The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Hedy Lamarr, Granville Woods |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell |
| Rare | 60 | George Washington Carver, Eli Whitney |
| Schooler | 30 | James Watt, Samuel Morse |
| Too Clever | 15 | Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin |
| Plankton | 10 | Leonardo da Vinci, Wright brothers |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "Leonardo da Vinci" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Thomas Edison", belongs to the Too Clever tier: it sounds like a deep cut and lands like a cliché, because every confident player reaches for it in the same second.
Swim past the school and the ladder thins out fast: "Nikola Tesla" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Hedy Lamarr" — one banked answer, 100 points, no company.
Playing this prompt backwards
When this question surfaces in a dive, your 25 seconds are best spent in reverse: first, name the Plankton answer silently and let it go; second, refuse the Too Clever answer unless the clock is dying; third, search your second page — the runner-up, the older one, the one from the smaller place. In science, that means remembering that work the problem backwards, the way real science often happens: start from the phenomenon and reverse-engineer the name. The mirror rewards reasoning, not just recall.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Science pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.