Expedition #1169

This trip through North and Central America is set at Easy. The 14 questions come in three legs — Name the country (5 questions), then Find the country (4 questions), then Flags (5 questions) — and visit 11 countries in all.

• In the naming leg 5 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.
• In the map leg you tap 4 countries; a miss shows the right one and how far away you were.
• The flags leg shows 5 flags and asks for their countries; 5 different flags pass in front of you.

The Easy setting keeps to well-known countries; the wrong answers come from other subregions and are rarely close.

The full route, drawn from capital to capital as the questions come, measures 15,510 km: 10 hops in all.

Tips from the window seat

• Name the country: Count the neighbours you recognise around the yellow shape.
• Find the country: Before tapping, find a neighbour you are sure of and work from there.
• Flags: Look for the small details: a star, a crescent, an emblem.

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1170 appears right under the quiz.