One in a Krillion Answers, October 2026

The 100-point answers from each daily dive in October 2026, with the prompt they answered and the game's note on each.

Saturday, October 31, 2026, Dive #108

1. Name a Halloween tradition

Hwch Ddu GwtaWelsh bonfire legend: a tailless black sow chases the last to leave.

2. Name a chocolate with wafer, biscuit, or cookie in it

Rotstern Drei Haselnüsse für AschenbrödelHazelnut wafer rolls with a Cinderella-film name and a milk-chocolate coat.

3. Name a fictional character who wears a mask

Moonlight MaskJapan's first TV superhero, 1958: scarf, turban and sunglasses for a mask.

4. Name an animal that feeds on blood

Cooper's nutmeg snailA sea snail that drinks blood from sleeping angel sharks.

Vampire mothCalyptra moths pierce skin with a fruit-piercing proboscis to drink blood.

5. Name an orange fruit or vegetable

GacVietnamese gac fruit colours red sticky rice at weddings and Tết.

6. Name a country with black or orange on its flag

Marshall IslandsOrange on this flag stands for bravery, white for peace.

7. Name a word that starts with “boo”

booboisie“Boob” meets “bourgeoisie”: a mocking term for an ignorant public.

boobookAn Australian owl named for its two-note night call.

Friday, October 30, 2026, Dive #107

1. Name a sport where athletes do flips or somersaults: Course landaiseCharles Kroumir landed its first somersault over a cow in 1886.
2. Name a city whose name starts with the word Los, Las, La, Le, El or The: La CiotatPétanque, the Provençal ball game, was invented there.
3. Name something used to grip or pick things up: Claw of ArchimedesArchimedes built it to hoist Roman warships and capsize them at Syracuse.
4. Name a non-human character from Star Wars, the MCU, or Lord of the Rings: JaxxonGeorge Lucas disliked this green rabbit from Marvel's Star Wars comics.
5. Name a nail care product or tool (types, not brands): Tea bagA tea bag scrap sealed under clear coat splints a torn nail.
6. Name a way to contact someone (methods, not brands/apps): Rocket mailIn 1959, a US Navy submarine mailed letters by cruise missile.
7. Name a fast food chain that operates in more than one country: Coffee-BikeIts three-wheeled cafés can run 18 hours without external power or water.

Thursday, October 29, 2026, Dive #106

1. Name a French or British food

Bedfordshire clangerSome clangers held savoury filling at one end, jam at the other.

2. Name something you can measure about the human body

Two-point discriminationYour back can't tell two pinpricks apart closer than about 3 cm.

3. Name a strategy board game

RithmomachiaMonastery schools used it around 1030 to teach Boethius's number theory.

4. Name an animal with a one-word name containing "ck"

DickcisselNamed for its buzzy song, often written dick-dick-ciss-ciss-ciss.

5. Name a country where another religion has more followers than Christianity

MauritiusOnly African country where Hinduism is the largest religion.

6. Name someone who has been a teammate of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James or Tom Brady

Coby KarlGeorge Karl’s son. Five total minutes as LeBron’s Cavs teammate.

David BellionFrom playing alongside Ronaldo to working in a Paris art gallery.

Nate EbnerPlayed rugby sevens for Team USA at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

7. Name a hair type, texture, or natural color

TitianVenetian master Titian's red-haired women gave this brownish-orange shade its name.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Dive #105

1. Name a pasta dish: Pastasciutta antifascistaCervi family served it to their whole village celebrating Mussolini's arrest.
2. Name a part of the human head: HabenulaThis tiny brain structure takes its name from the Latin for “little rein.”
3. Name a region of the world that spans multiple countries (like the Middle East): PolesiaChernobyl's exclusion zone lies inside this vast marshy forest region.
4. Name a food or drink that has an emoji: OdenThe skewer emoji is named for this Japanese simmered dish.
5. Name a superpower any superhero has in the MCU: Communication with CelestialsAjak has a direct line to the cosmic beings who sent the Eternals.
6. Name a 3+ letter word you can spell with the letters in "krillion" (using each letter only as many times as it appears): inroA small Japanese medicine case worn hanging from a kimono sash.
7. Name something you ride while standing up: PaternosterOpen cabins circulate nonstop, so riders step aboard while they move.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026, Dive #104

