Dive #31

Krillion Answers for August 15, 2026

All 7 prompts from this dive with every accepted answer ranked by rarity. Open a prompt page for its full breakdown and point values.

Prompt 1 of 7

Name a country whose name starts with B

18 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.

100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

  • BeninIts Dahomey kingdom fielded an all-female regiment into the 1890s.
85 ptsDeep Cut3 answers

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • BhutanTelevision and internet stayed banned there until 1999.
  • BruneiSultan Hassanal Bolkiah has reigned since 1967.
  • Burundi
60 ptsRare6 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • Bahrain
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • BurmaMyanmar's other name, still used by the US government, and it counts.
30 ptsSchooler5 answers

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

  • Bahamas
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Bolivia
  • Bulgaria
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer

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

  • Bosnia and HerzegovinaRuns a three-member rotating presidency, one per major ethnic group.
10 ptsPlankton2 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Belgium
  • Brazil

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Prompt 2 of 7

Name a marsupial

53 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.

100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

  • Monito del monteCloser kin to Australia's marsupials than to any American opossum.
85 ptsDeep Cut28 answers

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • Antechinus
  • Bare-tailed woolly opossum
  • Bettong
  • Cuscus
  • Diprotodon
  • Dunnart
  • Feathertail glider
  • Honey possum
  • Kowari
  • Kultarr
  • Leadbeater's possum
  • Mala
  • Marsupial lion
  • Marsupial mole
  • Mountain pygmy possum
  • Mulgara
  • Ningaui
  • Pademelon
  • Phascogale
  • Planigale
  • Potoroo
  • Rat kangaroo
  • Shrew opossum
  • Squirrel glider
  • Striped possum
  • Wallaroo
  • Water opossum
  • Yellow-bellied glider
60 ptsRare16 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • BandicootCrash says hi.
  • Bilby
  • Brushtail possum
  • Eastern grey kangaroo
  • Greater glider
  • Marsupial mouse
  • Numbat
  • Quoll
  • Red kangaroo
  • Ringtail possum
  • Rock wallaby
  • Short-tailed opossum
  • Sugar glider
  • Swamp wallaby
  • Tasmanian tiger
  • Tree kangaroo
30 ptsSchooler5 answers

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

  • Opossum
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Virginia opossum
  • Wallaby
  • Wombat
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer

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

  • QuokkaDutch sailors mistook them for rats and named Rottnest Island.
10 ptsPlankton2 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Kangaroo
  • Koala

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Prompt 3 of 7

Name an Italian dish

149 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.

100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

  • Casu marzuSardinian cheese served while the maggots inside are still alive.
85 ptsDeep Cut54 answers

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • 'Nduja
  • Agnolotti
  • Amaretti
  • Baccalà
  • Bagna cauda
  • Bistecca alla fiorentina
  • Bollito misto
  • Bombolone
  • Bresaola
  • Cacciucco
  • Caponata
  • Carciofi alla giudia
  • Cassata
  • Cioppino
  • Cotechino
  • Crostata
  • Fiori di zucca
  • Giardiniera
  • Gnudi
  • Granita
  • Grissini
  • Lampredotto
  • Mascarpone
  • Muffuletta
  • Paccheri
  • Pandoro
  • Panzerotti
  • Pasta all'assassinaBari's spaghetti cooked like a risotto and burnt on purpose.
  • Pasta alla gricia
  • Pasta alla Norma
  • Pasta e ceci
  • Pecorino romano
  • Piadina
  • Pici
  • Pizzelle
  • Ribollita
  • Risi e bisi
  • Semifreddo
  • Sfogliatella
  • Soppressata
  • Spaghetti al nero di seppia
  • Speck
  • Struffoli
  • Supplì
  • Taralli
  • Tartufo
  • Timpano
  • Torrone
  • Trippa alla romana
  • Trofie
  • Vermicelli
  • Vitello tonnato
  • Zabaglione
  • Zeppole
60 ptsRare56 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • Affogato
  • Aglio e olio
  • Amatriciana
  • Antipasto
  • Arancini
  • Arrabbiata
  • Braciole
  • Bucatini
  • Burrata
  • Calzone
  • Cannelloni
  • Capellini
  • Capicola
  • Carpaccio
  • Chicken cacciatore
  • Chicken francese
  • Chicken marsala
  • Chicken piccata
  • Cotoletta alla milanese
  • Crostini
  • Farfalle
  • Focaccia
  • Fritto misto
  • Fusilli
  • Gorgonzola
  • Italian beef
  • Italian wedding soup
  • Linguine alle vongole
  • Minestra
  • Mortadella
  • Orecchiette
  • Orzo
  • Osso buco
  • Panettone
  • Panini
  • Panna cotta
  • Panzanella
  • Pappardelle
  • Parmigiano Reggiano
  • Pasta e fagioli
  • Penne alla vodka
  • Polenta
  • Porchetta
  • Prosciutto e melone
  • Provolone
  • Puttanesca
  • Ricotta
  • Rigatoni
  • Saltimbocca
  • Sausage and peppers
  • Scaloppine
  • Shrimp fra diavolo
  • Spaghetti ai frutti di mare
  • Stracciatella
  • Tagliatelle
  • Zuppa toscana
30 ptsSchooler33 answers

