Reading a flag and producing a name is one skill. Seeing “Paraguay” or “Luxembourg” in type and pointing at the right cloth is another. The country flag quiz reverses the usual flag quiz so the prompt is a name and the answers are four flag images from flagcdn.com. Keyboard 1–4 still maps to the four plates. Screen readers get the country names on those images; sighted players have to look.
Twelve questions make a round. The pool is the 193 UN members unless you include territories. That toggle is not a hidden “hard mode.” It is a separate list of observers and dependencies, called out on the board so you know you have left the membership. Best score, longest streak, and a perfect-round time stay in this browser. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is ranked against strangers.
This drill exposes a common cheat: people remember a color story (“Poland is white over red”) and then fail when Indonesia sits next to it, or they know Australia has stars and still click New Zealand. Four flags at once force a comparison instead of a slogan. If two plates look illegal, read the similar-flags essay after the round. It is original editorial, not a scraped list of “fun facts.”
Play is immediate. The first country name is on the board when the page finishes loading. There is no mascot, no combo multiplier, no claim that a high score implies anything medical or intellectual. It is adult geography trivia: keep the atlas honest, keep the clock visible, and drill until Luxembourg’s blue is obviously not the Netherlands.