Krillion Answers for August 11, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Brunei— White and black stripes on yellow, red crest in the middle. The sultan thanks you for noticing.
• Kiribati— A frigatebird over a gold sunrise, white waves below. The only flag that is a painting of where it flies.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Afghanistan— The tricolor with the white emblem still flies at the UN. That one counts.
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus— The hoist ornament is red-on-white. It counts.
• Belize
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Comoros
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eswatini
• Fiji
• Gambia
• Guyana
• Haiti— The flag everyone flies carries the arms on a white panel. Counts.
• Laos
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Maldives
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Palestine
• Papua New Guinea
• Portugal— The inner shield is white with five blue dots. Ask a Portuguese schoolkid.
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Samoa
• Seychelles
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Tajikistan
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga— The constitution says this flag can never be changed. So it won’t be.
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela
• Zimbabwe

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Algeria
• Australia
• Bahrain
• Bulgaria
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Czechia
• Dominican Republic
• Egypt
• Georgia— Five red crosses on white. The Five Cross Flag.
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Iran
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Kenya
• Kuwait
• Latvia— Dark red, actually. 'Latvian red' has its own name. Still counts.
• Lebanon
• Liberia
• Luxembourg
• Malaysia
• Malta— Half white, half red, with an actual British war medal in the corner.
• New Zealand
• North Korea
• Oman
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Qatar— Officially maroon, and maroon is its own Pantone. Latvia got in, so does Qatar.
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tunisia
• United Arab Emirates
• Yemen

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Austria
• Chile
• Cuba
• Indonesia
• Italy
• Mexico
• Monaco— Same as Indonesia, just a different aspect ratio. Don't tell either.
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Russia
• Singapore— Red over white, crescent and stars. All red and white.
• South Korea
• Spain— The white hides in the coat of arms — the lion’s silver field and the pillars. We checked.
• Thailand
• Turkey

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Denmark— The Dannebrog, oldest national flag still in use. The flag-nerd flex arrives on schedule.
• Nepal— The only non-rectangular national flag. Every flag-fact knower files in at the same time.

The most common answer on the board.

• Canada
• France
• Japan— Red dot, white field. First flag everyone pictures.
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Northern white rhino— Two females remain, both infertile. Functionally extinct while still alive. The saddest gem here.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Addax
• Amur leopard
• Arabian oryx
• Aye-aye
• Beluga sturgeon
• Blue-throated macaw
• Chinese alligator
• Chinese pangolin
• Coelacanth
• Ethiopian wolf
• European eel
• Galapagos penguin
• Ganges river dolphin
• Gharial
• Giant clam
• Giant otter
• Hawaiian monk seal
• Hirola
• Iberian lynx
• Indian rhinoceros
• Indri
• Irrawaddy dolphin
• Javan rhinoceros
• Kakapo
• Kea
• Kemp's ridley sea turtle
• Kouprey
• Markhor
• Mediterranean monk seal
• Mexican wolf
• Northern bald ibis
• Numbat
• Philippine eagle
• Przewalski's horse
• Red wolf
• Rusty patched bumble bee
• Saiga antelope
• Saola
• Sawfish
• Sei whale
• Spix's macaw
• Staghorn coral
• Vaquita— Roughly ten left. The rarest marine mammal on Earth.
• Wild Bactrian camel
• Yangtze finless porpoise
• Yellow-eyed penguin

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• African penguin
• African wild dog
• Black-footed ferret
• Bonobo
• Bornean orangutan
• California condor
• Dugong
• Emperor penguin
• Fin whale
• Galapagos tortoise
• Hammerhead shark
• Harpy eagle
• Hyacinth macaw
• Kiwi
• Komodo dragon
• Leatherback sea turtle
• Loggerhead sea turtle
• Manta ray
• North Atlantic right whale
• Okapi
• Quokka
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Sea otter
• Sumatran orangutan
• Sumatran rhinoceros
• Tapir
• Tasmanian devil
• White rhinoceros
• Whooping crane

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Black rhinoceros
• Blue whale
• Cheetah
• Chimpanzee
• Elephant
• Giraffe
• Gray wolf
• Great white shark
• Green sea turtle
• Hawksbill sea turtle
• Hippopotamus
• Jaguar
• Koala
• Leopard
• Lion
• Manatee
• Monarch butterfly
• Orangutan
• Red panda
• Sea turtle
• Snow leopard
• Whale shark

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Axolotl— The internet's endangered darling. The whole school typed it.
• Pangolin— The 'most trafficked mammal' fact, deployed right on cue.

The most common answer on the board.

