A view of downtown Denver from the Denver Art Museum. (Dave Burdick, The Denver Post)
Our colleague made an interactive geography test — one question only. ( if you’re on mobile.)
He also recently posted a map of . We had a few questions for him.
Q: Why did you make this?
A: Benghazi. The Washington Post did something like this last year, . It was a great idea and I thought it could be used for other purposes, so I built a way we could make our own map games.
Q: Shouldn’t you be working?
A: I love my job.
Q: What did you expect the results to be?
A: From what I’ve seen, the Denver Post has the most intelligent, best-looking, most emotionally well-adjusted readers in the country, so I figured most people would get pretty close to the answer. : almost half the people playing the game guessed within 20 miles of Denver.
Q: Did anything surprising happen?
A: I sent this out to a few people before it launched, and a former co-worker figured out how to hack it, which was good that he did it then, and not someone else later.
Q: How did you do on your first try?
A: I’m in this too deep to answer that.
Q: What about a map where you put a marker where you think Denver should be?
A: Everyone knows Denver should be about ten miles closer to the mountains.
Q: Do you want to tell people about any of the other things you’ve made? Like the Monfortmeter?
A: [Looks back on the last year of work] [sees nothing worth sharing] [cries on the inside] Wait, actually: My co-worker Kevin Hamm and I are tracking Denver’s homicides and homicide rate over at . Click it. Click it. Click. If you’ve got a map game you’d like to see, drop me an email jmurphy@denverpost.com
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