Geography prompt
Name a city that hosted the Olympics — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a city that hosted the Olympics” in a dive? Here is how to think rare: the best picks, the safe backups, and the crowd defaults to avoid. Every answer below is real and valid — rarity decides the tier.
Best rare pick: Cortina d'Ampezzo — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): London, Paris, Los Angeles — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Cortina d'Ampezzo · Sarajevo
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Lillehammer · Nagano
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Turin · Vancouver
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Sydney · Rio de Janeiro
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Beijing · Athens
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
London · Paris · Los Angeles · Tokyo
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a city that hosted the Olympics” — not generic advice.
Geography rewards breadth over fame. If your first thought is a capital city, someone else already typed it.
Your edge here is Cortina d'Ampezzo: specific, valid, and far from the crowd's first thought. If it feels slightly too obscure to say out loud, that's usually the sign it's worth real points. Bank Lillehammer as your backup — same logic, different answer.
London feels safe because it's obviously right. That's precisely why it's worth the least — safety is crowded. Paris is the same kind of comfortable, low-scoring pick.
Turin and Rio de Janeiro are the honest middle of this prompt — answers most players know but few type first. If your instinct answer feels too easy, reach for this layer instead of the obvious.
Think in clusters, not singles. Nagano, Vancouver, and Lillehammer sit in the same rarity band — knowing one should unlock the others when the clock is running.
Rated 2/5 difficulty — 14 banked answers give you room to match, so the real skill is picking the rare ones, not just valid ones.
Related prompts
More Geography prompts to train on — same rarity thinking, new answers.