Dive #22

Thursday, August 6, 2026

456 official answers. Snapshot from Krillion's public reveal for this UTC date.

01 Name an African capital city
60 official answers · tap a tier to unblur
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Bloemfontein South Africa's judicial capital, the third seat everyone forgets alongside Pretoria and Cape Town.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 21
Asmara Bangui Banjul Bissau Bujumbura Djibouti City Dodoma Tanzania's real capital. Dar es Salaam gets all the credit. Gitega Burundi moved its political capital here in 2019. Almost nobody noticed. Libreville Lobamba Eswatini's royal and legislative capital, next to administrative Mbabane. Malabo Maseru Mbabane Moroni Nouakchott Port Louis Porto-Novo Praia Sao Tome Victoria Seychelles' capital, one of the smallest in the world. Yamoussoukro
Rare 60 pt · 20
Antananarivo Bamako Brazzaville Conakry Freetown Gaborone Harare Juba Kigali Lilongwe Lome Luanda Lusaka Maputo Mogadishu Monrovia Ndjamena Niamey Windhoek Yaounde
Schooler 30 pt · 12
Abuja Accra Addis Ababa Algiers Dakar Kampala Khartoum Kinshasa Pretoria Rabat Tripoli Tunis
Too Clever 15 pt · 3
Abidjan Ivory Coast's biggest city, but the official capital is Yamoussoukro. Cotonou Benin's seat of government, but the constitutional capital is Porto-Novo. Ouagadougou The fun-to-say pick. Burkina Faso's capital, and yes, everyone tries it.
Plankton 10 pt · 3
Cairo Cape Town One of three South African capitals. Close enough for the blurt crowd. Nairobi
02 Name a type of waterfowl
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Torrent duck Nests behind Andean waterfalls and swims in whitewater rapids. Peak waterfowl.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 19
American black duck Bar-headed goose Migrates over the Himalayas, higher than most helicopters can fly. Bewick's swan Cackling goose Garganey Harlequin duck Long-tailed duck Nene Pochard Ruddy duck Scoter Shelduck Smew Swan goose Tufted duck Tundra swan Whistling duck White-fronted goose Whooper swan
Rare 60 pt · 21
Barnacle goose Brant Bufflehead Canvasback Coot Egyptian goose Eider Gadwall Goldeneye Grebe Greylag goose Loon Merganser Moorhen Pintail Redhead Scaup Shoveler Snow goose Trumpeter swan Wigeon
Schooler 30 pt · 4
Muscovy duck Pekin duck Teal Wood duck
Too Clever 15 pt · 2
Black swan The market-crash metaphor bird. Yes, it counts, and yes we saw it coming. Mandarin duck The Instagram-famous pretty one. Everyone reaches for it.
Plankton 10 pt · 5
Canada goose Duck Goose Mallard Swan
03 Name a Mexican dish
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Escamoles Ant larvae, sometimes called 'Mexican caviar.' The trench floor of the taqueria.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 21
Aguachile Albondigas Arroz con leche Cabrito Caldo de pollo Camarones a la diabla Cemita Chapulines Toasted grasshoppers. Snackable and deeply legit. Chile en nogada Cochinita pibil Enfrijoladas Esquites Huarache Machaca Molletes Pambazo Queso fundido Sincronizada Tacos de canasta Tinga Tlayuda The Oaxacan 'Mexican pizza.' Deep menu pull.
Rare 60 pt · 18
Al pastor Barbacoa Carnitas Ceviche Chilaquiles Chile relleno Empanada Flautas Gordita Huevos rancheros Menudo Pico de gallo Pozole Refried beans Sope Taco salad Tortilla soup Tres leches
Schooler 30 pt · 11
Carne asada Chimichanga Churros Fajitas Fish tacos Flan Salsa Tamale Taquitos Tortas Tostada
Too Clever 15 pt · 3
Birria The 2021 TikTok stew. Delicious, and completely predictable now. Elote Mexican street corn. The foodie flex the whole school posts. Mole 'Actually, real Mexican food is mole.' Yes, we know, chef.
Plankton 10 pt · 6
Burrito Enchilada Guacamole Nachos Quesadilla Taco
04 Name a Disney villain
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
The Coachman Pinocchio's smiling child-snatcher who turns boys into donkeys. Never punished, never explained, the darkest Disney ever went.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 51
Alameda Slim Amos Slade AUTO Barbossa Big Bad Wolf Bill Cipher Technically Disney XD, and the fandom will die on that hill. Bowler Hat Guy Charles Muntz Chick Hicks Commander Rourke Darla Dr. Calico Duke of Weselton Edgar Ercole Ernesto de la Cruz Evelyn Deavor Flintheart Glomgold Gantu Honest John Horned King King Magnifico King Runeard Lucifer Madam Mim Madame Medusa Magica De Spell Man Bambi's mother would like a word. The unseen hunter is the real villain. Miles Axlerod Monstro Mor'du Morgana Namaari Negaduck Percival McLeach Pete Professor Callaghan Queen Narissa Ratigan Sabor Scroop Sheriff of Nottingham Si and Am Stinky Pete Stromboli Sykes Te Ka The Ringmaster Waternoose Willie the Giant Zira
Rare 60 pt · 21
Bellwether Clayton Davy Jones Dr. Doofenshmirtz Dr. Facilier Governor Ratcliffe Hopper Kaa King Candy Lady Tremaine Lotso Oogie Boogie Prince John Randall Shan Yu Shere Khan Sid Syndrome Tamatoa Yzma Zurg
Schooler 30 pt · 7
Evil Queen Frollo Gaston Hades Mother Gothel Prince Hans Queen of Hearts
Too Clever 15 pt · 2
Bruce 'The shark is a villain, actually.' Cute. Everyone says it. Chernabog The 'Night on Bald Mountain' demon. The animation-nerd flex, deployed on cue.
