Geography · Country and city anagrams
Place Anagrams Trivia Quiz
Map Scramble SWAN BOAT? BANGLE DASH? Every letter of a country or famous city, rearranged into a phrase. Unscramble the map.
107 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Place Anagrams Trivia Quiz has 107 questions: 38 easy, 43 medium and 26 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 107 Country and city anagrams questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Unscramble the country: PLANE (1 word, Asia)
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Nepal
Nepalis call Mount Everest 'Sagarmatha', meaning 'Forehead of the Sky'.
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Unscramble the country: ALSO (1 word, Asia)
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Laos
Its Plain of Jars is scattered with hundreds of giant ancient stone jars, probably once used for burials.
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Unscramble the country: PURE (1 word, South America)
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Peru
Potatoes were first farmed in the Andes of southern Peru, and over 4,000 kinds exist today.
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Unscramble the country: A HUNGRY (1 word, Europe)
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Hungary
Lake Balaton, Central Europe's largest lake, is the country's favourite summer beach.
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Unscramble the country: COLD ANTS (1 word, Europe)
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Scotland
St Andrews, the 'Home of Golf', has the oldest golf course in the world.
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Unscramble the country: HAND TAIL (1 word, Asia)
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Thailand
It was called Siam until 1939; the new name is often said to mean 'land of the free'.
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Unscramble the country: MAIN VET (1 word, Asia)
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Vietnam
It is the world's second-biggest coffee grower, after Brazil.
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Unscramble the country: CAN MOO (1 word, Europe)
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Monaco
It is the most densely packed country on Earth: nearly 20,000 people per square km.
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Unscramble the city: GOALS (1 word, Nigeria)
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Lagos
It was Nigeria's capital until 12 December 1991, when the purpose-built city of Abuja took over.
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Unscramble the capital: WHEN IDLE (2 words, India)
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New Delhi
It was planned by Edwin Lutyens, yet of its famous 'Lutyens bungalows' he designed only four himself.
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Unscramble the country: HOUR SAND (1 word, Central America)
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Honduras
Its Maya city of Copán has a stairway carved with about 2,200 glyphs, the longest known Maya text.
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Unscramble the country: IGUANA CAR (1 word, Central America)
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Nicaragua
Bull sharks swim up the San Juan River from the Caribbean into its huge freshwater lake.
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Unscramble the country: ROAD CUE (1 word, South America)
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Ecuador
Its Galápagos Islands, with their giant tortoises, helped Charles Darwin form his theory of evolution.
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Unscramble the country: SAMBA, AH (1 word, Caribbean)
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Bahamas
It is made up of about 700 islands, but people live on only around 30 of them.
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Unscramble the country: BANGLE DASH (1 word, South Asia)
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Bangladesh
Its Cox's Bazar beach runs for about 120 km, one of the longest natural sea beaches on Earth.
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Unscramble the country: REIGN (1 word, Africa)
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Niger
It is named after the Niger River, which also gave its big southern neighbour Nigeria its name.
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Unscramble the country: CACTI SOAR (2 words, Central America)
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Costa Rica
It abolished its army on 1 December 1948 and has had no standing army ever since.
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Unscramble the city: MAGIC BRED (1 word, England)
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Cambridge
Its university began in 1209, when groups of scholars gathered at this old Roman trading post to study.
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Unscramble the city: SONG IDEA (2 words, California)
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San Diego
Comic-Con began here in 1970 as a small fan meet. It now draws over 130,000 people a year.
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Unscramble the city: MOBILE ART (1 word, Maryland)
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Baltimore
Fans voted in 1996 to name its NFL team the Ravens, after Edgar Allan Poe's poem. Poe is buried in the city.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Place Anagrams Trivia Quiz?
107. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
Can I play the Place Anagrams Trivia Quiz with friends online?
Yes. Start a room with this quiz, share the room code or link, and 2 to 12 players join from the Braggit app or any browser. You can also play it solo.
Is the Place Anagrams Trivia Quiz free?
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Do I have to spell the answers exactly?
No. You type your answers, and Braggit accepts close spellings, so a small typo still scores.
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