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Answers for 9 October 2026

Atlas Daily #38, Friday 9 October 2026: five places, each with clues from hardest to easiest. Try to name each place before you open the answers.

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The clues

Round 1

  1. Formal philosophy arrived here with Pythagoras who founded a school of philosophy at Crotone.
  2. A referendum on 2 June 1946 created a republic and women voted nationally for the first time.
  3. This is the world's largest producer of wine and a leading producer of olive oil.
  4. Its Renaissance painters included Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael and Titian.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. Land redistribution between 1958 and 1961 outdid every other reform since independence.
  2. A kingdom near the modern coast developed what is considered the world's earliest known alphabet.
  3. Its most important river is the Euphrates, which crosses the east of the country.
  4. Damascus serves as its capital and largest city.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 3

  1. This island state is a major competitor in the little known team sport of korfball.
  2. A magnitude 7.3 quake in September 1999, called the 921 earthquake, killed more than 2,400 people here.
  3. Martial law declared in May 1949 lasted here until 1987 and was used to crush political opposition.
  4. Semiconductors and related gear make up around 80 percent of this island's total exports.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 4

  1. One highland people here build round windowless houses roofed with thatch on external wooden posts.
  2. Its longest river, the Mono, flows 400 kilometres from north to south.
  3. Its shore was part of the stretch that Europeans came to call the Slave Coast.
  4. In 2025 its veteran leader swapped the presidency for the new post of President of the Council of Ministers.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. In 1832 a man named d'Epinay launched the island's first newspaper free of government control.
  2. Its rare Post Office stamps were the first issued anywhere in the British Empire outside Britain.
  3. This welfare state provides free health care and free education all the way through university.
  4. Together with Rodrigues and nearby Reunion it makes up the Mascarene Islands.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Answers

Round 1 answer

Italy · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Italy.

The answer is Italy, a Southern European republic whose peninsula stretches into the Mediterranean between the Alps and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Its capital, Rome, was founded on the Tiber in 753 BC and later became the seat of the Catholic Church. Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance and of opera, and it holds more World Heritage Sites than any other country.

Round 2 answer

Syria · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Syria.

Syria is a West Asian republic on the Eastern Mediterranean, with Damascus as its capital and largest city. Its land holds ancient centres such as Ebla, Ugarit and Palmyra, and Damascus once served as the Umayyad capital. A civil war that began in 2011 ended when opposition forces toppled Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

Round 3 answer

Taiwan · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Taiwan.

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is an island country in East Asia separated from the mainland by the Taiwan Strait. Once mapped as Formosa, it passed through Dutch, Qing and Japanese rule before the Nationalist government retreated there in 1949. It is now a democracy famed for semiconductors, night markets and bubble tea.

Round 4 answer

Togo · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Togo.

Togo is a narrow West African republic running from the Gulf of Guinea coast at Lome north to Burkina Faso. Once a German protectorate and later split between Britain and France, it became independent in 1960. The Gnassingbe family has held power since 1967. It joined the Commonwealth in 2022 and holds some of the world's largest phosphate deposits.

Round 5 answer

Mauritius · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Mauritius.

Mauritius is an Indian Ocean island country about 2,000 kilometres off southeastern Africa and east of Madagascar, with Port Louis as its capital. Once the Dutch, French and British sugar colony that was the only home of the dodo, it became independent in 1968 and a republic in 1992. It is the only African country where Hinduism is the most practised religion.

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