Expedition #1161

This trip through Europe is set at Easy. The 11 questions come in three legs — Bigger or smaller (3 questions), then Flags (4 questions), then Name the country (4 questions) — and visit 14 countries in all.

• The size leg is 3 area duels: which of two countries is larger?
• The flags leg names 4 countries and gives you four flags each time, 16 different flags in all.
• In the naming leg 4 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.

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 22,150 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.
• Flags: Look for the small details: a star, a crescent, an emblem.
• Name the country: Count the neighbours you recognise around the yellow shape.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1162 appears right under the quiz.