Stupidly difficult work quiz

[ApocalypseNowt]

Seasons greetings!

The stupidly difficult work quiz is back for those of you that remember (@rosegoldwatcher).

Basically there are a series of very hard puzzles to solve - each puzzle solve gives you a password to move onto the next stage.

I've already managed to solve stage one myself (go me!) but I've ground to a halt as usual on the second stage (which consists of 8 individual puzzles to solve).

Here's a couple of puzzles i'm stuck on - any help much appreciated!

Oh very good @PatriciaHolm. Was just about to say I was wrong about Petra!

Aces! Now to just try and make sense of them.....

I'm here all aft but I do have some meetings that I have to go to. Hopefully they won't go on too long :)

Now we have to work out what the dots mean

With countries -

1 Chichen Itza, Mexico
2 Abu Simbel, Egypt
3 Space Needle, Seattle, USA
4 Menin Gate, Belgium
5 Coit Tower, SF, USA
6 Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan
7 Valley of the Kings, Egypt
8 Jodrell Bank, UK
9 Freedom Tower/One Trade Center, NY, USA
10 Auschwitz, Poland
11 Louvre, Paris, France
12 Moulin Rouge, Paris, France
13 Angkor Wat, Cambodia
14 Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Italy
15 Gibraltar/Rock of Gibraltar
16 Yellowstone Park, US
17 Lascaux, France
18 Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey
19 Atomium, Brussels
20 Newgrange, Ireland
21 Stonehenge, UK
22 Edinburgh Castle, UK
23 Mount Rushmore, USA
24 Spanish Steps, Rome, Italy
25 Millau Viaduct, France
26 Cloud Gate, Chicago, USA
27 Lotus Temple , Delhi, India
28 Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE
29 Sacre-Coeur, Paris
30 Great Wall of China, China
31 Hoover Dam, USA
32 Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
33 Gateway Arch, St Louis, USA

Any thoughts as to the meaning of the yellow dots?

do we need to group them? I think that"s been a "thing" in previous years.

taking the dots in the corner to represent which letter to take I can make Capital of... from the 1st 9

I have to do the school run so can't finish it!

It has soupdragon but we do have the following instructions at the top of this puzzle so i think they should be in order for this one:

Identify the locations/landmarks to help solve the puzzle.

Where "The" is the first word of answers, this is excluded. Read left to right, top to bottom

Capital of country shown in picture one which is Mexico, so capital is Mexico city

Capital of Country Shown in Picture One - Mexico City.

Geniuses! They walk among us...

@Mustangsallyis you beat me to it! Excellent work :)

Mexico city is correct. I'll post the next lot then I really must go for a bit!!

Here they are..

Thank you! I was discussing the plot with someone the other day. Neither of us mentioned the title as we both knew which film we were talking about. Now I can see it again!

Question time
Volkswagon

Penfold

The third clue in the "straight" ones is Michael Chrichton.

I can't believe I missed the answer to the video game.

But can I say @MangoBiscuit for Prime Minister

Only one I know so far is
Part 3
Connects golf and polo = Clubs

Rudyard Kipling
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie

Are all the anagrams in the third section

I think number 3 of Part 2 is a lyric to Abba's Dancing Queen

"See that girl, watch that scene, digging the dancing queen"

Ignore me. This is wrong

So I think all of them are lyrics although I don't know if they're Abba - probably not

oh I just worked on the anagrams, and someone has got there already!
I didn't know the third one anyway.

'Which word can precede Voldemort...' (first one)

Just got to get the bins in.

Based on this, the answer to 3 is Cameron Diaz

Clue reads surname of the lead actress in There's something about Mary and the mask as well as an angel in a movie and it's sequel