What do most people say for “Name a nursery rhyme”?

The usual first answers are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Mary Had a Little Lamb. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a nursery rhyme”?

90 in all: 4 on The Tip, 22 Below the Surface, 35 in The Deep, 28 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a nursery rhyme” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Bingo” and the longest is “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”.

How hard is “Name a nursery rhyme”?

Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

Culture trivia

Name a nursery rhyme

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a nursery rhyme”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 90 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.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Humpty Dumpty
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Mary Had a Little Lamb

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Jack and Jill
Hickory Dickory Dock
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Row Row Row Your Boat
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Ring a Ring o' Roses
Little Miss Muffet
Hey Diddle Diddle
The Wheels on the Bus
Rock-a-bye Baby
Three Blind Mice
Pat-a-cake
Old King Cole
Little Bo Peep
Jack Be Nimble
Hot Cross Buns
Pop Goes the Weasel
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
If You're Happy and You Know It
Five Little Monkeys
This Little Piggy

How deep does “Name a nursery rhyme” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	4	10
Below the Surface	22	25
The Deep	35	50
The Abyss	28	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 35 answers starting with B, D, F, G, H, I, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 28 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

90 answers in total, 87 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Bingo”. Longest: “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”.
T, H and L are the most common first letters; together they start 42% of the answers.
5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Ring Around the Rosie” counts as Ring a Ring o' Roses.

Getting below the surface

Start with T: 16 of the answers begin with it.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Humpty Dumpty and Baa Baa Black Sheep are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.

Play culture trivia now See all 90 answers A–Z

Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name a nursery rhyme”?: The usual first answers are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Mary Had a Little Lamb. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a nursery rhyme”?: 90 in all: 4 on The Tip, 22 Below the Surface, 35 in The Deep, 28 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a nursery rhyme” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Bingo” and the longest is “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”.
How hard is “Name a nursery rhyme”?: Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

All 60 culture prompts

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.

▼ Start today’s iceberg ▼