Name a NASCAR Cup Series champion: rare answers

We accept 39 answers to “Name a NASCAR Cup Series champion” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Red Byron, Tim Flock and Joe Weatherly score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 39
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 14 (36%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 1 answers
First letters: 13 different; B is the most common (8)

🐙 Abyssal: 5 answers (13%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 9 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 12 answers (31%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 10 answers (26%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

5 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: Red Byron, Tim Flock, Joe Weatherly, Rex White and Bill Rexford. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Red Byron, Tim Flock, Joe Weatherly, Rex White, Bill Rexford

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Terry Labonte, David Pearson, Bobby Labonte, Tyler Reddick, Ned Jarrett, Benny Parsons, Herb Thomas, Buck Baker, Bobby Isaac

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Ryan Blaney, Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick, Darrell Waltrip, Bobby Allison, Rusty Wallace, Bill Elliott, Cale Yarborough, Dale Jarrett, William Byron, Lee Petty, Alan Kulwicki

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Richard Petty, Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr.

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson

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.

Martin Truex Jr.: Truex

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.