Guys of course I have heard of Angkor Wat! I’m also aware that there are many temples in Cambodia, Thailand, India etc some of which look very similar so I chose not to rush in. Drop the video a like if you enjoyed and let me know how you fared in the comments. I like to read through!

Hey Tom, thanks for playing my map! First of all in the description of the map i included a spreadsheet with all the solutions to the locations, so you don't have to google them all one by one :D To the solutions of the locations: 1. Angkor Wat: Yes just like you said it's the Biggest religious building 2. Large Binocular Telescope Observatory: Its the largest optical telescope (mirror diameter of 2 x 8,4 meters) 3. Takabisha: It was the steepest rollercoaster until 2019 and rightly as you said got replaced by the one in new jersey but unfortunately there was no imagery available 4. University of Parma: Bologna is the oldest university in continuous operation but the one in Parma is the oldest (founded in 962) but was closed and reopened several times between the 14th and 19th centuries. There might be a bit of controvery around it depending where you look so i think i might change that location. 5: Statue of Unity: Yes, it's the tallest statue in the world

The Parma World Record was: The University of Parma's Aula Magna (Great Hall) the largest conference hall in a university in the world, with a capacity of 1,386 seats.

Tom, you finished a straight line mission to my heart.

I really want there to be a Guinness Book of Dumbest World Records, like "newest rollercoaster" and "only cycle path in Italy"

Me: *knows it's Angkor Wat - spends 20 minutes searching through Cambodia to find it* Tom: This looks like an Indian temple. *20 seconds later, manages to somehow zoom right in on Angkor Wat* I think this is famous.

Tom: *Identifies roadside bushes as typical of eastern Slovenia* Also Tom: *Looks right at Angkor Wat and thinks 'India"* Also Tom: *Winds up getting it exactly right anyway*

"Uniting the round squigglers and the flat liners" - I thought I was going to die of 😂😂😂😂😂

i gotta admit that when you started guessing those implausible and specific world records i lost it hahaha. "roundest bush?" "... i think i've seen better." but i gotta say "longest standing mound of snow" took the cake

Astrophysicist here! The Large Binocular Telescope is definitely the biggest binocular telescope in the world, I assume that's why it was on that map. That means basically exactly what it sounds like, its two telescopes next to eachother that work in tandem to achieve really really high resolution images. It's made of two copies of the largest single telescope mirror ever made, each 8 meters across. I almost ended up doing my PhD thesis with that bad boy :-)

You have no idea how much joy it brings me when I see that you've brought out a new video, genuinely makes my day

Pretty soon your mission across Wales is gonna be on this map

For the observatory, I never in a million years would've guessed that to be so far South in the U.S. with those conifer trees, and I'm an avid U.S. Geoguessr player (from the U.S.). That's wild.

The Large Binocular Telescope is the largest binocular telescope because as far as I know it is the only large telescope with a binocular design ; while it is not the absolute biggest telescope, its mirrors are the largest non-segmented ones that exist (for bigger telescopes, the mirrors are divided in plenty of well adjusted smaller mirrors which are easier to manufacture and manipulate).

The Statue of Unity is the biggest Statue. The buttons of the coat are actually windows. We were freaking out when we peaked from them

What a burn! “Somewhere between a policeman and a Boy Scout” LMAO

Pretty surprised Tom didn't recognize Angkor Wat considering it is the most famous building in all of Cambodia and even featured in the flag.

somewhere between a cop and a boy scout, 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Always a blast watching you geoguessing, my man!

I'm very happy to see you come across a remotish Arizona area. I've worked out near Safford and have been up Mount Graham once in my life for work. It's part of a series of 32 Arizonan and Mexican isolated mountain highlands known as the Madrean Sky Islands. Absoletely gorgeous subtropical pine hiking country contrasted by harsh, yet lush desert valleys.

10:51 I knew from the moment I saw the plates that this Round would be tricky. The elevation from the mountains is doing a lot of work Mt. Graham is at it's peak 10,700 ft. Introducing all the snow and matching your Idaho vibes. It is also located in a Forrest not a desert that most people would associate with Arizona.

the university of parma one is weird really, couldn't find anything on the guinness website, someone mentioned on another comment that it was probably the mapper mixing it with the university of parma in ohio, someone else said it was the university's aula magna that had the record of being the largest conference hall in a university but I couldn't find anything about it on guinness, I found some records that were broken in the province of parma like (former) "Largest hedge maze (permanent)" in Fontanellato and "Most professional basketball teams played for by a female" in Borgo Val di Taro, but looking at the number of locations in the map it certainly doesn't include a bunch of locations of parma just because there is a record there, it's only specificaly where it happens, which makes the university of parma even weirder because it's in the science campus and not in the historical part, so most likely it's the mapper's mistake with ohio. EDIT: ok so it can't be Ohio because there isn't a "university of parma" in Parma, Ohio, it also can't be the aula magna because a very quick research revealed that (at least) the university of caracas and the central university of venezuela have a bigger capacity and size, and the one from parma seens really small in the photos EDIT 2: I wasted so much time trying to figure it out and the mapper had a google docs all this time lmao, so anyway the university of parma is on the map for the record of "oldest university"... even tho it doesn't have the record... well, that's it guys, have a great day.

