November 12, 2026, Dive #120, stores 10,096 names. The longest list is “Name a TV game show” (5,726 recorded) and the shortest is “Name something you can see in the sky (kinds of birds or planes don't count)” (124). 9,142 score 85 or higher.
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10,096 recorded names9,142 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Name something you can see in the sky (kinds of birds or planes don't count)
124 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the sky in layers instead of free-associating. First sweep the physical atmosphere: anything produced by light passing through ice, water droplets, suspended particles or sharp temperature gradients, including effects that appear only at particular hours of the day. Second, list living things that travel through air without being ordinary birds, plus the small flying machines and personal flight devices people have invented. Third, climb outward to objects beyond the atmosphere and to anything briefly crossing it. Write down ten candidates per layer, then strike the ones a general audience would name first, because the scoring rewards obscurity. Keep the phrasing precise: a named phenomenon beats a vague description, and anything that is really just weather or a synonym for the sky itself will not register.
Get a hint
Start with the atmosphere as a stage: light bending, scattering or reflecting off ice crystals, suspended particles and water droplets can put shapes and colours overhead that owe nothing to a solid object.
A little more
Then widen to living things and machines that spend time aloft: tiny creatures ride the currents, and human engineering keeps inventing new ways to leave the ground behind.
One step further
Finally hunt the rare and the brief: split-second optical tricks, faint glows that appear only at certain hours, and sights so obscure that only a specialist would think of them.
Reveal answers 124
STEVEOne in a Krillion100points
AirglowDeep Cut85points
Ballooning spiderDeep Cut85points
Brocken spectreDeep Cut85points
Cloud iridescenceDeep Cut85points
ColugoDeep Cut85points
ConjunctionDeep Cut85points
CoronaDeep Cut85points
Earthquake lightsDeep Cut85points
False sunriseDeep Cut85points
Fire whirlDeep Cut85points
FlogoDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Point values tracked rarity rather than plausibility. The lone hundred-point entry is an acronym-named glow in the upper atmosphere, a phenomenon so specialised that most players have never met the term, and the eighty-five band is crowded with material just as niche: optical effects such as Airglow, Cloud iridescence and Sun dog, strange atmospheric events like Earthquake lights, and animals that glide without being birds, among them Colugo and Sugar glider. Each of those requires a second or third pass through the category before it surfaces. The sixty-point tier, by contrast, collects things a curious player reaches quickly once bird and plane are set aside: Contrail, Halo, Galaxy, Firefly, Haze, Hurricane, Blizzard. They are legitimate and specific, yet a huge share of the player base lands on them, so the multiplier stays modest. Nothing in the lower band was wrong; the penalty was familiarity, not accuracy.
Name a material or product that comes from animals (excluding meat and dairy)
721 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work through the animal body as a supply chain rather than as food. Take a mental inventory in layers: outer coverings, hard parts, internal organs and fluids, and the residues left after processing. For each layer, sweep across industries that consume it — clothing and upholstery, cosmetics, hospital medicine, adhesives, fertiliser, instrument making, and traditional crafts. Then push past the obvious entries by recalling trade vocabulary: words that appear on ingredient labels, in conservation manuals, or in regional craft descriptions. Plural forms and technical synonyms usually unlock extra matches, and highly specific variants score better than generic ones. Finally, verify the exclusion: if the item is eaten as meat or belongs to the dairy group, drop it and look again.
Get a hint
Start with the broadest reading: the animal kingdom supplies raw stock to industries far beyond the dinner plate, from clothing workshops to hospital pharmacies.
A little more
Then narrow by function: ask whether the substance is a structural body part, a fluid or secretion, a casing, or a residue left behind after the animal is processed.
One step further
Aim for the specialised end of the supply chain: substances named in older trade vocabularies, pharmaceutical isolates and craft terms that rarely appear in ordinary conversation.
