Culture trivia
Name a dance move
94 answers count for this culture prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
Right, but shallow: 6 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Twirl
- Spin
- Jive
- Twist
- Robot
- Floss
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Pirouette
- Plié
- Jeté
- Arabesque
- Grand jeté
- Fouetté
- Chassé
- Pas de deux
- Pas de chat
- Pas de bourrée
- Cabriole
- Tour en l'air
- Balancé
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Barre
- Port de bras
- Relevé
- Sauté
- Changement
- Entrechat
- Glissade
- Sissonne
- Waltz
- Foxtrot
- Quickstep
- Tango
- Cha-cha
- Cha-cha-cha
- Rumba
- Samba
- Salsa
- Merengue
- Bachata
- Mambo
- Paso doble
- Charleston
- Lindy hop
- Swing out
- Hand jive
- Macarena
- Cupid Shuffle
- Electric Slide
- Cha Cha Slide
- Hokey Cokey
- Hokey Pokey
- Conga
- Limbo
- Mashed potato
- Locomotion
- Watusi
- Frug
- Pony
- Hitch hike
- Swim
- Monkey
- Jerk
- Hully Gully
The iceberg for “Name a dance move”
- The Tip6 answers · 10 ptsTwirl · Spin · Jive
- Below the Surface58 answers · 25 ptsPirouette · Plié · Jeté …
- The Deep19 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss10 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 19 answers starting with C, D, G, H, L, N, R, S, V and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 94 answers in total, 32 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Dab”. Longest: “Raise the roof”.
- C, H and S are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 9 answers can be typed more than one way: “Grand jete” counts as Grand jeté.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (13). Run through it first.
- Skip Twirl, Spin and Jive; everybody says them.
- Myths go far beyond Zeus and Thor: minor gods and creatures score well.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a dance move”?
- Most people start with Twirl, Spin, Jive, Twist and Robot. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a dance move”?
- 94 in all: 6 on The Tip, 58 Below the Surface, 19 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a dance move”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Dab” and the longest is “Raise the roof”.
- Is “Name a dance move” 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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