Monday, October 5, 2026

Mission #5: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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 country that uses the euro.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kosovo

Jet Stream (850 m): Andorra, Montenegro

Updraft (600 m): Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Finland

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

Ballast (100 m): Germany, France, Italy, Spain

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