Recorded answers
3,653 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat this as a breadth test rather than a knowledge test. Set a clock and brainstorm by geography: pick continents one at a time, then work down through regions and countries, asking for each what its protected areas are called. Switch the axis whenever you stall, from landforms to habitats to administrative units to the naming conventions used locally. Write down fragments and partial names even when you cannot finish them, because a rough guess costs nothing and a blank line earns nothing. Keep a running list so you do not circle back over the same ground, and deliberately spend the last third of your time in the least famous places you can recall. Quantity of distinct, plausible entries is what the scoring rewards.
Get a hint
Start with the scale of the thing: the world holds thousands of these designations across more than a hundred countries, so almost any region you can picture has at least one.
A little more
Move away from the postcard picks. Think of coastal and marine units, mountain ranges, wetlands, deserts, volcanic slopes, cave systems and tiny islands that carry the same official label.
One step further
Go granular: the list rewards individual units of only a few square kilometres, places named after creeks, ridges, seasonal rivers or local words that almost nobody could pronounce.
Reveal answers 3,653
- Keibul LamjaoOne in a Krillion100points
- Abaco National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Abel Beth Maacah National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Abercrombie River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Abijatta-ShallaDeep Cut85points
- Abrolhos Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Absheron National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Abughilan National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Acari National ParkDeep Cut85points
- AconquijaDeep Cut85points
- Adam's Bridge Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park—Winaityinaityi PangkaraDeep Cut85points
- Admiral Cockburn Land and Sea National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ag-Gel National ParkDeep Cut85points
- AggtelekDeep Cut85points
- AguaragüeDeep Cut85points
- Aguaro-GuariquitoDeep Cut85points
- Aguas TurbiasDeep Cut85points
- Agulhas National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Aiguebelle National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant MauriciDeep Cut85points
- Ain Al Faydah National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Akan MashuDeep Cut85points
- AkandaDeep Cut85points
- Akdağ National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Aketajawe-LolobataDeep Cut85points
- Akhar-Bakhar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Akhziv National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Al Hoceima National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Al Saleel National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ala-Archa National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Aladağlar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Alaniya National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Alas PurwoDeep Cut85points
- Alatay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- AlatishDeep Cut85points
- Alaungdaw KathapaDeep Cut85points
- Alberto de AgostiniDeep Cut85points
- Albinia National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Alejandro de HumboldtDeep Cut85points
- Alerce AndinoDeep Cut85points
- Alerce CosteroDeep Cut85points
- Alexander Morrison National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Alfred National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Algeti National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Algharabolli National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Alkhanay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Almindingen National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Alonissos–Northern Sporades National Marine ParkDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is unusually flat at the top: of 3,630 recorded answers, 3,603 reached at least 60 points, and 3,338 of those landed on exactly 85. Almost any correctly named park therefore paid well, which tells you the scorer rewarded breadth of recognition rather than obscurity alone. The single 100-point entry, Keibul Lamjao, sits alone at the peak because it is a genuinely hard, rarely offered name that most players would never reach. The 264 answers at 60 — Abaco National Park, Absheron National Park, Agulhas National Park and hundreds like them — are the floor for correct-but-common picks. Only 27 entries scored below 60, presumably hedged, partial or non-qualifying attempts. The lesson: correctness almost guaranteed a decent score, and the real premium came from reaching one deeply obscure unit rather than from a long list of well-known ones.