Dive #6: October 14, 2026
The seven prompts of the October 14, 2026 daily dive, with every accepted answer and what it was worth.
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1. Name a kind of butterfly…
123 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | glasswing “Wings that look like tiny windows.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | black hairstreak, brown hairstreak, green hairstreak, white letter hairstreak, white admiral, wood white, cryptic wood white, brown argus, northern brown argus, silver studded blue, adonis blue, chalk hill blue, small blue, large blue, duke of burgundy, dark green fritillary, high brown fritillary, pearl bordered fritillary, small pearl bordered fritillary, silver bordered fritillary, marsh fritillary, glanville fritillary, heath fritillary, large heath, scotch argus, mountain ringlet, northern wall brown, chequered skipper, grizzled skipper, dingy skipper, small skipper, essex skipper, large skipper, silver spotted skipper, american lady, west coast lady, red spotted purple, eastern tiger swallowtail, western tiger swallowtail, black swallowtail, pipevine swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail, giant swallowtail, zebra swallowtail, cloudless sulphur, orange sulphur, clouded sulphur, eastern tailed blue, spring azure, summer azure, great spangled fritillary, gulf fritillary, julia butterfly, malachite butterfly, queen butterfly, soldier butterfly, common buckeye, anise swallowtail, australian painted lady, ulysses butterfly, common birdwing, rajah brooke's birdwing, queen alexandra's birdwing, golden birdwing, common rose, crimson rose, blue tiger, plain tiger, striped tiger, common jezebel, great eggfly, blue pansy, peacock pansy, lemon pansy, common mormon, common lime, common emigrant, common grass yellow, blue clipper, paper kite, emerald swallowtail, eighty eight butterfly, oakleaf butterfly, purple shot copper, sooty copper, large copper, geranium bronze, bath white, apollo butterfly, small apollo |
| Rare | 60 | large white, small white, green veined white, clouded yellow, speckled wood, meadow brown, gatekeeper, ringlet, small copper, holly blue, marbled white, wall brown, grayling, small heath, purple emperor, purple hairstreak, silver washed fritillary, mourning cloak, viceroy, zebra longwing |
| Schooler | 30 | red admiral, painted lady, cabbage white, peacock butterfly, swallowtail, brimstone, small tortoiseshell, orange tip, comma, common blue |
| Too Clever | 15 | blue morpho “That blue is hard to overlook.” |
| Plankton | 10 | monarch “The orange commuter.” |
2. Name a type of bread…
135 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | rugbraud “In Iceland, the earth can be the oven.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | injera, puri, bhatura, kulcha, bhakri, makki di roti, bajra roti, missi roti, tandoori roti, rumali roti, luchi, taftan, barbari, sangak, shirmal, khobz, batbout, msemen, kesra, taboon, laffa, markook, manakish, baladi bread, simit, bazlama, pide, yufka, somun, lepinja, pogaca, borodinsky bread, ruisleipa, rieska, limpa, tunnbrod, crispbread, lefse, lompe, bannock, damper, barmbrack, bara brith, malt loaf, tiger bread, cottage loaf, bloomer, cob loaf, stottie, scali bread, anadama bread, johnnycake, hoecake, biscuit, parker house roll, dinner roll, pretzel, kaiser roll, pain de campagne, pain au levain, pain de seigle, fougasse, pain d epi, pain viennois, pain brié, miche, pane carasau, pane guttiau, pane di altamura, pane toscano, pane pugliese, tigella, piadina, rosetta, grissini, taralli, friselle, pan de cristal, pan de candeal, mollete, broa, bolo do caco, papo seco, pao de queijo, pan de yuca, pandesal, monay, pan de coco, pan de agua, pan sobao, cuban bread, telera, bolillo, cemita, marraqueta, hallulla, arepa, casabe, coco bread, agege bread, tapalapa, sweet potato bread, pumpkin bread, zucchini bread, banana bread |
| Rare | 60 | challah, pumpernickel, soda bread, flatbread, roti, paratha, lavash, tortilla, english muffin, crumpet, brown bread, multigrain bread, granary bread, pullman loaf, milk bread, potato bread, garlic bread |
