Reverse Capital Quiz
The capital quiz backwards. You get a city — Bishkek, Asunción, Lusaka — and have to name the country it governs.
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About Reverse Capital Quiz
Recall in one direction does not give you the other. Plenty of people can answer "what is the capital of Mongolia" and stall completely on "Ulaanbaatar is the capital of where" — the link was learned one way round and only works that way.
This game is the fastest way to find those one-directional gaps. If you score noticeably worse here than on the ordinary capital quiz, your capitals are memorised as answers to a specific question rather than as facts you actually hold.
No continent hint is shown with the city, deliberately. Naming the region would eliminate most of the wrong answers before you had thought about the question at all.
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.