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The Straits & Crossings Quiz
The narrow waters that organise the map. Gibraltar to Malacca. This pack draws from 52 real places, and the quiz is not multiple choice: you get an unlabelled 3D globe, the name of a place, and 10 seconds to pin where it is. Points scale with how close you land and how fast you commit, so a near miss beats a wild stab and knowing beats guessing.
Theme packs cut across the whole planet on one idea, so there is nowhere to hide in a home region. They are the quickest measure of how far your map really reaches.
How a run works
A run is 10 places sampled fresh from the pack each time, timed, and scored server-side onto the pack's own leaderboard. Your best run stands as your entry, and you can grind it down (or up) as long as you like. Free accounts get one ranked run a day; premium is unlimited.
Places you might be asked to pin
- Bass Strait · Australia
- Cook Strait · New Zealand
- Foveaux Strait · New Zealand
- Palk Strait · India / Sri Lanka
- The Bab-el-Mandeb · Yemen / Djibouti
- The Bering Strait · Russia / USA
- The Bosphorus · Türkiye
- The Cabot Strait · Canada
- The Corinth Canal · Greece
- The Dardanelles · Türkiye
…and 42 more across the pack.
More by theme
- The World Capitals quiz · Every capital city, the household names and the ones nobody guesses.
- The Islands quiz · Where the atlas goes sparse: island escapes across every ocean.
- The Landmarks & Wonders quiz · The built world: monuments, ruins and wonders you can point to.