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

  • Baked ziti
  • Biscotti
  • Bolognese
  • Bruschetta
  • Calamari
  • Cannoli
  • Caprese salad
  • Carbonara
  • Ciabatta
  • Eggplant Parmesan
  • Fettuccine Alfredo
  • Frittata
  • Garlic bread
  • Gelato
  • Gnocchi
  • Macaroni
  • Manicotti
  • Margherita pizza
  • Marinara
  • Minestrone
  • Mozzarella
  • Pasta al pomodoro
  • Pasta primavera
  • Pesto
  • Ravioli
  • Risotto
  • Salami
  • Shrimp scampi
  • Spaghetti and meatballs
  • Stromboli
  • Stuffed shells
  • Tiramisu
  • Tortellini
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers

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

  • Cacio e pepePecorino, black pepper, pasta water, and nothing else at all.
  • Chicken parmesanInvented by Italian immigrants in America, unknown in Italy itself.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Lasagna
  • Pizza
  • Spaghetti

Full rarity breakdown for this prompt →

Prompt 4 of 7

Name an official Disney Princess

13 accepted answers across 4 rarity tiers.

85 ptsDeep Cut1 answer

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • Raya
60 ptsRare2 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • Merida
  • Pocahontas
30 ptsSchooler6 answers

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

  • Aurora
  • Jasmine
  • Moana
  • Mulan
  • Rapunzel
  • Tiana
10 ptsPlankton4 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Ariel
  • Belle
  • Cinderella
  • Snow White

Full rarity breakdown for this prompt →

Prompt 5 of 7

Name a famous physicist

109 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.

100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

  • Henry CavendishA garden shed and a torsion balance gave Earth's mass.
  • Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharHe derived the white dwarf mass limit at nineteen, shipboard.
85 ptsDeep Cut53 answers

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • Abdus Salam
  • Albert Michelson
  • Andrea Ghez
  • Andrei Sakharov
  • Arno Penzias
  • Arthur Compton
  • Arthur Eddington
  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • Barry Barish
  • Brian Josephson
  • Carl David Anderson
  • Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
  • Chen-Ning Yang
  • Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Donna Strickland
  • Edward Witten
  • Émilie du Châtelet
  • Emmy NoetherConservation laws each trace to a symmetry, by her theorem.
  • Ernst Mach
  • François Englert
  • Frank Wilczek
  • Freeman Dyson
  • Fritz Zwicky
  • Georges Lemaître
  • Hans Bethe
  • Hendrik Lorentz
  • Henri Poincaré
  • Hideki Yukawa
  • Ibn al-Haytham
  • James Chadwick
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • John BardeenTwo physics Nobels, one for the transistor, one for superconductivity.
  • John Stewart Bell
  • John Wheeler
  • Josiah Willard Gibbs
  • Leo Szilard
  • Léon Foucault
  • Leon Lederman
  • Leonard Susskind
  • Lev Landau
  • Lise MeitnerHer collaborator took the 1944 Nobel for fission she explained.
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer
  • Max Born
  • Pyotr Kapitsa
  • Rainer Weiss
  • Robert Millikan
  • Satyendra Nath Bose
  • Sheldon Glashow
  • Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
  • Steven Weinberg
  • Thomas Young
  • Tsung-Dao Lee
  • William Shockley
60 ptsRare30 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • Alessandro Volta
  • André-Marie Ampère
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Brian Greene
  • C. V. Raman
  • Christiaan Huygens
  • Christian Doppler
  • Edward Teller
  • Enrico Fermi
  • Erwin Schrodinger
  • Georg Ohm
  • Heinrich Hertz
  • Henri Becquerel
  • J. J. Thomson
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • James Prescott Joule
  • Kip Thorne
  • Louis de Broglie
  • Ludwig Boltzmann
  • Michael Faraday
  • Murray Gell-Mann
  • Paul Dirac
  • Robert Hooke
  • Roger Penrose
  • Rosalind Franklin
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Vera Rubin
  • Wilhelm Röntgen
  • Wolfgang Pauli
30 ptsSchooler18 answers

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

  • Archimedes
  • Brian Cox
  • Carl Sagan
  • Edwin Hubble
  • Ernest Rutherford
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Lord Kelvin
  • Marie Curie
  • Max Planck
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Niels Bohr
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Peter Higgs
  • Pierre Curie
  • Richard Feynman
  • Sally Ride
  • Werner Heisenberg
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers

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

  • Michio KakuCo-founded string field theory before the television career.
  • Neil deGrasse TysonPluto lost planet status partly on his museum's say-so.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Albert Einstein
  • Isaac Newton
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • Stephen Hawking

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Prompt 6 of 7

Name a current or former MLB team

48 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.

