Golden Record

Name the country. Score 5,000 to reach the Sun.

One country. One answer. One Sun.

Every prompt is a geography question. We rank all 195 countries from first to last, and you name the one you think comes first.

  • 1.Each flight is 10 geography questions, such as which country has the most of something. You name one country per question.
  • 2.The closer your country is to #1 in the ranking, the more it scores. Only the exact #1 is the Golden Record, worth 1,000 points.
  • 3.Everything else scores by rank: Inner orbit (2 to 10) 300, Outer orbit (11 to 30) 150, Kuiper belt (31 to 60) 100, Deep space (61 to 195) 50.
  • 4.You need 5,000 points by the end of prompt 10 to reach the Sun. The questions get more counter-intuitive as you go.

Data: Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0), REST Countries, OurAirports and World Bank climate data. Rankings use the latest figures available, mostly 2023, and can differ from other sources.