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
- Grass HillsDeep Cut85points
- Grassland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Grasslands National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Great Australian Bight Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Great Basalt Wall National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Great Basin National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Great Himalayan National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Great Koala National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Beedelup National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Bendigo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Dordagup National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Hawke National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Kingston National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Preston National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Grebo-Krahn National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Green Island National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Green Mountain National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Greenmount National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Grey Peaks National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gribskov National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Groenkloof National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Grongah National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Grutas de CacahuamilpaDeep Cut85points
- Grutas de LanquínDeep Cut85points
- Guadalupe Mabugnao Mainit Hot SpringDeep Cut85points
- Guadeloupe National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Guanacaste National Park (Belize)Deep Cut85points
- Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica)Deep Cut85points
- GuanahacabibesDeep Cut85points
- GuaramacalDeep Cut85points
- Guaricana National ParkDeep Cut85points
- GuatopoDeep Cut85points
- Güeppí-SekimeDeep Cut85points
- GugamalDeep Cut85points
- Guiana Amazonian ParkDeep Cut85points
- Guilin Lijiang River National Scenic AreaDeep Cut85points
- GuindyDeep Cut85points
- Gulaga National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Islands National Park ReserveDeep Cut85points
- Gulf of Chiriquí National Marine ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gulf of Mannar Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gulf of Orosei and Gennargentu National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gulguer National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gull Rock National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gulngay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gumbaynggirr National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gunbower National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gundabooka National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gunung BudaDeep Cut85points
- Gunung CiremaiDeep 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.