Dokimasia

🗿 World Landmarks

Place the monument on the map.

Continent: Europe (31) · Asia (32) · Africa (19) · North America (20) · South America (14) · Oceania (12).

The world keeps its furniture in plain sight: a tower here, a temple there, a mermaid on a harbour stone. This bank asks one steady question a hundred and twenty-eight times — in which country would you find it? — and lets the geography do the grading. The famous silhouettes are your opening marks: the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the pyramids at Giza. Then the lens widens. Hagia Sophia sits in which country, in which city that has worn four names? Borobudur rises from which island nation? Petra, Angkor, Machu Picchu, the Alhambra — each one a civilisation's signature, and each signature on a different page of the atlas. The bank spans every continent, Europe and Asia most heavily, with Oceania's dozen entries waiting for those who think they know the Pacific. Roughly half the questions rate medium: monuments you have certainly seen in photographs whose captions you did not read. The hard band is for the deep travellers — stave churches, rock-hewn chapels, mausoleums of empires that no longer hold the territory. Like every subject here, it offers five-question rounds with decoys drawn from the same continent, a private drill pool for your misses, and a challenge link for the friend who has actually been to all these places and will still get Borobudur wrong.