Expedition #1017

This trip through World is set at Hard. The 12 questions come in three legs — Find the country (4 questions), then Name the country (4 questions), then Flags (4 questions) — and visit 12 countries in all.

• In the map leg you tap 4 countries; a miss shows the right one and how far away you were.
• In the naming leg 4 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.
• The flags leg alternates between naming a flag and picking one: 4 questions and 10 different flags.

Hard skips the easiest quarter of the region and offers the nearest neighbours as wrong answers; on flags, the most similar-looking ones too.

If you joined the stops capital to capital, in the order the questions bring them, the dashed line would be 83,070 km long, with 11 hops between 12 stops.

Tips from the window seat

• Find the country: Before tapping, find a neighbour you are sure of and work from there.
• Name the country: If the close view confuses you, zoom out once and look at the whole region.
• Flags: Plain tricolours are the hardest; check the colour of the middle band.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1018 appears right under the quiz.