Dokimasia

🌍 World Capitals

Name the capital city.

Every country answers to a city, and the society expects you to know which. The capitals bank is the oldest kind of examination there is — one hundred and ninety-four questions, one for every flag at the United Nations — and it is harder than it looks. The famous ones come easily: Paris, Tokyo, Cairo. The trouble begins where the atlas creases. Is the capital of Australia Sydney or Canberra? Of Canada, Toronto or Ottawa? Of Switzerland — Geneva, Zurich, or the quiet answer, Bern? The bank is built to find these seams. A third of its questions rank as hard, the capitals of microstates and archipelagos and countries that moved their seat of government while nobody was looking: Naypyidaw, Gitega, Nur-Sultan as it briefly was. Each question poses four cities and asks for one honest choice, and each wrong answer joins your private drill pool, returning until you have beaten it. Five, ten, or twenty questions a round, filtered by difficulty if you choose. The whole world is the syllabus; the map does not abridge itself. Sit the trial as a guest or under your own name, and when you have a perfect round in hand, mint a challenge link and send it to the friend who claims geography is easy. The same five questions, the same order, their score against yours. That is how the society settles things.