World Capitals Quiz

The world capitals quiz highlights one country at a time on a world map and asks you to pick its capital from four choices — 43 major countries spanning every inhabited continent. It is built around the capitals people actually argue about at trivia night. Everyone knows Paris and Tokyo; the quiz finds out whether you know that Canberra, not Sydney, is Australia's capital, that Ottawa outranks Toronto, that Brazil's capital is the purpose-built Brasilia rather than Rio, and that Turkey's is Ankara, not Istanbul. Africa and Asia supply the real difficulty spikes — Nigeria moved its capital to Abuja, Kazakhstan's is Astana, and South Africa's executive capital is Pretoria. Seeing the country highlighted on the map as you answer anchors each capital to a real location, which is exactly why map-based capital quizzes beat flashcards for retention. Wrong answers reveal the correct capital instantly, so a full round is also a complete study session. Retake it until the trick questions stop being tricky.