• Giant panda
• Gorilla
• Polar bear
• Rhinoceros
• Tiger

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Spider steak— Two per animal, prized by butchers who keep them for themselves. You rarely see it sold.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Baseball steak
• Bavette
• Beef cheek
• Beef tongue
• Chateaubriand
• Chuck eye
• Denver steak
• Picanha
• Ranch steak
• Silverside
• Teres major
• Topside

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Back ribs
• Blade steak
• Club steak
• Cowboy steak
• Flat iron
• Minute steak
• Oxtail
• Petite sirloin
• Plate
• Porterhouse
• Rib steak
• Shank
• Short loin
• Sirloin tip
• Tomahawk— A ribeye with the whole rib bone left on. Mostly for the photo.
• Tri-tip

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Brisket
• Chuck
• Cube steak
• Flank
• London broil
• New York strip
• Prime rib
• Round
• Rump
• Short rib
• Skirt steak
• Tenderloin
• Top sirloin

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Hanger steak— The 'butcher's secret' cut every food blog spilled years ago.

The most common answer on the board.

• Filet mignon
• Ribeye
• Sirloin
• T-bone

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• The Chordettes— 1950s barbershop harmony group behind 'Mr. Sandman.' Predates the whole genre.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 3LW
• 4Minute
• 702
• After School
• BABYMETAL
• Blaque
• Brown Eyed Girls
• Chloe x Halle
• City Girls
• Cleopatra
• Eternal
• EVERGLOW
• Exposé
• Girlicious
• ILLIT
• IZ*ONE
• Klymaxx
• Mis-Teeq
• Miss A
• Momoland
• Morning Musume
• Oh My Girl
• Perfume
• Sistar
• STAYC
• SWV
• T-ara
• The Chiffons
• The Crystals
• The Dixie Cups
• The Emotions
• The Marvelettes
• The McGuire Sisters
• The Puppini Sisters
• The Runaways
• Total
• Vanity 6
• XG

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• (G)I-DLE
• 2NE1
• Aespa
• AKB48
• All Saints
• Apink
• Atomic Kitten
• B*Witched
• Babymonster
• Danity Kane
• Dream
• En Vogue
• f(x)
• FLO
• GFriend
• ITZY
• IVE
• KARA
• KATSEYE
• Kep1er
• Labelle
• LE SSERAFIM
• Loona
• Mamamoo
• Martha and the Vandellas
• Newjeans
• NMIXX
• Red Velvet
• Salt-N-Pepa
• The Bangles
• The Cheetah Girls
• The Go-Go's
• The Ronettes
• The Saturdays
• The Shangri-Las
• The Shirelles
• The Veronicas
• Wonder Girls
• Xscape

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Bananarama
• Fifth Harmony
• Girls Aloud
• Girls' Generation
• HAIM
• Sister Sledge
• Sugababes
• The Chicks
• The Pointer Sisters
• The Pussycat Dolls
• The Supremes
• Twice

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• The Andrews Sisters— The 'I know real music history' pick. Your grandparents' girl group.
• Wilson Phillips— One song and the whole school hums it. Hold on.

The most common answer on the board.

• Blackpink
• Destiny's Child
• Little Mix
• Spice Girls
• TLC

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Ibn al-Haytham— The 11th-century polymath who wrote the scientific method centuries before Europe rediscovered it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• Al-Khwarizmi
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• B.F. Skinner
• Barbara McClintock
• Brian Cox
• C.V. Raman
• Chien-Shiung Wu
• Dorothy Hodgkin
• Emmy Noether— Her theorem underpins modern physics. Einstein called her a genius.
• Georges Lemaitre
• Hedy Lamarr
• Hypatia
• Ibn Sina
• Irene Joliot-Curie
• J.J. Thomson
• Jennifer Doudna
• John von Neumann
• Katalin Kariko
• Lise Meitner
• Michio Kaku
• Norman Borlaug
• Paul Dirac
• Percy Julian
• Pierre Curie
• Robert Koch
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Sophie Germain
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Tu Youyou
• Tycho Brahe
• Wolfgang Pauli

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Alexander Fleming
• Amedeo Avogadro
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Blaise Pascal
• Carl Jung
• Carl Linnaeus
• Charles Babbage
• Dmitri Mendeleev
• Edward Jenner
• Edwin Hubble
• Enrico Fermi
• Ernest Rutherford
• Erwin Schrodinger
• Euclid
• Francis Crick
• Grace Hopper
• Hippocrates
• Ivan Pavlov
• James Clerk Maxwell
• James Watson
• Johannes Kepler
• John Dalton
• Jonas Salk
• Linus Pauling
• Mae Jemison
• Max Planck
• Ptolemy
• Richard Dawkins
• Richard Feynman
• Robert Boyle
• Robert Hooke
• Sigmund Freud
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Vera Rubin
• Werner Heisenberg