1. Name a bird that lives in or by water: SungrebeMales carry chicks in skin pockets under their wings, even while flying.
2. Name something with physical pages (named works don't count): Summit registerSummit logbooks usually sit in weatherproof, animal-proof metal cases.
3. Name a type of ball outside of sports: Time ballGreenwich's time ball, installed in 1833, still drops at 1 p.m.
4. Name a boy band or girl group with over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify: MoKenStefTheir name combines members' first names: Monifa, Kenya and Stefanie.
5. Name a part of the school year (events like prom count too): Raisin weekendSt Andrews students celebrate Raisin Monday with a giant foam fight.
6. Name a country whose flag has a white stripe through the centre (horizontal or vertical).: LesothoIts flag's black emblem is a mokorotlo, the traditional Basotho hat.
7. Name a one-word food or drink that starts with Ch: ChhurpiA hard chhurpi block, chewed like gum, lasts up to five hours.

Monday, October 26, 2026, Dive #103

1. Name a currency worth less than the US dollar: Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG)Zimbabwe's gold-backed ZiG was its sixth new-currency attempt since 2008.
2. Name a city whose name ends in -ton: ThatonBurma's King Anawrahta conquered the Mon capital Thaton in 1057.
3. Name something traditionally expressed as a percentage (like body fat): AlbedoEarth reflects roughly 30 percent of incoming sunlight straight back into space.
4. Name something used to hit a ball in a sport (the same tool counts once across sports): TamburelloTamburello players hit the ball with a round, tightly skinned tambourine frame.
5. Name a Latin American dish: Hormigas culonasOnly queen leafcutter ants become hormigas culonas, roasted in ceramic pans.
6. Name a fruit or vegetable with a one-syllable name: SloeSteeping astringent blackthorn sloes in sugared gin makes sloe gin.
7. Name a phone setting you can switch on and off: Chop for FlashlightTwo karate chops switch on a Motorola phone's flashlight.

Sunday, October 25, 2026, Dive #102

1. Name a type of bed (for sleeping): BabuchuangA Chinese canopy bed enclosing a sleeping area and entrance platform.
2. Name a food or ingredient that costs over US$100/kg ($45/lb), like caviar: HasmaA dessert ingredient made from tissue around frogs’ fallopian tubes.
3. Name a song that has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100: SukiyakiIts Japanese lyrics never once mention sukiyaki.
4. Name a national park anywhere in the world: Keibul LamjaoIt is the world's only floating national park, on Manipur's Loktak Lake.
5. Name a TV comedy (tagged Comedy on IMDb, 1,000+ votes): Little MoleA plush Little Mole flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2011.
6. Name a country with a desert climate (in any part of it): United KingdomCourtesy of Ascension Island, a British overseas territory.
7. Name a player currently on an English Premier League or NFL team: Tom KingScored a world-record 96-metre goal straight from a 2021 goal kick.

Saturday, October 24, 2026, Dive #101

1. Name a movie first released in theaters in 2026: ChronovisorA scholar hunts for a machine that can replay the past.
2. Name something with a spinning blade: AerosaniSoviet propeller sleds that carried mail and troops across snow.
3. Name a book that has sold at least 500,000 copies worldwide.: In His StepsSheldon's 1896 novel asked 'What would Jesus do?' with a defective copyright.
4. Name a word that could be in Wordle (5 letters): qajaqKayak in Inuktitut spelling, and it still reads the same backwards.
5. Name an app or program that comes built into Windows or macOS (older versions count).: Key CapsMac desk accessory that revealed the characters hiding under Option.
6. Name a language that originated in South Asia or Southeast Asia: KusundaNepal's language isolate, down to its last few fluent speakers.
7. Name something with a legal minimum age: Falconry licenseUS federal rules let a twelve-year-old hold a falconry permit.

Friday, October 23, 2026, Dive #100

1. Name a branded fast-food menu item (like the Big Mac).: Hula BurgerRay Kroc's pineapple burger lost a 1962 sales duel to the Filet-O-Fish.
2. Name an animal that sprays, spits or squirts something to defend itself.: Pygmy sperm whaleStartled, it releases a reddish cloud of intestinal fluid, squid-style.
3. Name a part of a 2D or 3D shape (like a radius).: SagittaLatin for arrow: the segment from an arc's midpoint to its chord.
4. Name an upper-body gym exercise (strength exercises only; no full-body moves).: Bradford pressNamed for Jim Bradford, Olympic weightlifting silver medalist in 1952 and 1960.
5. Name a Nintendo Wii game.: Captain RainbowJapan-only 2008 Wii game featuring forgotten Nintendo characters like Birdo.
6. Name a rap song with over 100 million Spotify streams.: Above The CloudsGang Starr teamed up with Wu-Tang's Inspectah Deck on this 1998 track.
7. Name a machine traditionally operated by inserting coins.: Mold-A-RamaWarm polyethylene dinosaurs cost 50 cents at the 1964 World's Fair.

