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
- Kirindy MiteaDeep Cut85points
- KiriromDeep Cut85points
- Kirishima-KinkōwanDeep Cut85points
- Kirrama National ParkDeep Cut85points
- KirtharDeep Cut85points
- KishtwarDeep Cut85points
- Kisite-Mpunguti Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- KiskunságDeep Cut85points
- Kislovodsk National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kismayo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- KituloDeep Cut85points
- Kızıldağ National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kobuk ValleyDeep Cut85points
- Kochav HaYarden (Belvoir) National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kodar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Koh Rong Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Koh-e-Sulaiman National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kokshetau National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kolah Qazi National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Koli National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kolkheti National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kolovesi National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kölsay Lakes National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kompedal National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kon Ka KinhDeep Cut85points
- Kondalilla National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kongernes NordsjællandDeep Cut85points
- Koombooloomba National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Koonaburra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kooraban National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kop Mountain National Historic ParkDeep Cut85points
- KopaonikDeep Cut85points
- Köprülü Canyon National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kora National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Korazim National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Koreelah National ParkDeep Cut85points
- KornatiDeep Cut85points
- Koroneia–Volvi and Macedonian TempeDeep Cut85points
- Körös–MarosDeep Cut85points
- Koroyanitu National Heritage ParkDeep Cut85points
- Korung National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Korup National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kosterhavet National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kotychi–Strofylia Wetlands National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kouchibouguac National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kouroufing National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Koygorodsky National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kozara National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Krasnoyarsk Stolby National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Kremenets Mountains National Nature 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.