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
- Gadgarra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gal OyaDeep Cut85points
- GalatheaDeep Cut85points
- GaličicaDeep Cut85points
- Galway's LandDeep Cut85points
- Gambela National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gan HaPsalim National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gan HaShlosha National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gandang DewataDeep Cut85points
- GangotriDeep Cut85points
- GarajonayDeep Cut85points
- GarambaDeep Cut85points
- Gardens of Stone National ParkDeep Cut85points
- GarganoDeep Cut85points
- Garig Gunak Barlu National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Garigal National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Garphyttan National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Garrawilla National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gashaka-Gumti National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gaspésie National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gatton National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gauja National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gawler Ranges National ParkDeep Cut85points
- GayasanDeep Cut85points
- Gebel Elba National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Geben Valley National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Geham National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gemsbok National Park (Botswana)Deep Cut85points
- General Juan N. Álvarez National ParkDeep Cut85points
- General Juan Pablo PeñalozaDeep Cut85points
- Georges River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Georgian Bay IslandsDeep Cut85points
- Geralle National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gesäuse National ParkDeep Cut85points
- GeumjeongsanDeep Cut85points
- GhamotDeep Cut85points
- Ghatrouyeh National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gheebulum Kunungai (Moreton Island) National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ghin-Doo-Ee National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ghughua Fossil National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gibe ShelekoDeep Cut85points
- Gibraltar Range National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gilf Kebir National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gir-um-bit National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Girramay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Girraween National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Girringun National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gishwati-MukuraDeep Cut85points
- Gizilaghaj National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Glaciares de SantiagoDeep 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.