Reveal answers 721
Sea silkOne in a Krillion100points
AbbameleDeep Cut85points
AdrenalineDeep Cut85points
Album graecumDeep Cut85points
Almas caviarDeep Cut85points
Alpaca furDeep Cut85points
Altai honeyDeep Cut85points
Alum-tawed leatherDeep Cut85points
AmmoliteDeep Cut85points
Anaphe silkDeep Cut85points
Animal bladderDeep Cut85points
Animal glycerinDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually generous: 721 recorded answers, 703 of which cleared 60 points. That shape tells you the question was tested as a wide net, not a narrow key. The middle band is where almost everything landed, with 577 answers at 85 points, while 125 sat at the 60-point floor and exactly one reached 100. Sea silk, the single maximum, is a material so obscure that most players would never retrieve it under time pressure, so it earns the outlier score. Entries such as Abbamele, Adrenaline or Alpaca fur show what the 85 band looks like: precise, slightly technical or regional names that still sit recognisably inside the category. Nothing in the reveal suggests that guessing a plain, everyday term is punished harshly — it simply parks you at the floor. The practical lesson is to write the specific version of whatever you first think of, then add a second, stranger variant if the clock allows.
Most people answer with the first thing in the fridge and stop there, which is why so many entries land in the low bands. Reverse the order instead: rather than hunting for small vegetables, walk through edible plant families one at a time and, inside each, drop to the smallest named varieties. Seed catalogues, growers' market stalls and foraging guides beat the supermarket as sources, because they keep the proper names that never come up in ordinary conversation. Before committing, check two things: the volume really is below that of a common bulb, and what you are writing is a specific name rather than a generic description. When torn between a safe option and an odd but verifiable one, the odd one usually pays better, provided the spelling holds up.
Get a hint
Start from the size of a common kitchen bulb and shrink: whatever you picture has to sit comfortably below that benchmark, so think in handfuls and spoonfuls rather than single servings.
A little more
Move past the mainstream shelf toward regional and heritage names, since the answer pool runs heavy on named cultivars from seed catalogues, speciality growers and foraging guides.
One step further
Accepted entries tend to be a two-word name with the variety in front of the thing, and the thing is usually sliced, shelled or picked in quantity rather than peeled and chopped as a stew base.
Reveal answers 689
TomberryOne in a Krillion100points
7 Pot pepperDeep Cut85points
Abalone mushroomDeep Cut85points
Aborted entolomaDeep Cut85points
AdjumaDeep Cut85points
Adzuki sproutsDeep Cut85points
African eggplantDeep Cut85points
African yam beanDeep Cut85points
Aglandau oliveDeep Cut85points
AgrettiDeep Cut85points
Aji amarilloDeep Cut85points
Ají caballeroDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring rewards specificity rather than plausibility. The lone hundred-point entry, Tomberry (100), is a miniature tomato sold as a novelty, a name almost nobody reaches for; the eighty-five tier then swallows the whole named-cultivar long tail, from 7 Pot pepper (85) and Adjuma (85) to Abalone mushroom (85) and Aborted entoloma (85). What those share is a proper name attached to a small edible, where the variety does the work and the base ingredient is something a shopper would never think to measure against a bulb. Lower bands belong to everyday produce anyone could list in five seconds, which is exactly why they pay less. The practical lesson is that a weird, specific, verifiable name beats a safe one, provided it really is smaller; obscurity is worth nothing if the entry is a normal-sized item wearing an exotic label.
Treat the prompt as a sweep of the schedule rather than a hunt for one correct title. Move decade by decade through what you have actually watched, then broaden to daytime, cable and streaming, and finally to formats imported from other markets whose local names you may only half remember. Give each decade roughly a minute: jotting three or four candidates fast beats agonizing over a single favourite. Once a handful of names survives, drop anything that is a drama, a chat show or an unscripted series with no contest at its centre, then choose the least obvious survivor. Scoring here rewards the title most other players would never reach, so resist the first famous name that arrives and keep digging until a rarer one does.
Get a hint
Cast a wide net across decades: the earliest studio quizzes, the big Saturday-night spectacles and the streaming revivals all sit inside this category.
A little more
Then widen geographically: the same mechanic turns up under local titles in dozens of markets, and imported names deserve the same credit as home-grown ones.
One step further
Finally, push past the obvious prime-time hits towards daytime strips, cable oddities, short-run specials and formats that lasted barely a season.
