We proudly present our first-ever
@quiztime
Advent Calendar 🗓️🎄! Starting Dec 1st, expect nifty OSINT tools, classic verification tutorials and all time favorite link tipps to level up your research game, coming from members of the
@quiztime
community, one tweet at a time.
Enjoy 🗓️🎄 Day 16 of the
@Quiztime
Advent Calendar with a tip by
@Johanna_Wild
from
@Bellingcat
:
Do you want to find out where people are tagging posts on Instagram in a specific city or town? Try out our Python script that searches and maps these locations. (1/7)
🗓️🎄 Day 9 of the
@Quiztime
Advent Calendar.
In this thread,
@quiztime
follower
@noarno
shares with you a method for searching Open Street Map for different objects within x meters of each other. For instance, you want to geolocate an image with two distinctive features ... /1
📢 The
@quiztime
community here on Twitter has been great fun for all of us in the past years.
But maybe it's time to move on to a different platform.
Let us know which platform you think could be the best for our verification challenges. ➡️ Poll:
Here's a great collection of tools for internet research and
#verification
, especially useful for beginners: . It's curated and updated by
@bayer_julia
,
@quiztime
's founder.
The Visual Verification Guides by
@firstdraftnews
are a very good introduction to fact-checking videos and photos - as well as nice handout to keep by your desk if your are already more familiar with
#verification
. (1/2)
🗓️🎄 Day 17 of the
@Quiztime
Advent Calendar brings you a research tip by
@mxbernhard
.
Trying to find photos of a car, plane or something else with a unique identifier? (1/2)
What's the point of the
@quiztime
verification quiz? How does it work? Why is it fun?
Here's some general information:
-> in English ()
-> in German
Here's a loose collection of solutions and how-tos:
🗓️🎄 Day 13 of the
@Quiztime
Advent Calendar - feat. a tip by
@wondersmith_rae
!
Searching for info on U.S Energy and infrastructure? Check out , for detailed interactive maps showing locations and statistics on power plants, grids, disruptions, and more!
🎄🎄🎄🎄 🗓️🎄 Day 24 of the
@quiztime
Advent Calendar:
Thanks to all in the
@quiztime
community who contributed to our calendar ()!
We ❤️collaboration, so why don't YOU share your favorite links or awesome OSINT techniques in the replies today? 1/2
🗓️🎄 Day 15 of the
@Quiztime
Advent Calendar is brought to you by
@Wolllvieh
(and he brings a lot).
Youtube is still the most relevant video website. Several OSINT-tools help to navigate through the Youtube-Universe that might be helpful. Let's go.
Hartelijk welkom! 🇳🇱 To ease the way for our new followers from the Netherlands, here's a collection of
@quiztime
classics with a Dutch touch. They have been solved before, but this shouldn't stop you (or anyone else) from giving it a try. Veel plezier!
From which building was this photo taken?
Today's quiz is brought to you by
@MCantow
, who was our very special guest at the
@quiztime
session at the
#nr19
conference today.
Reply to others = collaboration
👇 = answers to
@mcantow
only
🔃 Retweet = invite others
… while Santa's helper
@sector035
ist prepapring a special OSINT surprise 🎁 for you all that's almost ready to share. Stay tuned!
And merry Christmas to everyone 🎅, whether you celebrate it or not. You have surely earned a holiday at the end 2020 - have a great new year! 2/2
How the internet is helping Europol to geolocate photos in order to uncover child abusers - and how you can sharpen your digital detective skills by taking part in
@quiztime
. Great (German) article by
@felixhuesmann
from
@watson_de
quoting
@MCantow
.
Join us this Sunday for a live OSINT Curious Webcast with our guest this week
@bayer_julia
!!!
If you follow
@quiztime
you probably know who she is!!
We are looking forward to chatting with her all things
#OSINT
!
