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
- Commander-in-Chief National Historic ParkDeep Cut85points
- Comoé National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Côn Đảo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conception Island National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conch Bar Caves National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Congolón, Piedra Parada y Coyocutena National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conguillío National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conimbla National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conjola National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conkouati-Douli National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conondale National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Constitución de 1857 National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Conway National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coolah Tops National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coopracambra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coorabakh National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Coorong National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Copo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Copper Mine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Corales de Profundidad National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Corales del Rosario y San Bernardo National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Corcovado National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Corcovado National Park (Chile)Deep Cut85points
- Cordalba National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Azul National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera de los Picachos National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Corner Inlet Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Costa Occidental de Isla Mujeres National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cotapata National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cottan-Bimbang National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cotubanamá National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Couradda National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cowaramup National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cozia National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crater Lakes National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crawney Pass National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crimean National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Croajingolong National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crocker Range National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crooked Creek National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cross River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crowdy Bay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Crows Nest National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cúc Phương National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cudgegong River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cudmore National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cueva de la Quebrada del Toro National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cueva de las Maravillas National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cueva de los Guácharos National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Cuevas del Silvino 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.