Krillion Answers for July 25, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Karelo-Finnish SSR— A sixteenth Soviet republic that existed from 1940 to 1956, then got quietly demoted and folded back into Russia. Everyone forgets it because there are only supposed to be fifteen.
• Transcaucasian SFSR— From 1922 to 1936, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia were fused into a single founding republic of the USSR. Three countries in a trench coat.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Moldova
• Uzbekistan

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Estonia
• Georgia
• Kazakhstan
• Latvia
• Lithuania

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Kyrgyzstan— The one everyone reaches for to prove they remember all fifteen. Spellings vary; smugness does not.

The most common answer on the board.

• Belarus
• Russia
• Ukraine

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Leaellynasaura— Named after the nine-year-old daughter of the paleontologists who found it. A little polar dinosaur with enormous eyes for seeing through months of winter dark.
• Megalosaurus— The first dinosaur ever named, in 1824, nearly two decades before the word 'dinosaur' existed. Victorian scientists reconstructed it as a giant shuffling lizard-bear.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Albertosaurus
• Amargasaurus
• Baryonyx
• Camarasaurus
• Carcharodontosaurus
• Coelophysis
• Cryolophosaurus
• Dreadnoughtus
• Edmontosaurus
• Elasmosaurus
• Eoraptor
• Gastonia
• Ichthyosaurus
• Liopleurodon
• Microraptor
• Minmi
• Muttaburrasaurus
• Nanotyrannus
• Nodosaurus
• Nothosaurus
• Ophthalmosaurus
• Ornithomimus
• Ouranosaurus
• Patagotitan
• Sauroposeidon
• Seismosaurus
• Sinosauropteryx
• Stygimoloch
• Suchomimus
• Supersaurus
• Tarbosaurus
• Titanosaurus
• Zuniceratops

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Argentinosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Ceratosaurus
• Corythosaurus
• Deinonychus
• Dilophosaurus
• Dimetrodon— Actually a synapsid, not a true dinosaur. You're forgiven.
• Gallimimus
• Giganotosaurus
• Hadrosaurus
• Kentrosaurus
• Maiasaura
• Mamenchisaurus
• Mosasaurus— A marine reptile, technically, but it starred in Jurassic World. Counts in spirit.
• Oviraptor
• Plesiosaur
• Protoceratops
• Pteranodon
• Quetzalcoatlus
• Scelidosaurus
• Styracosaurus
• Therizinosaurus
• Troodon
• Utahraptor

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Allosaurus
• Ankylosaurus
• Apatosaurus
• Diplodocus
• Iguanodon
• Pachycephalosaurus
• Parasaurolophus
• Spinosaurus

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Archaeopteryx— The 'well, actually, the first bird' pick. Feathered, famous, and exactly as predictable as it is smug.
• Compsognathus— The 'world's smallest dinosaur' pub-quiz factoid. Jurassic Park 2 made you think of it immediately.
• Megalodon— Not a dinosaur, a shark. The internet's favorite prehistoric creature still gets a pass for audacity.

The most common answer on the board.

• Brachiosaurus
• Pterodactyl— Technically a pterosaur, not a dinosaur, but nobody has ever won that argument at a child's birthday party.
• Stegosaurus
• Triceratops
• Tyrannosaurus rex
• Velociraptor

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Nduja— A spreadable, fiery Calabrian pork salume that melts straight into the sauce. The topping that makes pizza chefs' eyes light up.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Banana peppers
• BBQ sauce
• Burrata
• Caramelized onions
• Chorizo
• Clams
• Corn
• Egg
• Fig
• Hot honey
• Kimchi
• Meatballs
• Potato
• Pulled pork
• Red pepper flakes
• Shrimp
• Smoked salmon
• Tuna

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Artichokes
• Arugula
• BBQ chicken
• Broccoli
• Canadian bacon
• Capers
• Cheddar
• Eggplant
• Feta cheese
• Goat cheese
• Gorgonzola
• Parmesan
• Pesto
• Prosciutto
• Red onion
• Ricotta
• Roasted garlic
• Salami
• Sun-dried tomatoes
• Truffle
• Zucchini

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Anchovies
• Bacon
• Basil
• Bell peppers
• Chicken
• Garlic
• Ground beef
• Ham
• Jalapeños
• Olives
• Onions
• Spinach
• Tomatoes

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Pineapple— The most divisive topping in history. The school is constitutionally required to submit this.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cheese
• Mushrooms
• Pepperoni
• Sausage

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Detectorists— A quiet BBC gem about two men, their metal detectors, and the gentle art of finding nothing. Routinely voted the most underrated sitcom ever made.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 2 Broke Girls
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• A.P. Bio
• Absolutely Fabulous
• ALF
• Archer
• Better Off Ted
• Bewitched
• Black-ish
• BoJack Horseman
• Bored to Death
• Dad's Army
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Drake & Josh
• Enlisted
• Everybody Hates Chris
• Family Ties
• Father Ted
• George Lopez
• Good Times
• Green Wing
• Hannah Montana
• Laverne & Shirley
• Martin
• Mork & Mindy
• NewsRadio
• Night Court
• Only Murders in the Building
• Raising Hope
• Red Dwarf
• Rutherford Falls
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Spaced
• Superstore
• Taxi
• That's So Raven
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• The Facts of Life
• The Inbetweeners
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Abbott Elementary
• All in the Family
• American Dad
• Arrested Development
• Barry
• Black Books
• Blackadder
• Bob's Burgers
• Boy Meets World
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Derry Girls
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Family Guy
• Family Matters
• Fawlty Towers
• Futurama
• Gavin and Stacey
• Ghosts
• Gilligan's Island
• Home Improvement
• iCarly
• King of the Hill
• Leave It to Beaver
• Malcolm in the Middle
• Married with Children
• Mr. Bean
• Only Fools and Horses
• Peep Show
• Rick and Morty
• Roseanne
• Sanford and Son
• Saved by the Bell
• Schitt's Creek
• Silicon Valley
• South Park
• Ted Lasso
• The Andy Griffith Show
• The Brady Bunch
• The Cosby Show
• The Good Place
• The Honeymooners
• The IT Crowd
• The Jeffersons
• The King of Queens
• The Nanny
• The Simpsons
• Three's Company
• Veep
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Young Sheldon

