Prompt 1 of 7
Name a world capital city south of the equator
44 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Adamstown— Capital of the Pitcairn Islands, home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers and one of the least populated capitals on Earth.
85 ptsDeep Cut19 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Apia— Samoa's capital, deep in the South Pacific.
- Brazzaville
- Bujumbura
- Dili— East Timor's capital, just south of the line.
- Dodoma— Tanzania's official capital, roughly six degrees south.
- Funafuti
- Gitega
- Honiara
- Lilongwe
- Maseru
- Mbabane
- Moroni
- Nuku'alofa
- Port Louis
- Port Moresby
- Port Vila
- Sucre— Bolivia's constitutional capital, the one even quizmasters forget.
- Suva— Fiji's capital, out in the South Pacific.
- Victoria— Seychelles' capital, a shade south of the equator.
60 ptsRare13 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Antananarivo
- Asuncion
- Bloemfontein
- Gaborone
- Harare
- Kigali— Rwanda's capital, about two degrees south of the line.
- Kinshasa
- La Paz— Bolivia's seat of government, high in the Andes and well south.
- Luanda
- Lusaka
- Maputo
- Montevideo
- Windhoek
30 ptsSchooler6 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Brasilia
- Cape Town
- Lima
- Pretoria
- Santiago
- Wellington— New Zealand's capital, not Auckland.
15 ptsToo Clever3 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Jakarta— About six degrees south. The map-nerd flex, and yes it's south.
- Nairobi— Sits just over a degree south of the equator. The 'gotcha, it's actually south' pick.
- Quito— Named for the equator, sitting 13 arcminutes south of it. Technically counts and everyone knows it.
10 ptsPlankton2 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Buenos Aires
- Canberra— Australia's capital, and firmly in the southern hemisphere.