Saturday, October 17, 2026

Mission #17: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. Name an African country whose name starts with M.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mauritius

Updraft (600 m): Mauritania, Malawi

Drifter (300 m): Mali, Mozambique

Ballast (100 m): Morocco, Madagascar

2. Name a country with a coastline on the Red Sea.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti

Jet Stream (850 m): Jordan

Updraft (600 m): Eritrea, Israel

Drifter (300 m): Sudan, Yemen

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Saudi Arabia

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 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

5. Name a city south of the equator with over 1 million people (metro).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mbuji-Mayi

Jet Stream (850 m): Lubumbashi, Antananarivo, Lusaka, Harare, Maputo, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Cordoba, Rosario, Bandung

Updraft (600 m): Montevideo, Luanda, Kinshasa, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Salvador, Brasilia, Adelaide, La Paz, Asuncion, Pretoria, Surabaya

Drifter (300 m): Lima, Santiago, Jakarta, Auckland, Brisbane, Perth, Durban

Decoy (150 m): Melbourne, Johannesburg, Cape Town

Ballast (100 m): Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires

6. Name a river that flows into the Mediterranean or Black Sea.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Rioni

Jet Stream (850 m): Southern Bug, Bug, Neretva, Evros, Maritsa, Sakarya, Kizilirmak

Updraft (600 m): Tiber, Arno, Dniester, Kuban, Orontes

Drifter (300 m): Rhone, Po, Ebro, Dnieper, Don

Ballast (100 m): Nile, Danube

7. 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

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