| Schooler | 30 | baguette, whole wheat bread, rye bread, pita, naan, ciabatta, focaccia, brioche, bagel, cornbread |
| Too Clever | 15 | sourdough “The starter gets all the attention.” |
| Plankton | 10 | white bread “The sandwich starts here.” |
3. Name a mineral or mineral group…
174 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | ulexite “A natural bundle of optical fibres.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | aragonite, anhydrite, barite, celestine, strontianite, siderite, rhodochrosite, smithsonite, witherite, cerussite, anglesite, wulfenite, molybdenite, stibnite, realgar, orpiment, bornite, chalcocite, covellite, enargite, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, marcasite, pyrrhotite, goethite, lepidocrocite, ilmenite, rutile, anatase, brookite, cassiterite, chromite, spinel, periclase, brucite, gibbsite, diaspore, boehmite, nepheline, leucite, sodalite, lazurite, hauyne, nosean, analcime, natrolite, stilbite, heulandite, chabazite, scolecite, mesolite, prehnite, epidote, zoisite, clinozoisite, vesuvianite, diopside, augite, enstatite, jadeite, spodumene, petalite, wollastonite, tremolite, actinolite, hornblende, riebeckite, glaucophane, serpentine, antigorite, lizardite, chrysotile, chlorite, clinochlore, chamosite, vermiculite, lepidolite, phlogopite, margarite, illite, montmorillonite, halloysite, dickite, pyrophyllite, kyanite, andalusite, sillimanite, staurolite, cordierite, dumortierite, zircon, titanite, monazite, xenotime, allanite, scheelite, wolframite, ferberite, hubnerite, uraninite, carnotite, autunite, torbernite, turquoise, variscite, vivianite, wavellite, lazulite, amblygonite, triphylite, lithiophilite, colemanite, borax, kernite, glauberite, thenardite, mirabilite, sylvite, carnallite, almandine, pyrope, spessartine, grossular, andradite, uvarovite, forsterite, fayalite, tephroite, dioptase, phenakite, benitoite, painite, taaffeite, grandidierite, serendibite, native gold, native silver, native copper, platinum |
| Rare | 60 | feldspar, orthoclase, albite, microcline, muscovite, biotite, olivine, garnet, topaz, corundum, beryl, tourmaline, apatite, malachite, azurite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, cinnabar, sulfur, kaolinite, dolomite |
| Schooler | 30 | diamond, calcite, gypsum, halite, graphite, talc, fluorite, hematite, magnetite, mica |
| Too Clever | 15 | pyrite “All that glitters may be iron sulfide.” |
| Plankton | 10 | quartz “The mineral hiding in almost every rock collection.” |
4. Name a painter who died before 2000…
176 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | giuseppe arcimboldo “His portraits put vegetables to work.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | artemisia gentileschi, caravaggio, tintoretto, paolo veronese, giotto di bondone, fra angelico, masaccio, piero della francesca, paolo uccello, andrea mantegna, giorgione, perugino, pontormo, parmigianino, agnolo bronzino, sofonisba anguissola, lavinia fontana, el greco, peter paul rubens, anthony van dyck, frans hals, jan steen, pieter de hooch, judith leyster, rachel ruysch, jan van eyck, hieronymus bosch, pieter bruegel the elder, albrecht durer, hans holbein the younger, lucas cranach the elder, matthias grunewald, hans memling, rogier van der weyden, nicolas poussin, claude lorrain, georges de la tour, jean antoine watteau, francois boucher, jean honore fragonard, jacques louis david, jean auguste dominique ingres, eugene delacroix, theodore gericault, gustave courbet, jean francois millet, camille corot, camille pissarro, alfred sisley, gustave caillebotte, georges seurat, paul signac, henri de toulouse lautrec, odilon redon, gustave moreau, paul klee, franz marc, august macke, egon schiele, oskar kokoschka, amedeo modigliani, chaim soutine, joan miro, max ernst, yves tanguy, giorgio de chirico, umberto boccioni, giacomo balla, kazimir malevich, el lissitzky, natalia goncharova, lyubov popova, alexandra