Expedition #1165

This trip through World is set at Hard. The 15 questions come in three legs — Find the country (5 questions), then Flags (5 questions), then Name the country (5 questions) — and visit 15 countries in all.

• In the map leg you tap 5 countries; a miss shows the right one and how far away you were.
• The flags leg names 5 countries and gives you four flags each time, 19 different flags in all.
• In the naming leg 5 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.

At the Hard level the obvious countries are left out and the wrong options are close neighbours of the right one, or, for flags, the closest look-alikes.

Capital to capital, in question order, the route covers 120,600 km over 14 hops.

Tips from the window seat

• Find the country: Zoom in for the small ones; at the full view a few countries are only a dot.
• Flags: Plain tricolours are the hardest; check the colour of the middle band.
• Name the country: Look at the coastline first: which sea a country touches rules out half the options.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1166 appears right under the quiz.