Expedition #1001

This trip through Europe is set at Easy. The 15 questions come in three legs — Flags (6 questions), then Name the country (5 questions), then Find the country (4 questions) — and visit 15 countries in all.

• The flags leg alternates between naming a flag and picking one: 6 questions and 12 different flags.
• In the naming leg 5 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.
• In the map leg you tap 4 countries; a miss shows the right one and how far away you were.

The Easy setting keeps to well-known countries; the wrong answers come from other subregions and are rarely close.

The full route, drawn from capital to capital as the questions come, measures 19,700 km: 14 hops in all.

Tips from the window seat

• Flags: Plain tricolours are the hardest; check the colour of the middle band.
• Name the country: Look at the coastline first: which sea a country touches rules out half the options.
• Find the country: Zoom in for the small ones; at the full view a few countries are only a dot.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1002 appears right under the quiz.