Mission #13: the debrief

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Name a country in Central America or the Caribbean (not Mexico).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Grenada, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Updraft (600 m): Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago

Drifter (300 m): Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bahamas

Ballast (100 m): Cuba, Jamaica

5. Name a country whose capital is not its largest city.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Liechtenstein (Capital: Vaduz)

Jet Stream (850 m): Belize (Capital: Belmopan), Malta (Capital: Valletta), Myanmar (Capital: Naypyidaw), Cameroon (Capital: Yaoundé)

Updraft (600 m): Morocco (Capital: Rabat), Vietnam (Capital: Hanoi), Tanzania (Capital: Dodoma), Ivory Coast (Capital: Yamoussoukro), Kazakhstan (Capital: Astana), South Africa (Capitals: Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town), Bolivia (Capitals: Sucre, La Paz), Ecuador (Capital: Quito)

Drifter (300 m): Turkey, India (Capital: New Delhi), Nigeria (Capital: Abuja), New Zealand (Capital: Wellington), Pakistan (Capital: Islamabad), China (Capital: Beijing)

Decoy (150 m): Switzerland (Capital: Bern)

Ballast (100 m): Australia (Capital: Canberra), United States (Capital: Washington D.C.), Canada (Capital: Ottawa), Brazil (Capital: Brasília)

6. Name a desert (not the Sahara).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Atacama Puna, Lut, Dasht-e Lut

Jet Stream (850 m): Karakum, Kyzylkum, Dasht-e Kavir, Patagonian, Danakil, Tanami, Gibson

Updraft (600 m): Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Taklamakan, Rub al Khali, Simpson, Negev, Syrian

Drifter (300 m): Mojave, Sonoran, Namib, Arabian, Thar, Great Victoria

Decoy (150 m): Antarctica, Antarctic, Arctic

Ballast (100 m): Gobi, Atacama, Kalahari

7. Name a US state that borders Canada (land or lake).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pennsylvania

Jet Stream (850 m): Ohio

Updraft (600 m): Idaho, New Hampshire

Drifter (300 m): Montana, Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Vermont

Ballast (100 m): Alaska, Washington, New York