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
- Mae PingDeep Cut85points
- Mae PuemDeep Cut85points
- Mae Ta Khrai National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mae WaDeep Cut85points
- Mae WangDeep Cut85points
- Mae WongDeep Cut85points
- Mae YomDeep Cut85points
- Magnetic Island National ParkDeep Cut85points
- MagoDeep Cut85points
- MagoeDeep Cut85points
- MaguraDeep Cut85points
- Mahale MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Mahatma Gandhi Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mahavir Harina VanasthaliDeep Cut85points
- MaikoDeep Cut85points
- Main Range National ParkDeep Cut85points
- MaiombeDeep Cut85points
- MajellaDeep Cut85points
- Majjistral Nature and History ParkDeep Cut85points
- Makalu BarunDeep Cut85points
- Makgadikgadi PansDeep Cut85points
- Malá FatraDeep Cut85points
- Malabar Headland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- MalakandiDeep Cut85points
- Malazgirt Battlefield Historical National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Malbon Thompson Range National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Maleny National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mali National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Malindi Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Malka Mari National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mallanganee National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mallee Cliffs National ParkDeep Cut85points
- MaludamDeep Cut85points
- Mamberamo FojaDeep Cut85points
- MamshitDeep Cut85points
- Mana PoolsDeep Cut85points
- Mananara NordDeep Cut85points
- ManasDeep Cut85points
- Manda National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mandla Plant Fossils National ParkDeep Cut85points
- MangettiDeep Cut85points
- Manglares del Bajo YunaDeep Cut85points
- ManglotDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Mangroves Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Manolo Tavárez JustoDeep Cut85points
- Manovo-Gounda St. FlorisDeep Cut85points
- ManuDeep Cut85points
- Manuel 'Nolo' MoralesDeep 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.