Culture trivia
Name a boy band or girl group
“Name a boy band or girl group” is one of 188 culture prompts in Icillion. Of its 351 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Spice Girls
- Backstreet Boys
- NSYNC
- One Direction
- Take That
- Westlife
- Destiny's Child
- Jackson 5
- BTS
- Little Mix
- New Kids on the Block
- Boyzone
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- The Supremes
- TLC
- Blackpink
- Girls Aloud
- Sugababes
- All Saints
- Atomic Kitten
- Bananarama
- The Pussycat Dolls
- Fifth Harmony
- Jonas Brothers
- The Jacksons
- Bay City Rollers
- Hanson
- 98 Degrees
- Boyz II Men
- Blue
- 5ive
- A1
- Busted
- McFly
- The Wanted
- JLS
- B*Witched
- The Pointer Sisters
- The Ronettes
- The Shirelles
- En Vogue
- Salt-N-Pepa
- Wilson Phillips
- The Bangles
- The Go-Go's
- East 17
- Twice
- EXO
- Girls' Generation
- Big Bang
- Seventeen
- Stray Kids
- The Osmonds
- Menudo
- Eternal
- Mis-Teeq
- The Saturdays
- O-Town
- B2K
- New Edition
- Bell Biv DeVoe
- Another Level
- 911
- Union J
- The Vamps
- 5 Seconds of Summer
- The Cheetah Girls
- Sister Sledge
- Martha and the Vandellas
- The Crystals
- The Chiffons
- The Shangri-Las
- The Marvelettes
- Hi-Five
- Dru Hill
- Jodeci
- All-4-One
- 112
- Color Me Badd
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsSpice Girls · Backstreet Boys · NSYNC
- Below the Surface66 answers · 25 ptsThe Supremes · TLC · Blackpink …
- The Deep147 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss125 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 147 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y. The Abyss has 125 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 351 answers in total, 160 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “f”. Longest: “Generations from Exile Tribe”.
- T, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.
- 9 answers can be typed more than one way: “NKOTB” counts as New Kids on the Block.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with T: 65 of the answers begin with it.
- Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and NSYNC are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a boy band or girl group”?
- The usual first answers are Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, One Direction and Take That. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a boy band or girl group”?
- 351 in all: 12 on The Tip, 66 Below the Surface, 147 in The Deep, 125 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a boy band or girl group” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “f” and the longest is “Generations from Exile Tribe”.
- How hard is “Name a boy band or girl group”?
- 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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