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Answers for 22 October 2026

Atlas Daily #51, Thursday 22 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. Excavations at Atapuerca indicate hominids lived on this peninsula about 1.3 million years ago.
  2. Its 1,214 kilometre frontier with Portugal is the longest uninterrupted border inside the European Union.
  3. It runs the longest high-speed rail network in Europe at nearly four thousand kilometres.
  4. Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro all belong to this country's modernist painting.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. A vine-training method called maglari sends grapevines climbing up the trunks of fruit trees.
  2. Its folk song Chakrulo was one of 27 pieces placed on the Voyager Golden Records in 1977.
  3. It neighbours Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan while facing the Black Sea in the west.
  4. Tbilisi State University, founded in 1918, is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 3

  1. A naval lieutenant from here built the first submarine in Latin America back in 1837.
  2. A pipeline finished in 1972 carried oil across the Andes and made it South America's second biggest oil exporter.
  3. In its highlands, guinea pig is a popular dish served with rice, mote or potatoes.
  4. It split from Gran Colombia in 1830 to become an independent republic.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 4

  1. A club in Luanshya once held the world record for the tallest rugby goal posts.
  2. About one in eighteen people here are Seventh-day Adventists, among the highest shares anywhere.
  3. It is the only African nation to designate Christianity as a state religion.
  4. Its safari parks include North Luangwa, South Luangwa, Kafue and Liuwa Plain.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. Thorium dating places settlers in the earliest known inhabited town here by 888 BC.
  2. Pro-democracy rioting in November 2006 destroyed more than 60 percent of the capital's downtown area.
  3. Its only Olympic medal is a silver in super heavyweight boxing won at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
  4. This archipelago sits directly south of Samoa, roughly two thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

Spain · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Spain.

The answer is Spain. Spanning most of the Iberian Peninsula, it also holds the Canary and Balearic Islands plus the North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Its capital and largest city is Madrid, and Felipe VI became head of state in 2014. It has fifty World Heritage Sites and was the second most visited country in the world in 2024.

Round 2 answer

Georgia · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Georgia.

Qvevri, large clay vessels buried underground, still ferment wine as they did in the Neolithic. Mkhedruli is one of only a handful of scripts invented independently rather than adapted from another. The August 2008 war left Abkhazia and South Ossetia under Russian control.

Round 3 answer

Ecuador · South America

Clue 5: The location is Ecuador.

Darwin spent five weeks in the Galápagos in 1835. Because Earth bulges at the equator, Chimborazo's summit is about 2 kilometres farther from the centre than Everest's. The country dollarised in 2000 after a banking collapse and runaway inflation.

Round 4 answer

Zambia · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Zambia.

The Copperbelt straddles the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and copper still makes up around 70% of export earnings. Kenneth Kaunda led the country from independence in 1964 until 1991. The Zambezi forms the border with Zimbabwe and drops 108 metres at Victoria Falls, called Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders'.

Round 5 answer

Tonga · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Tonga.

Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of 171 islands scattered across the South Pacific directly south of Samoa. It is the only Pacific nation to have kept its monarchical government throughout the colonial era, and the only extant indigenous monarchy in the islands. Its capital sits on Tongatapu, where over 70 percent of the population lives.

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