Quizzes for People Who Like Maps

Four rooms, one dataset

The flag quizzes draw the flags themselves, right in the page. The capitals quizzes work through the world’s capital cities – 181 of the 197 countries have a capital settled enough to be asked about. The state quizzes stay inside the United States, and the geography trivia pages mix all of it together. Every question on every page is generated from the same country table, which is why a fact never contradicts itself from one quiz to the next.

How a round works

Each question offers four answers on lettered buttons – press one, or type 1 to 4 or A to D on a keyboard. Marking is immediate: the right row gets a tick, a wrong pick gets a cross and the correct answer named on the spot, and Enter carries you to the next question. At the end a ring fills to your percentage and you get a rank: Cartographer at 90 or better, Navigator at 70, Traveller at 50, Tourist below that. Every question you missed is laid out again with the answer you gave struck through beside the right one.

What is stored, and where

Nothing leaves the page. There is no account to make and no profile to sync; the one number kept is your best score per quiz, held in your own browser. Clear your browsing data and the site meets you as a stranger again.

Where the map is a matter of convention

A quiz question needs exactly one right answer, and continents refuse to cooperate: Russia spans two of them, Turkey straddles the Bosphorus, Egypt keeps a foot in Asia at Sinai. This site follows the common quiz convention – Russia files under Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus under Asia, Egypt under Africa – and the pages where that decision changes an answer say so plainly, rather than treating a filing convention as a law of nature.