Sunday, October 25, 2026

Mission #25: the debrief

Pilots
55
Average
3,260 m
6,000 m+
5%

Heaviest ballastName a country in Oceania where people drive on the left. 53% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country that borders Ethiopia or Sudan (not those two).

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country whose capital starts with B.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Brunei (Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan), Belize (Capital: Belmopan), Barbados (Capital: Bridgetown), Saint Kitts and Nevis (Capital: Basseterre)

Jet Stream (850 m): Lebanon (Capital: Beirut), Slovakia (Capital: Bratislava), Central African Republic (Capital: Bangui), Gambia (Capital: Banjul), Guinea-Bissau (Capital: Bissau)

Updraft (600 m): Mali (Capital: Bamako), Romania (Capital: Bucharest), Azerbaijan (Capital: Baku), Hungary (Capital: Budapest), Kyrgyzstan (Capital: Bishkek), Serbia (Capital: Belgrade), Congo (Capital: Brazzaville)

Drifter (300 m): South Africa (Capital: Bloemfontein), Colombia (Capital: Bogotá), Argentina (Capital: Buenos Aires), Iraq (Capital: Baghdad), Belgium (Capital: Brussels), Switzerland (Capital: Bern)

Ballast (100 m): China (Capital: Beijing), Brazil (Capital: Brasília), Germany (Capital: Berlin), Thailand (Capital: Bangkok)

2. Name an island country (no land borders) whose flag has no black.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Tonga, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Marshall Islands, Palau

Jet Stream (850 m): São Tomé and Príncipe, Samoa, Kiribati, Seychelles, Grenada, Micronesia

Updraft (600 m): Mauritius, Fiji, Comoros, Solomon Islands, Maldives, Cape Verde, Iceland

Drifter (300 m): Madagascar, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bahrain, Cyprus

Decoy (150 m): Malta, Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Japan, Philippines, Australia, Cuba, New Zealand

3. Name a country in Europe larger than 100,000 km².

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bulgaria, Iceland

Jet Stream (850 m): Finland, Norway, Romania, Belarus

Updraft (600 m): Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Greece

Drifter (300 m): France, Italy, Spain

Ballast (100 m): Russia, Germany, United Kingdom

4. Name a country with a Mediterranean coastline whose flag has no green.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Montenegro

Jet Stream (850 m): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Slovenia

Updraft (600 m): Israel, Tunisia, Croatia

Drifter (300 m): Spain, Greece

Decoy (150 m): Malta, Monaco

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Türkiye, France

5. Name a country or territory where Spanish is an official language.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Panama, Uruguay, Equatorial Guinea

Jet Stream (850 m): Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica

Updraft (600 m): Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Puerto Rico

Drifter (300 m): Argentina, Peru, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela

Ballast (100 m): Mexico, Colombia, Spain

6. Name a country that borders Ethiopia or Sudan (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti

Jet Stream (850 m): Central African Republic, Eritrea

Updraft (600 m): South Sudan, Libya

Drifter (300 m): Chad, Somalia

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Kenya

7. Name a country in Oceania where people drive on the left.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Tonga

Jet Stream (850 m): Samoa, Kiribati

Updraft (600 m): Fiji, Solomon Islands

Drifter (300 m): Papua New Guinea

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Australia, New Zealand

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