NZFF

This is a quick quiz -- it'll run until the end of this week. It is particularly aimed at those who don't generally enter the screenshot competition, but it is open to every member of the NZFF. It requires no artistic or technical skills, just a bit of general knowledge.
Take a look at these screenshots from FSX. They show two different views of a local geographical feature. The feature we're looking at is the hill in the centre of each shot.





Question 1:
This particular hill is famous to moviegoers worldwide. The question is, by what name do all these moviegoers know this hill?

Question 2:
What is the real name of this hill?

Question 3:
This hill is a rocky outcrop left behind after the passage of a glacier. What is the proper name of this type of feature?



Conditions:

The competition will run until midnight, Sunday 16th September 2007 New Zealand time.

• You must be a member of the NZ Flightsim Forum.
• Only one entry per member ( although you may replace your entry, and the previous entry will be discarded).
• Please don't share the answers with anyone, or offer suggestions via the forum.
• At the close of the competition, all correct entries will be subject to a random draw.
• If there are no correct entries, the winner will be drawn from entries with two correct answers.

The Prize:

A choice of any one Real New Zealand Scenery CD, or a EUR20 gift voucher from SimMarket.

To enter, complete the online form here.

Sounds like lots of fun ,but truly i have no idea where these shots are taken ,20 sim dollars or one of your scenerys now thats worth trying to find out isnt it ..
these comps are a great effort admin team ,thanks heaps guys and what a sweet idea

I found it but it took ages.....it was fun flying around trying to find it though.

Ive yet to enter however

very good idea

and entry completed and entered

cheers

sounds like you guys had a very nice unplaned flight ,, im not enterng this one sadly ,but id like to see this comp entered every month or two ,ill be sure to join as the months tick over

have sent a small correction to my earlier entry - hope thats okay
cheers

didn't need to fly it - I just recognised it from the movies - I spend way too much time in front of the box!

Yes... well... i have definitely seen a lot more of NZ now! took me a fair few hours to track that one down! at least, I think i tracked it down!

I've made a small clarification to the rules -- although you may only have one entry, there is nothing wrong with submitting a new entry, the old one will just be discarded. Remember, you still have a few days to do the necessary research.
I chose these questions because it is not just a simple matter of knowing or not knowing the answer. There is also the option of asking around amongst your friends (not on the forum:), as even non-sim people would recognise this. Then the last question is basic research...
-Robin

Then the last question is basic research...

Unless you've done Geology 101.

Just a couple of days left to get your entry in.

And the winner is...
Congratulations to ZK-LGD. He wins his choice of any Real New Zealand CD, or a EUR20 gift voucher from Simmarket.

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition. Of course the hill was transformed into the Rohan city of Edoras, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This was home to the King's Hall, Meduseld, known as the Golden Hall. As I hinted at earlier, you didn't really need to know the answer yourself, as I suspect that if you showed the pictures and the first question to five people at least one would say, hey, I know, that's Edoras! (Actually, I DID show it to five people, and four of them guessed correctly after I'd asked question one.)

The actual hill is Mt Sunday, and is located in the Rangitata Valley, Canterbury. If you want to have a look at Mt Sunday within the simulator, the 'Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook' gives the location as S43* 32.899 E170* 53.591. However I suspect that you would need to have a high resolution mesh to view it.

The last question was the most important, as it is a good introduction to web-based research. Once you figure out the first two questions, the last one should be easy, as you have a number of clues to begin your research. Well, actually you didn't even need to figure out the first two questions. If you copied this text from the question: 'rocky outcrop left behind after the passage of a glacier' -- and pasted it into a Google search, you wouldn't have to look far to find the answer. The second returned search for me was 'Glacial and Arid Landforms', which links to the James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. It describes a number of different glacial landforms, including one which includes the term 'rocky outcrop'.

I had to decide how precise the answer should be, as there are a number of similar glacial features. I was in fact looking for the term 'roche moutonnée'. This is a teardrop shaped feature, smoothed by the passage of the glacier on the 'up-stream' side, and rough and broken on the 'downstream' side, caused by the ice 'plucking' at the rock. A number of people suggested 'moraine', and although there is an element of moraine present, the question referred specifically to the 'rocky outcrop', which suggests that the rock was there before it was moulded by the glacier, rather the moraine debris which was left behind after the passage of the glacier. If the question had been 'what type of geological feature is Mt Sunday', then the answer could be a number of things, but the question purposefully referred to a particular feature, the rocky outcrop, rather than Mt Sunday itself.

The question arose as a result of discussions on using the simulator as an educational tool. I hope that you've learnt something here

toprob wrote:

QUOTE(toprob @ Sep 17 2007, 10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The question arose as a result of discussions on using the simulator as an educational tool. I hope that you've learnt something here:)

yeah... I've learnt scientists have about 8 names for the same thing!!

Roche moutonee... Crag and Tail.... potato... potatoe...

Congrats to ZK-LGD...

Good stuff ZK-LGD

Congratulations Dorian.

Alex

Thanks, guys.