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Ada Lovelace
• Alan Turing
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Alfred Nobel
• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Benjamin Franklin
• Bill Nye
• Carl Sagan
• Copernicus
• George Washington Carver
• Gregor Mendel
• Jane Goodall
• Katherine Johnson
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Louis Pasteur
• Michael Faraday
• Niels Bohr
• Nikola Tesla
• Pythagoras
• Rachel Carson
• Sally Ride
• Thomas Edison

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson— The 'I watch science YouTube' answer. Well actually.
• Rosalind Franklin— The 'they robbed her of the Nobel' pick. Correct, and very predictable.

The most common answer on the board.

• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton
• Marie Curie
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Stephen Hawking

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Computer Space— 1971, the first coin-operated arcade video game ever made. Predates Pong itself.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 1943
• After Burner
• Altered Beast
• Arkanoid
• Beatmania
• Berzerk
• Crystal Castles
• Elevator Action
• Galaxy Game
• Hydro Thunder
• Initial D
• Jurassic Park
• Karate Champ
• Lethal Enforcers
• Mappy
• Marble Madness
• Mario Bros.
• Mario Kart Arcade GP
• Millipede
• Pump It Up
• Rampage
• Ridge Racer
• Robotron: 2084
• Rolling Thunder
• San Francisco Rush
• Sega Rally
• Silent Scope
• Sinistar
• Smash TV
• Sunset Riders
• Taiko no Tatsujin
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Fast and the Furious
• The King of Fighters
• Xevious
• Zaxxon

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• 1942
• Area 51
• Battlezone
• Breakout
• Bubble Bobble
• Claw machine
• Crazy Taxi
• Cruis'n USA
• Daytona USA
• Defender
• Dig Dug
• Dragon's Lair
• Final Fight
• Foosball
• Galaxian
• Gauntlet
• Golden Axe
• Gradius
• Joust
• Killer Instinct
• Marvel vs. Capcom
• Metal Slug
• Missile Command
• NFL Blitz
• Out Run
• Paperboy
• Pole Position
• Punch-Out!!
• Q*bert
• R-Type
• Shinobi
• Soulcalibur
• Spy Hunter
• Star Wars
• Tempest
• Time Crisis
• Track & Field
• Tron
• Virtua Fighter
• X-Men

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Air hockey
• Asteroids
• Big Buck Hunter
• Centipede
• Contra
• Dance Dance Revolution
• Double Dragon
• Frogger
• Galaga
• Golden Tee
• Mortal Kombat
• Ms. Pac-Man
• NBA Jam
• Skee-Ball
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Tekken
• Tetris
• The House of the Dead
• The Simpsons Arcade Game
• Whac-A-Mole

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Burgertime— The 'deep-cut retro gamer' flex. Everyone in the arcade forum knows it.
• Pong— The 'first video game' trivia pick. Predictable as a bouncing pixel.

The most common answer on the board.

• Donkey Kong
• Pac-Man
• Pinball
• Space Invaders
• Street Fighter

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Curaçao— An island of about 150,000 people and 171 square miles — the smallest nation ever to reach a World Cup, taking a record that had belonged to Iceland. Dick Advocaat took the job at 76, went unbeaten through ten qualifiers, and sealed it with a goalless draw in Kingston on the last matchday while Jamaica and Costa Rica went home. Germany then beat them 7-1, but the 0-0 with Ecuador was a World Cup point.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Cape Verde— Half a million people, a first World Cup, and three draws in Spain's group was enough to finish second in it. Argentina then needed extra time to beat them 3-2.
• DR Congo— Fifty-two years since they last went, as Zaire in 1974. They came through the inter-confederation play-off to get there and then took England to 2-1 in Atlanta.
• Haiti— Their first World Cup since 1974, drawn against Brazil, Morocco and Scotland, and beaten in all three.
• Iraq— Back for the first time since 1986, and only after beating Bolivia in the inter-confederation play-off staged in Mexico. Twelve conceded in the group.
• Jordan— Their first World Cup, drawn with Argentina, and three defeats to show for it.
• New Zealand— Oceania had a guaranteed World Cup place for the first time in history, and New Zealand used it: one point, ten goals conceded.
• Panama— Three matches, no points, and not a single goal scored.
• Uzbekistan— A debut, and a chastening one: three defeats, eleven goals conceded, two scored.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Algeria— Back at a World Cup for the first time since 2014, through as a third-placed team, and out 2-0 to Switzerland in Vancouver.
• Austria— First World Cup since 1998, second in Argentina's group, and then 3-0 to Spain in Inglewood.
• Czechia— One point and six goals conceded in the hosts' group.
• Ecuador— Four points in Germany's group — including the goalless draw that gave Curaçao the only point of their World Cup — and then 2-0 to Mexico in Mexico City.
• Ghana— Through as a third-placed team on four points, and out 1-0 to Colombia in Kansas City.
• Iran— Three draws, three points, and out. Nobody beat them and they beat nobody.
• Ivory Coast— Two wins from three in Germany's group, then 2-1 to Norway in Arlington.
• Paraguay— Third in their group, and then they put Germany out on penalties in Foxborough. France stopped them 1-0 in Philadelphia.
• Qatar— Their first World Cup reached by actually qualifying — the 2022 edition was handed to them as hosts — and it finished two goals scored, ten conceded.
• Saudi Arabia— Two draws and two points in Spain's group, one goal scored.
• Senegal— Eight goals in three group games and still only third. Belgium then needed extra time to beat them 3-2 in Seattle.
• South Africa— Second in Mexico's group, and beaten 1-0 by Canada in Inglewood.
• Tunisia— Three defeats, twelve goals conceded, no points — the heaviest group exit of the tournament.
• Turkey— Won one, lost two, and finished last in the group the United States topped.

