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Answers for 29 October 2026

Atlas Daily #58, Thursday 29 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. Old Crow Flats and Bluefish Caves rank among the oldest known human habitation sites in this land.
  2. The Statute of Westminster of 1931 affirmed its independence on a legal path equal to Britain.
  3. A painting collective called the Group of Seven is seen as its first uniquely national art movement.
  4. A single maple leaf appears on both its current flag and its coat of arms.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Round 2

  1. Dušan Vukotić won the 1961 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with Ersatz.
  2. In 1527 its parliament met at Cetin and elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg as ruler.
  3. The necktie descends from the cravat worn by its 17th-century mercenaries serving in France.
  4. Its footballers took World Cup bronze in 1998, silver in 2018 and bronze again in 2022.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. A chiefdom coalition under Sechele I turned back Afrikaner incursions at the Battle of Dimawe in 1852.
  2. This landlocked republic is divided into ten administrative districts.
  3. The discovery of diamonds in 1967 transformed its economy after independence.
  4. Roughly 70 percent of this flat country lies within the Kalahari Desert.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. Sitting inside closed drainage basins, none of its rivers ever reach the sea.
  2. In September 2011 it opened the first high-speed railway line in Central Asia.
  3. Its most decorated football club, Pakhtakor, has won the national league ten times.
  4. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan all border this country.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. Rapid conversions have given it the highest share of Orthodox Christians in the Western Hemisphere.
  2. A reserve in its northern lowlands is the second largest forest in Central America after Bosawas.
  3. It ranks among the world's leading exporters of cardamom and coffee.
  4. A territorial claim kept it from recognizing neighbouring Belize as independent until 1991.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Canada · North America

Clue 5: The location is Canada.

Canada holds an estimated 60% of the world's lakes and a coastline of about 243,000 kilometres. The Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City decided the Seven Years' War in North America in 1759. Around 90% of the population lives within about 200 kilometres of the United States border.

Round 2 answer

Croatia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Croatia.

Croatia is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe on the Adriatic Sea, with Zagreb as its capital and largest city. Its archipelago holds over a thousand islands, and karst landscapes such as Plitvice Lakes cover about half the territory. Independent from Yugoslavia since 1991, it joined the European Union in 2013 and adopted the euro in 2023.

Round 3 answer

Botswana · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Botswana.

Botswana is a landlocked southern African republic where the Kalahari covers roughly 70 percent of the territory. It became independent from Britain on 30 September 1966 with Seretse Khama as first president and now produces more diamonds than any other country. Its Okavango Delta was inscribed as the 1,000th World Heritage Site in 2014, and Gaborone is the capital.

Round 4 answer

Uzbekistan · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Uzbekistan.

Liechtenstein is the other doubly landlocked state. Irrigation for cotton diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and the Aral Sea shrank to a tenth of its 1960 area. Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, ruled from Samarkand and lies in the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum.

Round 5 answer

Guatemala · North America

Clue 5: The location is Guatemala.

Around 18 million people live here, more than in any other country between Mexico and Colombia. Antigua served as capital until the Santa Marta earthquakes of 1773. Tikal’s Temple IV rises 70 metres above the Petén forest.

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