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
- Nabi Samuel National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Naciones Unidas National ParkDeep Cut85points
- ÑacundayDeep Cut85points
- NaejangsanDeep Cut85points
- NagarholeDeep Cut85points
- Nahal Alexander National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nahal Maharal National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nahal Nedar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nahal Rubin National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nahal Taninim National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Naẖal ẔalmonDeep Cut85points
- Nahuel HuapiDeep Cut85points
- NahuelbutaDeep Cut85points
- Nairana National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nakai–Nam TheunDeep Cut85points
- Nakhilu Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nalati National Forest ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nalbaugh National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nalga de MacoDeep Cut85points
- Nam Et-Phou LoueyDeep Cut85points
- Nam NaoDeep Cut85points
- Nam PhongDeep Cut85points
- NamadgiDeep Cut85points
- Namaqua National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nambung National ParkDeep Cut85points
- NamdaphaDeep Cut85points
- Nämdö Archipelago National ParkDeep Cut85points
- NameriDeep Cut85points
- Namib-NaukluftDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Chat TrakanDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Chet Sao NoiDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Huai YangDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Khlong KaeoDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Mae SurinDeep Cut85points
- Namtok NgaoDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Pha CharoenDeep Cut85points
- Namtok PhlioDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Sai KhaoDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Sai Yok NoiDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Sam LanDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Si KhitDeep Cut85points
- Namtok Si PoDeep Cut85points
- Namtok YongDeep Cut85points
- Nanda DeviDeep Cut85points
- Nanga ParbatDeep Cut85points
- Nangar National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nangur National ParkDeep Cut85points
- NanthaburiDeep Cut85points
- Narachanski National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Naracoorte Caves 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.