Expedition #1173

This trip through Africa is set at Hard. The 12 questions come in three legs — Name the country (4 questions), then Flags (4 questions), then Capitals (4 questions) — and visit 12 countries in all.

• In the naming leg 4 countries light up on the map and you choose each name from four.
• The flags leg shows 4 flags and asks for their countries; 4 different flags pass in front of you.
• The capitals leg turns things round: 4 capitals, and you name the country of each.

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 32,540 km long, with 11 hops between 12 stops.

Tips from the window seat

• Name the country: Look at the coastline first: which sea a country touches rules out half the options.
• Flags: Look for the small details: a star, a crescent, an emblem.
• 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 #1174 appears right under the quiz.