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Australia— 1-1 with Egypt in Arlington, and out of the shoot-out 4-2.
• Belgium— A win and two draws in the group, extra time to beat Senegal, four past the United States, and then a 2-1 defeat to the eventual champions.
• Canada— The third co-host, through as one of the eight best third-placed teams, 1-0 up on South Africa in Inglewood and then 3-0 down to Morocco.
• Colombia— Topped Portugal's group, beat Ghana 1-0, and then lost to Switzerland on penalties after 120 goalless minutes.
• Croatia— Second behind England, and beaten 2-1 by Portugal in Toronto.
• Egypt— Unbeaten in the group, past Australia on penalties, and then 3-2 to Argentina in Atlanta — closer than anyone expected.
• Japan— Unbeaten in the group — one win, two draws — and out 2-1 to Brazil in Houston.
• Morocco— Put the Netherlands out on penalties, beat Canada 3-0, and lost 2-0 in the quarter-final to France — the same country that ended their run in 2022.
• Netherlands— Ten goals in the group and top of it, then out on penalties to Morocco in the round of 32.
• Norway— A first World Cup since 1998, and straight to the quarter-finals: past Ivory Coast, then Brazil 2-1, and beaten by England only in extra time.
• Portugal— Second in Colombia's group, 2-1 past Croatia in Toronto, and out to Spain by a single goal in Arlington.
• Scotland— Back at a World Cup after 28 years. One win, one goal scored in three matches, and still not a single knockout round in their history.
• South Korea— Three points, third in the hosts' group, and home after eight days.
• Sweden— Through the play-offs and then through the group as a third-placed team, before France put three past them in East Rutherford.
• Switzerland— Won a group containing Canada and Bosnia, beat Algeria, edged Colombia on penalties, and took Argentina to extra time in the quarter-final.
• Uruguay— Two draws, one defeat, two points, and out of Spain's group. The first World Cup winners, going home first.

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Bosnia and Herzegovina— The 'don't forget who put Italy out' pick. Bosnia won the European play-off final on penalties on 31 March 2026, sending the four-time champions to a third World Cup in a row without them — and at world number 12, Italy were the highest-ranked team not to make it. Anyone who watched the play-offs types Bosnia.

The most common answer on the board.

• Argentina— Three group wins, extra time to see off Cape Verde and Switzerland, past England in the semi-final, and then 106 goalless minutes against Spain before it broke.
• Brazil— Out in the round of 16 to Norway, 2-1 — the same scoreline Norway beat them by in 1998, which was the last World Cup Norway had been to at all.
• England— Third place, secured by beating France 6-4 in a ten-goal consolation match. The semi-final against Argentina had finished 2-1 the wrong way.
• France— Won all three group games, reached the semi-final, lost 2-0 to Spain — and then lost the third-place match 6-4, which is not a football score.
• Germany— Ten goals in the group, including seven past Curaçao, and then out on penalties to Paraguay in the round of 32 — a round that had never existed before this tournament.
• Mexico— Co-hosts, and the only team to win all three group games without conceding — 6-0 across the group. England then beat them 3-2 in Mexico City.
• Spain— Champions. Seven wins, one draw, and a single goal conceded in the entire tournament — no winner had ever done that. Ferran Torres settled the final against Argentina in the 106th minute at MetLife.
• United States— Co-hosts. Through the group, 2-0 past Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then taken apart 4-1 by Belgium in Seattle.