Monday, October 19, 2026

Mission #19: 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 capital city that sits on the Danube.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bratislava

Updraft (600 m): Belgrade

Ballast (100 m): Vienna, Budapest

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Name a country whose flag features at least one star.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Nauru

Jet Stream (850 m): Cabo Verde, Burkina Faso, Togo, Liberia, Djibouti, Tajikistan, Comoros, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Burundi, Slovenia, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Equatorial Guinea

Updraft (600 m): Ghana, Somalia, Cuba, Syria, Panama, Myanmar, Venezuela, Senegal, Singapore, Algeria, Tunisia, Malaysia, Jordan, North Korea, Philippines, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Libya, Mauritania, Honduras, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Samoa

Drifter (300 m): Turkey, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, Morocco, Pakistan

Ballast (100 m): United States, China, Vietnam

7. 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

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