Atlas (Mind Loft)

Atlas is a sudden-death geography quiz. Each day brings twenty-five multiple-choice questions with four options each, arranged in five rounds of five that climb from questions most people know to ones very few do. You have twenty seconds per question, and the first miss, or an empty clock, ends the run.

Every round cycles the same five subjects: capital cities, the physical world, flags and borders, places and landmarks, and countries and peoples. A good score needs some knowledge of all five rather than one specialty, and since everything you clear is banked, each new question is a choice between the risk of a miss and the points you already hold.

Everyone plays the same questions in the same order, so the leaderboard is simple: the longest run wins and ties break on time. Atlas runs on the same format as Mind Loft's Biz and Sport quizzes, and sits beside its other geography dailies, Flank, Span and Ping.