History & People Dive — Unlimited Krillion Practice

Presidents, monarchs, battles, explorers, philosophers and inventors.

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History & People Dive

Seven History & People prompts, 25 seconds each, one answer apiece. The rarer your answer, the deeper you sink.

How it works: you see a prompt, type one answer and press Enter. Obvious answers score little; rare but real ones score big.

Example: "Name a fruit" → Apple +10 is what everyone says, Salak +100 is what almost nobody says.

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About the History & People pack

History is full of lists that everyone half-knows. You can probably name four or five US presidents without effort, and then the well runs dry somewhere around Franklin Pierce. That cliff edge is exactly the shape of a good rare-answer prompt, and the History & People pack is built from lists with that shape.

Expect US presidents and First Ladies, British monarchs and prime ministers, Roman emperors, ancient civilisations, explorers, famous battles and wars, painters, philosophers, inventors, landmarks, mythological gods and notable ships. Accepted answers include familiar short forms, such as Lincoln for Abraham Lincoln, as well as alternate spellings and regnal numerals written either way.

The best approach is to walk a timeline. Start with the most recent figures you remember, then step backwards through the centuries and pick out any name that rings a bell, however faintly. Short reigns, forgotten rivals and regional rulers are the usual deep catches. Do not stress about full names; a surname is usually enough for the famous ones, and the answer list after each prompt gives you a quick refresher on everything you skipped.

This pack currently has 15 prompts and 1,431 accepted answers, all written for this site.

History & People prompts you might get

Each dive picks seven of these. The answers stay hidden until you have played.

Name a US president
Name a king or queen who ruled in Britain
Name a Roman emperor
Name a famous explorer
Name a civilization or empire from history
Name a UK Prime Minister
Name a famous battle
Name a famous painter or artist
Name a famous philosopher
Name a US First Lady
Name a god or goddess from mythology
Name a famous inventor
Name a famous landmark or monument
Name a famous real ship or boat
Name a war or major armed conflict

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