History prompt
Name a famous spy — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous spy” 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: Virginia Hall — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Ethel Rosenberg, Aldrich Ames — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Virginia Hall · Sidney Reilly
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Richard Sorge · Kim Philby
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Nathan Hale · Josephine Baker
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Harriet Tubman · Eli Cohen
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Mata Hari · Julius Rosenberg
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Ethel Rosenberg · Aldrich Ames
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous spy” — not generic advice.
History prompts reward the second thing you learned, not the first — the famous names are always crowded.
Your edge here is Virginia Hall: 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 Richard Sorge as your backup — same logic, different answer.
Ethel Rosenberg feels safe because it's obviously right. That's precisely why it's worth the least — safety is crowded. Aldrich Ames is the same kind of comfortable, low-scoring pick.
Notice how Nathan Hale (Rare) outscores Ethel Rosenberg (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: Kim Philby, Josephine Baker, Richard Sorge. 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.
Related prompts
More History prompts to train on — same rarity thinking, new answers.