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
- Santa Fe National Park (Panama)Deep Cut85points
- Santa Rosa National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Santa Teresa National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Santos Luzardo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Santubong National ParkDeep Cut85points
- São Joaquim National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sapo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sappa Bulga National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarabah National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarek National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarigol National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarigua National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sariska National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarıkamış-Allahuekber Mountains National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarkent National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sarstoon-Temash National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Saslaya National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sassen–Bünsow Land National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Satchari National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Satpura National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Savage River National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Saxon Switzerland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Saylyugemsky National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sayram-Ugam National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Scheldt Valley National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Scheyville National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Schiermonnikoog National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Schinias–Marathon National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Scone Mountain National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion Well National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Scott National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sea Acres National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sebangau National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sebezhsky National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sedilu National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sehlabathebe National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Seiland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Seitseminen National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Selva de Florencia National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sembilang National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Semenawi Bahri National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Semenic–Cheile Carașului National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Semois Valley National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sempre-Vivas National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Semuliki National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sena Oura National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Senghar-Jabbès National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Sengileyevskiye Gory National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Serpentine 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.