Krillion 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
- Cuyahoga ValleyRare60points
- DaintreeRare60points
- DartmoorRare60points
- DenaliRare60points
- Doi InthanonRare60points
- Doi Suthep–PuiRare60points
- Dolomiti BellunesiRare60points
- Dry TortugasRare60points
- Écrins National ParkRare60points
- Elk Island National ParkRare60points
- ErawanRare60points
- Eryri (Snowdonia)Rare60points
- EtoshaRare60points
- Exuma Cays Land and Sea ParkRare60points
- Fernando de Noronha Marine National ParkRare60points
- FiordlandRare60points
- Freycinet National ParkRare60points
- Fuji-Hakone-IzuRare60points
- Fundy National ParkRare60points
- Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National ParkRare60points
- Garden Route National ParkRare60points
- Gates of the ArcticRare60points
- Gateway Arch National ParkRare60points
- Giant Panda National ParkRare60points
- Gir National ParkRare60points
- Golden Gate National Recreation AreaRare60points
- Gombe StreamRare60points
- Göreme National ParkRare60points
- Grampians National ParkRare60points
- Gran ParadisoRare60points
- Great Otway National ParkRare60points
- Great Sand DunesRare60points
- Great Sandy National ParkRare60points
- Gros MorneRare60points
- Guadalupe MountainsRare60points
- Gunung MuluRare60points
- HallasanRare60points
- Hardangervidda National ParkRare60points
- Harz National ParkRare60points
- Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi PhiRare60points
- Hawaiʻi VolcanoesRare60points
- Hell's Gate National ParkRare60points
- Hoge Veluwe National ParkRare60points
- Hohe Tauern National ParkRare60points
- Hot Springs National ParkRare60points
- Huangshan National ParkRare60points
- Hundred IslandsRare60points
- HwangeRare60points
- Iguazú National ParkRare60points
- Ikara-Flinders Ranges National ParkRare60points
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.