Thursday, October 22, 2026, Dive #99

1. Name a character from Attack on Titan, One Piece or Naruto

PandamanOda hides this panda-headed man in crowd scenes as an easter egg.

TontonTsunade's pet pig wears a pearl necklace and a little red jacket.

2. Name a job with median annual pay over $100,000 in the US

Elevator mechanicMedian pay is about $110,000, more than architects earn.

3. Name a game with a number in its name (sequels and 3D variants don't count)

PachisiIts Hindi name means twenty-five, the highest throw of the cowries.

4. Name a field, art or skill ending in -graphy

SteganographyThe skill of hiding messages, like Herodotus’s tale of a message tattooed on a shaved head and concealed as the hair regrew.

5. Name a country with a five-letter English name

NauruNauru got rich mining phosphate formed from ancient seabird droppings.

6. Name an environmental problem (like pollution)

Nurdle pollutionA 2021 ship fire spilled billions of pellets onto Sri Lanka's coast.

7. Name a South Asian dish (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Afghanistan)

Bombay duckDespite its name, it's a fried lizardfish from the Arabian Sea.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, Dive #98

1. Name a TV show that's rated 8.5+ on IMDb (1,000+ votes)

DekalogTen hour-long films, one for each of the Ten Commandments.

2. Name a current NBA player (must be on an NBA team)

Pat SpencerCollege lacrosse's top player in 2019, then he switched sports.

3. Name a food you have to shell or crack open before eating

Beggar's chickenBaked inside lotus leaves and clay, then cracked open with a mallet.

4. Name a vehicle that doesn't travel on wheels

Ground-effect vehicleSoviet engineers built one nicknamed the Caspian Sea Monster.

IceboatIce yachts can sail several times faster than the wind.

5. Name a body part people have exactly one of (like the nose)

Round ligament of the liverBefore you were born, this carried blood from the placenta.

6. Name a country that borders Greece or Austria

LiechtensteinOne of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Uzbekistan.

7. Name an extra that airlines charge for

Falcon in cabinQatar Airways lets passengers buy cabin space for their falcons.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Dive #97

1. Name something sold as a stick or in sticks (food on a stick doesn’t count).

MiswakA Salvadora persica twig chewed into a natural toothbrush.

SpurtleScotland's porridge championship awards a golden one each October.

2. Name a food made by mashing or puréeing (like guacamole)

MoretumA pseudo-Virgilian poem narrates a farmer pounding this garlic-cheese paste.

3. Name a country with the letter D in its name

Saint Kitts and NevisSmallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere by area and population. (yall are forgetting that it's anD, the amount of complaints im getting about this is funny)

4. Name a device made to blow air

Winnowing machineHan-dynasty China cranked chaff from grain eighteen centuries before Europe.

5. Name a mammal smaller than a house cat

Hero shrewIts interlocking spine reportedly bears a grown man's weight unharmed.

Kha-nyouA Lao market find whose family was presumed extinct eleven million years.

6. Name an internet service provider

The World (ISP)Brookline's 1989 dial-up service, the first ISP open to the public.

7. Name something that has a saddle (like a bicycle)

Dandy horseKarl Drais's 1817 running machine put a saddle between two wheels.

EarthwormIts pale clitellum band near the head is called the saddle.

Monday, October 19, 2026, Dive #96

1. Name a female artist with over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify

Cesária ÉvoraCape Verde's barefoot diva performed morna onstage without shoes.

Mercedes SosaArgentina's junta banned her, and she sang on from exile.

2. Name a foul or rule violation in soccer, basketball, American football, cricket, rugby or ice hockey

Flying wedgeHarvard's 1892 football play is still outlawed in rugby's laws.

Palpably unfair actNFL referees may award a touchdown to punish one.

3. Name an underwear brand

JogbraBorn in 1977 as the Jockbra: two jockstraps sewn together.

MunsingwearIts silk-covered wool made long underwear warm without the itch.

