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Krillion #106 gems October 29, 2026

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Krillion #105 gems October 28, 2026

1. Name a pasta dish

   Pastasciutta antifascista Cervi family served it to their whole village celebrating Mussolini's arrest.

2. Name a part of the human head

   Habenula This 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)

   Polesia Chernobyl's exclusion zone lies inside this vast marshy forest region.

4. Name a food or drink that has an emoji

   Oden The skewer emoji is named for this Japanese simmered dish.

5. Name a superpower any superhero has in the MCU

   Communication with Celestials Ajak 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)

   inro A small Japanese medicine case worn hanging from a kimono sash.

7. Name something you ride while standing up

   Paternoster Open cabins circulate nonstop, so riders step aboard while they move.

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Krillion #104 gems October 27, 2026

1. Name a bird that lives in or by water

   Sungrebe Males carry chicks in skin pockets under their wings, even while flying.

2. Name something with physical pages (named works don't count)

   Summit register Summit logbooks usually sit in weatherproof, animal-proof metal cases.

3. Name a type of ball outside of sports

   Time ball Greenwich'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

   MoKenStef Their name combines members' first names: Monifa, Kenya and Stefanie.

5. Name a part of the school year (events like prom count too)

   Raisin weekend St 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).

   Lesotho Its flag's black emblem is a mokorotlo, the traditional Basotho hat.

7. Name a one-word food or drink that starts with Ch

   Chhurpi A hard chhurpi block, chewed like gum, lasts up to five hours.

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Krillion #103 gems October 26, 2026

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

   Thaton Burma's King Anawrahta conquered the Mon capital Thaton in 1057.

3. Name something traditionally expressed as a percentage (like body fat)

   Albedo Earth 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)

   Tamburello Tamburello players hit the ball with a round, tightly skinned tambourine frame.

5. Name a Latin American dish

   Hormigas culonas Only queen leafcutter ants become hormigas culonas, roasted in ceramic pans.

6. Name a fruit or vegetable with a one-syllable name

   Sloe Steeping astringent blackthorn sloes in sugared gin makes sloe gin.

7. Name a phone setting you can switch on and off

   Chop for Flashlight Two karate chops switch on a Motorola phone's flashlight.

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Krillion #102 gems October 25, 2026

1. Name a type of bed (for sleeping)

   Babuchuang A 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

   Hasma A dessert ingredient made from tissue around frogs’ fallopian tubes.

3. Name a song that has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100

   Sukiyaki Its Japanese lyrics never once mention sukiyaki.

4. Name a national park anywhere in the world

   Keibul Lamjao It 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 Mole A plush Little Mole flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2011.

6. Name a country with a desert climate (in any part of it)

   United Kingdom Courtesy of Ascension Island, a British overseas territory.

7. Name a player currently on an English Premier League or NFL team

   Tom King Scored a world-record 96-metre goal straight from a 2021 goal kick.

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Krillion #101 gems October 24, 2026

1. Name a movie first released in theaters in 2026

   Chronovisor A scholar hunts for a machine that can replay the past.

2. Name something with a spinning blade

   Aerosani Soviet propeller sleds that carried mail and troops across snow.

3. Name a book that has sold at least 500,000 copies worldwide.

   In His Steps Sheldon's 1896 novel asked 'What would Jesus do?' with a defective copyright.

4. Name a word that could be in Wordle (5 letters)

   qajaq Kayak 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 Caps Mac desk accessory that revealed the characters hiding under Option.

6. Name a language that originated in South Asia or Southeast Asia

   Kusunda Nepal's language isolate, down to its last few fluent speakers.

7. Name something with a legal minimum age

   Falconry license US federal rules let a twelve-year-old hold a falconry permit.

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Krillion #100 gems October 23, 2026

1. Name a branded fast-food menu item (like the Big Mac).

   Hula Burger Ray 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 whale Startled, it releases a reddish cloud of intestinal fluid, squid-style.

