Expedition #1116

Expedition #1116 stays in North and Central America at the Medium level: three legs, 11 questions and 14 different countries along the way. It opens with Bigger or smaller (3 questions), carries on with Name the country (4 questions) and lands with Capitals (4 questions).

• The size leg mixes 3 duels on people and on land.
• In the naming leg 4 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.
• The capitals leg turns things round: 4 capitals, and you name the country of each.

Medium draws on three quarters of the region, and the wrong options come from the same continent, so you have to know where things actually are.

If you joined the stops capital to capital, in the order the questions bring them, the dashed line would be 23,640 km long, with 13 hops between 14 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.
• Capitals: If two cities sound right, think of which country each one belongs to.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1117 appears right under the quiz.