4. Name a university in the US or UK

Berea CollegeKentucky college that has charged no tuition since 1892.

Webb InstituteAll graduates study one dual degree: naval architecture and marine engineering.

5. Name a language that’s the most spoken in at least two countries

SerbianMontenegro's census counts more Serbian speakers than Montenegrin ones.

6. Name a character that has been playable in a Super Smash Bros. game

Min MinHer home arena is shaped like a giant ramen bowl.

TerryFatal Fury's hero was the first SNK character in Smash.

7. Name a fruit normally eaten with its skin on

Miracle fruitIts miraculin makes sour foods like lemons taste sweet.

Sunday, October 18, 2026, Dive #95

1. Name a fruit bigger than an apple

Coco de merIts seed is the heaviest in the plant kingdom.

KarukaIts giant fruit heads hide coconut-flavoured nuts.

2. Name a symbol of Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam or Buddhism (like the cross)

HetoimasiaByzantine artists painted an empty throne, kept ready for Christ's return.

ShivitiA synagogue plaque quoting Psalm 16:8, hung in front of the cantor.

3. Name a perfume or fragrance brand

Farina 1709Still trading in Cologne, the world's oldest eau de Cologne factory.

Oriza L. LegrandFounder Fargeon claimed courtesan Ninon de Lenclos gave him his recipes.

4. Name a sport where competitors wear gloves

PesäpalloBlends traditional ball-batting team games with North American baseball.

5. Name a leg exercise at the gym (no cardio)

Kang squatStarts as a good morning, then sinks into a full squat.

Steinborn squatMilo Steinborn tipped a loaded bar onto his shoulders without a rack.

6. Name a Fortnite character or skin (sidekicks/pets don't count)

Honor GuardBundled with the Honor View 20 phone in 2019.

7. Name a rapper with more than 500k monthly Spotify listeners

Pete & BasTwo London pensioners made UK drill their retirement plan.

Saturday, October 17, 2026, Dive #94

1. Name a way to prepare potatoes

Pommes souffléesLegend says a delayed royal train in 1837 made them puff.

2. Name an animal whose name is exactly four letters long

MaraPatagonian rodent on deer-like legs that pairs for life.

3. Name someone who’s won MVP (NBA/NFL/MLB), Premier League Player of the Season, or won the Ballon d’Or

Jim KonstantyHe became the first relief pitcher to win MLB MVP.

Mark MoseleyHe won NFL MVP as a kicker in 1982.

4. Name a chemical element whose symbol is one letter

YttriumNamed after Ytterby, the Swedish village behind four element names.

5. Name a type of station (like a train station)

Ghost stationIn divided Berlin, trains passed through these sealed stations under armed guard.

6. Name a country whose name ends in the letter E

São Tomé and PríncipeA 1919 eclipse observed from Príncipe helped confirm Einstein’s general relativity.

7. Name a superhero team

Great Lakes AvengersMilwaukee's leftover heroes, served a cease-and-desist over the Avengers name.

Friday, October 16, 2026, Dive #93

1. Name something that comes in a pump bottle (like moisturizer)

Nitroglycerin sprayAngina patients pump this medicine under the tongue.

2. Name a service you can get at a hair salon

Hand-pressed colourColorists press dye into hair using plexiglass and a paddle.

Punch permJapan's tight curly perm was once a yakuza signature.

3. Name a feature a modern car can have (like cruise control)

Emergency floating modeIn flash floods, it keeps BYD's Yangwang U8 afloat for thirty minutes.

Ice scraper in fuel doorŠkoda clips one inside the fuel filler flap.

5. Name a white sauce, dip, or condiment

Cervelle de canutLiterally silk worker's brain, it nods to Lyon's 19th-century weavers.

6. Name a sport where people sit when they compete (no esports, board games or card games)

Giant pumpkin regattaIts gourd boats often weigh over 1,000 pounds.

Wok racingCelebrities slid down Olympic bobsled runs in cooking woks.

7. Name something that uses steam

AeolipileHero of Alexandria described this spinning steam sphere around 60 AD.

Pop-pop boatIts toy steam engine has no moving parts at all.

Thursday, October 15, 2026, Dive #92

1. Name a type of astronomical object found in space (like an asteroid)

Hypervelocity starOne was flung from the galactic centre at 1,755 km per second.

Shepherd moonSaturn's shepherd moons herd ring particles into sharp edges.

2. Name a professional sports league with at least 10 teams

National Bowling LeagueTen franchises played one season, 1961–62, then it folded.

