Computer Science trivia
Name a Microsoft product
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a Microsoft product”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 207 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Windows
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Microsoft Office
- Xbox
- Teams
- Surface
- Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Edge
- Skype
The next answers people reach for
These 52 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Bing
- Paint
- OneDrive
- OneNote
- SharePoint
- Access
- Windows XP
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- Windows ME
- Windows Phone
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X
- Game Pass
- Azure
- Visual Studio
- VS Code
- Copilot
- Minecraft
- Halo
- Flight Simulator
- Age of Empires
- Clippy
- Cortana
- Hotmail
- MSN
- MSN Messenger
- Notepad
- Solitaire
- Minesweeper
- Windows Media Player
- Movie Maker
- Zune
- Kinect
- Surface Pro
- HoloLens
- GitHub
- Publisher
- Visio
- Microsoft Project
- Lumia
- Xbox Live
- MS-DOS
- Calculator
- Microsoft 365
How deep does “Name a Microsoft product” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsWindows · Word · Excel
- Below the Surface52 answers · 25 ptsBing · Paint · OneDrive …
- The Deep85 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss57 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 85 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y and Z. The Abyss has 57 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 207 answers in total, 141 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Zo”. Longest: “Microsoft Security Essentials”.
- M, W and S are the most common first letters; together they start 52% of the answers.
- 50 answers can be typed more than one way: “Microsoft PowerPoint” counts as PowerPoint.
Getting below the surface
- Start with M: 46 of the answers begin with it.
- Windows, Word and Excel are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Go down the stack: from apps to protocols to the hardware underneath.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a Microsoft product”?
- The usual first answers are Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a Microsoft product”?
- 207 in all: 12 on The Tip, 52 Below the Surface, 85 in The Deep, 57 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a Microsoft product” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Zo” and the longest is “Microsoft Security Essentials”.
- How hard is “Name a Microsoft product”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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