Dive #2: October 10, 2026
The seven prompts of the October 10, 2026 daily dive, with every accepted answer and what it was worth.
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1. Name a hat…
75 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | gibus “The top hat that folds flat.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | busby, shako, bicorne, glengarry, balmoral, tarboosh, kufi, kippah, zucchetto, biretta, mitre, coonskin cap, opera hat, akubra, slouch hat, montera, chullo, papakha, karakul, pith helmet, sou’wester, eboshi, conical hat, hennin, wimple, capotain, bycocket, mob cap, snood, pakol, kolpik, gatsby cap, tyrolean hat, stovepipe hat, toque blanche, jingasa, kasa |
| Rare | 60 | fez, flat cap, deerstalker, pork pie hat, boater, homburg, pillbox hat, fascinator, cloche, turban, bonnet, tricorn, bearskin, mortarboard, kepi, ushanka, tam o’shanter, snapback, trucker hat, hard hat, sailor hat, nightcap, wizard hat, santa hat |
| Schooler | 30 | top hat, cowboy hat, beanie, beret, sombrero, bowler hat, sun hat, bucket hat, visor, panama hat, trilby |
| Too Clever | 15 | fedora “The internet’s favourite hat joke.” |
| Plankton | 10 | baseball cap “Backwards, usually.” |
2. Name a currency…
96 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | rai “Stone money from Yap, some too heavy to move.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | kyat, riel, tugrik, som, manat, lari, dram, denar, kuna, loti, lilangeni, pula, ouguiya, ariary, nakfa, gourde, balboa, quetzal, lempira, colón, córdoba, boliviano, guaraní, sol, bolívar, vatu, tala, paʻanga, kina, afghani, ngultrum, rufiyaa, pataca, escudo, peseta, drachma, deutsche mark, guilder, schilling, punt, florin, ducat, groat, denarius, obol, livre, thaler, ecu, lek, leone, dalasi, kwanza, metical, cfa franc, hong kong dollar, new taiwan dollar, zimbabwe dollar |
| Rare | 60 | krona, krone, rand, lira, dinar, dirham, riyal, baht, ringgit, rupiah, shekel, zloty, forint, koruna, lev, leu, hryvnia, tenge, kwacha, naira, cedi, shilling, birr, dong, kip, taka |
| Schooler | 30 | euro, pound, yen, yuan, rupee, peso, franc, ruble, won, real |
| Too Clever | 15 | bitcoin “Technically. Everyone’s cousin says so.” |
| Plankton | 10 | dollar “Pick a country.” |
3. Name a poet…
114 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | enheduanna “The first named author in history, c. 2300 BCE.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | sappho, ovid, virgil, horace, catullus, lucretius, pindar, hesiod, ferdowsi, hafez, omar khayyam, kabir, tulsidas, kalidasa, issa, buson, ono no komachi, saigyo, lorca, antonio machado, octavio paz, césar vallejo, fernando pessoa, camões, petrarch, ariosto, tasso, leopardi, montale, ungaretti, pushkin, akhmatova, mandelstam, tsvetaeva, mayakovsky, paul celan, hölderlin, heinrich heine, schiller, mickiewicz, szymborska, miłosz, cavafy, seferis, elytis, derek walcott, gwendolyn brooks, anne sexton, elizabeth bishop, wallace stevens, e. e. cummings, ezra pound, hart crane, william carlos williams, marianne moore, mary oliver, audre lorde, adrienne rich, li qingzhao, wang wei, bai juyi, yosano akiko, nizar qabbani, mahmoud darwish, forugh farrokhzad, faiz ahmed faiz, ghalib, allama iqbal |
| Rare | 60 | dante, rumi, sylvia plath, t. s. eliot, langston hughes, william blake, pablo neruda, john milton, alexander pope, geoffrey chaucer, w. b. yeats, dylan thomas, allen ginsberg, seamus heaney, ted hughes, tennyson, robert burns, samuel taylor coleridge, kipling, rilke, goethe, baudelaire, rimbaud, basho, li bai, du fu, tagore, john donne, christina rossetti, elizabeth barrett browning, robert browning, philip larkin, wilfred owen, carol ann duffy |
| Schooler | 30 | robert frost, emily dickinson, walt whitman, maya angelou, edgar allan poe, wordsworth, byron, keats, shelley |
| Too Clever | 15 | homer “Possibly several people.” |
| Plankton | 10 | shakespeare “Hath, thou, thee.” |
4. Name a lake…
88 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | lake vostok “Buried under nearly four kilometres of Antarctic ice.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | lake natron, lake turkana, lake kivu, lake albert, lake edward, lake volta, lake kariba, lake nasser, lake toba, lake biwa, lake inle, tonlé sap, lake sevan, lake urmia, lake balkhash, issyk-kul, lake khövsgöl, lake qinghai, lake poyang, lake taihu, lake manasarovar, lake pukaki, lake wakatipu, lake te anau, lake tekapo, lake torrens, lake atitlán, lake poopó, lake peipus, lake saimaa, lake inari, lake mjøsa, lake neusiedl, lake skadar, lake prespa, lake bangweulu, lake mweru, lake retba, lake hillier, lake athabasca, lake winnipeg, great bear lake, great slave lake, lake nipissing, lake kinneret |
