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Answers for 28 October 2026

Atlas Daily #57, Wednesday 28 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. In 1999 it had the densest rail network in the European Union at 113.8 km per 1000 square kilometres.
  2. A scientist from here proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927.
  3. The Spa-Francorchamps circuit here hosts a round of the Formula One World Championship.
  4. It is divided into Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south and a capital region between them.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. Its mainline railway network runs on a five foot three inch gauge that is unique in Europe.
  2. Local government here is run by thirty one authorities including twenty six county councils.
  3. James Joyce set Ulysses, his 1922 reworking of the Odyssey, in this country's capital city.
  4. Its largest airline is Ryanair, which is also Europe's largest low cost carrier.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. Cave paintings at Padah-Lin record Neolithic farming and polished stone tools.
  2. It opened its first ever stock exchange only in December 2014.
  3. By area it is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia.
  4. In 1989 its generals replaced colonial English place names with romanised local ones, renaming the country too.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 4

  1. Louis Faidherbe installed Yoro Dyao over Waalo where he served as a chief from 1861 to 1914.
  2. Touba, its second most populous city, is legally a rural community of over half a million people.
  3. Its football team beat Egypt in 2022 to win the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time.
  4. The African Renaissance Monument in its capital is the tallest statue in Africa.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. Among its seventeen hummingbird species is the tufted coquette, the third smallest in the world.
  2. It contains Pitch Lake, the largest naturally occurring asphalt deposit on Earth.
  3. Its men's footballers reached a first World Cup in 2006 after winning away to Bahrain in Manama.
  4. Doubles, two fried flatbreads filled with curried chickpeas, is its most famous street food.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Belgium · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Belgium.

Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy in the Low Countries, divided between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia. Its capital, Brussels, is the de facto capital of the European Union and hosts NATO. Famous for beer, chocolate, waffles and comics, it was the first country in continental Europe to industrialise.

Round 2 answer

Ireland · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Ireland.

The island held about 8.2 million people before the Great Famine; the Republic and Northern Ireland together have roughly 7 million today. The blight of 1845 to 1852 destroyed the crop that most rural families depended on. Four Nobel laureates in literature, from Yeats to Heaney, wrote here in English.

Round 3 answer

Myanmar · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Myanmar.

Myanmar, long known as Burma, is the largest country by area in mainland Southeast Asia, stretching from Himalayan peaks to the Bay of Bengal. Its Irrawaddy valley cradled the temple-filled Pagan Kingdom and later empires before British annexation and independence in 1948. Decades of military rule culminated in the 2021 coup and an ongoing civil war.

Round 4 answer

Senegal · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Senegal.

The Gambia, a former British colony, runs 300 kilometres inland along its river and splits the country nearly in half. Gorée Island, off Dakar, is a memorial to the Atlantic slave trade. Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet and philosopher, led the country from independence in 1960 until 1980.

Round 5 answer

Trinidad and Tobago · North America

Clue 5: The location is Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago is the southernmost Caribbean nation, sitting just off the coast of Venezuela. Its economy runs on oil and gas rather than tourism, and Pitch Lake is the largest natural asphalt deposit on Earth. African and Indian heritage shaped Carnival, calypso and the steelpan. Independence came in 1962 and republic status in 1976.

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