On Tuesday, we posted our eightieth photo challenge to see how well you knew Metro. I took photos of five Metro stations. Here are the answers. How well did you do?

This week, we got 30 guesses. Ten got all five. Great work Peter K, JamesDCane, DavidDuck, Stephen C, Chris H, AlexC, Solomon, FN, We Will Crush Peter K, and dpod!

Image 1: Greensboro

The first image shows the view looking westbound from the mezzanine at Greensboro station. Greensboro is one of just three stations with the soaring “gambrel” style roof. You can discount Wiehle Avenue because that station is located in a wide freeway median and doesn’t have the lower v-shaped canopy visible at bottom center here. Tysons Corner is out because that station is not in the median of a roadway at all, it’s off to the north side of Route 123.

So the process of elimination leaves us with Greensboro. But other clues include the buildings on either side, which you might recognize, and the long straightaway leading toward Spring Hill. Twenty-five knew this one.

Image 2: Dupont Circle

The next station is Dupont Circle. The photo here shows the wide bowl that holds the northern (Q Street) escalators after a snowfall. This entrance is probably the most distinctive in the system, and in fact, we’ve already featured this entrance no fewer than five times, in week 22, week 33, week 38, week 40, and week 53.

The main clue here is the circular walls, leaving lots of space between the escalators. The planters are just discernible under the snow, which was another hint. The vantage point provides a final clue, since most of Metro’s escalators are in a concrete tube, only the broad opening at Dupont north allows this perspective.

Twenty-six guessed correctly.

Image 3: Takoma

The third image shows the elevator entrance to Takoma station. This somewhat foreboding opening leads to the elevator in the center of the platform. The escalators and station manager’s booth are located farther south, at the end of the platform.

This entrance is fairly unique. Grosvenor and Deanwood do have entrances that are somewhat similar looking, but also distinct. The Red Line icon may have helped you narrow this down.

Twenty figured it out.

Image 4: Landover

This photo shows the view from the parking lot of Landover station. A few stations are built on embankments like this, with broad, open plazas leading to an entrance below the tracks. Notably, Landover, New Carrollton (east), Greenbelt (east), Shady Grove (east), and Twinbrook (east) have this setup.

But you can narrow this down to Landover and New Carrollton easily by noting the catenary and traction power transmission masts visible behind the station. These towers supply power to the electrified Amtrak Northeast Corridor, which runs alongside the Orange Line between Cheverly and New Carrollton.

It can’t be New Carrollton because that station is quite different. To the right of the Metro entrance is a second opening for the Amtrak waiting room. A Greyhound Bus ticket window is located in the plaza, as is a distinctive clocktower. Additionally, from this angle at New Carrollton, you’d be able to see the parking structure on this side and office buildings on the opposite side of the tracks.

Nineteen correctly surmised that this was Landover.

Image 5: McPherson Square

The final image was the hardest. It shows the view looking upward while descending the escalator into McPherson Square’s Franklin Square (14th Street) entrance. I debated for a while whether this image would be too hard, but many of you did guess correctly, so I suppose I should give you more credit.

The architecture and the fact that the entrance itself appears to be covered by a building means that this is probably a station in downtown Washington. The curvature of the building above (1400 Eye Street) was a major clue. We featured the same curve in week 39.

Other clues included the facade of 1350 Eye Street, taking up the right third of the image and the tip of one of the towers of One Franklin Square at center left.

Ten impressed me by getting the right answer.

Thanks for playing! We’ll be back in two weeks with our next quiz.

Information about contest rules, submission guidelines, and a leaderboard is available at http://ggwash.org/whichwmata.

Matt Johnson has lived in the Washington area since 2007. He has a Master’s in Planning from the University of Maryland and a BS in Public Policy from Georgia Tech. He lives in Dupont Circle. He’s a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and is an employee of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation. His views are his own and do not represent those of his employer.