Geography quiz
Daily Geography Quiz — 10 Questions, One Day, Everyone the Same
Every day at 00:00 UTC a new mixed board lands: 4 capitals, 3 flags, 3 silhouettes — dealt deterministically from the UTC date, so the whole planet plays the same ten questions. Finish, copy your green-square result card, come back tomorrow.
Ten questions. One day. Everyone the same.
Today's board deals 4 capitals, 3 flags and 3 country outlines — the same ten questions for everyone on Earth, generated on your device from the UTC date. Answer all ten, then copy your result card and challenge a friend.
How this tool works
- Every day (at 00:00 UTC) a new board of ten questions is dealt: 4 capitals, 3 flags and 3 country outlines — the same ten questions for everyone on Earth, wherever you play them.
- Each question offers four options. Capital questions ask for a country's capital, flag questions show a flag and ask for its country, and outline questions show a true-projection silhouette.
- Every pick is graded instantly with a light reveal: the flag comes back large with the country's continent and capital — the deep experiences (the flying globe, the free-guess hint loop) live in the three single quizzes.
- After ten questions you get your score and a copyable text result card — a green/white square grid plus the link — ready to paste into a chat. Your first completion of the day is recorded in your browser; a fresh board lands at 00:00 UTC.
Data & method
The daily board is generated on YOUR device from the same open dataset every GlobeVS tool uses — Natural Earth 1:110m country boundaries (public domain) joined with mledoze/countries metadata (ODbL), plus the silhouettes baked from those boundaries at build time and the public-domain flagcdn.com artwork frozen into this repository. The seed is the UTC date alone: everyone playing the same date on the same deployment gets the exact same ten questions, dealt deterministically (4 capitals from the capital-bearing countries, 3 flags from the ISO-coded countries, 3 outlines from the baked silhouettes, each pool shuffled under its own derived random stream). One honest caveat: the questions are dealt from the dataset as it exists TODAY, and past boards are not archived — when the dataset or the site is updated, a past date replayed later may deal a different board. Today is the same for everyone; history walks with the version. Your result is stored only in your browser (localStorage, one key per UTC date); the shareable result card is plain text you copy yourself — nothing is uploaded. The quiz itself is a JavaScript enhancement — without it you can still read the guide, the data note and the FAQ on this page, and the start panel above shows exactly what today's board deals.
Sources
Embed this tool
Add the daily quiz to your own site: paste the snippet below into your HTML and it loads the same interactive quiz inside an iframe, with a small non-removable “Powered by” attribution link back to this page. The embed is available in English.
<iframe src="https://globevs.com/embed/daily-quiz" width="800" height="600" title="Daily Geography Quiz — GlobeVS" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups"></iframe>FAQ
What time does the daily quiz change?
At 00:00 UTC every day — one fixed board of 10 questions per UTC date (4 capitals + 3 flags + 3 outlines). The seed is the date itself, not your timezone: a player in Auckland and a player in Lima who open the quiz during the same UTC day see the exact same ten questions, and the page shows which date you are playing.
Why is my board different from my friend's?
Almost certainly you played on different deployment versions. The board is dealt on your device from the dataset frozen into the site at build time, and the date seed picks the order — so everyone on the same deployment gets the same questions, but after a data or site update the dealing changes. Past boards are not archived: today is globally identical, history walks with the version. (If your friend's board differs while you are both on this site today, hard-refresh the page — a cached older version may still be open.)
How does this relate to the three single quizzes?
The daily challenge is the mixed-practice surface: ten questions a day, 175 capital-bearing countries, 174 flag-bearing countries and 174 silhouette-bearing countries in the underlying pools. It deliberately does not replace the singles — the Capital Quiz's flying globe reveal, the Flag Quiz's lookalike-flag distractors and the Outline Quiz's free-guess distance hints are the deep experiences, and each has unlimited reshuffled rounds. The daily board is the shared ritual; the singles are the practice grounds.
Where are my results stored? Is there a streak?
Only in your own browser, in localStorage — one key per UTC date, no account, no server, nothing leaves your device. Your FIRST completion of a day is the one recorded, so replaying cannot game the score. There is deliberately no streak counter today — just the per-day board and your best-ever round, also kept locally.
What do the colored squares in the result card mean?
One square per question, in play order: green means your pick was correct, white means it was wrong. The grid intentionally does NOT mark which questions were capitals, flags or outlines — an unfinished friend who sees your card learns nothing about today's board beyond your score.
Related
Want the deep version of the capital questions? The Capital Quiz flies its globe to every answer →
More flags? The Flag Quiz deals famous lookalike pairs (Chad/Romania…) on purpose →
Prefer shapes? The Outline Quiz lets you guess freely and pays distance hints →