Five geography questions a day. The same five for every classroom on Earth.
A pin drops somewhere on the planet and the room has to name it. No multiple choice, no student accounts, nothing to install, and nothing about your students is collected. A two-minute warm-up that gets better the more days you run it.
Play today's five →How to run it in class
- Project it. Open globivia.pages.dev on the board and press Play today's five. The map flies to the spot; the question sits underneath.
- Everyone answers. Hands, whiteboards, or a shout — then you type the class's answer. Three attempts, and a hint ladder if the room is stuck. Every question ends with a short fact, so a miss teaches as much as a hit.
- Compare. The results screen shows the day's grid and, once enough people have finished, how your room did against everyone else who played today.
Students with their own devices can play on their own instead: the five are identical for everyone, so results are comparable across desks, classes and schools.
Why it fits a classroom
- No student accounts. The game is fully playable as a guest. Sign-in exists only for adults who want their streak on another device, or the full atlas for lesson prep.
- No personal data. Nothing a student does is tied to a name, an email, a device or an IP address. What is counted is a number per day, per country: how many people started, how many finished, how they scored.
- Same five, everywhere. The set changes at midnight UTC and is identical for the whole planet — a class in Chennai, Chicago and Cape Town can argue about the same volcano.
- Wide, not just capitals. Countries, capitals, rivers, volcanoes, landmarks, flags, currencies and languages. The currency and language cards are the ones that surprise a room.
The clock
A new five arrives at 00:00 UTC. In local terms that is the previous evening across the Americas and the early morning across Asia and Australia, so a morning class usually meets a set that is a few hours old and an afternoon class in the Americas meets a fresh one. The played-out screen shows a countdown to the next set.
| Europe (winter / summer) | midnight / 1 am |
| US East (winter / summer) | 7 pm / 8 pm the evening before |
| US West (winter / summer) | 4 pm / 5 pm the evening before |
| India | 5:30 am |
| Sydney (winter / summer) | 10 am / 11 am |
Lesson prep
Field Notes is the whole atlas — every place in the game with its fact and its spot on the map, plus flashcard review. It needs a Google sign-in, and it comes with one rule worth knowing: open it before you play a day's five and that day is spent, because the answers are in it. Play first, then study, and it costs nothing.
The share grid on the results screen never names a place, so it is safe to post to a class page without spoiling the day for the next period.
Questions, bugs, ideas
Globivia is one person's project. If a question is wrong, a name should be accepted and isn't, or something would make it more useful in your room, the feedback is genuinely wanted — the address is on the licences page alongside the map and flag credits.
Map data Natural Earth (public domain) · Flag artwork flag-icons (MIT) · Licences & attribution · Play