Expedition #1101

This trip through North and Central America is set at Hard. The 13 questions come in three legs — Name the country (6 questions), then Bigger or smaller (3 questions), then Find the country (4 questions) — and visit 16 countries in all.

• In the naming leg 6 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.
• The size leg mixes 3 duels on people and on land.
• In the map leg you tap 4 countries; a miss shows the right one and how far away you were.

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 20,190 km long, with 15 hops between 16 stops.

Tips from the window seat

• Name the country: Look at the coastline first: which sea a country touches rules out half the options.
• Bigger or smaller: For population, think of the big cities you know in each country.
• Find the country: Read the distance after a miss: it tells you how close you were.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1102 appears right under the quiz.