History prompt
Name a civil rights leader — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a civil rights leader” 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: Sojourner Truth — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Gandhi, Nelson Mandela — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Sojourner Truth · Frederick Douglass
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Harriet Tubman · W.E.B. Du Bois
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Rosa Parks · John Lewis
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Malcolm X · Cesar Chavez
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Martin Luther King Jr. · Susan B. Anthony
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Gandhi · Nelson Mandela
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a civil rights leader” — not generic advice.
History prompts reward the second thing you learned, not the first — the famous names are always crowded.
Lead with Sojourner Truth. It's the kind of answer that makes other players say 'I knew that!' after the reveal — which is exactly why they didn't type it. Harriet Tubman works the same way if you want a second bullet in the chamber.
Gandhi feels safe because it's obviously right. That's precisely why it's worth the least — safety is crowded. Nelson Mandela is the same kind of comfortable, low-scoring pick.
Notice how Rosa Parks (Rare) outscores Gandhi (Plankton) without being obscure at all. Rarity isn't about difficulty — it's about what the crowd overlooks.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: W.E.B. Du Bois, John Lewis, Harriet Tubman. They're different answers, same rarity neighborhood — and that neighborhood is where dives are won.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 12 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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