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
- Narawntapu National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Naree Budjong Djara National ParkDeep Cut85points
- NarewDeep Cut85points
- Narkoola National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Narrien Range National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nascentes do Lago Jari National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National ParkDeep Cut85points
- National Botanical Garden (Jerusalem)Deep Cut85points
- National Park of American SamoaDeep Cut85points
- NatmataungDeep Cut85points
- Nattai National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Naujan LakeDeep Cut85points
- NavegaonDeep Cut85points
- Nawabganj National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nayband National Marine ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ndere Island National ParkDeep Cut85points
- NechisarDeep Cut85points
- Nechkinsky National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Neerabup National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Negev Brigade Memorial National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nelson LakesDeep Cut85points
- Nelson's Dockyard National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nemrut Caldera National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nene Hatun National Historic ParkDeep Cut85points
- Neora ValleyDeep Cut85points
- Nerang National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ness Ziona Kurkar Hills National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Neusiedler See-Seewinkel National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nevado de ColimaDeep Cut85points
- Nevado del HuilaDeep Cut85points
- Nevado Tres CrucesDeep Cut85points
- New England National ParkDeep Cut85points
- New River GorgeDeep Cut85points
- Newry Islands National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ngalba Bulal National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ngaynggarr National ParkDeep Cut85points
- NiahDeep Cut85points
- NibiischiiDeep Cut85points
- Nicoll Scrub National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nieuw Land National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nightcap National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Niiwalarra Islands National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nijhum DwipDeep Cut85points
- Nilpena Ediacara National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nimrod FortressDeep Cut85points
- Nimule National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Ninety Mile Beach Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nini-Suhien National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Nino Konis SantanaDeep 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.