100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

  • Seattle PilotsBankruptcy court sent them to Milwaukee after one 1969 season.
85 ptsDeep Cut10 answers

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • Boston AmericansTheir 1903 title was the first modern World Series.
  • Boston Beaneaters
  • Brooklyn DodgersJackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in this uniform, 1947.
  • Brooklyn Robins
  • Cincinnati Red Stockings
  • Cleveland Spiders
  • Houston Colt .45s
  • Kansas City Athletics
  • Montreal ExposCanada had two MLB teams until this one left in 2004.
  • New York HighlandersYankees only became the name in 1913.
60 ptsRare22 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • Arizona Diamondbacks
  • Baltimore Orioles
  • Boston Braves
  • Cincinnati Reds
  • Cleveland Guardians
  • Colorado Rockies
  • Detroit Tigers
  • Kansas City Royals
  • Milwaukee Braves
  • Milwaukee Brewers
  • Minnesota Twins
  • New York Giants
  • Philadelphia Athletics
  • Pittsburgh Pirates
  • San Diego Padres
  • Seattle Mariners
  • St. Louis Browns
  • Tampa Bay Devil Rays
  • Texas Rangers
  • Toronto Blue Jays
  • Washington Nationals
  • Washington Senators
30 ptsSchooler11 answers

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

  • Atlanta Braves
  • Chicago Cubs
  • Chicago White Sox
  • Houston Astros
  • Los Angeles Angels
  • Miami Marlins
  • New York Mets
  • Philadelphia Phillies
  • San Francisco Giants
  • St. Louis Cardinals
  • Tampa Bay Rays
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer

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

  • Oakland AthleticsDropped the city from their name entirely for the Sacramento years.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Boston Red Sox
  • Los Angeles Dodgers
  • New York Yankees

Full rarity breakdown for this prompt →

Prompt 7 of 7

Name a fabric or textile

99 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.

100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

  • VicunaAndean herders shear these wild camelids only every three years.
85 ptsDeep Cut26 answers

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

  • Acetate
  • Batiste
  • Buckram
  • Cambric
  • Charmeuse
  • Coir
  • Crinoline
  • Cupro
  • Damask
  • Drill
  • Dupioni
  • Grosgrain
  • Jacquard
  • Khadi
  • Lyocell
  • Melton
  • Organdy
  • Organza
  • Percale
  • Piqué
  • Ramie
  • Seersucker
  • Shantung
  • Ticking
  • Toile
  • Voile
60 ptsRare37 answers

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

  • Angora
  • Bouclé
  • Brocade
  • Canvas
  • Chambray
  • Chenille
  • Chiffon
  • Chintz
  • Corduroy
  • Crêpe
  • Duck cloth
  • Flannel
  • Fleece
  • Georgette
  • Gore-Tex
  • Herringbone
  • Jute
  • Kevlar
  • Lamé
  • Madras
  • Modal
  • Mohair
  • Moleskin
  • Muslin
  • Oilcloth
  • Oxford cloth
  • Poplin
  • Sateen
  • Shearling
  • Sisal
  • Spandex
  • Taffeta
  • Tartan
  • Tweed
  • Twill
  • Velveteen
  • Worsted
30 ptsSchooler30 answers

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

  • Acrylic
  • Alpaca
  • Bamboo fabric
  • Burlap
  • Calico
  • Cashmere
  • Cheesecloth
  • Denim
  • Felt
  • Gauze
  • Gingham
  • Hemp
  • Jersey
  • Knit fabric
  • Lace
  • Leather
  • Linen
  • Mesh
  • Microfiber
  • Neoprene
  • Nylon
  • Polyester
  • Rayon
  • Satin
  • Suede
  • Terry cloth
  • Velour
  • Velvet
  • Vinyl
  • Viscose
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers

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

  • GabardineThomas Burberry invented it in 1879 for weatherproof coats.
  • TulleNamed for Tulle, the French city that first machine-made it.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers

The most common answer on the board.

  • Cotton
  • Silk
  • Wool

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