exter, hilma af klint, sonia delaunay, robert delaunay, gabriele munter, paula modersohn becker, suzanne valadon, grant wood, thomas hart benton, john singer sargent, james mcneill whistler, winslow homer, thomas eakins, albert bierstadt, frederic edwin church, thomas cole, marsden hartley, charles demuth, charles sheeler, stuart davis, willem de kooning, mark rothko, barnett newman, franz kline, lee krasner, joan mitchell, eva gonzales, felix vallotton, edouard vuillard, pierre bonnard, ferdinand hodler, arnold bocklin, caspar david friedrich, philipp otto runge, william blake, henry fuseli, dante gabriel rossetti, john everett millais, william holman hunt, edward burne jones, ford madox brown, lawrence alma tadema, frederic leighton, john william waterhouse, nicholas roerich, ivan aivazovsky, ilya repin, isaac levitan, valentin serov, mikhail vrubel, boris kustodiev, vasily surikov, katsushika hokusai, utagawa hiroshige, kitagawa utamaro, ogata korin, ito jakuchu, sesshu toyo, qi baishi, zhang daqian, xu beihong, lin fengmian, pan yuliang, amrita sher gil, jamini roy, nandalal bose, raja ravi varma |
| Rare | 60 | paul cezanne, edgar degas, pierre auguste renoir, edouard manet, paul gauguin, georgia o keeffe, jackson pollock, edvard munch, gustav klimt, sandro botticelli, titian, francisco goya, diego velazquez, j m w turner, john constable, wassily kandinsky, piet mondrian, rene magritte, marc chagall, mary cassatt, berthe morisot, tamara de lempicka, diego rivera, edward hopper |
| Schooler | 30 | vincent van gogh, pablo picasso, claude monet, rembrandt van rijn, michelangelo buonarroti, raphael, johannes vermeer, frida kahlo, henri matisse, andy warhol |
| Too Clever | 15 | salvador dali “Even his moustache looked surreal.” |
| Plankton | 10 | leonardo da vinci “The Mona Lisa’s maker.” |
5. Name a real castle…
157 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | predjama castle “A castle with a cave for a back door.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | kenilworth castle, ludlow castle, arundel castle, deal castle, walmer castle, rochester castle, framlingham castle, bolsover castle, raby castle, warkworth castle, dunstanburgh castle, carisbrooke castle, pendennis castle, st mawes castle, tintagel castle, restormel castle, launceston castle, corfe castle, berry pomeroy castle, tutbury castle, peveril castle, denbigh castle, rhuddlan castle, flint castle, dolwyddelan castle, dolbadarn castle, raglan castle, kidwelly castle, chepstow castle, coch castle, dirleton castle, tantallon castle, craigmillar castle, blackness castle, doune castle, glamis castle, dunrobin castle, cawdor castle, dunvegan castle, dunnottar castle, duart castle, brodick castle, st andrews castle, lochleven castle, rothesay castle, dunluce castle, carrickfergus castle, trim castle, ross castle, cahir castle, ashford castle, donegal castle, drachenburg castle, lichtenstein castle, wartburg castle, nuremberg castle, marksburg castle, rheinstein castle, stolzenfels castle, cochem castle, schwerin castle, moritzburg castle, burghausen castle, trakai island castle, bled castle, ljubljana castle, bojnice castle, orava castle, karlstejn castle, cesky krumlov castle, hluboka castle, ksiaz castle, wawel castle, niedzica castle, hunyad castle, peles castle, bellver castle, alcazar of segovia, loarre castle, olite castle, manzanares el real castle, penafiel castle, guimaraes castle, obidos castle, almourol castle, castle of the moors, castel del monte, castello sforzesco, castelvecchio, fenis castle, gradara castle, torrechiara castle, castello aragonese, castello estense, castelgrande, montebello castle, sasso corbaro, olavinlinna, turku castle, hame castle, kalmar castle, gripsholm castle, orebro castle, kronborg castle, frederiksborg castle, rosenborg castle, akershus castle, matsumoto castle, kumamoto castle, matsue castle, hikone castle, inuyama castle, hirosaki castle, kochi castle, uwajima castle, marugame castle, bitchu matsuyama castle, nakagusuku castle, shuri castle, nottingham castle |
