Recorded answers
4,381 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the answer as a breadth test rather than a knowledge test: the scorer rewards distance from the middle of the distribution, so the goal is to generate volume first and refine second. Work through the academic map systematically, by faculty, then by department, then by the sub-specialisms inside each department, and keep a running list without judging entries. When a field dries up, mine the seams between disciplines, the professional and clinical training routes, and the titles that attach a place, a material or a technique to a discipline. Only after you have a long list should you cut the weakest entries. Save your single boldest, most niche pick for the moment you feel the list is running dry, because that is where the points live.
Get a hint
Begin with the widest possible sweep of post-secondary study: every faculty, school and department that confers a formal degree, and let the list run far past the handful of titles everyone knows.
A little more
Once the obvious fields are exhausted, push into the hybrid and vocational corners: programmes that fuse two disciplines into a single named degree, or that prepare students for one licensed trade.
One step further
Now go micro: titles tied to a single material, technique, instrument, region, species, patient group or single campus, often only a few words long and offered by just one institution.
Reveal answers 4,381
- Ancient Near Eastern languagesDeep Cut85points
- Ancient Near Eastern studiesDeep Cut85points
- Ancient philosophyDeep Cut85points
- Ancient religionsDeep Cut85points
- Ancient studiesDeep Cut85points
- Andean studiesDeep Cut85points
- AndrologyDeep Cut85points
- Anesthesiologist assistant studiesDeep Cut85points
- AngikaDeep Cut85points
- Anglo-Saxon, Norse and CelticDeep Cut85points
- Animal and veterinary biosciencesDeep Cut85points
- Animal biologyDeep Cut85points
- Animal biotechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Animal breedingDeep Cut85points
- Animal enterprise and innovationDeep Cut85points
- Animal geneticsDeep Cut85points
- Animal healthDeep Cut85points
- Animal husbandryDeep Cut85points
- Animal lawDeep Cut85points
- Animal managementDeep Cut85points
- Animal nutritionDeep Cut85points
- Animal physiologyDeep Cut85points
- Animal studiesDeep Cut85points
- Animal trainingDeep Cut85points
- Animal welfareDeep Cut85points
- Animal welfare and behaviorDeep Cut85points
- Animal-assisted therapyDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic StudiesDeep Cut85points
- Anthropocene StudiesDeep Cut85points
- Anthropology of developmentDeep Cut85points
- Anthropology of religionDeep Cut85points
- AnthrozoologyDeep Cut85points
- Antillean CreoleDeep Cut85points
- ApicultureDeep Cut85points
- ApologeticsDeep Cut85points
- Appalachian studiesDeep Cut85points
- Apparel and textile manufacturingDeep Cut85points
- Apparel and textilesDeep Cut85points
- Apparel designDeep Cut85points
- Apparel product developmentDeep Cut85points
- Apparel technical designDeep Cut85points
- Appliance repairDeep Cut85points
- Applied aeronauticsDeep Cut85points
- Applied AIDeep Cut85points
- Applied and computational mathematical sciencesDeep Cut85points
- Applied anthropologyDeep Cut85points
- Applied artDeep Cut85points
- Applied artificial intelligence for business transformationDeep Cut85points
- Applied arts and sciencesDeep Cut85points
- Applied biological sciencesDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here rewards specificity, and the reveal shows it plainly. Of the recorded answers, 4298 cleared sixty points, but only one reached the top: Bagpiping at 100, a title so narrow that few players would ever think of it. The 85-point band, 3803 answers deep, is where disciplined, specific thinking lands; entries such as Accelerator physics, Acoustics and music technology, Adult-gerontology nurse practitioner or Accounting information systems each fuse a subject with a qualifier, a population or a second field. The 60-point band, 494 answers, is thinner and holds titles closer to the centre of the distribution: real, respectable degrees whose names are broad enough that a large share of players reach them. Practical lesson: a plain discipline name is short and safe but cheap, a two-part hybrid name is the reliable workhorse, and the rare one-institution curiosity is the only route to a perfect score. Precision in naming, not obscurity of subject, separates the bands.