#osintcurious
Oct 4, 2020 18:00 UTC
If you regularly compare the same geographic coordinates on different map services, these 3 tools can speed up the process. (Diesen Blogpost von
@fiete_stegers
gibt es auch auf Deutsch - hier: )
#geolocation
#verification
#OSINT
🗓️🎄 Day 19 of the
@quiztime
Advent Calendar, coming to you courtesy of
@Lschw
:
A nice one-stop link to many (not all) US public records (courts, property, etc.). Though not 100% comprehensive I use it often.
A surprise
#SundayQuiz
for plane spotters and quiztimers!
Who owns this plane that was spotted at TLV airport at 5:45PM? And where did it go to or come from?
🤝 Reply all = collaboration
👍 Msg me = answers
🔃 Retweet = invite others
👣 Follow
@quiztime
= more
#verification
We have been building up for this: ⚡️ Verification Challenges
@quiztime
2018 (2). You are never to late to the party, and some are not completely solved yet.
#gelocation
#OSINT
Our
#SundayQuiz
- brought to you by
@s_watzinger
. As you might or might not know, this spot reserved for challenges by
@quiztime
community members other than the usual crew. If you'd like to contribute a quiz, just get in touch with us in advance and we'll be happy to retweet it.
Alright
#sundayquiz
|ers - time for a little kitty cat. 🐈 Where was the picture taken?
✅ Solutions ⬇️ the GIF.
🤙 Reply for collaboration
💬 Explain your solution
💕 Follow
@quiztime
for more!
Why can't I just ask GoogleMaps to show me all restaurants in certain area with approximate distance of 20 metres from newspaper kiosk...?
Now you can! 💡
➡️
You want to join in? Great! Just a quick reminder:
🤝 If you want to collaborate or ask a question, reply to all tagged in the photo or mentioned in a follow-up tweet.📝
✅ Don't spoil the fun. If you feel like you have the solution, reply to the original poster only.
The Quiztime account doesn't retweet everybody automatically. So let's give Irina a little hand for this
#SaturdayQuiz
Can you figure out WHEN and WHERE?
🤝 Reply all = collaboration
👍 Msg
@braingain
= answers
🔃 Retweet = invite others
👣 Follow
@quiztime
= more
#verification
Tomorrow it is
#InternationalFactCheckingDay
At 1:00 AM (CEST, since most of the
@quiztime
crew is from Europe) we'll be tweeting a small
#verification
quiz every two hours.
Join us and play along with topics ranging from Social Media and fact checking to geolocation!
Tips for
@quiztime
followers:
1. You may not come up the solution to a quiz right away - but you might have some ideas on how to solve it. Then just share them by replying to other users in the thread and see if you can collaborate or let others build on it.
#teamwork
(1/4)
Een welkom aan alle nieuwe spelers in onze community om te leren, oefenen en kennis te delen over verificatie op een speelse manier.
* Reply aan allen voor samenwerking
* Oplossing alleen aan poster
* Retweet om anderen uit te nodigen
* Volg
@quiztime
voor meer
#verification
How does Quiztime work? How can I play along? Am I able to provide challenges? What does a live Quiztime session look like?
All these questions and more are answered in a new post by Quiztime crew member
@fiete_stegers
.
🗓️ 🎄 Day1
@Quiztime
: You probably know Youtube DataViewer enables you to do a reverse image search for a video and grab its timestamp? (In case you don't: )
👉 This easy-to-use tool extracts even more metadata:
If the
@DFRLab
got you interested in geolocation and verification, our daily quizzes are a fun way to train your skills and collobarate with others as
#DigitalSherlocks
. Today's quiz:
Celebrate
#InternationalFactCheckingDay
with us here at Quiztime with a little quiz:
The first tweet with the hashtag
#article13
that is still online on Twitter, is from Erica Teichert. Correct or not?
Hop with Hoff on the German autobahn (but where exactly?), discover rainbows and snowy valleys. Identify car lights, traffic noises and an enchanted castle. At least that's what the
@quiztime
collaborators did in the first quarter of 2018.
#verification
My first contribution in
#Tuesdayquiz
Where exactly did I take this pic?
Need help: retweet!🔁
✅Solutions: reply to/DM me!
