Thursday, October 1, 2026

Mission #1: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a city that has hosted the Summer Olympics.

Edge of Space (1000 m): St. Louis

Jet Stream (850 m): Helsinki, Melbourne, Antwerp

Updraft (600 m): Montreal, Munich, Mexico City, Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm

Drifter (300 m): Los Angeles, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Barcelona, Atlanta, Seoul, Moscow

Ballast (100 m): London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo

2. Name a lake in Africa.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Natron

Jet Stream (850 m): Edward, Kariba, Tana

Updraft (600 m): Turkana, Albert, Kivu, Volta, Nasser

Drifter (300 m): Tanganyika, Malawi, Chad

Ballast (100 m): Victoria

3. Name a country the equator passes through.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kiribati

Jet Stream (850 m): Maldives, Sao Tome and Principe

Updraft (600 m): Republic of the Congo, DR Congo, Somalia

Drifter (300 m): Colombia, Indonesia, Uganda, Gabon

Ballast (100 m): Brazil, Ecuador, Kenya

4. Name a country whose flag has no red in it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Cyprus

Jet Stream (850 m): Kazakhstan, Palau, Nauru, Rwanda, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Afghanistan

Updraft (600 m): Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Uruguay, Honduras, Guatemala, Botswana, Bahamas, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Niger, Ivory Coast, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Kosovo, Tanzania

Drifter (300 m): Sweden, Ukraine, Israel, Finland, Estonia, Ireland, Jamaica, India

Decoy (150 m): San Marino, Vatican City

Ballast (100 m): Brazil, Greece, Argentina

5. Name a city or town on the Rhine.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Vaduz

Jet Stream (850 m): Ludwigshafen, Wiesbaden, Schaffhausen, Konstanz, Speyer, Worms

Updraft (600 m): Koblenz, Mannheim, Arnhem, Duisburg

Drifter (300 m): Dusseldorf, Strasbourg, Bonn, Mainz

Ballast (100 m): Cologne, Basel

6. Name a sea or ocean that touches Russia.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pechora Sea

Jet Stream (850 m): Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, White Sea, Chukchi Sea

Updraft (600 m): Sea of Okhotsk, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Sea of Azov

Drifter (300 m): Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea

Ballast (100 m): Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Black Sea

7. Name a country that uses the euro.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kosovo

Jet Stream (850 m): Andorra, Montenegro

Updraft (600 m): Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Finland

Decoy (150 m): Monaco, Vatican City, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Germany, France, Italy, Spain

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