History prompt
Name a famous general — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous general” 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: Hannibal Barca — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Hannibal Barca · Scipio Africanus
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Belisarius · Saladin
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Genghis Khan · Alexander the Great
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Julius Caesar · Erwin Rommel
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Napoleon Bonaparte · George Patton
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Dwight D. Eisenhower · Douglas MacArthur
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous general” — not generic advice.
Everyone remembers the headlines of history. The points are in the figures and events one chapter deeper.
Your edge here is Hannibal Barca: 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 Belisarius as your backup — same logic, different answer.
Watch out for Dwight D. Eisenhower. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Douglas MacArthur has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: Genghis Khan lands in Rare while Dwight D. Eisenhower sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Saladin comes to mind, Alexander the Great and Belisarius are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
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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