the countries the same as we know them now, for example, Canada, USA, Russia, etc? - No
19. Amilcar - Is the place you are set in a dystopian future? - No
20. Zoie - Was this book written by a male? - YES
21. avoran - Is the place we are looking for a natural feature (e.g. river, mountain, island, as opposed to a country, city, building, and so on)? - YES
22. anarae - Is the book (where the place is from) part of a series? - No
23. Amilcar - Is/was the male who wrote this book a french man? - No
24. 13Ice - Was the book first released on or before the year 2000? - YES
25. avoran - Was the book originally written in English? - No
26. coolcat - Was the book originally written in a European language? - YES
27. gisselle - Are you in the milky way galaxy? - No
28. 13Ice - Was the book first released on or before the year 1950? - YES
29. avoran - Is the place we're looking for specifically one of these three things: a river, mountain or island? - No
30. anarae - Was the book released in the years between 1 A.D. and 1950 (i.e. not in the years B.C.)? - YES
31. coolcat - Was the book originally written in Portuguese? - No
32. Amilcar - Is the place a population center (city, village, town, hamlet...) which name is mentioned in the book? - No
33. avoran - Was the book originally written in one of these languages: Spanish, German, Italian, Russian? - YES
34. 13Ice - Are you in a park? :lol: :lol: :lol: please don't be in a park :lol: - No (I'm sure you're all relieved to hear this!) :lol:
35. anarae - Was the book originally written in Spanish? - No
36. link_cell - Was the book originally written in German? - No
37. avoran - Was the book written in verse (poetry, whether conventional rhyming or not)? - YES
38. Zoie - Does this book have a male protagonist? - YES
39. 13Ice - was the book first released on or before 1900? - YES
40. link_cell - Was the book originally written in Italian? - YES
41. avoran - Is the place we are looking for a water feature? - No
42. Zoie - Does the author's last name begin with a letter between A-J? - YES
43. 13Ice - was the book first released on or before 1800? - YES
44. anarae - Is the author of the book Dante (Alighieri)? - YES
45. link_cell - Is the book "La Divina Commedia"? - YES
46. avoran - Is this place a feature that would have a real-world analogy (e.g. a valley or swamp) as opposed to something like "purgatory"? - No
47. 13Ice - is the book Paradiso (Dante)? - No
48. agamal - Are you at Mount of Purgatory (in the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy)? - No
49. anarae - Is the place one of the 9 circles of Hell? - YES
50. avoran - Is it the first circle (Limbo)? - No
51. Amilcar - Is it the Third Circle (Gluttony)? - No
52. 13Ice - Are you in the Second Circle (Lust)? - No
53. agamal - Are you at the last circle of inferno: Ninth Circle (Treachery)? - No
54. avoran - Is it the fourth circle (greed)? - No :lol:
55. Amilcar - Are you in the Fifth Circle (Anger)? - YES!!!

Congratulations, Amilcar! :D You found me in the Fifth Circle of Hell (Anger)!


*Amended Q02
Apr 18th, 2016, 8:24 pm
Apr 18th, 2016, 8:26 pm
Are you on a island?
Apr 18th, 2016, 8:26 pm
Apr 18th, 2016, 8:31 pm
Are you in Europe?
The continent, not Jupiter's moon.
Apr 18th, 2016, 8:31 pm