Reveal answers 5,726
DottoOne in a Krillion100points
¡A Que No Puedes!Deep Cut85points
¡Ahora caigo!Deep Cut85points
¡Allá tú!Deep Cut85points
¡Ay, qué calor!Deep Cut85points
¡Qué dice Chile!Deep Cut85points
¡Salta!Deep Cut85points
¡Vaya peña!Deep Cut85points
¿Apostarias por Mi?Deep Cut85points
¿Cómo lo veis?Deep Cut85points
¿Conocemos España?Deep Cut85points
¿Cuánto sabe usted?Deep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal shows how flat the top of this category sits: 5701 answers cleared sixty points, and all but one of them stopped at 85. That plateau is the signature of a question with an enormous pool of acceptable titles, where thousands of entries from dozens of countries are equally unknown to the average player and therefore equally rewarded. Only one pick pushed into triple figures, Dotto at 100, a 1950s studio quiz that survives mainly in television histories. At the other end, a mere 144 answers fell to 60 points, the band reserved for the handful of formats that saturate global memory. Look at what filled the 85-point mass: 100 mexicanos dijeron, 1, 2 oder 3, 100 % logique, 10 Seconds, each a local-language or low-profile variation on a familiar mechanic, famous inside one market and invisible outside it. The lesson is that prestige earns nothing here. A title nobody else in the sample could retrieve pays more than the biggest prime-time franchise, so the winning instinct is to name something real but half-forgotten.
Sort your candidates into columns before you start reeling them off: partner dancing, line and formation work, street and club styles, stage and screen choreography, plus the short routines that travel across feeds. Empty one column before moving to the next, since each carries its own naming grammar and a vocabulary of figures that outsiders rarely hear. When obvious entries dry up, switch from recall to reconstruction: ask what a teacher would call a given shape, what a caller would shout, what a caption writer would put under a clip. Test every candidate against the wording, because a name in real use qualifies while an elegant description you invented does not, and hold spelling variants and translated titles in reserve, since the reveal rewards near misses but never forgives something that was never named.
Get a hint
Almost every dance tradition names its figures, so the pool runs far wider than the styles that surface first; work through decades, regions and settings instead of settling on one scene.
A little more
Notice how the labels get made: some describe the shape or animal the body imitates, some count beats aloud, some borrow the track that popularised them, some simply name the footwork mechanics.
One step further
Beyond the well-known scenes, work the long tail: two-word figures from partner-dance syllabi, step lists traded between line dancers, and short routines that travel across feeds, including titles built from numbers or counted beats.
Reveal answers 2,313
Big AppleOne in a Krillion100points
1, 2 StepDeep Cut85points
1990Deep Cut85points
2 Phút HơnDeep Cut85points
2000Deep Cut85points
223s danceDeep Cut85points
5, 6, 7, 8Deep Cut85points
A-PunkDeep Cut85points
AbanicoDeep Cut85points
About Damn TimeDeep Cut85points
Above the CloudsDeep Cut85points
Acey DeuceyDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Reach of vocabulary, not familiarity, decided most of the scoring. The lone 100-point entry, Big Apple, was also the strangest name in the set, which matches a pattern where the first player to think of something genuinely unexpected takes the top band alone. The enormous 85-point tier, 2,033 recorded answers, absorbed everything from 1, 2 Step and Agadoo to Airwalk and Anchor Step: labels that mean a great deal inside one scene but seldom arrive first to a general audience. The 60-point shelf held only 243 answers, kept for the handful of moves nearly everyone reaches for, and that saturation is exactly what pushed them down. Specificity separated most of the neighbours: a figure with a fixed name, a documented origin and a place in a syllabus out-earned a loose label describing the same action. Rarity, not difficulty, set the price, so a forgotten formation call and the title of a viral clip could land in the same band.
Name a type of injury (general types, like a sprain)
128 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from anatomy outward. List the tissues a body is built from, then attach a failure mode to each: skin, muscle, tendon, ligament, bone, nerve, vessel. That gives a first wave of safe general answers. Next, shift from structure to mechanism, because the scoring list is heavy with causes: heat, cold, pressure change, electricity, chemicals, friction, repetitive motion, and force delivered at an angle or through a small point. A third pass should reach into clinical and occupational vocabularies, where injuries take names from how they happened rather than how bad they look. Keep entries short and noun-like, and skip anything that is really a symptom, a body part, or a diagnosis rather than an injury.
