Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Mission #6: the debrief

Fleet numbers aren't available for this mission.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a city or town on the Rhine.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Vaduz

Jet Stream (850 m): Ludwigshafen, Wiesbaden, Schaffhausen, Konstanz, Speyer, Worms

Updraft (600 m): Koblenz, Mannheim, Arnhem, Duisburg

Drifter (300 m): Dusseldorf, Strasbourg, Bonn, Mainz

Ballast (100 m): Cologne, Basel

2. 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

3. Name a city that has hosted the Summer Olympics.

Edge of Space (1000 m): St. Louis

Jet Stream (850 m): Helsinki, Melbourne, Antwerp

Updraft (600 m): Montreal, Munich, Mexico City, Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm

Drifter (300 m): Los Angeles, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Barcelona, Atlanta, Seoul, Moscow

Ballast (100 m): London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo

4. 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

5. Name a lake in Africa.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Natron

Jet Stream (850 m): Edward, Kariba, Tana

Updraft (600 m): Turkana, Albert, Kivu, Volta, Nasser

Drifter (300 m): Tanganyika, Malawi, Chad

Ballast (100 m): Victoria

6. Name a US state that borders Canada (land or lake).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pennsylvania

Jet Stream (850 m): Ohio

Updraft (600 m): Idaho, New Hampshire

Drifter (300 m): Montana, Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Vermont

Ballast (100 m): Alaska, Washington, New York

7. 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

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