Culture trivia
Name a Christmas song or carol
“Name a Christmas song or carol” is one of 188 culture prompts in Icillion. Of its 171 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Jingle Bells
- Silent Night
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- White Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Deck the Halls
- Joy to the World
- Last Christmas
- All I Want for Christmas Is You
- Frosty the Snowman
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Let It Snow
One step down
These 58 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- The Christmas Song
- Winter Wonderland
- Sleigh Ride
- It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
- Santa Baby
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Feliz Navidad
- Do They Know It's Christmas?
- Merry Xmas Everybody
- Fairytale of New York
- Wonderful Christmastime
- War Is Over
- Mistletoe and Wine
- Driving Home for Christmas
- Step into Christmas
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
- Blue Christmas
- A Holly Jolly Christmas
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- O Holy Night
- Away in a Manger
- The First Noel
- We Three Kings
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Good King Wenceslas
- The Holly and the Ivy
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- Once in Royal David's City
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Carol of the Bells
- O Christmas Tree
- Silver Bells
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Santa Tell Me
- Underneath the Tree
- Mistletoe
- Baby Please Come Home
- Run Rudolph Run
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Walking in the Air
- Little Donkey
- Mary's Boy Child
- Mary Did You Know?
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- What Child Is This?
- Coventry Carol
- Merry Christmas Everyone
- Lonely This Christmas
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsJingle Bells · Silent Night · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Below the Surface58 answers · 25 ptsJingle Bell Rock · Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree · Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas …
- The Deep70 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss30 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 70 answers starting with A, B, C, D, G, H, I, J, L, M, O, P, S, T, U and W. The Abyss has 30 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 171 answers in total, 166 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gaudete”. Longest: “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”.
- S, I and T are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
- 26 answers can be typed more than one way: “A Marshmallow World” counts as Marshmallow World.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 21 of the answers begin with it.
- Jingle Bells, Silent Night and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 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 Christmas song or carol”?
- The usual first answers are Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, White Christmas and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a Christmas song or carol”?
- 171 in all: 12 on The Tip, 58 Below the Surface, 70 in The Deep, 30 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a Christmas song or carol” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gaudete” and the longest is “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”.
- How hard is “Name a Christmas song or carol”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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