Culture trivia
Name a holiday or festival celebrated somewhere in the world
“Name a holiday or festival celebrated somewhere in the world” is one of 60 culture prompts in Icillion. Of its 111 accepted answers, 5 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Christmas
- Easter
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
- New Year's Day
One step down
These 20 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Valentine's Day
- Diwali
- Hanukkah
- Eid al-Fitr
- Ramadan
- Independence Day
- Mother's Day
- Father's Day
- Chinese New Year
- Carnival
- Mardi Gras
- Holi
- Oktoberfest
- Labour Day
- Boxing Day
- St Patrick's Day
- Passover
- Day of the Dead
- New Year's Eve
- Christmas Eve
Answers by level
| 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, G, H, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, V and Y. The Abyss has 45 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 111 answers in total, 59 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Tet”. Longest: “Martin Luther King Jr Day”.
- S, M and C are the most common first letters; together they start 25% of the answers.
- 23 answers can be typed more than one way: “MLK Day” counts as Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 11 of the answers begin with it.
- Christmas, Easter and Halloween are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Myths go far beyond Zeus and Thor: minor gods and creatures score well.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a holiday or festival celebrated somewhere in the world”?
- The usual first answers are Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a holiday or festival celebrated somewhere in the world”?
- 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.
- Which answers to “Name a holiday or festival celebrated somewhere in the world” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Tet” and the longest is “Martin Luther King Jr Day”.
- How hard is “Name a holiday or festival celebrated somewhere in the world”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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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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