Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Mission #20: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country in Europe whose capital has no letter X.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kosovo (Capital: Pristina), Estonia (Capital: Tallinn), Cyprus (Capital: Nicosia), Montenegro (Capital: Podgorica), Iceland (Capital: Reykjavik)

Jet Stream (850 m): Slovakia (Capital: Bratislava), Croatia (Capital: Zagreb), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Capital: Sarajevo), Lithuania (Capital: Vilnius), Moldova (Capital: Chișinău), Albania (Capital: Tirana), Slovenia (Capital: Ljubljana), Latvia (Capital: Riga), North Macedonia (Capital: Skopje)

Updraft (600 m): Finland (Capital: Helsinki), Norway (Capital: Oslo), Ireland (Capital: Dublin), Romania (Capital: Bucharest), Czechia (Capital: Prague), Hungary (Capital: Budapest), Belarus (Capital: Minsk), Serbia (Capital: Belgrade), Bulgaria (Capital: Sofia)

Drifter (300 m): Ukraine (Capital: Kyiv), Poland (Capital: Warsaw), Netherlands (Capitals: Amsterdam, The Hague), Belgium (Capital: Brussels), Portugal (Capital: Lisbon), Sweden (Capital: Stockholm), Greece (Capital: Athens), Austria (Capital: Vienna), Switzerland (Capital: Bern), Denmark (Capital: Copenhagen)

Decoy (150 m): Malta (Capital: Valletta), Andorra (Capital: Andorra la Vella), Liechtenstein (Capital: Vaduz), Monaco (Capital: Monaco), San Marino (Capital: City of San Marino), Vatican City (Capital: Vatican City)

Ballast (100 m): Russia (Capital: Moscow), Germany (Capital: Berlin), United Kingdom (Capital: London), France (Capital: Paris), Italy (Capital: Rome), Spain (Capital: Madrid)

2. Name a country or territory in Oceania with no letter S in its name.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Palau

Jet Stream (850 m): Kiribati, Tonga, Guam, New Caledonia

Updraft (600 m): Vanuatu

Drifter (300 m): Papua New Guinea, Fiji

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): New Zealand

3. Name a country or territory where Portuguese is an official language.

Edge of Space (1000 m): São Tomé and Príncipe

Jet Stream (850 m): Timor-Leste, Cape Verde, Macau

Updraft (600 m): Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea

Drifter (300 m): Angola, Mozambique

Ballast (100 m): Brazil, Portugal

4. Name a country or territory in Caribbean with the letter A in its name.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Curaçao, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Sint Maarten

Jet Stream (850 m): Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Aruba, Cayman Islands

Updraft (600 m): Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Lucia

Drifter (300 m): Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago

Ballast (100 m): Cuba, Jamaica

5. Name a country exactly two borders away from Switzerland.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Hungary, Slovakia

Updraft (600 m): Denmark, Czechia

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands, Belgium

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

Ballast (100 m): Spain, Poland

6. Name a country that borders Romania or Ukraine (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Moldova

Jet Stream (850 m): Bulgaria, Slovakia

Updraft (600 m): Belarus, Serbia

Drifter (300 m): Hungary

Ballast (100 m): Russia, Poland

7. Name a country or territory in Europe with no letter Y in its name.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kosovo, Estonia, Montenegro, Iceland

Jet Stream (850 m): Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Moldova, Albania, Slovenia, Latvia, North Macedonia, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Isle of Man

Updraft (600 m): Finland, Ireland, Romania, Czechia, Belarus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia

Drifter (300 m): Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Malta, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Russia, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Ukraine

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