Name a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain): rare answers

There are 59 correct answers to “Name a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain)” on our list. The obvious ones, like Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson, are worth 10 points each; the rare ones, like Earl of Wilmington, Earl of Shelburne and Henry Addington, are worth far more.

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Accepted answers: 59
Category: General knowledge
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 20 (34%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 22 answers
First letters: 17 different; L is the most common (8)

🐙 Abyssal: 6 answers (10%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 14 answers (24%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 18 answers (31%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 16 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 5 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

6 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: Earl of Wilmington, Earl of Shelburne, Henry Addington, William Grenville, Duke of Grafton and Viscount Goderich. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Earl of Wilmington, Earl of Shelburne, Henry Addington, William Grenville, Duke of Grafton, Viscount Goderich

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Spencer Perceval, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Earl of Derby, Lord Liverpool, Lord Rosebery, Earl of Bute, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord North, Duke of Newcastle, George Grenville, Henry Pelham, Duke of Portland, Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Rockingham

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Edward Heath, William Ewart Gladstone, William Pitt the Younger, Alec Douglas-Home, Robert Peel, Robert Walpole, Stanley Baldwin, H. H. Asquith, Arthur Balfour, Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Palmerston, Lord Melbourne, Lord Salisbury, William Pitt the Elder, Bonar Law, George Canning, Earl Grey, Lord John Russell

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Theresa May, Keir Starmer, David Cameron, Liz Truss, Gordon Brown, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden, John Major, Harold Wilson, Benjamin Disraeli, Clement Attlee, Duke of Wellington, Harold Macmillan, David Lloyd George, Andy Burnham, James Callaghan

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Tony Blair

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Earl of Wilmington: Lord Wilmington, Spencer Compton
Earl of Shelburne: Lord Shelburne, William Petty
William Grenville: Baron Grenville, Lord Grenville
Duke of Grafton: Lord Grafton, Augustus FitzRoy
Viscount Goderich: Lord Goderich, Frederick Robinson, F. J. Robinson
Earl of Derby: Lord Derby, Edward Smith-Stanley
Lord Liverpool: Earl of Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson
Lord Rosebery: Earl of Rosebery, Archibald Primrose
Earl of Bute: Lord Bute, John Stuart
Earl of Aberdeen: Lord Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon
Lord North: Frederick North
Duke of Newcastle: Lord Newcastle, Pelham-Holles, Thomas Pelham-Holles

And 10 more answers with alternate spellings.

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.