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Fill in the 100 squares with 1st-level World country administrative regions based on the categories in the top row and the country or region given in the cell. For example, if you are looking at a cell with 'Europe' in its row, and 'Starts With B' in the column, that cell can be filled in with 'Bavaria.'

Occasionally a cell may not have a qualifying answer, in which case it will appear blank and be a gimme.

PLEASE NOTE: Turkey and Russia divisions are classified as 'Europe' or 'Asia' based on geographical location within each country (occasionally a judgment call is used for Russian ones). Istanbul is classified as Europe.

hugequiz Premium members will see missed answers in red - they will be the largest division which qualified in each cell.

The object of this game is to fill in the grid (see NAMING NOTE below) with the most qualified country for each cell. When you begin you'll be given a grid with column titles and a category for each row in the cells. You are to name a country which fits the column category but also has the 'most' of the row category. For example, if the column has 'Star On Flag' and the row is 'Easternmost Capital' you are trying to name the country whose capital is farthest east and has a star on its flag. For a column with '50 Coldest' and 'Smallest Population' you are trying to name the country with the smallest population that is among the 50 coldest. Populations and areas included dependent territories.

Upon naming a country, it will be placed HIGHEST scoring position in the for which that country qualifies (not necessarily the grid square you might be trying to get). You can then rename the same country and if it qualifies for another square the next highest score for it will fill in.

Scores are based on relative values of the answers - so answering the US for a largest population square that China also qualifies doesn't make US be close to 100, but less than 25 as China's population is over 4 times larger. The only time when this isn't true is when you are choosing the smallest value of something instead of largest, in which case it's based on ranking.

NAMING NOTE: To answer a country simply type it in with a '.' (period) at the end, for example 'us.' or 'china.' - some country abbreviations are accepted.

Try to accumulate the highest point total you can (max 100 for each square) before time runs out.

hugequiz Premium members will see the highest-ranking country for each unanswered square when the quiz is over.

Upon clicking START you will be presented with a 5×5 table of World countries. The object of the quiz is to pair up countries two at a time which have the closest ratio of their land areas.

Single click on a country's text and it will highlight red. To choose the other country of the pair click another country's text. Also, you can re-click on the first country to deselect it. The ratio of the larger country's land area to the smaller country's will be shown and you will get up to 100 points. 100 points corresponds to the smallest area ratio, 0 points to the largest ratios (there may be multiple pairs with 0 if they are far away from the smallest ratio). Those two countries will then be replaced with their score and you will now choose the pair with the smallest area ratio from the remaining 23 countries which have been adjusted to have 100 and 0 corresponding to the ratios among those 23, and so on until you run out of time or complete 12 pairs of countries leaving one left.

You get a 100 point bonus for completing all 12 pairs within 5 minutes, making for a total possible point total of 2500.

Upon clicking START you will be presented with a 5×5 table of World countries. The object of the quiz is to pair up countries two at a time which have the closest ratio of their populations (including dependent territories).

Single click on a country’s text and it will highlight red. To choose the other country of the pair click another country’s text. Also, you can re-click on the first country to deselect it. The ratio of the larger country’s population to the smaller country’s will be shown and you will get up to 100 points. 100 points corresponds to the smallest population ratio, 0 points to the largest ratios (there may be multiple pairs with 0 if they are far away from the smallest ratio). Those two countries will then be replaced with their score and you will now choose the pair with the smallest population ratio from the remaining 23 countries which have been adjusted to have 100 and 0 corresponding to the ratios among those 23, and so on until you run out of time or complete 12 pairs of countries leaving one left.

You get a 100 point bonus for completing all 12 pairs within 5 minutes, making for a total possible point total of 2500.

Upon clicking START you will be presented with a 7x7 grid of world countries.

The object of this quiz is to choose the top 3 in the given category for the countries shown in the grid. When you begin you’ll be given 49 different countries plus a category to name the top 3 in, which will display just above the grid. For example, if the category says ‘Top 3 Largest Area’ you are to click on the 3 countries with the largest area. If it says ‘Top 3 Smallest Max Elevation’ you are to click on the 3 countries whose max elevation is the lowest. You can deselect the first or second country you chose on by re-clicking it, but when you choose the 3rd country they will be submitted, removed from the grid, and you will get a score from 0-100 based on how close your set of 3 comes to the optimum set of 3 (which will be shown as a ‘Rank’ on top out of the # of possible sets of 3 for the last choice). When you’ve answered all 16 sets of 3 leaving only 1 country the quiz is over. You get a 200 point bonus for completing the sets making for a total possible score of 5000.

PLEASE NOTE – countries INCLUDED dependent territories EXCEPT for the ‘Highest/Lowest Mean Temp’ categories, which only applies to the ‘main’ portion of the country (i.e. no Greenland for Denmark for average temp).

This quiz is only available for hugequiz Premium members.