Culture trivia
Name a job or profession
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 111 answers to “Name a job or profession”, and only 5 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Teacher
- Doctor
- Police officer
- Firefighter
- Nurse
Just below the surface
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Engineer
- Chef
- Lawyer
- Pilot
- Farmer
- Dentist
- Scientist
- Soldier
- Artist
- Plumber
- Electrician
- Mechanic
- Waiter
- Builder
- Carpenter
- Accountant
- Actor
- Singer
- Programmer
- Baker
How the answers sink
| 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, F, G, H, J, L, M, P, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 45 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 111 answers in total, 9 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Chef”. Longest: “Lighthouse keeper”.
- P, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 32% of the answers.
- 18 answers can be typed more than one way: “Shoemaker” counts as Cobbler.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with P than with any other letter (15). Run through it first.
- Skip Teacher, Doctor and Police officer; everybody says them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a job or profession”?
- Most people start with Teacher, Doctor, Police officer, Firefighter and Nurse. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a job or profession”?
- 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.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a job or profession”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Chef” and the longest is “Lighthouse keeper”.
- Is “Name a job or profession” 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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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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