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
- Bladensburg National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Blåfjella–Skjækerfjella National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Blue and John Crow Mountains National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Blue Holes National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Blue Lagoon National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bluff Hill National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boa Nova National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bobotog National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boé National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bogani Nani Wartabone National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boğazköy-Alacahöyük National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bohemian Switzerland National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boikivshchyna National Nature ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bokor National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boma National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bonaire National Marine ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bonefish Pond National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bongil Bongil National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bontebok National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Booderee National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boonoo Boonoo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boorabbin National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boorara-Gardner National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Booti Booti National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boqueirão da Onça National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boquerón National Park (Puerto Rico)Deep Cut85points
- Borana National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Border Ranges National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Børgefjell National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Borjomi-Kharagauli National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bosencheve National ParkDeep Cut85points
- BoslandDeep Cut85points
- Bosque Fray Jorge National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bosques Petrificados de Jaramillo National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Botan Valley National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bothnian Bay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bothnian Sea National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Botum Sakor National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bou-Hedma National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bouba Njida National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boucle du Baoulé National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bouddi National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boukornine National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bouma National Heritage ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boumba Bek National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bournda National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Bowling Green Bay National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Boyndaminup National ParkDeep Cut85points
- Brampton Islands 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.