Union AssociationIts 1884 champion St Louis Maroons finished 94–19.

3. Name a living animal that weighs over a metric ton (1,000 kg)

Rice's whaleFewer than a hundred survive, all in the Gulf of Mexico.

ŻubrońPoland bred this wisent-cattle hybrid as a hardier cow.

4. Name a movie featuring Natalie Portman (like Star Wars)

Domino OneShot during her Harvard years, it screened at one 2005 festival.

5. Name a city south of the equator with over 100,000 people (by metro area)

Mbuji-MayiDiamonds built a city bigger than you probably imagined.

6. Name an app or service meant for editing photos

Aldus PhotoStylerAdobe bought its publisher Aldus in 1994 and shelved it.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026, Dive #91

1. Name an app or website for writing documents or taking notes

BravoXerox PARC's 1974 editor: the first WYSIWYG word processor.

Electric PencilFirst word processor for home computers, written for the Altair in 1976.

3. Name the current capital of a state or province anywhere in the world (must be officially called a state or province)

NgerbechedA hamlet of Koror town that serves as Koror State's seat.

SofifiOfficials commute to this capital by speedboat from Ternate.

4. Name a current or former NBA, MLB, Premier League or NFL team

Oorang IndiansA dog kennel in LaRue, Ohio fielded Jim Thorpe's all-Native team.

Tonawanda KardexPlayed one NFL game in 1921, lost 45–0, then folded.

5. Name a character from the Cars movies

John LassetireA Pixar in-joke car named after director John Lasseter.

Pope Pinion IVA car pope watches the Italian race from his own Popemobile.

6. Name a type of powder

Lycopodium powderClubmoss spores that flash when blown through a flame.

7. Name something you shake before using it

Shake 'n GoFisher-Price toy cars revved by shaking them back and forth.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Dive #90

1. Name an Amazon product, service or company Amazon owns

A9.comAmazon's 2004 search engine gave toolbar users a pi-over-two percent discount.

Amazon AuctionsLaunched in 1999 to fight eBay, folded into zShops within two years.

2. Name a fruit or vegetable that starts with B

BakeappleNewfoundlanders' name for the cloudberry, picked on bogs each August.

3. Name a driving or traffic offence

Furious drivingStill charged under an 1861 law written for horse-drawn carriages.

Running out of fuel on the AutobahnGerman law treats an empty tank as an avoidable, finable Autobahn stop.

4. Name a fictional character played by more than one actor in live-action movies

Lewis DodgsonCameron Thor's Barbasol-can briber returned in Dominion as Campbell Scott.

5. Name a country that has part of the Alps, the Andes or the Himalayas

MonacoIts highest ground is a slope of Mont Agel, a Maritime Alp.

6. Name a city in Asia with over 1 million people within city limits

DandongIts Broken Bridge stops halfway across the river toward North Korea.

7. Name a shampoo brand

Body on TapBristol-Myers' 1970s shampoo was made with one-third real beer.

Lemon UpIts 1970s bottle wore a plastic lemon for a cap.

Monday, October 12, 2026, Dive #89

1. Name a job-search website or app (like LinkedIn)

America's Job BankLabor Department's free national job board, shut down in 2007.

CareerMosaicLaunched in 1994, among the first job boards on the web.

2. Name an item of winter clothing

Welsh wigA knitted woollen cap, not a wig, worn by Victorian sailors.

3. Name a body part animals have but humans don't (like wings)

Aristotle's lanternA sea urchin's five-toothed chewing jaw, described by Aristotle.

Love dartSnails fire a calcium dart into each other before mating.

4. Name a hotel brand

Imperial 400Resident couples co-owned each Imperial 400 motel in the 1960s.

Statler HotelsStatler pioneered a private bath in each hotel room.

5. Name a department in a company (like HR)

Ink and paintDisney's mostly female department traced and coloured each animation cel.

6. Name a country with 8 or more letters

BotswanaEight letters, and a river delta that never reaches the sea.

7. Name a feature on YouTube

Wadsworth constantAdding wadsworth=1 to a 2011 link skipped the first thirty percent.

Sunday, October 11, 2026, Dive #88

1. Name something sold in a roll

FlypaperPull the tab and a sticky ribbon unrolls from the spool.

Haw flakesThin hawthorn candy discs, sold stacked inside a paper roll.