3. Name a part of a 2D or 3D shape (like a radius).

   Sagitta Latin 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 press Named for Jim Bradford, Olympic weightlifting silver medalist in 1952 and 1960.

5. Name a Nintendo Wii game.

   Captain Rainbow Japan-only 2008 Wii game featuring forgotten Nintendo characters like Birdo.

6. Name a rap song with over 100 million Spotify streams.

   Above The Clouds Gang Starr teamed up with Wu-Tang's Inspectah Deck on this 1998 track.

7. Name a machine traditionally operated by inserting coins.

   Mold-A-Rama Warm polyethylene dinosaurs cost 50 cents at the 1964 World's Fair.

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Krillion #99 gems October 22, 2026

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

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

   Tonton Tsunade'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 mechanic Median 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)

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

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

   Steganography The 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

   Nauru Nauru got rich mining phosphate formed from ancient seabird droppings.

6. Name an environmental problem (like pollution)

   Nurdle pollution A 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 duck Despite its name, it's a fried lizardfish from the Arabian Sea.

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Krillion #98 gems October 21, 2026

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

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

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

   Pat Spencer College 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 chicken Baked inside lotus leaves and clay, then cracked open with a mallet.

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

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

   Iceboat Ice 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 liver Before you were born, this carried blood from the placenta.

6. Name a country that borders Greece or Austria

   Liechtenstein One of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Uzbekistan.

7. Name an extra that airlines charge for

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

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Krillion #97 gems October 20, 2026

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

   Miswak A Salvadora persica twig chewed into a natural toothbrush.

   Spurtle Scotland's porridge championship awards a golden one each October.

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

   Moretum A 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 Nevis Smallest 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 machine Han-dynasty China cranked chaff from grain eighteen centuries before Europe.

5. Name a mammal smaller than a house cat

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

   Kha-nyou A 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 horse Karl Drais's 1817 running machine put a saddle between two wheels.

   Earthworm Its pale clitellum band near the head is called the saddle.

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Krillion #96 gems October 19, 2026

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

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

   Mercedes Sosa Argentina'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 wedge Harvard's 1892 football play is still outlawed in rugby's laws.

   Palpably unfair act NFL referees may award a touchdown to punish one.

3. Name an underwear brand

   Jogbra Born in 1977 as the Jockbra: two jockstraps sewn together.

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

4. Name a university in the US or UK

   Berea College Kentucky college that has charged no tuition since 1892.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Name a fruit normally eaten with its skin on

   Miracle fruit Its miraculin makes sour foods like lemons taste sweet.

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Krillion #95 gems October 18, 2026

1. Name a fruit bigger than an apple

   Coco de mer Its seed is the heaviest in the plant kingdom.

   Karuka Its giant fruit heads hide coconut-flavoured nuts.

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

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

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

3. Name a perfume or fragrance brand

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

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

4. Name a sport where competitors wear gloves

   Pesäpallo Blends traditional ball-batting team games with North American baseball.

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

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

   Steinborn squat Milo Steinborn tipped a loaded bar onto his shoulders without a rack.

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

   Honor Guard Bundled with the Honor View 20 phone in 2019.

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

   Pete & Bas Two London pensioners made UK drill their retirement plan.

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Krillion #94 gems October 17, 2026

1. Name a way to prepare potatoes

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

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

   Mara Patagonian 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 Konstanty He became the first relief pitcher to win MLB MVP.

   Mark Moseley He won NFL MVP as a kicker in 1982.

4. Name a chemical element whose symbol is one letter

   Yttrium Named after Ytterby, the Swedish village behind four element names.

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

   Ghost station In 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 Príncipe A 1919 eclipse observed from Príncipe helped confirm Einstein’s general relativity.

7. Name a superhero team

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

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Krillion #93 gems October 16, 2026

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

   Nitroglycerin spray Angina patients pump this medicine under the tongue.

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

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

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

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

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

   Ice scraper in fuel door Škoda clips one inside the fuel filler flap.

