Prompt 1 of 7
Name a strait (a narrow sea passage between two landmasses)
58 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Golden Gate— The strait came first: the mile-wide gap where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific, named in 1846 before a single cable was spun. The bridge is just wearing its name.
- Strait of Tartary— Between Sakhalin Island and mainland Russia. For decades, cartographers weren't sure if it was a strait or if Sakhalin was a peninsula. Ships had to find out the hard way.
85 ptsDeep Cut27 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Cabot Strait
- Davis Strait
- Denmark Strait
- Fram Strait
- Great Belt
- Hecate Strait
- Karimata Strait
- Kattegat
- La Perouse Strait
- Lombok Strait
- Makassar Strait
- Menai Strait
- Mona Passage
- Nares Strait
- Northumberland Strait
- Singapore Strait
- Skagerrak
- Solent
- Strait of Belle Isle
- Strait of Georgia
- Strait of Tiran
- Sunda Strait
- Surigao Strait
- The Narrows
- Vella Gulf
- Windward Passage
- Yucatan Channel
60 ptsRare17 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Bab-el-Mandeb
- Beagle Channel
- Dardanelles
- Hudson Strait
- Juan de Fuca Strait
- Korea Strait
- Luzon Strait
- Mozambique Channel
- Oresund
- Palk Strait
- Strait of Bonifacio
- Strait of Kerch
- Strait of Messina
- Strait of Otranto
- Strait of Sicily
- Taiwan Strait
- Tsugaru Strait
30 ptsSchooler9 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Bass Strait
- Cook Strait
- Drake Passage
- English Channel
- Strait of Florida
- Strait of Hormuz
- Strait of Magellan
- Strait of Malacca
- Torres Strait
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Bosphorus— Where Europe meets Asia. The geography flex everyone reaches for to sound worldly. The school has crossed it in its mind.
10 ptsPlankton2 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Bering Strait
- Strait of Gibraltar