Culture trivia
Name a person from the Bible
“Name a person from the Bible” is one of 188 culture prompts in Icillion. Of its 266 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Jesus
- Moses
- Adam
- Eve
- Noah
- Abraham
- David
- Mary
- Peter
- Paul
- Judas
- Joseph
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Esau
- Sarah
- Rebecca
- Rachel
- Leah
- Abel
- Cain
- Seth
- Lot
- Ruth
- Naomi
- Samson
- Delilah
- Goliath
- Solomon
- Saul
- Samuel
- Elijah
- Elisha
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
- Jonah
- Job
- Mary Magdalene
- John
- John the Baptist
- James
- Andrew
- Thomas
- Matthew
- Luke
- Mark
- Philip
- Bartholomew
- Simon
- Jude
- Stephen
- Timothy
- Barnabas
- Lazarus
- Martha
- Pontius Pilate
- Herod
- Pharaoh
- Aaron
- Miriam
- Joshua
- Gideon
- Esther
- Bathsheba
- Jezebel
- Ahab
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Methuselah
- Elizabeth
- Jonathan
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsJesus · Moses · Adam
- Below the Surface60 answers · 25 ptsIsaac · Jacob · Esau …
- The Deep91 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss102 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 91 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U and Z. The Abyss has 102 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 266 answers in total, 5 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Dan”. Longest: “Joseph of Arimathea”.
- J, A and E are the most common first letters; together they start 32% of the answers.
- 7 answers can be typed more than one way: “Xerxes” counts as Ahasuerus.
How to go deeper
- Start with J: 33 of the answers begin with it.
- Jesus, Moses and Adam are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Art movements and architectural styles have many lesser-known names.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a person from the Bible”?
- The usual first answers are Jesus, Moses, Adam, Eve and Noah. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a person from the Bible”?
- 266 in all: 12 on The Tip, 60 Below the Surface, 91 in The Deep, 102 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a person from the Bible” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Dan” and the longest is “Joseph of Arimathea”.
- How hard is “Name a person from the Bible”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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