4. Name a white sauce, dip, or condiment

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

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

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

   Wok racing Celebrities slid down Olympic bobsled runs in cooking woks.

6. Name something that uses steam

   Aeolipile Hero of Alexandria described this spinning steam sphere around 60 AD.

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

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Krillion #92 gems October 15, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

   Union Association Its 1884 champion St Louis Maroons finished 94–19.

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

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

   Żubroń Poland bred this wisent-cattle hybrid as a hardier cow.

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

   Domino One Shot 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-Mayi Diamonds built a city bigger than you probably imagined.

6. Name an app or service meant for editing photos

   Aldus PhotoStyler Adobe bought its publisher Aldus in 1994 and shelved it.

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Krillion #91 gems October 14, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

   Sofifi Officials commute to this capital by speedboat from Ternate.

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

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

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

4. Name a character from the Cars movies

   John Lassetire A Pixar in-joke car named after director John Lasseter.

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

5. Name a type of powder

   Lycopodium powder Clubmoss spores that flash when blown through a flame.

6. Name something you shake before using it

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

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Krillion #90 gems October 13, 2026

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

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

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

2. Name a fruit or vegetable that starts with B

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

3. Name a driving or traffic offence

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

   Running out of fuel on the Autobahn German 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 Dodgson Cameron 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

   Monaco Its 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

   Dandong Its Broken Bridge stops halfway across the river toward North Korea.

7. Name a shampoo brand

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

   Lemon Up Its 1970s bottle wore a plastic lemon for a cap.

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Krillion #89 gems October 12, 2026

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

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

   CareerMosaic Launched in 1994, among the first job boards on the web.

2. Name an item of winter clothing

   Welsh wig A 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 lantern A sea urchin's five-toothed chewing jaw, described by Aristotle.

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

4. Name a hotel brand

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

   Statler Hotels Statler pioneered a private bath in each hotel room.

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

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

6. Name a country with 8 or more letters

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

7. Name a feature on YouTube

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

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Krillion #88 gems October 11, 2026

1. Name something sold in a roll

   Flypaper Pull the tab and a sticky ribbon unrolls from the spool.

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

2. Name a type of table (the furniture)

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

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

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

   Rhenium Announced in 1925 and named for the Rhine river.

   Technetium Made in 1937 from cyclotron scrap, the first artificial element.

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

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

   License to crenellate Medieval 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)

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

   Flooz Whoopi 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 racing Crews paddle and shove canoes across the half-frozen Saint Lawrence River.

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

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Krillion #87 gems October 10, 2026

1. Name a musical instrument

   Daxophone Wooden tongue bowed on a block to sound like a talking animal.

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

2. Name a vegetable that's botanically a fruit

   Achocha Andean slipper gourd stuffed like a pepper in Bolivian kitchens.

   Cucamelon Grape-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 snuffboxes Hollow at the thumb's base where gentlemen once held their snuff.

   Antitragi Small bump across the ear notch from the tragus.

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

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

   Gas City Indiana boomtown named for the 1880s natural gas strike.

5. Name a juice brand

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

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

6. Name a piece of baking equipment

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

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

7. Name an animal whose name ends in Y

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

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

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Krillion #86 gems October 9, 2026

1. Name a Justin Bieber song

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

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

   Beewolf A solitary wasp that paralyzes honeybees to feed its larvae.

   Wrentit Neither 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

   Mauritania Red stripes joined the green in a 2017 referendum.

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

   St Asaph Granted city status in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee.

6. Name an email service (like Gmail)

   Bigfoot A 1990s address for life that forwarded to any inbox.

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

7. Name a type of camera (not brands)

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

   Pigeon camera Julius Neubronner strapped it to homing pigeons in 1907.

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Krillion #85 gems October 8, 2026

1. Name a sports car brand

   Bricklin Its gullwing doors weighed about a hundred pounds apiece.

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

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

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

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

3. Name a part of a shirt

   Bar tack Dense zigzag stitches that stop a pocket corner from tearing.