2. Name a type of table (the furniture)

Eight Immortals tableA square Chinese table seating two guests a side, eight in all.

Wake tableBuilt with cut-away sides so a coffin can rest on it.

3. Name a metal (pure elements only; alloys like steel don't count)

RheniumAnnounced in 1925 and named for the Rhine river.

TechnetiumMade in 1937 from cyclotron scrap, the first artificial element.

4. Name a kind of license or permit a person can get

Letter of marqueCongress can still license private ships to raid enemy shipping.

License to crenellateMedieval English kings had to approve battlements on your house.

5. Name an app or service for paying or sending money (like PayPal; banks and card networks don't count)

DigiCashDavid Chaum's eCash, the first digital money, went bankrupt in 1998.

FloozWhoopi Goldberg pitched this dot-com gift currency before it folded in 2001.

6. Name a sport that is a race (fastest to the finish wins)

Ice canoe racingCrews paddle and shove canoes across the half-frozen Saint Lawrence River.

Man versus horse marathonRunners race horses across mid-Wales; a human first won in 2004.

Saturday, October 10, 2026, Dive #87

1. Name a musical instrument

DaxophoneWooden tongue bowed on a block to sound like a talking animal.

OctobassTwelve-foot bass so tall its player works levers from a platform.

2. Name a vegetable that's botanically a fruit

AchochaAndean slipper gourd stuffed like a pepper in Bolivian kitchens.

CucamelonGrape-sized Mexican cucumber that tastes of lime and looks like a watermelon.

3. Name a body part people have exactly two of (like ears)

Anatomical snuffboxesHollow at the thumb's base where gentlemen once held their snuff.

AntitragiSmall bump across the ear notch from the tragus.

4. Name a city with the word "City" in its name (like Mexico City)

Atomic CityIdaho town of two dozen beside the first reactor to light bulbs.

Gas CityIndiana boomtown named for the 1880s natural gas strike.

5. Name a juice brand

Donald Duck orange juiceFlorida growers have sold juice under the duck's name since the 1940s.

Snow CropClinton Foods' 1940s frozen concentrate that fought Minute Maid for freezers.

6. Name a piece of baking equipment

Pie birdA hollow ceramic blackbird that vents steam through the pie crust.

Pork pie dollyWooden block the hot-water pastry is hand-raised around.

7. Name an animal whose name ends in Y

BilbyRabbit-eared Australian marsupial sold as chocolate instead of Easter bunnies.

Sea bunnyFluffy-looking Japanese sea slug whose ears are chemical sensors.

Friday, October 9, 2026, Dive #86

1. Name a Justin Bieber song

Turn to YouA 2012 Mother's Day single for his mom, with proceeds to charity.

2. Name an animal named after another animal (like seahorse)

BeewolfA solitary wasp that paralyzes honeybees to feed its larvae.

WrentitNeither wren nor tit; North America's only parrotbill.

3. Name a Twitch streamer with more than 500k followers

broxh_A woodcarver who tried giving subscribers their money back.

4. Name a country whose flag has both green and red

MauritaniaRed stripes joined the green in a 2017 referendum.

5. Name a city in the UK (towns count too)

St AsaphGranted city status in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee.

6. Name an email service (like Gmail)

BigfootA 1990s address for life that forwarded to any inbox.

LavabitShut itself down in 2013 rather than hand over Snowden's keys.

7. Name a type of camera (not brands)

Afghan box cameraA wooden darkroom on legs that develops the print inside.

Pigeon cameraJulius Neubronner strapped it to homing pigeons in 1907.

Thursday, October 8, 2026, Dive #85

1. Name a sports car brand

BricklinIts gullwing doors weighed about a hundred pounds apiece.

CrosleyCrosley's tiny Hotshot won the first Sebring race in 1950.

2. Name something that uses a filter (physical filters, not photo filters)

BombillaArgentina's mate straw ends in a sieve that holds back the leaves.

MangroveMangrove roots filter out most of the salt before seawater rises.

3. Name a part of a shirt

Bar tackDense zigzag stitches that stop a pocket corner from tearing.

Locker loopIvy League shirts added the loop for gym lockers without hangers.

4. Name a symptom of a cold or flu

Chapped lipsMouth breathing past a blocked nose dries lips until they crack.

5. Name a country whose name uses only one vowel letter (a, e, i, o, or u), repeats allowed (like Canada)

KyrgyzstanTwo Y's carry the name and a single A does the rest.

