Prompt · history
This prompt carries 12 accepted answers in the Krillion Infinite bank, ranked from the response everyone gives to the one almost nobody finds — its One in a Krillion answer is Antonine Plague. The full ranking is below; treat it as training, because this prompt can surface in any Unlimited, Marathon, or pack dive.
🫧 Plankton (10 pts): Black Death, The Great Plague of London
🤡 Too Clever (15 pts): Spanish flu, COVID-19
🐟 Schooler (30 pts): Asian flu of 1957, Hong Kong flu
🦑 Rare (60 pts): English sweating sickness, Russian flu of 1889
🏮 Deep Cut (85 pts): Plague of Justinian, Third Plague Pandemic
🌟 One in a Krillion (100 pts): Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian
Under the clock, your first instinct here is the Plankton answer — it is first for a reason. The scoring lives further down the list: skip your first two ideas, picture the category from an unusual angle (a different country, decade, species, or use than the obvious one), and you are fishing in Rare and Deep Cut water. If the clock hits five seconds with nothing better, submit the safe answer — a Schooler in hand beats a timeout every time.
Prompts in the history shelf of the bank reward breadth more than trivia depth: the rarest answers are rarely the hardest facts, they are the valid answers the crowd's habits skip. That is why this page exists — seeing the tail of one prompt teaches you the shape of every prompt like it.