Name a winner of the Tour de France: rare answers

Answering “Name a winner of the Tour de France”? Our list has 64 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Tadej Pogačar, Chris Froome and Eddy Merckx only score 10. Deep cuts such as Lucien Aimar, Léon Scieur and Odile Defraye score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 64
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 23 (36%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 17 different; L is the most common (9)

🐙 Abyssal: 8 answers (13%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 15 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 19 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 17 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 5 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

8 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Lucien Aimar, Léon Scieur, Odile Defraye and Lucien Buysse. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Lucien Aimar, Léon Scieur, Odile Defraye, Lucien Buysse, Romain Maes, Roger Lapébie, Maurice De Waele, Georges Speicher

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Henri Pélissier, Hugo Koblet, Roger Pingeon, Jean Robic, Philippe Thys, André Leducq, Louis Trousselier, Ferdinand Kübler, Gastone Nencini, René Pottier, Nicolas Frantz, Gustave Garrigou, Roger Walkowiak, Sylvère Maes, Antonin Magne

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Bjarne Riis, Felice Gimondi, Joop Zoetemelk, Óscar Pereiro, Federico Bahamontes, Pedro Delgado, Stephen Roche, Louison Bobet, Ottavio Bottecchia, Luis Ocaña, Henri Cornet, Lucien Van Impe, Jan Janssen, Lucien Petit-Breton, Charly Gaul, Octave Lapize, Bernard Thévenet, Firmin Lambot, François Faber

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Marco Pantani, Jonas Vingegaard, Miguel Induráin, Vincenzo Nibali, Jan Ullrich, Geraint Thomas, Greg LeMond, Cadel Evans, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Egan Bernal, Andy Schleck, Laurent Fignon, Carlos Sastre, Maurice Garin

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Tadej Pogačar, Chris Froome, Eddy Merckx, Alberto Contador, Bradley Wiggins

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