Roamle #1 answers: World Mix

Sunday 1 November 2026. Flags, peaks, flight paths and the Olympics. A little bit of everywhere.

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Stop 1 Find It · Flags

Find the country with this flag

Tap the country on the globe.

Answer Mexico

Fun fact The eagle on a cactus, eating a snake, recalls the Aztec legend of how Tenochtitlan, today’s Mexico City, was founded.

Stop 2 Pinpoint · Natural wonders

Drop a pin on the summit of Mount Everest

Zoom in to the Himalayas for a closer look.

Answer Mount Everest (27.99° N, 86.92° E)

Fun fact The summit sits right on the border between Nepal and China. Its official height is 8,848.86 m, measured jointly by both countries in 2020. Source: Joint China–Nepal survey, 2020

Stop 3 Best Guess · Distances

How far is it from London to Tokyo as the crow flies?

Straight-line (great-circle) distance between the two city centres.

Answer 9,559 km

Fun fact The shortest route curves north over Scandinavia and Siberia, because the shortest path across a globe is a great circle, not a straight line on a flat map. Source: Great-circle distance between the city centres

Stop 4 Rare Answer · Sport

Name a country that has hosted the Summer Olympics

Any host from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024. Rarer answers score more.

19 accepted answers

Popular answers (500 points): United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Japan, Australia, Greece, Brazil
Good picks (700 points): Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Mexico, South Korea
Rare answers (880 points): Soviet Union, Netherlands, Sweden
Legendary answers (1,000 points): Belgium, Finland

Fun fact Nineteen countries have hosted the Summer Games. Antwerp 1920 (Belgium) and Helsinki 1952 (Finland) are the ones most people forget. Source: International Olympic Committee, Games 1896–2024

Stop 5 Find It · Seas & coasts

Tap any country with a Mediterranean coastline

Any one of them counts, so pick quickly.

22 accepted answers Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey

Monaco: Monaco is almost all coastline.
Slovenia: Slovenia’s coastline is only about 47 km long.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia and Herzegovina has about 20 km of coast at Neum.

Fun fact Twenty-one countries plus Palestine (Gaza) touch the Mediterranean. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s stretch at Neum is only about 20 km long.