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
- Lake Torrens National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lake Van Deveboynu Peninsula National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lakeside National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lal Suhanra National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lam Khlong Ngu National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lam Nam Kra Buri National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lam Nam Nan National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lama Lama National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lambir Hills National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lamington National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lampi Island Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lan Sang National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Land of the Leopard National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lane Cove National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Langsua National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Langtang National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Langue de Barbarie National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lanín National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lantoto National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Las Anod National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Las Baulas Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Las Hermosas National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Las Orquídeas National Natural ParkDeep Cut85points
- Las Palmas de Cocalán National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Las Victorias National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lassen VolcanicDeep Cut85points
- Lata National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lauca National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laughing Bird Caye National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lauhanvuori National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Laut Sawu Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lauwersmeer National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lavushi Manda National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lawachara National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lawley River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Leeuwin-Naturaliste National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Leivonmäki National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lemmenjoki National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lena Pillars National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lengwe National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lesmurdie Falls National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lesueur National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lev Ramon National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Levera National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Libmanan Caves National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lierne National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Liesjärvi National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Lihué Calel National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Limbang Mangrove 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.