"Name a country that has been colonized by Spain or Portugal." was one of the seven prompts in Krillion #121 on Friday, November 13, 2026. The game accepted 60 different answers, and they are not worth the same: the most obvious ones score 10 points, rare ones 60, deep cuts 85, and the single featured Krillion 100.
The Krillion
The featured answer worth 100 points was Iran. Krillion's note: “Portugal held Hormuz, now part of Iran, from 1515 to 1622.”
How to score on this prompt
Only 21 answers were rated common — the plankton everyone thinks of first were Brazil and Mexico, and the schoolers included Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica. Deep cuts are 40% of accepted answers: skip the first names that come to mind and one level more specific is usually enough for 85 points.
Every accepted answer
The Krillion 1 · 100 pts each
- Iran
Deep cuts 24 · 85 pts each
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Canada
- Ghana
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Myanmar
- Oman
- Palau
- Senegal
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Rare 14 · 60 pts each
- Angola
- Belize
- Cape Verde
- China
- East Timor
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- India
- Jamaica
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Trinidad and Tobago
Schoolers 19 · 30 pts each
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Plankton 2 · 10 pts each
- Brazil
- Mexico
See all seven prompts from Krillion on November 13, 2026, get today's Krillion hints and answers, or read how Krillion scoring works.