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
- Chiloé National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chiltern-Mount Pilot National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chimanimani National Park (Mozambique)Deep Cut85points
- Chimanimani National Park (Zimbabwe)Deep Cut85points
- Chingaza National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chinji National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chiquibul National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chiribiquete National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chiricahua National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chirripó National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chitral Gol National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chizarira National ParkDeep Cut85points
- ChobeDeep Cut85points
- Chong-Kemin State Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chornyi Lis National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chorro El Indio National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chréa National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Christmas Island National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Christoffel National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chu Mom Ray National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chư Yang Sin National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chundikkulam National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Churchill Island Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Churchill National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Chyulu Hills National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ciénaga de Lanier National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ciénaga de Zapata National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ciénagas del Catatumbo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ciervo de los Pantanos National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cilento National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cinque TerreDeep Cut85points
- Circeo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Citadelle, Sans-Souci and Ramiers National History ParkDeep Cut85points
- Claremont Isles National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cleland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Clifton Heritage National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Clouded Leopard National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Clump Mountain National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Clyde River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coalstoun Lakes National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cobboboonee National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cocoparra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coelacanth National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coffin Bay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cofre de Perote National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coiba National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Collier Range National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Columbey National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Landfall Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Commander Islands National 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.