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Answers for 24 October 2026

Atlas Daily #53, Saturday 24 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. Atomic absorption spectroscopy and the first commercially successful polymer banknote were developed here.
  2. Its upper house seats 76 senators, twelve from each state and two from each mainland territory.
  3. A bush poem of 1895 called Waltzing Matilda is regarded as the unofficial national anthem.
  4. A football code born in Melbourne in the 1850s draws the most television viewers in most states.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Round 2

  1. Its first census in 1909 counted a population of just 8.2 million.
  2. This kingdom has had 20 constitutions and charters since 1932, the latest dated 2017.
  3. A native sport has players striking a rattan ball with only feet, knees, chest and head.
  4. Its busiest airport is Suvarnabhumi, serving the capital city.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 3

  1. It records the world's highest rate of aliyah as a share of its Jewish population.
  2. Its territory is split into nineteen departments, each with its own elected executive and board.
  3. It is the only South American country lying entirely south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
  4. Jose Gervasio Artigas became its national hero after beating Spanish forces at Las Piedras in 1811.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 4

  1. An early name for this territory, Guaymuras, was revived for a political dialogue held there in 2009.
  2. In 1888 a railway from the Caribbean coast ran out of money once it reached San Pedro Sula.
  3. Hurricane Mitch wrecked about 70 percent of its crops and most of its bridges and secondary roads.
  4. Its capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Round 5

  1. In March 2007 this island counted 22 centenarians among some 70000 inhabitants.
  2. The novelist Jean Rhys was born and raised on this island.
  3. It became an independent republic on 3 November 1978 under Prime Minister Patrick John.
  4. Its capital, Roseau, lies on the western side of the island.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Australia · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Australia.

The answer is Australia, the sixth-largest country in the world and the flattest, driest inhabited continent. Its capital is Canberra, though Sydney and Melbourne are far larger, and about 95 percent of people live within 100 kilometres of the coast. Federated in 1901 from six British colonies, it hosts the Great Barrier Reef and a famously endemic wildlife including marsupials such as the koala and kangaroo.

Round 2 answer

Thailand · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Thailand.

Thailand is a Southeast Asian kingdom of nearly 66 million people, with Bangkok as its capital and largest city. Known internationally as Siam until 1939, it was the only state in the region never colonised by a Western power. Today it combines Theravada Buddhist culture, a vast tourism sector and Southeast Asia's largest automotive industry.

Round 3 answer

Uruguay · South America

Clue 5: The location is Uruguay.

Britain brokered its independence in 1828 as a buffer between Brazil and Argentina. The 1930 World Cup final was played in Montevideo's Estadio Centenario, built for the country's centenary. Pasture covers most of the land, and by the 2020s wind, hydro and biomass supplied nearly all of its electricity.

Round 4 answer

Honduras · North America

Clue 5: The location is Honduras.

Honduras is a Central American republic bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, with its capital and largest city at Tegucigalpa. Its Maya centre of Copan, the Bay Islands and the Rio Platano rainforest sit alongside a banana-export history that gave the world the phrase banana republic.

Round 5 answer

Dominica · North America

Clue 5: The location is Dominica.

Dominica is an island republic in the Lesser Antilles, with its capital at Roseau on the west coast. Nicknamed the Nature Island of the Caribbean, it holds Boiling Lake, 365 rivers and the endemic sisserou parrot that appears on its purple-bearing flag. Independent since 3 November 1978, it is the only eastern Caribbean island that still has a Kalinago population.

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