Searchlight - IMINT

Task 1: Welcome to the Searchlight IMINT room!

Did you understand the flag format?

Answer

sl{ready}

Task 2 Your first challenge!

What is the name of the street where this image was taken?

  • The image was taken at Carnaby Street, London.

Answer

sl{Carnaby Street}

Task 3 Just Google it!

Which city is the tube station located in?

  • On searching for underground Public Subway we can see a Wikipedia article that tells us the name of the city.

Answer

sl{London}

Which tube station do these stairs lead to?

  • The particular tube station is in Piccadily Circus.

Answer

sl{Piccadily Circus}

Which year did this station open?

  • The answer can be found pretty quickly on Google.

Answer

sl{1906}

How many platforms are there in this station?

Answer

sl{4}

Task 4: Keep at it!

Which building is this photo taken in?

  • We can see the phrase YVR on the board.

  • Let's see what that stands for.

Answer

sl{Vancouver International Airport}

Which country is this building located in?

Answer

sl{Canada}

Which city is this building located in?

  • Even though it is called Vancouver International Airport, it is not located in the city of Vancouver as seen in the image below:

Answer

sl{Richmond}

Task 5: Coffee and a light lunch

Which city is this coffee shop located in?

  • We know that the shop is located in Scotland and we can see that the shop right opposite to it is called Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

Answer

sl{Blairgowrie}

Which street is this coffee shop located in?

  • Let's open Google Maps and go to 3D view.

  • We can see the street name on the top of the coffee shop.

Answer

sl{Allan Street}

What is their phone number?

  • We can see the phone number listed.

Answer

sl{+447878839128}

What is their email address?

  • In order to find the email address, we have to go tot he Facebook page of the coffee shop.

sl{theweecoffeeshop@aol.com}

What is the surname of the owners?

  • There is an article by Barba.co.uk that lists out the names of the owners.

Answer

sl{Cochrane}

Task 6: Reverse your thinking

Which restaurant was this picture taken at?

  • Let's reverse image search using Google Lens.

Answer

sl{Katz's Deli}

What is the name of the Bon Appétit editor that worked 24 hours at this restaurant?

  • We can find the article that mentions the name of the editor.

Answer

sl{Andrew Knowlton}

Task 7: Locate this sculpture

What is the name of this statue?

  • If we search for motorcycle reindeer sculpture and click on the first article, we can find the name of the sculpture.

Answer

sl{Rudolph the Chrome Nosed Reindeer}

Who took this image?

  • On going to the VisitOslo site and searching for Rudolph the Chrome Nosed Reindeer, we can see the following article.

  • If we go to the article we can find an embedded map that shows all the sculptures in Oslo.

  • Let's look for Rudolph.

Answer

sl{Kjersti Stensrud}

Task 8: ...and justice for all

What is the name of the character that the statue depicts?

  • The image is depicting Lady Justice.

Answer

sl{Lady Justice}

where is this statue located?

  • Let's reverse image search using the image.

  • If we click on the article by the Public Art Archive, we get the following details:

  • So the sculpture is located at the Virginia Eastern District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.

Answer

sl{Alexandria, Virginia}

What is the name of the building opposite from this statue?

  • Let's view the court in Google Map's 3D view.

  • We can easily see the building opposite by turning the camera around.

Answer

sl{The Westin Alexandria Old Town}

Task 9: The view from my hotel room

What is the name of the hotel that my friend stayed in a few years ago?

  • If we take the 13th frame from the video we can see the following:

  • A quick reverse image search tells us that the picture is of the Riverside Point in Singapore.

  • On Google Maps we can find the name of the hotel from which the photo was take.

Answer

sl{Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay}

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