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

4. Name a symptom of a cold or flu

   Chapped lips Mouth 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)

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

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

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

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

7. Name a sport normally played on grass

   Stoolball Sussex milkmaids hit a ball at a stool before cricket existed.

   Trugo Melbourne railway workers invented it by hitting wheels with a mallet.

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Krillion #84 gems October 7, 2026

1. Name a dating app

   Hater Shark Tank app that matched couples by shared dislikes.

   Thursday London app that switches on for one day each week.

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

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

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

3. Name a stand-up comedian

   Lord Buckley Hipster 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 gun Farmers squirt wormer down a sheep's throat with this.

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

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

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

   Oral Kazakh city on the Ural River, Uralsk under the tsars.

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

   Chautauqua Tent circuit of lectures and music that toured 1900s America.

   Medicine show Traveling pitchmen sold snake oil between the acts.

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

   Fierljeppen Frisian canal vaulting on poles up to thirteen metres long.

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

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Krillion #83 gems October 6, 2026

1. Name a language ending in -ese

   Sentinelese Spoken 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 hole Sussex pub game where brass coins are flicked into a lead-topped hole.

3. Name a type of brush

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

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

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

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

   Fake TV An 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)

   Curves Drag one line and bend all the tones at once.

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

6. Name a form of pay a worker can receive

   Kill fee Magazines pay it when they cancel a piece they commissioned.

   Lay Whalers 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

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

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Krillion #82 gems October 5, 2026

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

   Rodríguez Famous in South Africa while still working construction back in Detroit.

   The HU Mongolian throat singing meets heavy rock and horsehead fiddles.

2. Name a part of a fruit

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

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

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

   Eswatini Swaziland renamed itself Eswatini by royal decree in 2018.

4. Name a TV brand

   DuMont Allen DuMont built the first network and then lost it.

   Muntz Madman 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 Keys Turns the number pad into a mouse that nudges the pointer.

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

6. Name a fruit or vegetable that starts with P

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

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

   Kittenwar Two kittens enter, the cuter one wins your vote.

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Krillion #81 gems October 4, 2026

1. Name a YouTuber with more than 10 million subscribers

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

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

2. Name a gas station chain

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

   Wadhams Milwaukee 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

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

4. Name a folder in an email inbox

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

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

5. Name something listed on a nutrition facts label

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

6. Name a country larger than the UK by area

   Guinea Just edges past the UK in total area.

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

   Exilarch Hereditary head of Babylonian Jewry, claiming descent from King David.

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

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Krillion #80 gems October 3, 2026

1. Name a TV genre

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

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

2. Name a device used to magnify things

   Cyclops lens Rolex added it in 1953 to enlarge the date window.

   Zograscope An eighteenth-century upgrade for looking at pictures.

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

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

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

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

   Acrorhagi Sea anemones wage slow border wars by clubbing neighbours with them.

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

5. Name a type of sausage

   Gumpesel A smoked sausage from Meiringen, Switzerland.

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

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

   Asalto Two officers defend a fortress against 24 rebels on a cross board.

   Luzhanqi Chinese 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 Grenadines A small country with a very big name.

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Krillion #79 gems October 2, 2026

1. Name a place in the Harry Potter universe

   Mould-on-the-Wold Mould-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)

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

   Rabona Rabona takes its name from Argentine slang for skipping school.

3. Name a part of a shoe

   Welt A Goodyear welt lets cobblers resole the same shoe repeatedly.

4. Name a country whose name ends in N

   Gabon Rainforest covers nearly ninety percent of Gabon.

5. Name a country with glaciers

   Japan Japan'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 tax Japan levies a hot spring tax on each onsen bath.

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

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

   Hoatzin Hoatzin chicks hatch with claws on their wings for climbing.

   Oilbird Oilbirds navigate dark caves by echolocation and eat only fruit.

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Krillion #78 gems October 1, 2026

1. Name a feature on Instagram

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

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

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

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

3. Name a music festival

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

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

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

5. Name a yellow fruit or vegetable

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

6. Name an app where you can video call

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

7. Name an animal with a color in its name

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

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Krillion #77 gems September 30, 2026

1. Name a coffee shop chain

   I Got Everything Korean café chain created to employ baristas with disabilities.