Plankton 10 pt · 6
Captain Hook Cruella de Vil Jafar Maleficent Scar Ursula
05 Name a geometric shape
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Reuleaux triangle A triangle of constant width that rolls as smoothly as a circle. Used to drill square holes.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 26
Annulus The ring between two circles. The washer shape. Arrow Cardioid The heart-shaped curve of light at the bottom of your coffee mug. Chevron Chiliagon A thousand sides. Descartes' favorite thought experiment. Ellipsoid Frustum A cone or pyramid with the top sliced off. The shape of a lampshade. Helix Hendecagon Heptadecagon Gauss proved the 17-gon constructible at age 19 and wanted one on his tombstone. Hexagram Hyperboloid Icosagon Klein bottle A bottle whose inside is its outside. Good luck filling it. Lemniscate The infinity symbol, when it dresses up for math class. Mobius strip One side, one edge, no way out. Myriagon Ten thousand sides, indistinguishable from a circle to the eye. Paraboloid Rhombicosidodecahedron An Archimedean solid with 62 faces. A mouthful and a half. Rhomboid Sector Spiral Squircle Halfway between square and circle — the app-icon shape in your pocket. Teardrop Tridecagon Vesica piscis
Rare 60 pt · 26
Acute triangle Cross Cuboid Decagon Dodecagon Dodecahedron Ellipse Equilateral triangle Hemisphere Heptagon Icosahedron Isosceles triangle Kite Nonagon Obtuse triangle Octahedron Parallelogram Pentagram Polygon Polyhedron Prism Quadrilateral Right triangle Scalene triangle Semicircle Tetrahedron
Schooler 30 pt · 14
Cone Crescent Cube Cylinder Diamond Heart Hexagon Octagon Oval Pentagon Pyramid Rhombus Sphere Trapezoid
Too Clever 15 pt · 1
Torus 'It's technically a donut.' The math-major flex arrives on schedule.
Plankton 10 pt · 5
Circle Rectangle Square Star Triangle
06 Name a country that has hosted the FIFA World Cup
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Chile Hosted in 1962, two years after the largest earthquake ever recorded flattened the country. 'Because we have nothing, we will do everything.'
Deep Cut 85 pt · 2
Sweden Switzerland
Rare 60 pt · 2
Canada Co-host in 2026, its first World Cup. Uruguay Hosted and won the very first one in 1930.
Schooler 30 pt · 9
Argentina England Italy Japan Co-hosted 2002 with South Korea. Mexico 1970, 1986, and co-host in 2026. Three-time home. Russia 2018. South Africa 2010. Vuvuzelas forever. South Korea Spain
Too Clever 15 pt · 1
Qatar 2022, the winter World Cup everyone still argues about. The school knew you'd say it.
Plankton 10 pt · 4
Brazil 1950 and 2014. The plankton pick with the trophies to back it up. France Germany United States 1994, and co-host in 2026. Blurt away.
07 Name a famous poet
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Enheduanna A Sumerian priestess from 2300 BC, the earliest author of any kind known by name. The first poet on record.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 56
A.E. Housman Adrienne Rich Alexander Pope Alexander Pushkin Anna Akhmatova Anne Sexton Arthur Rimbaud Billy Collins Carl Sandburg Carol Ann Duffy Catullus Charles Baudelaire Christina Rossetti Derek Walcott Du Fu Edna St. Vincent Millay Edward Lear Elizabeth Bishop Federico Garcia Lorca Gerard Manley Hopkins Gwendolyn Brooks Hafiz Horace John Betjeman John Donne Joy Harjo Leonard Cohen Published two poetry collections before he ever sang a note. Lewis Carroll Li Bai Louise Glück Marianne Moore Mary Oliver Mirza Ghalib Nikki Giovanni Ocean Vuong Octavio Paz Omar Khayyam Ovid Pam Ayres Petrarch Philip Larkin Rainer Maria Rilke Rita Dove Robert Lowell Sara Teasdale Seamus Heaney Spike Milligan Ted Hughes Thomas Hardy Victor Hugo Yes, the Les Misérables guy. France shelves him under poetry first. Virgil W.H. Auden Wallace Stevens Warsan Shire William Carlos Williams Wisława Szymborska
Rare 60 pt · 26
Alfred Tennyson Allen Ginsberg Charles Bukowski Dorothy Parker Dylan Thomas E.E. Cummings Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Bronte Ezra Pound Geoffrey Chaucer Goethe Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Khalil Gibran Matsuo Basho Ogden Nash Oscar Wilde Pablo Neruda Percy Shelley Rabindranath Tagore Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Browning Robert Burns Rudyard Kipling Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sappho The poet of Lesbos, most of whose work survives only in fragments. William Butler Yeats
Schooler 30 pt · 13
Amanda Gorman Dante John Keats John Milton Langston Hughes Lord Byron Rupi Kaur Shel Silverstein Sylvia Plath T.S. Eliot Walt Whitman William Blake William Wordsworth
Too Clever 15 pt · 3
Dr. Seuss Rhymes, technically. The cheeky answer the school expected. Homer 'The original poet.' Points for the epic energy, everyone gets there. Rumi The Instagram-caption poet. Beautiful, and everybody's got him bookmarked.
Plankton 10 pt · 5
Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Maya Angelou Robert Frost William Shakespeare

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