| Rare | 60 | lake windermere, lake garda, lake constance, lake tanganyika, lake malawi, lake chad, lake maracaibo, great salt lake, lake champlain, lake placid, lake louise, lake balaton, lake lucerne, lake zurich, lake ladoga, lake onega, lake nicaragua, lake eyre, lake taupo, lake mead, lake powell, lake okeechobee, lake ohrid, lake bled, lake lugano, loch lomond, lough neagh, lake pontchartrain, lake havasu, crater lake |
| Schooler | 30 | lake michigan, lake victoria, loch ness, lake geneva, lake erie, lake huron, lake ontario, lake tahoe, lake como, lake baikal |
| Too Clever | 15 | lake titicaca “Highest navigable lake. Every quiz says so.” |
| Plankton | 10 | lake superior “The biggest Great Lake.” |
5. Name a cocktail…
81 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | ramos gin fizz “Legendarily shaken for twelve minutes.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | aviation, last word, corpse reviver, clover club, bramble, penicillin, paper plane, jungle bird, zombie, painkiller, hurricane, planter’s punch, bee’s knees, blood and sand, brandy alexander, grasshopper, stinger, vieux carré, pisco sour, bijou, martinez, rob roy, godfather, vesper, gibson, between the sheets, mary pickford, monkey gland, hanky panky, widow’s kiss, trinidad sour, naked and famous, sex on the beach, hot toddy, irish coffee, b-52, mudslide, kir royale, black velvet, buck’s fizz |
| Rare | 60 | negroni, gin and tonic, tom collins, mint julep, sidecar, gimlet, aperol spritz, white russian, black russian, caipirinha, paloma, bellini, singapore sling, sea breeze, screwdriver, harvey wallbanger, rusty nail, french 75, americano, boulevardier, dark and stormy, espresso martini, amaretto sour, cuba libre |
| Schooler | 30 | mojito, martini, old fashioned, cosmopolitan, daiquiri, piña colada, bloody mary, manhattan, mai tai, whiskey sour, moscow mule, long island iced tea, tequila sunrise, mimosa |
| Too Clever | 15 | sazerac “The “oldest American cocktail.” Everyone cites it.” |
| Plankton | 10 | margarita “Salt on the rim.” |
6. Name a mathematician…
89 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | zu chongzhi “His value of pi stood as a record for about 900 years.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | brahmagupta, aryabhata, bhaskara, madhava, diophantus, eudoxus, pappus, ptolemy, liu hui, qin jiushao, seki takakazu, lobachevsky, bolyai, abel, jacobi, dedekind, kummer, weierstrass, g. h. hardy, littlewood, dirichlet, chebyshev, kolmogorov, mirzakhani, katherine johnson, grothendieck, jean-pierre serre, hamilton, boole, de morgan, napier, mandelbrot, conway, knuth, shannon, fourier, legendre, monge, hausdorff, banach, ulam, atiyah, penrose, thurston, smale, milnor, tarski, church, wiener |
| Rare | 60 | ada lovelace, emmy noether, hilbert, cantor, galois, john von neumann, kurt gödel, bernoulli, laplace, lagrange, cauchy, poincaré, hypatia, al-khwarizmi, kovalevskaya, sophie germain, terence tao, grigori perelman, andrew wiles, paul erdős, john nash, thales, zeno, apollonius, eratosthenes |
| Schooler | 30 | isaac newton, euclid, archimedes, gauss, euler, descartes, fibonacci, pascal, fermat, leibniz, riemann, alan turing |
| Too Clever | 15 | ramanujan “The 1729 story, every time.” |
| Plankton | 10 | pythagoras “Hypotenuse. Sorry.” |
7. Name a typeface…
85 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | doves type “Thrown into the Thames so a former partner could not have it.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | akzidenz-grotesk, univers, frutiger, myriad, minion, bembo, sabon, janson, perpetua, trajan, copperplate, clarendon, cooper black, bookman, memphis, eurostile, din, bauhaus, brush script, lobster, inter, fira sans, source sans, noto, ubuntu, menlo, monaco, andale mono, ocr-a, ocr-b, hoefler text, mrs eaves, fraktur, blackletter, vag rounded, peignot, bank gothic, neuland, news gothic, benton sans, proxima nova, montserrat, raleway, poppins, merriweather, playfair display, comic neue, lucida console, chaparral |
| Rare | 60 | baskerville, bodoni, caslon, palatino, gill sans, franklin gothic, century gothic, trebuchet, lucida, cambria, optima, rockwell, didot, avenir, gotham, roboto, open sans, lato, arial black, segoe ui, consolas, sf pro |
| Schooler | 30 | times new roman, helvetica, comic sans, calibri, verdana, georgia, courier, impact, garamond, tahoma, futura |
| Too Clever | 15 | papyrus “Avatar, and the internet never forgave it.” |
| Plankton | 10 | arial “Everyone’s default.” |
How are tiers decided? See Krillion scoring & tiers, or the tips guide for finding rarer answers.
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