Get a hint
Begin with anatomy: skin, muscle, tendon, ligament, bone, nerve and vessel each have at least one characteristic way of failing under force.
A little more
Then move from structure to cause, since heat, cold, pressure shifts, current, corrosives, friction and repetition all appear in medical dictionaries as injury categories.
One step further
The deepest layer is specialist vocabulary from emergency medicine and occupational health, where the label often records the mechanism or the pattern of damage rather than its severity.
Reveal answers 128
Contrecoup injuryOne in a Krillion100points
Acoustic traumaDeep Cut85points
Aerosol burnDeep Cut85points
ApophysitisDeep Cut85points
Arrow woundDeep Cut85points
Arterial gas embolismDeep Cut85points
AvulsionDeep Cut85points
Avulsion fractureDeep Cut85points
BarotraumaDeep Cut85points
Blast injuryDeep Cut85points
Bowing fractureDeep Cut85points
Buckle fractureDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is dominated by a middle tier: fifty-four entries at 85 points and fifty-eight at 60, against a single maximum. That shape tells you the list is broad rather than fussy, and that specificity is where the extra points live. General families — a bite, bleeding or blunt force trauma — landed at the 60-point floor alongside amputation, because almost everyone reaches for them. One step more precise, and the score jumps: naming the fracture pattern (comminuted, oblique, transverse, impacted, all 85) or the exact mechanism of a wound (chop, gore, perforating, sharp force, 85 each) shows you know the vocabulary without guessing wildly. The lone 100 went to a contrecoup injury, a term almost nobody produces, which is the whole principle: rarity pays, but only when the term is still a real injury label rather than an invented one. Guesses that drift into symptoms or anatomy earn nothing.
Work outward from the most obvious shelf rather than trying to recall one perfect name. Begin with bars marketed explicitly on their filling, since those come to mind first for almost everyone, then sweep the neighbouring categories built the same way: wafer fingers, layered biscuits, boxed assortments, seasonal shapes and chilled or ice-cream formats. Repeat that sweep market by market, because a product that is ordinary in one country is a rare and valuable pick in another. For every candidate, check that caramel appears as a real ingredient or filling rather than a flavour note, and keep a written list so you do not loop back to the same handful of obvious names.
Get a hint
Start with everyday candy-counter products: bars, eggs, buttons and small filled shapes that advertise a liquid or chewy centre as the headline feature.
A little more
Widen to the biscuit aisle, where wafers, layered cookies and sandwich-style sweets hide a toffee layer under the chocolate coating.
One step further
Then push into local and imported ranges, including supermarket own labels and sweets from Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia that pair milk chocolate with a slow-cooked milky filling.
Reveal answers 395
Sky BarOne in a Krillion100points
5 StarDeep Cut85points
AdventurefulsDeep Cut85points
Águila MinitortaDeep Cut85points
AlbeniDeep Cut85points
Alpen Gold Salted CaramelDeep Cut85points
Alter Eco Salted Burnt CaramelDeep Cut85points
Asda Just Essentials Caramel WafersDeep Cut85points
Atkins Endulge Caramel Nut ChewDeep Cut85points
Aztec (Cadbury)Deep Cut85points
Balcarce AlfajorDeep Cut85points
Bar NoneDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring rewards obscurity, not fame. The single answer at 100 points, Sky Bar, is a regional American bar that most players outside one market would never reach, and it stands alone above everything else. The 339 answers on 85 points form the real centre of gravity: mid-tail products such as 5 Star, Adventurefuls, Cabana and Beng-Beng, each familiar inside a country or a niche but rarely the first thing anyone says. The 42 answers on 60 points are the heavily advertised names that a large share of the field produced, which is why they pay least. The pattern is consistent: the better known a bar or box is, the more people write it down, and the smaller the reward. Pushing into supermarket own-label ranges, regional sandwich biscuits, alfajores and imported wafer lines is what moves a pick from the crowded middle into the sparse 85-point band, so breadth of markets beats depth of brand knowledge.
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