2. Name an item designed to be filled with air

   Inflatoplane Goodyear built this inflatable airplane for downed pilots in 1956.

3. Name a medical scan or imaging test (pictures of the body, not readouts like an EKG)

   Pneumoencephalogram Walter Dandy replaced spinal fluid with air to image the brain, 1919.

4. Name a power tool

   Powder-actuated tool Drives nails into concrete with a .22 caliber blank cartridge.

5. Name a word for an animal's home (nests and shelters, not habitats like the ocean)

   Vespiary A wasps' nest, from Latin vespa for wasp.

6. Name a phone accessory

   Faraday bag Police bag seized phones in these to block remote wipes.

7. Name a real-life language that uses a non-Latin writing system

   Vai Written in a syllabary Momolu Bukele invented in Liberia around 1833.

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Krillion #76 gems September 29, 2026

1. Name something sold in a tube

   Kalles Kaviar Swedish cod-roe spread sold in a blue-and-yellow tube since 1954.

   Space food NASA sold souvenir astronaut meals in aluminium squeeze tubes.

2. Name a symbol or shape that appears on a national flag (like a star)

   Armillary sphere Portugal's flag carries a navigational armillary sphere behind its shield.

   Tunduk Kyrgyzstan's sun holds a tunduk, the crown of a yurt.

3. Name a type of chair

   Ducking stool Medieval scolds were dunked in the village pond on it.

   Sedan chair Two bearers carried this enclosed chair through 18th-century streets.

4. Name a standard type of insurance policy (all vehicles count as one type)

   Hole-in-one insurance Golf tournaments buy it to cover a promised ace prize.

   Twins insurance Pays out when an expected single birth turns out multiple.

5. Name a song with over a billion streams on Spotify

   Arcade Duncan Laurence won Eurovision 2019 for the Netherlands with it.

   Snowman Sia's 2017 Christmas song went viral on TikTok in 2020.

6. Name an animal that can grow longer than 10 feet (3 m), including the tail

   Bootlace worm A Scottish specimen from 1864 measured some 55 metres.

   Slender giant moray Strophidon sathete, the longest moray, reaches about four metres.

7. Name a product used to wash or style hair (product types, not brands)

   Bandoline Victorian setting lotion thickened with quince-seed mucilage.

   Macassar oil Victorian hair oil that gave antimacassar chair covers their name.

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Krillion #75 gems September 28, 2026

1. Name a superpower Superman has in the comics or movies

   Rebuild vision Superman IV had him rebuild part of the Great Wall by staring.

   Super-sneeze Mxyzptlk's sneezing powder once made him destroy a distant solar system.

2. Name a language whose English name ends in -ish

   Lettish Before 'Latvian' caught on, English speakers called Latvia's language this.

3. Name something used to block the sun

   Inuit snow goggles Carved from bone or antler, their narrow slits cut blinding snow glare.

   Velarium Sailors from the Roman fleet rigged this awning over the Colosseum.

4. Name a laptop brand

   GRiD Its Compass laptop flew aboard the Space Shuttle in 1983.

   OLPC Its green-and-white XO laptop was built for schoolchildren in developing countries.

5. Name a part of an airplane, inside or out (anything built in or mounted)

   Ashtray Smoking is banned, yet rules require one beside each lavatory door.

   Crash axe Airliner cockpits carry a real axe for chopping through panels in fires.

6. Name a body part people have more than two of (like fingers)

   Lunulae Those pale half-moons at the base of your nails have a name.

   Otoliths Inner-ear crystals that tell your brain which way is down.

7. Name an item of formal wear (clothing and shoes, not jewelry)

   Albert slippers Named for Prince Albert, these velvet slippers suit black tie at home.

   Opera hat Its spring-loaded crown collapses flat to fit under a theatre seat.

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