6. Name a ceremony or celebration that marks a stage of life

KanrekiAt sixty, Japanese celebrants wear red like a newborn to mark rebirth.

Shichi-Go-SanJapanese children aged three, five and seven visit shrines each November.

7. Name a sport normally played on grass

StoolballSussex milkmaids hit a ball at a stool before cricket existed.

TrugoMelbourne railway workers invented it by hitting wheels with a mallet.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026, Dive #84

1. Name a dating app

HaterShark Tank app that matched couples by shared dislikes.

ThursdayLondon app that switches on for one day each week.

2. Name a food you'd grate (kinds of cheese count once)

Cured egg yolkSalt and sugar turn a yolk into an amber puck for grating.

Tonka beanVanilla-scented seed the FDA has banned from food since 1954.

3. Name a stand-up comedian

Lord BuckleyHipster monologist who retold Shakespeare and the Gospels in jive.

4. Name a kind of gun that isn't designed as a weapon (like a glue gun)

Drench gunFarmers squirt wormer down a sheep's throat with this.

Hog ring gunCrimps C-shaped rings shut on sausage casings and fencing.

5. Name a city in Europe with over 100,000 people

AtyrauCaspian oil city on the Ural, half of it in Europe.

OralKazakh city on the Ural River, Uralsk under the tsars.

6. Name a kind of live stage show (like a magic show)

ChautauquaTent circuit of lectures and music that toured 1900s America.

Medicine showTraveling pitchmen sold snake oil between the acts.

7. Name a solo sport (no card games, board games, or esports)

FierljeppenFrisian canal vaulting on poles up to thirteen metres long.

Ski balletFreestyle skiing to music, an Olympic demonstration event in 1988.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026, Dive #83

1. Name a language ending in -ese

SentineleseSpoken on North Sentinel Island, whose people turn all visitors away.

2. Name a sport or game where you score by getting a ball or object into a hole, hoop, basket or pocket

Toad in the holeSussex pub game where brass coins are flicked into a lead-topped hole.

3. Name a type of brush

FitchNamed for the polecat whose hair once filled these small decorating brushes.

FloggerSlapped against wet glaze, its long bristles fake the pores of oak.

4. Name a home safety device (like a smoke detector)

Bed shakerShakes the mattress so a deaf sleeper wakes to the smoke alarm.

Fake TVAn LED box that flickers like a television in an empty house.

5. Name something you can do to a photo in your phone's photo editor (like crop)

CurvesDrag one line and bend all the tones at once.

Long exposureTurns a Live Photo's waterfall into silk without a tripod.

6. Name a form of pay a worker can receive

Kill feeMagazines pay it when they cancel a piece they commissioned.

LayWhalers earned a fixed fraction of the voyage's profits, not wages.

7. Name a country with both an A and an M in its name

DominicaStressed on the third syllable, dom-in-EE-ka, not like Dominican.

Monday, October 5, 2026, Dive #82

1. Name an artist with at least 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify

RodríguezFamous in South Africa while still working construction back in Detroit.

The HUMongolian throat singing meets heavy rock and horsehead fiddles.

2. Name a part of a fruit

HaustoriumSprouting coconuts grow a sweet spongy ball inside, nicknamed coconut apple.

OstioleFig wasps crawl into the fruit through this pinhole at its base.

3. Name a country whose name ends in an "ee" sound (like Italy)

EswatiniSwaziland renamed itself Eswatini by royal decree in 2018.

4. Name a TV brand

DuMontAllen DuMont built the first network and then lost it.

MuntzMadman Muntz sold TVs by sawing out parts until they broke.

5. Name something you can do with a keyboard shortcut (like copy with Ctrl+C)

Mouse KeysTurns the number pad into a mouse that nudges the pointer.

Screen curtainBlacks out a Mac's display while VoiceOver keeps reading it aloud.

6. Name a fruit or vegetable that starts with P

Praying Hands bananaThese bananas grow fused together like hands pressed in prayer.

7. Name a website or app built mainly for ratings and reviews

KittenwarTwo kittens enter, the cuter one wins your vote.

Sunday, October 4, 2026, Dive #81

1. Name a YouTuber with more than 10 million subscribers

Bounce PatrolMelbourne nursery-rhyme troupe that became Australia's most-subscribed YouTube channel.

El Reino InfantilArgentine home of La Granja de Zenón, the most-watched Spanish-language channel.