🧐Collaborate: reply to all below!
🤘
#OSINT
&
#verification
follow 👇🏻
@quiztime
4. To see a Twitter pic the best available resolution, copy the image URL or open it in a new browser tab. Check the URL. The image URL you want should end on “.jpg:orig”. (4/4)
If you joined us only recently: We've archived the older challenges (even from before the
@quiztime
account was established) in these moments:
• 2017:
• 2018 (1):
• 2018 (2)
And a few are still unsolved!
Our community has grown to more than 350 followers, and it seems like I am the only bot amongst it. :-)
It's all about collaboration and learning from each other. So if you have been mainly listening so far, throw in your guess or a suggestion how to solve a quiz next time.
Hello mate can you tell me
1️⃣What was going on?
2️⃣How long did I need to take if I want to go to HKU from here?
3️⃣Can you tell me the most likely reason for me to go to HKU?
💬Reply your answer and solutions below the GIF!
🤞GLHF
#OSINT
#Challenge
#quiz
#SaturdayQuiz
@quiztime
The new 'Week in OSINT' by
@Sector035
includes a few word on why we (the
@quiztime
crew) is looking into alternatives to Twitter as our main platform.
‼️If you haven't done so, let us know what you think about possible alternatives for the future ➡️
@noarno
4. Change the distance (by default 100 m) to your preferred distance (in meters) by changing the number in this and the subsequent two lines: node.pedbridge(around.railways:100);
5. Run the query, and enjoy the results! You can export them in various formats.
/5
It's
#OpenSunday
and we have a guest challenge:
Where did
@MarcusLindemann
live when he took the photo in his Twitter header? You should be able to come up with the exact street address plus storey number.
Bonus: Why did he take the picture on the day he did?
Filling in for
@Sector035
and
@trbrtc
today is
@derWinterbach
from
@derspiegel
. Can you track him down and solve his puzzle?
[If you want to post guest quiz on the weekend yourself, you are very welcome. Please be in touch with the one of the
@quiztime
regulars in advance.]
Planning to attend the
@journalismfest
in Perugia, the Global Fact-Checking Summit or
@nrecherche
's main conference in 2019? We'll bring our hardware and have live session of
@quiztime
there. And you can meet some of our members at other events as well.
#ijf19
#nr19
#GlobalFact6
Once you found a video on YouTube that’s of interest to you, you might want to dig deeper. To investigate a video closely, you might want to use - to watch the video frame by frame.
Our
#opensunday
quiz by
@MarcusLindemann
(thx again) was solved by
@GerardsScw
and
@ludoblock
! Read the thread and learn a little bit about GPS inaccuracy.
(If you feel like contributing a challenge yourself, you are very welcome. Just reach out to the the crew.)
It's
#OpenSunday
and we have a guest challenge:
Where did
@MarcusLindemann
live when he took the photo in his Twitter header? You should be able to come up with the exact street address plus storey number.
Bonus: Why did he take the picture on the day he did?
Hone your geolocation skills by following
@Quiztime
and answering questions such as “where was this photo taken?” or “when was this photo taken?” Work alone or collaborate with others.
In case you care about YouTube-videos from a certain location – try this tool: Besides the location search it offers you a variety of potentially useful search parameters.
Insert the longitude and latitude in the following command which you can also find here (it has been written by our great colleague
@obtusatum
). (3/7)
Did you know that social networks report posts in different time zones? Many don’t, but this knowledge is critical to determining if a post is authentic. Check out our new free, one-hour, online course to learn all the basics of verifying online media!
@noarno
... within a certain distance of each other (say, a pedestrian bridge over a railway), and you have an idea about the general location (say, the country), querying the OpenStreetMap database can come in handy to quickly list all locations meeting your criteria. /2
If you need to work with YouTube videos, you should be familiar with the functions of - A search engine that automatically scrapes automated subtitles from videos of certain radical YouTube channels. To read:
If you are an airplane tracker or fancy uniforms, you should definitively give this weekend's
@quiztime
challenge a try :-) BTW, you are very welcome to submit your own quiz for our
#OpenSunday
or Saturday. Just get in touch with one of the quiztime regulars.
