Name a famous scientist
Our answer book holds 118 answers to “Name a famous scientist”, from the first thing anyone would say to names almost nobody would think of. Einstein, Newton and Darwin are what most people type first, so they score the least. About 32% of the list is rated Almost Nobody or Only You, which leaves plenty of room to get away from the crowd.
The odd entry you read about once tends to score far better than the classroom example. It is one of the tougher questions, the kind kept for the final burn of a daily launch, which counts double.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Einstein
- Newton
- Darwin
- Curie
- Galileo
- Hawking
- Tesla
- Pasteur
- Faraday
- Bohr
- Planck
- Heisenberg
- Schrödinger
- Feynman
- Mendel
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 118 we know. They score the least. The other 103, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 118 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 10 |
| THE CROWD | 14 |
| SOME | 18 |
| A FEW | 38 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 29 |
| ONLY YOU | 9 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.
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