2. Name a gas station chain

GilmoreIts 1948 Los Angeles Gas-A-Teria let drivers pump their own gas.

WadhamsMilwaukee chain whose hundred pagoda-roofed stations were designed by Alexander Eschweiler.

3. Name a country with both an O and an R in its name

ComorosGrows most of the world's ylang-ylang, the perfume industry's floral base.

4. Name a folder in an email inbox

ImboxHEY misspells it on purpose: an inbox only for senders you approved.

Top of Information StoreOutlook's hidden root folder, seen only when the mailbox tree misbehaves.

5. Name something listed on a nutrition facts label

MolybdenumDaily Value 45 micrograms, among the rarest lines any label carries.

6. Name a country larger than the UK by area

GuineaJust edges past the UK in total area.

7. Name a religious role or title in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism or Judaism

ExilarchHereditary head of Babylonian Jewry, claiming descent from King David.

ThuriferCarries the censer at Mass, from the Latin for incense-bearer.

Saturday, October 3, 2026, Dive #80

1. Name a TV genre

Jiggle TVLate-1970s press label for Charlie's Angels-style ABC shows.

Mo lei tauHong Kong nonsense comedy style made famous by Stephen Chow.

2. Name a device used to magnify things

Cyclops lensRolex added it in 1953 to enlarge the date window.

ZograscopeAn eighteenth-century upgrade for looking at pictures.

3. Name a type of structure built underground (man-made)

DeneholeChalk miners sank a narrow shaft, then hollowed out chambers below.

ErdstallA medieval tunnel network with tight squeezes and a still-debated purpose.

4. Name a body part an animal has for fighting or protection

AcrorhagiSea anemones wage slow border wars by clubbing neighbours with them.

Cuvierian tubulesSome sea cucumbers eject these sticky organs to tie predators up.

5. Name a type of sausage

GumpeselA smoked sausage from Meiringen, Switzerland.

LandjägerAlpine hiker's sausage, dried in a press that gives square edges.

6. Name a board, card or hand game made for exactly two players

AsaltoTwo officers defend a fortress against 24 rebels on a cross board.

LuzhanqiChinese army chess; a neutral referee judges the hidden captures.

7. Name a country in the Americas where Spanish is not the most widely spoken language

Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesA small country with a very big name.

Friday, October 2, 2026, Dive #79

1. Name a place in the Harry Potter universe

Mould-on-the-WoldMould-on-the-Wold was the Dumbledore family's home before Godric's Hollow.

2. Name a type of shot in a sport (like a free throw)

PanenkaAntonín Panenka chipped the winning penalty in the 1976 Euro final.

RabonaRabona takes its name from Argentine slang for skipping school.

3. Name a part of a shoe

WeltA Goodyear welt lets cobblers resole the same shoe repeatedly.

4. Name a country whose name ends in N

GabonRainforest covers nearly ninety percent of Gabon.

5. Name a country with glaciers

JapanJapan's first glaciers were only officially recognised in 2012.

6. Name a standard type of tax (currently levied in at least one country)

Hot spring taxJapan levies a hot spring tax on each onsen bath.

ZakatZakat asks Muslims to give 2.5 percent of their wealth yearly.

7. Name a type of living bird (general types; species names are grouped)

HoatzinHoatzin chicks hatch with claws on their wings for climbing.

OilbirdOilbirds navigate dark caves by echolocation and eat only fruit.

Thursday, October 1, 2026, Dive #78

1. Name a feature on Instagram

Emoji gameTapping a sent DM emoji opens a hidden Pong game.

PoprocketPoprocket was one of Instagram's original 2010 filters, cut in 2011.

2. Name a sauce used in Asian cooking (like soy sauce)

BalichãoMacau's balichão ferments shrimp with bay leaf and Portuguese brandy.

3. Name a music festival

SnowbombingSnowbombing turns the Austrian ski village of Mayrhofen into a week-long festival.

4. Name a present-day nationality that ends in -ian (like Canadian)

KittitianKittitian comes from Kitts, an old short form of Christopher.

5. Name a yellow fruit or vegetable

CanistelCanistel, the egg fruit, has flesh like a hard-boiled yolk.

6. Name an app where you can video call

Yahoo LivetextYahoo Livetext streamed silent live video with typed captions, 2015 to 2016.

7. Name an animal with a color in its name

Ruby SeadragonRuby seadragons were first filmed alive in 2016, off Western Australia.