Definitely dig these maps with a trivia theme attached to the locations, it adds a whole other layer of interest to things

I did enjoy this! There is a good mix of familiar locations that I somewhat know the name and location of, and others that I've never seen before. I really like Geoguessr videos that show locations where something of wikipedia-level-importance happened

I mean there's no way you can memorize every plate design out there, but it's a funny feeling screaming out internally that they were Arizona plates whilst you were galavanting around Idaho for a few minutes. Mind you, as an American, I don't even know all the state's plate designs. Great vid!

I like your videos where you explore not only geography but also some trivia like where famous tragedies took place or world records. it adds an additional element to the game that goes beyond the normal rules of geoguessr.

Id love to see another one of these

Hi Tom, just thought id say I really enjoy your content! both IRL mission or Classic geoguessr i find you really entertaining and funny. Keep it up lege

Makes me so happy when u upload I appreciate your videos so much man

Love play alongs, please more! :)

Love the play alongs, should do more often m8

Love these. Love all GeoGuesser content ❤

Can't believe, but randomly looked at the observatory near Tuscon like a month ago, while aimlessly surfing google maps. I recognized it immediatly from the snow+desert+forst damage. Too bad I didn't had the patience to find the exact location, settled for the nex mountain :(

That was my first play along! I had my chance to beat you in one round at Angkor Wat but you nailed it! GG!

who else was yelling angkor wat at the screen on round 1? lol love you tom

I would love to see you play this map again, it was pretty interesting!

Please do this again Tom! Loved it

According to the German Wikipedia Article, the University of Parma is the oldest in the world, founded in 962. However, the source cited for this year of foundation is the website of the university itself. It says there that a diploma from the year 962 exists granting "the institutionalization of public high schools of right". So it might after all be the oldest university in the world.

It's such a shame that we'll never get to see a video of Tom's reaction when he checks to see if he's recording only to discover that he isn't.

i think this one would be fun to do again, your guesses for the world records were very funny

I knew the second one instantly since I only live about an hour away and have visited. That's really cool to see you try to figure it out. If you go an take a tour, they tell you all about the big tubes. :) It is the largest binocular scope (and will likely remain that) because future observatories will all use multiple mirrors and interferometry for this class (size) of mirror. Yes, smaller and larger ones will be built, but they are very unlikely to be binocular anymore due to advances in tech.

I must say that I loved this map, would love to see you try it out again.

This is a great geoguessr map! I'd love to see Tom play it again!

This was so much fun, please play it again!

I played along, which I rarely do because I'm appalling at it but got just under 13,000. Pretty happy with getting 46miles from Parma University and I went southern Utah for the observatory. That'll do me. Well done Tom, proper enjoyed that. Please do more of these!

Yes, please! I enjoy any kind of Challenges Videos. I love to play along!

Roundest bush lmao 💀

How can Tom identify a random shed in a Sudanese village back alley in a matter of seconds but not Angkor watt?

Like this format 👍

dude was looking for the statue of unity in one of the most intensely disputed territories os earth, gotta love him

The coastwr enthusiast in me was screaming FujiQ highland! It was indeed the steepest drop on a roller coaster, until a couple years ago when a coaster in New Jesrsey beat it out by half a degree.

Good attempts tho! You did actually really well

I frickin love your intros, dog 😂

Nice video Tom and hello from Philly, PA

Tom, in a previous video you drew the Cambodian flag, 🇰🇭featuring the Angkor Wat temple. When you saw the actual temple you wondered if you were in India, (although Angkor Wat is based on Indian design).

Loved it!!!

Love the different ones!

Awesome vid! Don't feel bad about the Arizona observatory guess. The American Southwest is wildly diverse. Arizona and New Mexico specifically are known for those large alpine mountain forests, flanked by vast dry desert. A few hours of driving, you are going from 100F+ degrees to a cool breezy 60F, ascending and descending 1000s of feet, through forest and desert and forest, and back again. It's quite vast, ever-changing, and beautiful. But very hard to guess without knowing the area. Fun tip though: those license plates with the purple hilly ground with a cactus on the left, are Arizona plates, and don't resemble any other plate in the US. May help you in the future! Anyway, big fan of yours, cheers from USA.