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• 30 Rock
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Cheers
• Community
• Frasier
• Full House
• How I Met Your Mother
• I Love Lucy
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• M*A*S*H
• Modern Family
• New Girl
• Parks and Recreation
• Scrubs
• That '70s Show
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• The Golden Girls
• Two and a Half Men
• Will & Grace

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Get Smart— Would you believe this is the 'I'm older than you' flex of the whole school?
• Happy Days— You jumped the shark picking this one. Lovingly.

The most common answer on the board.

• Friends
• Seinfeld
• The Office

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• APL— Invented by Ken Iverson with its own symbol alphabet, so dense that a full sorting program fits in one line. Keyboards had to be specially made to type it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• ActionScript
• ALGOL
• Awk
• Befunge
• Chef— Programs written as cooking recipes. CAN HAZ FACTORIAL?
• CoffeeScript
• Crystal
• D
• Elm
• Emojicode
• Forth
• Groovy
• HolyC— Terry Davis built TempleOS, an entire operating system, in his own homemade language. Programming's strangest solo achievement.
• Intercal
• Logo
• LOLCODE
• Malbolge— Designed to be impossible to write. The first functional program took two years.
• Mojo
• Nim
• OCaml
• Ook!
• Piet
• PostScript
• Racket
• Raku
• Rockstar
• SAS
• Shakespeare— A language where variable assignments look like Shakespearean monologues.
• Simula
• Solidity
• Tcl
• Unlambda
• Velato
• Zig

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Ada
• Assembly
• Bash
• BASIC
• Clojure
• COBOL
• Dart
• Elixir
• Erlang
• F#
• Fortran
• Haskell
• Julia
• Lisp
• Lua
• Objective-C
• Pascal
• Perl
• PowerShell
• Prolog
• Scala
• Scheme
• Scratch
• Smalltalk
• Visual Basic

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• C
• C#
• C++
• Go
• Kotlin
• MATLAB
• PHP
• R
• Ruby
• Rust
• SQL
• Swift
• TypeScript

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Brainfuck— The programmers' smug picks-at-parties language. The school coded 'Hello World' in it for exactly this moment.
• Whitespace— A language where only spaces, tabs, and newlines matter. You are insufferably delighted by this, and fairly so.

The most common answer on the board.

• Java
• JavaScript
• Python

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Tug of war— A full medal event on the Olympic athletics programme from 1900 to 1920. At the 1908 Games the podium was swept by three British police teams, pulling in their regulation boots.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 10km race walk
• 200 metres hurdles
• 3000 metres
• 3000 metres team race
• 5 mile run
• 56-pound weight throw
• 60 metres
• 80 metres hurdles
• Cross country running
• Marathon race walk mixed relay
• Medley relay
• Mixed relay
• Pentathlon for women
• Standing high jump
• Standing triple jump

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• 10000 metres
• 3000 metres steeplechase
• 5000 metres
• 50km race walk
• Heptathlon
• Pentathlon
• Standing long jump

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• 100 metres hurdles
• 110 metres hurdles
• 1500 metres
• 200 metres
• 400 metres
• 400 metres hurdles
• 4x100 metres relay
• 4x400 metres relay
• 800 metres
• Decathlon
• Discus throw
• Hammer throw
• Javelin throw
• Pole vault
• Shot put
• Triple jump

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• 20km race walk— The funny-walk giggle pick. Yes, it's a real event; no, you're not the first to smirk while typing it.

The most common answer on the board.

• 100 metres
• High jump
• Long jump
• Marathon

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Boab nut— Fruit of the baobab, a tree that can live for well over a thousand years and still bear crops. The powdery pulp around the seeds tastes faintly of cream of tartar.
• Mongongo nut— A Kalahari staple that fed the San people for seven thousand years. The shells are so tough that foragers happily collect the nuts after elephants have eaten the fruit and passed them, intact.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Baru nut
• Bunya nut
• Chilgoza nut
• Gevuina nut
• Monkey puzzle nut
• Pili nut
• Sacha inchi
• Sandalwood nut
• Sapucaia nut
• Shea nut
• Tigernut
• Tonka bean

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Acorn
• Beechnut
• Betel nut
• Black walnut
• Breadnut
• Butternut
• Candlenut
• Ginkgo nut
• Hickory nut
• Lotus seed
• Nutmeg— Technically the seed of a tropical evergreen, but it has 'nut' right there in the name. We are reasonable people.
• Water chestnut

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Brazil nut
• Chestnut
• Coconut
• Hazelnut
• Macadamia
• Pecan
• Pine nut
• Pistachio

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Kola nut— The trivia-night caffeine source that everyone's heard is in the original Coca-Cola. First pick for anyone who's been to a quiz night.

The most common answer on the board.

• Almond
• Cashew
• Peanut
• Walnut