Culture trivia
Name a famous museum or art gallery
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a famous museum or art gallery”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 116 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Louvre
- British Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Smithsonian Institution
- Guggenheim Museum
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Museum of Modern Art
- Uffizi Gallery
- Prado Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Hermitage Museum
- Vatican Museums
- Tate Modern
- National Gallery
- Musee d'Orsay
- Centre Pompidou
- Van Gogh Museum
- Natural History Museum
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Getty Center
- Acropolis Museum
How deep does “Name a famous museum or art gallery” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsLouvre · British Museum · Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Below the Surface15 answers · 25 ptsMuseum of Modern Art · Uffizi Gallery · Prado Museum …
- The Deep35 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss60 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 35 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 60 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 116 answers in total, 104 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “MASP”. Longest: “National Museum of Natural History”.
- M, N and A are the most common first letters; together they start 42% of the answers.
- 44 answers can be typed more than one way: “Uffizi” counts as Uffizi Gallery.
Getting below the surface
- Start with M: 31 of the answers begin with it.
- Louvre, British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a famous museum or art gallery”?
- The usual first answers are Louvre, British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution and Guggenheim Museum. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a famous museum or art gallery”?
- 116 in all: 5 on The Tip, 15 Below the Surface, 35 in The Deep, 60 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a famous museum or art gallery” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “MASP” and the longest is “National Museum of Natural History”.
- How hard is “Name a famous museum or art gallery”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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