The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Rush, Deep Purple |
| Deep Cut | 85 | The Who, Pink Floyd |
| Rare | 60 | Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones |
| Schooler | 30 | Queen, AC/DC |
| Too Clever | 15 | Nirvana, Metallica |
| Plankton | 10 | The Beatles, Guns N' Roses |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "The Beatles" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Nirvana", 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: "The Who" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Rush" — 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 music, that means remembering that play the record backwards — literally the oldest trick in music. B-sides, deep cuts (the tier is named for them), and the instruments behind the singer: the mirror side of music is where the points are.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Music pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.