| Rare | 60 | stirling castle, urquhart castle, eilean donan castle, balmoral castle, alnwick castle, bamburgh castle, conwy castle, caernarfon castle, harlech castle, beaumaris castle, pembroke castle, cardiff castle, caerphilly castle, bunratty castle, blarney castle, kilkenny castle, dublin castle, chillon castle, hohenzollern castle, heidelberg castle, eltz castle, malbork castle, krak des chevaliers, castel sant angelo |
| Schooler | 30 | edinburgh castle, warwick castle, dover castle, tower of london, bran castle, prague castle, himeji castle, osaka castle, bodiam castle, leeds castle |
| Too Clever | 15 | neuschwanstein castle “A fairy-tale silhouette that actually exists.” |
| Plankton | 10 | windsor castle “Royal walls beside the Thames.” |
6. Name an island…
371 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | mykines “A Faroese island full of puffin neighbours.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | luzon, mindanao, palawan, cebu, bohol, leyte, samar, negros, panay, mindoro, lombok, sumbawa, flores, timor, sulawesi, halmahera, seram, buru, ambon, bangka, belitung, batam, bintan, nias, siberut, sakhalin, iturup, kunashir, okinawa, yakushima, tanegashima, tsushima, sado, awaji, amami oshima, jeju, ulleungdo, hainan, phu quoc, langkawi, penang, singapore, pulau ubin, sentosa, north island, south island, stewart island, waiheke, great barrier island, chatham island, kangaroo island, king island, flinders island, fraser island, bruny island, rottnest island, vanua levu, taveuni, tahiti, moorea, bora bora, raiatea, huahine, nuku hiva, hiva oa, rarotonga, aitutaki, niue, tongatapu, savaii, upolu, tutuila, guam, saipan, tinian, rota, pohnpei, kosrae, babeldaob, peleliu, koror, nauru, banaba, christmas island, norfolk island, lord howe island, pitt island, chiloe, isla grande de tierra del fuego, robinson crusoe island, navarino, wellington island, marajo, bananal island, itamaraca, ilha grande, sao sebastiao island, santa catarina island, san andres, providencia, coiba, margarita island, curacao, aruba, bonaire, hispaniola, puerto rico, antigua, barbuda, st kitts, nevis, montserrat, dominica, st lucia, st vincent, grenada, carriacou, anguilla, tortola, virgin gorda, anegada, st thomas, st john, st croix, grand cayman, cayman brac, little cayman, new providence, grand bahama, andros island, eleuthera, long island, nantucket, martha's vineyard, manhattan, staten island, galveston island, padre island, key west, santa catalina island, san clemente island, vancouver island, graham island, baffin island, ellesmere island, victoria island, banks island, devon island, axel heiberg island, southampton island, prince of wales island, kodiak island, unalaska, attu, adak, amchitka, st lawrence island, st matthew island, st paul island, shemya, unimak, san juan island, orcas island, whidbey island, guernsey, jersey, alderney, sark, herm, skye, mull, islay, jura, arran, bute, lewis and harris, north uist, south uist, benbecula, barra, tiree, coll, rum, eigg, canna, raasay, staffa, iona, orkney mainland, hoy, westray, sanday, rousay, south ronaldsay, shetland mainland, yell, unst, fetlar, foula, fair isle, anglesey, holy island, lundy, tresco, bryher, gotland, oland, bornholm, zealand, funen, langeland, mon, falster, lolland, saaremaa, hiiumaa, rugen, usedom, wolin, heligoland, sylt, amrum, fohr, texel, terschelling, ameland, vlieland, schiermonnikoog, madeira, porto santo, sao miguel, terceira, faial, pico, graciosa, sao jorge, corvo, tenerife, gran canaria, lanzarote, fuerteventura, la palma, la gomera, el hierro, mallorca, menorca, ibiza, formentera, elba, capri, ischia, procida, lipari, stromboli, vulcano, salina, pantelleria, lampedusa, gozo, comino, rhodes, corfu, lesbos, chios, samos, kos, patmos, mykonos, santorini, naxos, paros, milos, zakynthos, kefalonia, ithaca, lefkada, skiathos, skopelos, alonissos, aegina, hydra, spetses, poros, syros, tinos, karpathos, kalymnos, leros, symi, ikaria, thasos, samothrace, limnos, bozcaada, gokceada, socotra, zanzibar, pemba, mafia island, lamu, praslin, la digue, mahe, silhouette island, nosy be, anjouan, grande comore, moheli, mayotte, bioko, sao tome, principe, sal, boa vista, fogo, brava, sao vicente, santo antao, sao nicolau, maio, ascension island, st helena, tristan da cunha, gough island, bouvet island, grande terre kerguelen, possession island, south georgia, deception island, king george island, alexander island, ross island, berkner island |
