Sunday, October 18, 2026

Mission #18: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a waterfall.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kaieteur

Jet Stream (850 m): Tugela, Sutherland, Plitvice, Seljalandsfoss

Updraft (600 m): Gullfoss, Skogafoss, Dettifoss, Rhine

Drifter (300 m): Iguazu, Yosemite

Ballast (100 m): Niagara, Victoria, Angel

2. 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

3. Name a country with a double letter in its name (like Greece).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Guinea-Bissau, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone

Updraft (600 m): Andorra, Seychelles

Drifter (300 m): Russia, Cameroon

Decoy (150 m): Morocco

Ballast (100 m): Greece, Philippines

4. Name a landlocked country in Europe (like Switzerland).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Armenia

Jet Stream (850 m): North Macedonia, Kosovo

Updraft (600 m): Slovakia, Serbia, Moldova

Drifter (300 m): Hungary, Czechia, Luxembourg, Belarus

Decoy (150 m): Liechtenstein, Andorra, Vatican City, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Switzerland, Austria

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 capital city that sits on the Danube.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bratislava

Updraft (600 m): Belgrade

Ballast (100 m): Vienna, Budapest

7. Name a national capital that starts with B.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bandar Seri Begawan

Jet Stream (850 m): Bangui, Banjul, Bissau, Basseterre, Belmopan, Bridgetown, Brazzaville

Updraft (600 m): Bratislava, Baku, Beirut, Baghdad, Bamako, Bishkek

Drifter (300 m): Bangkok, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Bern, Belgrade, Bucharest, Brasilia

Ballast (100 m): Berlin, Beijing, Brussels

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