Capital Quiz
One country, four cities, thirty questions. Capitals are the fastest route to knowing a map, and the wrong answers come from the same region to keep it honest.
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About Capital Quiz
Capitals are the hardest basic geography facts to hold because nothing about the name points to the country. There is no visual hook the way there is with a flag, and no logic connecting Bishkek to Kyrgyzstan. Repetition with immediate correction is the only thing that reliably works, which is what this game is built around.
The wrong answers are drawn from the same continent as the correct one, so elimination by region will not save you. On expert rounds you will regularly see four plausible Central Asian or West African capitals together.
A handful catch almost everyone out: Bolivia's constitutional capital is Sucre rather than La Paz, South Africa's seat of government is Pretoria, Sri Lanka's is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte rather than Colombo, and Myanmar moved its capital to Naypyidaw in 2005.
Difficulty and scoring
Easy, Medium and Hard run thirty questions. Easy covers the countries most people can already name; Hard reaches the ones that need real study. A correct answer is worth 100 points, with a bonus for answering inside five seconds and further bonuses at three, five and ten in a row. A wrong answer scores nothing and resets the streak, but never ends the round.
Expert is different. It has no fixed length and no second chances: questions keep coming from the hardest pool until you get one wrong, and that ends the run immediately. Your result is how many you survived. The full scoring breakdown is on the about page.