Video Quiz (Beta): guess the country from a real video Beta

How Video Quiz works

Each round starts a real video, muted, showing a first-person walk or drive through a real place. Four country names appear below it. Your job is to recognise where you are from what's actually in frame: architecture, signage, vehicles, the side of the road people drive on, the plants, the light. A score starts at 100 points for the round and drops by 10 every 10 seconds that pass before you answer, so a fast, confident guess is worth more than a slow, careful one -- the tension between watching for more clues and answering before the score bottoms out is the entire game.

If you'd rather play something without a ticking clock, Flag Quiz, Map Quiz and Capital Quiz are all untimed.

Why this is a Beta, honestly

Two specific things are unfinished, and we'd rather say so plainly than let you discover them mid-game. First, the clip library currently has 15 videos, hand-checked one at a time rather than pulled in automatically, so you'll see repeats faster than in the other three games' much larger question pools. Second, and more importantly: several of the videos have the country or city named directly in their own title or thumbnail, visible in the YouTube player itself. We tried to prioritise clips that don't give it away, but for this style of travel video almost every creator names the location in their title for their own channel's benefit, and there's currently no way to hide a video's title inside an embedded YouTube player. If you want the fairest possible round, try not to read the title before guessing.

Both limitations are about growing the library and, eventually, showing cleaned-up clips with the title hidden until after you answer -- not about the game mechanic itself, which is complete and working today.

Where the videos come from

Every clip is a real video from a real travel or walking-tour creator on YouTube, shown through YouTube's own official embedded player -- WorldQuizr does not download, re-host, or edit any footage. Credit for every video stays fully visible in the player itself (title, channel name, and a link back to YouTube), exactly as YouTube's own rules for embedded players require. We only choose which existing public videos to feature; none of the footage is ours.

Tips for reading a travel video fast

A handful of visual clues do most of the work once you know to look for them. License plates and their colour/shape are one of the fastest tells if the camera catches a parked or passing car. Which side of the road traffic drives on narrows things down to roughly half the world's countries immediately. Shop signs and street signs reveal the language and often the script (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, or an East or South Asian script) well before you can read a single word. Architecture style, plant life, and the quality of the light (harsh tropical midday sun vs. soft northern-latitude light) are slower clues but useful if the first three don't narrow it down enough before the score runs low.

• License plates: colour, shape and any visible text style
• Which side of the road vehicles drive on
• Shop and street signs: language and script
• Architecture, plant life and quality of light as slower back-up clues

How a round works here

Each Video Quiz session is ten rounds, drawn from the current 15-clip library with no repeats within a single session. A correct guess adds whatever the round's ticking score happened to be the moment you answered; a miss reveals the correct country and adds nothing, but never ends the session early. At the end of ten rounds you get the same results screen as the other three games: your total score, your accuracy, whether you beat your saved best, and a review list of anything you missed with the correct country named next to it.

Your best Video Quiz score is saved locally in your own browser, the same as the other three games -- see the privacy policy for exactly what that local storage does, and does not, touch.