Guides

Ten short reads that make you better at the quizzes: how to tell look-alike flags apart, which capitals are not the biggest city, why so many countries share a currency name, and how our points and ranks work.

• Look-alike flags and how to tell them apartChad or Romania, Indonesia or Monaco, Jordan or Palestine: the flag pairs that fool most players, and the one detail that separates each of them.Read the guide
• Capitals that aren't the biggest cityCanberra not Sydney, Ankara not Istanbul, Rabat not Casablanca: why so many countries keep their government away from their largest city, and how to remember which is which.Read the guide
• Arab League countries, capitals and currenciesAll 22 members of the Arab League with their capitals and currencies, how the League began, and the patterns that make them easier to remember.Read the guide
• Why so many countries use the dinar, riyal or poundSeven dinars, five riyals and rials, a handful of pounds: where the Arab world's currency names come from, and how to tell them apart in the Currencies quiz.Read the guide
• Countries that share one currencyThe euro, the two CFA francs, the East Caribbean dollar and the US dollar abroad: which countries share a currency, why, and how the quiz handles them.Read the guide
• The Gulf in 6 flags: colours and meaningsThe flags of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman: what their colours and symbols mean, and how to tell the look-alikes apart.Read the guide
• The Maghreb: geography, languages and the history of its namesMorocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania: mountains, desert and coast, the languages spoken there, and where each country's name comes from.Read the guide
• Landlocked countries of the worldThe 44 countries with no coastline: where they are, the largest and the smallest, the two that are doubly landlocked, and why not one Arab country is among them.Read the guide
• Countries with more than one official languageSwitzerland's four languages, South Africa's twelve, Arabic alongside Kurdish, Tamazight, Somali or French: how multilingual countries work and how the Languages quiz uses them.Read the guide
• How GlobeQuizz scoring and ranks workPoints, speed bonus, answer streaks, the Compass hint, Pin Drop distances, stars, XP, levels and the seven ranks from Traveler to Ibn Battuta, with worked examples.Read the guide