#osint
#verification
Celebrate
#InternationalFactCheckingDay
with us here at Quiztime with a little quiz:
If you need to contact the person that registered the domain name of
@Bayer_Julia
's company, what mail address would you use?
Today's
#OpenSunday
quiz courtesy of
@loegli
! 🏁 Go, go, go!
👉 Do you want to submit a challenge for the
@quiztime
community yourself? Great, you are very welcome to. Just please be in touch with one of our regular hosts for a little bit of coordination.
Hey
@quiztime
-Community! Ready for the
#Sundayquiz
?
🟡Which countries can you see in this picture?
🟡 Which restaurant is close to the photographer?
🟡 Bonus: There is something in the picture that is related to Antigen Tests: Where and what is it?
☑️ Solutions 👇🏻 GIF or DM me
Several people guessed the country correctly, but I seems like only
@y_vdw
nailed it. See the thread for more.
Thanks to
@publictorsten
for keeping us busy on the weekend. :-)
@noarno
A use case for this query can be for example this old
@Quiztime
challenge by
@mahrko
() (zoom to Hungary for this specific challenge). Using the OpenStreetMap wiki, you can extend the query to many other use cases. /6
Good Morning! Obviously I was on a train. But towards which station are we heading? Any ideas how old the picture is?
🔁 Need help: retweet!
✅ Solutions: reply to me!
🧐 Collaborate: reply to all below!
🤘
#OSINT
&
#verification
: follow
@quiztime
!
In case you need to save a YouTube-Video right now, you might want to use this tool: - It allows you to download and convert videos from a variety of online sources.
Quiztime is about training your brain in a useful way: “I could be playing Sudoku, but that wouldn’t bring me additional skills I can use in my journalistic work.”
@beatabiel
about
@quiztime
.
Here´s how
@quiztime
works. Thanks to
@gjfaure
& the community!
Celebrate
#InternationalFactCheckingDay
with us here at Quiztime with a little quiz:
The official press agency of Cambodia has content in French, English and Khmer. Correct or not?
2. One exception: If you think you solved a quiz, don’t reply to all mentioned in the original tweet in order not to spoil the fun for others. Reply to the original poster only and/or below the spoiler barrier. Or via DM. (2/4)
Q: What does "Solutions 👇🏻 the GIF" mean?
A: If you think you have the solution to the quiz, don't post it as a reply to the original tweet. Reply to this (THIS!) tweet instead, so that the answer won't be visible directly below the original tweet.
#spoileralert
@quiztime
Celebrate
#InternationalFactCheckingDay
with us here at Quiztime with a little quiz:
This door is part of a town hall that can be found in the western part of Germany. Can you find out its location?
You feel like doing a reverse image search with screenshots of your most relevant video? is a free tool that is integrated in the Fake News debunker by
@InVid_EU
and the
@firstdraftnews
Toolbox:
Last month, we prepared a series of quizzes for
#factcheckingday
- especially for beginners. If you missed them or did not find the time to try to solve them - here they are:
Welcome and hi to all the new Quizzers!
Great that you joined our community to learn, improve and exchange expertise on verification in a fun way.
* Reply to all for collaboration
* Solutions only to poster
* Retweet to invite others
* Follow
@quiztime
for more
#verification
.
@noarno
4. Change the [railway=rail] and the [highway=footway][bridge=yes] parts to your desired Feature 1 and Feature 2 respectively, choosing from this list:
Ich schaue gerade die DVD von "Der Turm". Das hier soll die Dresdner Klinik sein, wo Richard Hoffmann Oberarzt ist. Wer kann mir bitte sagen, wo und was das ist?
Click on the blue markers on the map which will show you the name of the location. A URL will bring you to the Instagram page for that specific location where you can scroll through all Instagram posts, in our example from the Ethopian Embassy in Nairobi. (6/7)