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
- La Visite National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lac Azuéi National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lac-Témiscouata National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lachlan Valley National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ladoga Skerries National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laem Son National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Læsø Klitplantage National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lag Badana National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lago CaonillasDeep Cut85points
- Lago de Camécuaro National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lago Puelo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lago Ypacaraí National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa do Peixe National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna Blanca National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna de La Restinga National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna de Tacarigua National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna del Laja National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna del Tigre National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna El Palmar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna El Pino National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna Lachuá National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna Negra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laguna San Rafael National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lagunas de Chacahua National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lagunas de Montebello National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lagunas de Zempoala National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lahemaa National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Láhko National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lahugala Kitulana National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laiwangi Wanggameti National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Abant National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Arpi National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Beyşehir National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Bindegolly National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Butig National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake ClarkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Dapao National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Eildon National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Enriquillo and Cabritos Island National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Frome National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Gairdner National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Gala National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Kerkini National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Kovada National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Lanotoʻo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Mburo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Muir National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake NakuruDeep Cut85points
- Lake Pujon National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Skadar 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.