| Rare | 60 | sri lanka, borneo, sumatra, java, new guinea, tasmania, newfoundland, honshu, hokkaido, kyushu, shikoku, taiwan, corsica, sardinia, crete, malta, isle of man, isle of wight, great bermuda, barbados, trinidad, tobago, mauritius, reunion, viti levu |
| Schooler | 30 | iceland, madagascar, great britain, ireland, sicily, cyprus, cuba, jamaica, bali, hawaii |
| Too Clever | 15 | easter island “Those stone faces are doing the remembering.” |
| Plankton | 10 | greenland “The big white patch on the map.” |
7. Name a chess opening or gambit…
146 accepted answers, from 10 to 100 points.
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| Tier | Points | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | polish opening “An opening with an orangutan alias.” |
| Deep Cut | 85 | colle system, colle zukertort system, torre attack, trompowsky attack, veresov opening, stonewall attack, king's indian attack, barcza system, nimzowitsch larsen attack, dunst opening, saragossa opening, van kruijs opening, mieses opening, anderssen opening, barnes opening, ware opening, clemenz opening, des prez opening, sodium attack, amar opening, modern defense, owen defense, english defense, st george defense, borg defense, hippopotamus defense, rat defense, baltic defense, chigorin defense, albin countergambit, elephant gambit, latvian gambit, halloween gambit, belgrade gambit, goring gambit, scotch gambit, urusov gambit, boden kieseritzky gambit, max lange attack, traxler counterattack, fried liver attack, lolli attack, deutz gambit, nakhmanson gambit, stafford gambit, leonhardt gambit, from's gambit, lisitsyn gambit, tennison gambit, englund gambit, blackburne shilling gambit, blackburne hartlaub gambit, jerome gambit, rousseau gambit, calabrese countergambit, alapin opening, damiano defense, carr defense, fred defense, cochrane gambit, colorado gambit, jaenisch gambit, marshall attack, milner barry gambit, wing gambit, smith morra gambit, staunton gambit, krejcik gambit, omega gambit, lundin defense, averbakh system, modern benoni, czech benoni, old benoni, old indian defense, semi slav defense, slav defense, queen's gambit accepted, queen's gambit declined, tarrasch defense, semi tarrasch defense, cambridge springs defense, meran variation, anti meran variation, accelerated dragon, dragon variation, hyperaccelerated dragon, najdorf variation, scheveningen variation, sveshnikov variation, kalashnikov variation, taimanov variation, kan variation, rossolimo variation, moscow variation, closed sicilian, alapin variation, grand prix attack, falkbeer countergambit, schallopp defense, abbazia defense, muzio gambit, bishop gambit, king's knight gambit, cunningham defense, bishop's opening, king's fianchetto opening, queen's pawn game, king's pawn game |
| Rare | 60 | petrov defense, pirc defense, alekhine defense, dutch defense, nimzo indian defense, queen's indian defense, grunfeld defense, bogo indian defense, benoni defense, benko gambit, budapest gambit, evans gambit, vienna game, bird's opening, reti opening, catalan opening, four knights game, two knights defense, philidor defense, ponziani opening, center game, danish gambit, grob opening, blackmar diemer gambit |
| Schooler | 30 | ruy lopez, italian game, french defense, caro kann defense, king's gambit, english opening, scotch game, london system, king's indian defense, scandinavian defense |
| Too Clever | 15 | queen's gambit “The opening with a television career.” |
| Plankton | 10 | sicilian defense “Black replies with a sideways ambition.” |
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