This geography trivia game is the geography edition of Rarest, where the rarest right answer wins. Every prompt is about places: countries and capitals, rivers and lakes, mountains, deserts, islands and cities. Any correct answer scores, but the less well known it is, the more it is worth. Name a country in Africa and South Africa barely lifts your hot-air balloon off the runway; Lesotho or São Tomé and Príncipe land in the Roar tier, worth twelve times as much.
Play it right here: the game above locks every round to geography. You can play the daily round (seven prompts, the same for everyone that day) or switch to Unlimited for as many rounds as you like. For a mix of all eight categories, play Rarest, the rarest answer game on the home page.
How the geography trivia game works
- You get seven prompts, each starting with "Name a…" or "Name the…", and 25 seconds per prompt (or no clock at all with No timer).
- Type any correct answer and press Enter. A wrong guess costs one second and you can try again.
- Each correct answer lands in one of six tiers, from Flicker (5 points) to Inferno (100 points). Once per round, Thermal ×2 doubles one prompt.
- After each prompt you see where your answer ranks, the best-known answers and a few of the rarest.
All 40 prompts in the geography trivia game
These are the prompts the geography edition draws from, with how many correct answers each one accepts:
- Name a country in Africa (54 answers)
- Name a country in Europe (55 answers)
- Name a country in Asia (50 answers)
- Name a country in North or South America (35 answers)
- Name a U.S. state (50 answers)
- Name the capital of a country in Europe (51 answers)
- Name the capital of a country in Africa (57 answers)
- Name the capital of a country in Asia (48 answers)
- Name the capital of a country in North or South America (36 answers)
- Name a country where French is an official language (28 answers)
- Name a member state of the European Union (27 answers)
- Name a U.S. state capital (50 answers)
- Name a river in Europe (200 answers)
- Name a river in Africa (150 answers)
- Name a river in the United States (160 answers)
- Name a landlocked country (45 answers)
- Name a volcano (250 answers)
- Name a mountain in the Alps (141 answers)
- Name a mountain range (220 answers)
- Name a desert (120 answers)
- Name a sea (115 answers)
- Name a waterfall (200 answers)
- Name a strait (120 answers)
- Name a peninsula (294 answers)
- Name a lake in the United States (63 answers)
- Name a lake in Africa (100 answers)
- Name a Greek island (120 answers)
- Name a Scottish island (220 answers)
- Name a U.S. national park (63 answers)
- Name a state of Mexico (31 answers)
- Name a state of India (28 answers)
- Name a state of Brazil (27 answers)
- Name a county of England (53 answers)
- Name a London borough (32 answers)
- Name a German city with over 100,000 people (79 answers)
- Name a city in Japan other than Tokyo (200 answers)
- Name a Canadian city with over 100,000 people (55 answers)
- Name a city in Australia (94 answers)
- Name a bay or gulf (150 answers)
- Name an island country (46 answers)
Common answers vs rare answers
Here is what separates a low score from a high one in the rarest answers for a few of the prompts. The left column is what most players type; the right column shows answers from the rarest tier for that prompt.
| Prompt | What most people say | Rare answers |
|---|---|---|
| Name a country in Africa | South Africa, Egypt, Morocco | Central African Republic, Djibouti, Burundi (Roar) |
| Name a country in Europe | United Kingdom, France, Germany | Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Estonia (Roar) |
| Name a country in Asia | India, China, Russia | Cambodia, Jordan, Turkmenistan (Roar) |
| Name a country in North or South America | United States, Canada, Brazil | Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Honduras (Roar) |
| Name a U.S. state | California, New York, Texas | Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky (Roar) |
| Name the capital of a country in Europe | London, Paris, Rome | Tirana, Skopje, Bern (Roar) |
| Name the capital of a country in Africa | Cairo, Cape Town, Nairobi | Dodoma, Lomé, Yamoussoukro (Roar) |
| Name the capital of a country in Asia | Singapore, Tokyo, Jerusalem | Ashgabat, Vientiane, Dushanbe (Roar) |
| Name the capital of a country in North or South America | Washington, Mexico City, Buenos Aires | Sucre, Bridgetown, Belmopan (Roar) |
| Name a country where French is an official language | France, Canada, Switzerland | Djibouti, Burundi, Guinea (Roar) |
For the rarest answers to every prompt in all eight categories, see the rarest answers list.
Tips to win the geography trivia game
- Go small. Microstates, island nations and landlocked countries are rarer than the giants on every map.
- Use the second river. For any river prompt, the tributaries (the Vorskla, the Smoky Hill) score far more than the Danube or the Mississippi.
- Think regionally. A Scottish island from the Outer Hebrides or a Greek island from the Dodecanese beats Skye or Crete.
- Capitals are a trap for the obvious: Cairo and Nairobi are Flicker answers, while Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, is a Roar answer.
More categories
Rarest has eight categories. Each one has its own page and its own locked game:
- Animals trivia
- Food & Drink trivia
- Sports trivia
- Movies & TV trivia
- Music trivia
- Science trivia
- History trivia
Answer lists are built from Wikidata, and rarity comes from public Wikipedia statistics; read more on the About page.