High-scoring answers
Scores from Krillion Answers archive for this question and date.
All answers & scores
1–100 of 102 answers
| Answer | Points | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn al-Haytham | 100 | One in a Krillion |
| A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Al-Khwarizmi | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Alexander von Humboldt | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 85 | Deep Cut |
| B.F. Skinner | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Barbara McClintock | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Brian Cox | 85 | Deep Cut |
| C.V. Raman | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Chien-Shiung Wu | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Dorothy Hodgkin | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Emmy Noether | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Georges Lemaitre | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Hedy Lamarr | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Hypatia | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Ibn Sina | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Irene Joliot-Curie | 85 | Deep Cut |
| J.J. Thomson | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Jennifer Doudna | 85 | Deep Cut |
| John von Neumann | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Katalin Kariko | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Lise Meitner | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Michio Kaku | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Norman Borlaug | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Paul Dirac | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Percy Julian | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Pierre Curie | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Robert Koch | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Satyendra Nath Bose | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Sophie Germain | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Stephen Jay Gould | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Tu Youyou | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Tycho Brahe | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Wolfgang Pauli | 85 | Deep Cut |
| Alexander Fleming | 60 | Rare |
| Amedeo Avogadro | 60 | Rare |
| Antoine Lavoisier | 60 | Rare |
| Blaise Pascal | 60 | Rare |
| Carl Jung | 60 | Rare |
| Carl Linnaeus | 60 | Rare |
| Charles Babbage | 60 | Rare |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | 60 | Rare |
| Edward Jenner | 60 | Rare |
| Edwin Hubble | 60 | Rare |
| Enrico Fermi | 60 | Rare |
| Ernest Rutherford | 60 | Rare |
| Erwin Schrodinger | 60 | Rare |
| Euclid | 60 | Rare |
| Francis Crick | 60 | Rare |
| Grace Hopper | 60 | Rare |
| Hippocrates | 60 | Rare |
| Ivan Pavlov | 60 | Rare |
| James Clerk Maxwell | 60 | Rare |
| James Watson | 60 | Rare |
| Johannes Kepler | 60 | Rare |
| John Dalton | 60 | Rare |
| Jonas Salk | 60 | Rare |
| Linus Pauling | 60 | Rare |
| Mae Jemison | 60 | Rare |
| Max Planck | 60 | Rare |
| Ptolemy | 60 | Rare |
| Richard Dawkins | 60 | Rare |
| Richard Feynman | 60 | Rare |
| Robert Boyle | 60 | Rare |
| Robert Hooke | 60 | Rare |
| Sigmund Freud | 60 | Rare |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | 60 | Rare |
| Vera Rubin | 60 | Rare |
| Werner Heisenberg | 60 | Rare |
| Ada Lovelace | 30 | Schooler |
| Alan Turing | 30 | Schooler |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 30 | Schooler |
| Alfred Nobel | 30 | Schooler |
| Archimedes | 30 | Schooler |
| Aristotle | 30 | Schooler |
| Benjamin Franklin | 30 | Schooler |
| Bill Nye | 30 | Schooler |
| Carl Sagan | 30 | Schooler |
| Copernicus | 30 | Schooler |
| George Washington Carver | 30 | Schooler |
| Gregor Mendel | 30 | Schooler |
| Jane Goodall | 30 | Schooler |
| Katherine Johnson | 30 | Schooler |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 30 | Schooler |
| Louis Pasteur | 30 | Schooler |
| Michael Faraday | 30 | Schooler |
| Niels Bohr | 30 | Schooler |
| Nikola Tesla | 30 | Schooler |
| Pythagoras | 30 | Schooler |
| Rachel Carson | 30 | Schooler |
| Sally Ride | 30 | Schooler |
| Thomas Edison | 30 | Schooler |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | 15 | Too Clever |
| Rosalind Franklin | 15 | Too Clever |
| Albert Einstein | 10 | Plankton |
| Charles Darwin | 10 | Plankton |
| Galileo Galilei | 10 | Plankton |
| Isaac Newton | 10 | Plankton |
| Marie Curie | 10 | Plankton |
How these answers are scored
Each answer has a score for this specific question. One in a Krillion earns 100 points; Deep Cut earns 85. The ratings are curated, rather than calculated from how many people choose an answer today.
Answers and scores: Krillion Answers archive for August 11, 2026. Other spellings may be treated differently in the live game.