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
- Gunung GadingDeep Cut85points
- Gunung Gede PangrangoDeep Cut85points
- Gunung Halimun SalakDeep Cut85points
- Gunung LedangDeep Cut85points
- Gunung LeuserDeep Cut85points
- Gunung MarasDeep Cut85points
- Gunung MerapiDeep Cut85points
- Gunung MerbabuDeep Cut85points
- Gunung PalungDeep Cut85points
- Gunung RinjaniDeep Cut85points
- Gunyerwarildi National ParkDeep Cut85points
- GurezDeep Cut85points
- Guru GhasidasDeep Cut85points
- Gutulia National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Guula Ngurra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Guy Fawkes River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gwaii HaanasDeep Cut85points
- Gwydir River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gydansky National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Gyeongju National ParkDeep Cut85points
- GyeryongsanDeep Cut85points
- Gympie National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Haftad Gholleh National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hainan Tropical Rainforest National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hainich National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hakkâri Cilo and Sat Mountains National ParkDeep Cut85points
- HakusanDeep Cut85points
- HaleakalāDeep Cut85points
- Halgurd Sakran National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Halifax Bay Wetlands National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hallingskarvet National ParkDeep Cut85points
- HallyeohaesangDeep Cut85points
- Halych National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hamat Tiberias National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hamburg Wadden Sea National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hampton National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hamra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hangzhou West Lake National Scenic AreaDeep Cut85points
- Hanko National Urban ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hann Tableland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hanstholm National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Haparanda Archipelago National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Har Bental National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Har Shokef National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hargeisa National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Harrold and Wilson Ponds National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hartz Mountains National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hassell National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hasties Swamp National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Hat Chao MaiDeep 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.