Krillion Geography Practice

Play free Krillion-style geography trivia here: 23 questions on US states, countries, EU capitals, oceans and more, timed or untimed, with no sign-up. Name a correct place that fewer people think of to score more. This is an independent practice set, not the official Geography pack from krillion.io.

Play 10 geography questionsPlay 10 untimedPractice all 23 in Infinite

What the geography round asks

Every question names a set of places and asks for one member of it. You type a single answer. If it is in the accepted list, the question closes and you get the points for that answer. If it is not listed, you can try again while the clock is still running. The timed version gives you 25 seconds per question. The untimed version waits for you, which is the better way to learn the wording of a new prompt.

The Geography topic has 23 prompts and 276 accepted answers across them. A ten-question Unlimited dive draws ten of those prompts, preferring the ones this browser has not seen yet. Infinite keeps serving geography prompts until you stop, so it is the way to work through the whole set in one sitting.

Geography question scope

This list is built from the live question bank. Each entry shows the question, the scope line you see in the game, how many answers are accepted, and the reference used to check them.

1. Name one of Canada's ten provinces. Provinces only. Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are territories. 10 accepted answers · source: our-languages.canada.ca
2. Name one of the five North American Great Lakes. Use the lake name, with or without the word Lake. 5 accepted answers · source: archive.epa.gov
3. Name one of the four countries that make up the UK. A constituent country, not a city or a UK overseas territory. 4 accepted answers · source: service-manual.ons.gov.uk
4. Name one of the fifty US states. States only, not Washington DC or territories. State names and two-letter postal codes count. 50 accepted answers · source: census.gov
5. Name a US state in New England. One of the six states in the Census New England division. 6 accepted answers · source: census.gov
6. Name a state in the US Census Pacific division. The five Pacific-division states, including Alaska and Hawaii. 5 accepted answers · source: census.gov
7. Name one of the six Australian states. States, not the Australian Capital Territory or Northern Territory. 6 accepted answers · source: peo.gov.au
8. Name a sovereign country in South America. The twelve sovereign countries; French Guiana is a French territory. 12 accepted answers · source: unstats.un.org
9. Name a country on the Central American isthmus. The seven countries from Belize and Guatemala through Panama. Mexico is excluded by this wording. 7 accepted answers · source: unstats.un.org
10. Name one of the five Nordic countries. Country names; dependent territories are outside this question. 5 accepted answers · source: norden.org
11. Name one of the three Baltic states. The sovereign states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; not every country bordering the Baltic Sea. 3 accepted answers · source: european-union.europa.eu
12. Name a member country of the European Union. The 27 EU countries in the source list. The UK is not a member. 27 accepted answers · source: european-union.europa.eu
13. Name an African country that is a UN member. UN member states in the African region. Territories and disputed non-members are excluded. 54 accepted answers · source: un.org
14. Name a sovereign Caribbean island country. The thirteen island countries; Belize and Guyana are mainland states and excluded. 13 accepted answers · source: unstats.un.org
15. Name one of the five oceans. Ocean names, with or without the word Ocean. Seas are outside this question. 5 accepted answers · source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
16. Name a country with a land border with Germany. One of Germany's nine land neighbors. 9 accepted answers · source: tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de
17. Name the national capital of an EU member country. One of the 27 country capitals listed in EU country profiles. 27 accepted answers · source: european-union.europa.eu
18. Name a US state in the Census Mountain division. The eight Census Mountain-division states, not every state with mountains. 8 accepted answers · source: census.gov
19. Name a US state in the Census Middle Atlantic division. The three-state Census division, not a broader cultural definition of the Mid-Atlantic. 3 accepted answers · source: census.gov
20. Name a state in the Census East North Central division. The five-state Census division within the Midwest region. 5 accepted answers · source: census.gov
21. Name one of the five permanently inhabited US territories. Territories only; US states and freely associated sovereign countries are excluded. 5 accepted answers · source: doi.gov
22. Name one of Switzerland's four national languages. National languages, not every language spoken in Switzerland. 4 accepted answers · source: bk.admin.ch
23. Name a member country of the Benelux Union. The three member countries; neighboring countries are excluded. 3 accepted answers · source: benelux.int

How a rarer answer scores more: a worked example

Take the prompt “Name one of the five oceans.” The scope line reads: Ocean names, with or without the word Ocean. Seas are outside this question. There are 5 accepted answers, and each one has a fixed practice tier set by the editors of this bank:

Every row is correct, but the points are not equal. The ocean most people name first sits in the lowest tier, and the ocean that many people forget is worth the full 100. A sea, such as the Mediterranean, is outside the scope and is not accepted at all. The tiers are editorial judgments about which answers are less obvious. They are not a live count of what other players typed.

The practical lesson is to hold two candidates before you submit. Once an answer is accepted the question is closed, so you cannot swap a 10-point answer for a 100-point one afterward. The full point scale is 10, 15, 30, 60, 85 and 100, and a ten-question dive tops out at 1,000. The scoring guide explains the tiers in more detail.

Geography tips that come from the scope lines

• States are not territories. The Canada prompt accepts provinces only, and the Australia prompt accepts the six states, not the two mainland territories. The US territory prompt works the other way round and excludes the states.
• Census divisions are narrower than everyday regions. Several US prompts use the Census Bureau's divisions. The Middle Atlantic division has only three states, which is smaller than many casual definitions of the Mid-Atlantic, and the Mountain division is not every state with mountains.
• Sovereign country means sovereign. The South America prompt leaves out French Guiana because it is part of France. The Caribbean prompt counts island countries only, so mainland Belize and Guyana do not fit there.
• Europe and the European Union are different lists. The EU country and EU capital prompts follow the 27 members on the EU's own country pages. The United Kingdom is not a member, and neither is Switzerland or Norway.
• Small places are often the deep cuts. Large, famous countries tend to sit in the lower tiers. Smaller members of a list are where the higher tiers usually are, so it pays to run through the map edge by edge before you commit.

For the general method, including when to switch the timer back on, read the Krillion strategy guide. If geography is only one weak spot, the topic practice page lists every other category in the bank, and sports practice uses the same format.

Timed or untimed?

Start untimed while the scope lines are new. Most early misses in geography are boundary mistakes, such as naming a territory, a region, or a non-member, and those are easier to fix when you can read the question twice. Once you are choosing between correct answers rather than guessing at the boundary, switch to the timed Krillion Unlimited round so the 25-second window is part of the practice.

Geography practice questions

Where the geography facts come from

Each prompt links one public reference, and the accepted answers are checked against it. The geography prompts use these sources:

• archive.epa.gov
• european-union.europa.eu
• oceanservice.noaa.gov
• our-languages.canada.ca
• peo.gov.au
• service-manual.ons.gov.uk
• unstats.un.org
• benelux.int
• bk.admin.ch
• census.gov
• doi.gov
• norden.org
• tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de
• un.org
• census.gov