Computer Science trivia
Name a popular website
111 answers count for this computer science prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- YouTube
- Wikipedia
- Amazon
Below the waterline
These 20 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Netflix
- Yahoo
- Bing
- eBay
- Twitch
- TikTok
- Spotify
- IMDb
- Gmail
- GitHub
- Stack Overflow
- Etsy
- PayPal
- Walmart
- Zoom
The iceberg for “Name a popular website”
| Level | Accepted answers | Points |
|---|---|---|
| The Tip | 5 | 10 |
| Below the Surface | 20 | 25 |
| The Deep | 40 | 50 |
| The Abyss | 45 | 85 |
| Below the Iceberg | 1 | 100 |
The Deep holds 40 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K, M, N, Q, S, T, U, W, Y and Z. The Abyss has 45 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 111 answers in total, 20 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “BBC”. Longest: “The Washington Post”.
- T, G and B are the most common first letters; together they start 28% of the answers.
- 5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Washington Post” counts as The Washington Post.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with T than with any other letter (13). Run through it first.
- Skip Google, YouTube and Facebook; everybody says them.
- Standards and their organisations hide many deep answers.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a popular website”?
- Most people start with Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Amazon. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a popular website”?
- 111 in all: 5 on The Tip, 20 Below the Surface, 40 in The Deep, 45 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a popular website”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “BBC” and the longest is “The Washington Post”.
- Is “Name a popular website” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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