I enjoyed this and would like to see this again!

some great work on this one

For the last one, my hometown is just 50 kms from State of Unity. Yes, it is the tallest statue in the world. The statue is of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who was the first deputy prime minister and home minister of independent India. After independence, there were 562 princely states and he united all of them to build the Republic of India. That is why it is named as Statue of Unity. Big fan tom! Keep doing great work👏🏻

Please do more Geoguessr duels videos, they were so good!

Great video tom

Great vid!

The round squigglers as straight liners LOL. As an Indian that made me laugh.

This was a very interesting map!

There is a sheet with all the records linked in the description of the map

This was great!

my night has been made by just hearing tom try and guess what these records are 😂

"Is it the only sidewalk path in Italy?" "The roundest bush in the world maybe? ... No... it's round...it's good, but I think I've seen better." "The most hilarious car?" "The longest lasting mound of snow perhaps? Been there since 1994?" 😂 I don't know why but that sidebar cracked me the hell up

Can’t believe he blamed me for his internet problems 🥺

I recognized the Arizona plates and knew you'd have your mind blown. I watched Jake Lyons play GeoGuessr and a very similar thing happened; it was way up in the pine trees of the Arizona mountains and he guessed Idaho or Washington or somewhere much farther north.

Unity between the squiggly liners and the straight liners had me dying lmao

Didn't think i'd get a thunderbirds reference here, this is good

Great map! It's good for learning new things

Please play this map again! Loved it.

mixing up that arizona plates was drastic!!!! Theres a CACTUS in the plate tom! come on now! A Sunset even !!!

good video . Thanks for posting sometimes Tom .

I like these videos with an educational element at the end to balance out your nonsensical ramblings Tom.

Tom I'm going to Fuji Q tomorrow, what a suprise when Takabisha popped up on the screen! Congrats for getting it right 🫡

Those Arizona plates are one of the most unique in the states. If not for that, I'd be guessing way farther north as well.

It took me a ridiculous amount of time to realise this video was definitely not talking about some mental records regarding a pint of Guinness

Most observatories are almost always looked in desert regions and at high altitude to get the clearest picture of the stars

Yeah it gets really snowy in the mountains down here in southern Arizona! The southernmost ski lift in the continental US is in the Tucson area

I love living in Arizona. You get the awesome hot desert landscape and the beautiful dense forests

I've been to the Japanese roller coaster just a few months ago! (Actually just in the area but i saw it and even took a picture). Was a great "hey i know that one" moment 😅

Surprised that you didn't immediately recognize Angkor Vat😅 You got me shouting at my screen for 5 minutes

Arizona has a lot of snowy mountains indeed, ski slopes and stuff, as well as severe winters even in the plains. For example, the Grand Canyon northern rim is closed until May because of the snow.

I grew up in phx AZ so I knew the plates, but went flagstaff given the climate, tough round but I actually did pretty well on this one.

That was good! Do more again

Tom casually pans his map into the disputed lands of Kashmir "What country is this?" 👀

Yes, it's fun, please do it again!

I got 19.6k, being an Indian and getting a 5k on statue of unity really carried my score! I actually recognized Graham's observatory as I'm into astronomy, but unfortunately I didn't know which state it was in and guessed somewhere in washington.

Fun fact: the Angkor Wat temple that was the first one features on the national flag of cambodia. Originally it was built as a temple for hinduism but gradually during the 12th century turned buddhist. Whats known now as a “hindu-Buddhist” temple

Man, I spotted the AZ plates and thought for sure it had to be the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff where Pluto was discovered, I live in the state and had no idea there was a snowy mountain below the latitude of Phoenix lol

First one was very easy, you should visit Angkor! Kmer is more way, more loops. Visit of Angkor is one of my fondest memories when to comes to touristic visits.

That was fun, that must be so hard to do! Good job Tom!!!

The round squigglers are united with the straight liners Good that we figured that out

Great intro hahaha

Got just shy of 20k points myself. Angkor Wat was the only one I recognized. Much like you I thought the telescope would've been more Northern, went with Colorado eventually. The rollercoaster I initially thought was in US, but couldn't find anything that would correspond with the volcano in the background, so eventually did check out Japan. Found the correct amusement park, but couldn't find the building, so was slightly off with my guess. Fourth round I guessed Milan, didn't really have better guess, wasn't that far off. Last round I knew was in India, but I had no idea where. Based on the vegetation and the rolling hills I figured it should be somewhere in the Southern part, but unfortunately guessed more towards the Eastern coast, cause I didn't want to spend more time combing through India. Quite enjoyed the game, and learned some new things about the locations.