Farflung Answers · Expedition #14 (2026-10-18)

Prompt 1 of 5

Pin a country whose film industry has a one-word nickname ending in -wood

Ruling note: A -wood name for a city's, a studio's or one language's films counts: Bollywood is Hindi cinema, and Hillywood is both Hilversum's studios and Rwanda's films. Two-word names such as Turkish Hollywood do not. Peru's Chollywood and Saudi Arabia's Sollywood count as close calls.

Gem note: Rwanda is the land of a thousand hills, so its film festival and film scene became Hillywood.

37 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
India	Common	33.9%
United States	Uncommon	21.9%
Nigeria	Rare	6%
Pakistan	Rare	5%
New Zealand	Rare	3%
Bangladesh	Rare	2.5%
China	Rare	2.5%
United Kingdom	Rare	2.5%
Canada	Elusive	2%
South Korea	Elusive	2%
Saudi Arabia	Elusive	2%
Ghana	Elusive	1.5%
Kenya	Elusive	1.5%
Russia	Elusive	1.5%
Uganda	Elusive	1.5%
Australia	Elusive	1.2%
Nepal	Elusive	1.2%
South Africa	Elusive	1%
Tanzania	Elusive	0.8%
Cameroon	Elusive	0.6%
Germany	Elusive	0.6%
Morocco	Elusive	0.6%
Sweden	Elusive	0.5%
France	Farflung	0.4%
Afghanistan	Farflung	0.3%
Cyprus	Farflung	0.3%
Hungary	Farflung	0.3%
Kazakhstan	Farflung	0.3%
Liberia	Farflung	0.3%
Sri Lanka	Farflung	0.3%
Malawi	Farflung	0.3%
Netherlands	Farflung	0.3%
Peru	Farflung	0.3%
Rwanda	Farflung	0.3%
Sierra Leone	Farflung	0.3%
Somalia	Farflung	0.3%
Zimbabwe	Farflung	0.3%

Prompt 2 of 5

Pin a country where the Vikings built a settlement

Ruling note: Their homelands count, and Greenland and the Faroe Islands are Denmark. The Normans of Sicily came later, so Italy does not. Portugal counts for the disputed scholarly case for Norse settlers in the Azores around 700–850. Estonia also counts as a close call: researchers suggest a possible Scandinavian settlement near Salme, but it has not been established.

Gem note: Hedeby, one of the great Viking trading towns, lay in Danish Schleswig, which Denmark lost in 1864.

19 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
Norway	Common	31.2%
Denmark	Uncommon	18.7%
Sweden	Uncommon	16.6%
United Kingdom	Rare	7.3%
Iceland	Rare	7.3%
Ireland	Rare	4.2%
France	Rare	3.1%
Russia	Rare	2.6%
Canada	Rare	2.1%
Türkiye	Rare	2%
Ukraine	Elusive	1%
Estonia	Elusive	0.8%
Netherlands	Elusive	0.5%
Poland	Elusive	0.5%
Belarus	Elusive	0.4%
Germany	Farflung	0.4%
Finland	Elusive	0.4%
Latvia	Elusive	0.4%
Portugal	Elusive	0.4%

Prompt 3 of 5

Pin a country where snow leopards live in the wild

Ruling note: Twelve countries share the snow leopard’s mountains. Myanmar’s far north looks right for them, but none has been confirmed there.

Gem note: Uzbekistan is mostly desert, but the mountains on its borders with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan hold about a hundred snow leopards.

12 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
Nepal	Common	37.6%
India	Uncommon	17.6%
China	Uncommon	15.1%
Mongolia	Rare	7.5%
Russia	Rare	7.5%
Pakistan	Rare	6.3%
Bhutan	Elusive	1.9%
Kazakhstan	Elusive	1.9%
Kyrgyzstan	Elusive	1.5%
Afghanistan	Elusive	1.3%
Tajikistan	Elusive	1.3%
Uzbekistan	Farflung	0.6%

Prompt 4 of 5

Pin a country that runs a research station in Antarctica

Ruling note: Summer-only stations count, and so do Turkey’s camp and the Dutch lab at Britain’s Rothera. Romania’s lease of Law Base ended in 2015. Pakistan is an exception for its established Jinnah station, with reactivation still an objective of its Antarctic programme. The United Arab Emirates counts for its laboratory at Bulgaria’s base on Livingston Island, opened in February 2026.

Gem note: Russia kept every Soviet station, so Ukraine had none until Britain handed it one.

33 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
United States	Common	25.1%
Russia	Uncommon	11.6%
United Kingdom	Uncommon	9.7%
Australia	Rare	7.7%
Argentina	Rare	5.8%
Chile	Rare	5.8%
New Zealand	Rare	4.8%
Norway	Rare	3.9%
China	Rare	3.4%
France	Rare	3.4%
Germany	Rare	2.4%
Japan	Rare	2.4%
India	Rare	2.1%
Pakistan	Rare	2.1%
South Africa	Elusive	1.9%
Brazil	Elusive	1.2%
Italy	Elusive	1.2%
South Korea	Elusive	1%
Spain	Elusive	0.6%
Belgium	Elusive	0.5%
Poland	Elusive	0.5%
Finland	Elusive	0.4%
Sweden	Elusive	0.4%
Netherlands	Elusive	0.3%
Peru	Elusive	0.3%
Türkiye	Elusive	0.3%
Ukraine	Farflung	0.3%
Uruguay	Elusive	0.3%
United Arab Emirates	Elusive	0.2%
Ecuador	Elusive	0.2%
Bulgaria	Farflung	0.1%
Czechia	Farflung	0.1%
Belarus	Farflung	0.1%

Prompt 5 of 5

Pin a country with a Paris Baguette bakery today

Ruling note: A Korean chain, whatever its name says, and Paris has its own shops too. Thailand's and Brunei's were announced but have not opened.

Gem note: It reached Ulaanbaatar in 2025, through a deal its Chinese arm made with a Mongolian firm.

14 accepted answers
Country	Tier	Pick share
France	Common	38.5%
South Korea	Uncommon	24.2%
United States	Uncommon	13.2%
Canada	Rare	4.4%
China	Rare	4.4%
United Kingdom	Rare	4.4%
Singapore	Rare	2.8%
Vietnam	Rare	2.8%
Indonesia	Elusive	1.3%
Philippines	Elusive	1.3%
Malaysia	Elusive	1.1%
Cambodia	Farflung	0.7%
Laos	Farflung	0.4%
Mongolia	Farflung	0.4%