Expedition #1068

Expedition #1068 stays in Africa at the Easy level: three legs, 12 questions and 15 different countries along the way. It opens with Bigger or smaller (3 questions), carries on with Name the country (5 questions) and lands with Flags (4 questions).

• The size leg is 3 area duels: which of two countries is larger?
• In the naming leg 5 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 9 different flags.

Easy means the questions come from the best-known countries of the region, and wrong options from other parts of the world, so most of them can be ruled out at a glance.

If you joined the stops capital to capital, in the order the questions bring them, the dashed line would be 47,990 km long, with 14 hops between 15 stops.

Tips from the window seat

• Bigger or smaller: Do not trust the map for area: flat maps distort sizes.
• 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 #1069 appears right under the quiz.