What do most people say for “Name a poet”?

The usual first answers are William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a poet”?

30 in all: 3 on The Tip, 7 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 11 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

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

The shortest accepted answer is “Rumi” and the longest is “William Shakespeare”.

Culture trivia

Name a poet

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a poet”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 30 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.

William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost

The next answers people reach for

These 7 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:

Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth
Lord Byron
John Keats
Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath
Maya Angelou

How deep does “Name a poet” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	7	25
The Deep	8	50
The Abyss	11	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 8 answers starting with H, L, P, R, T and W. The Abyss has 11 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

By the numbers

30 answers in total, 27 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Rumi”. Longest: “William Shakespeare”.
W, M and L are the most common first letters; together they start 47% of the answers.
3 answers can be typed more than one way: “Shakespeare” counts as William Shakespeare.

Tips for a rarer answer

Start with W: 6 of the answers begin with it.
William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Myths go far beyond Zeus and Thor: minor gods and creatures score well.

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What the words mean

Poetry

Questions about this prompt

What do most people say for “Name a poet”?: The usual first answers are William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a poet”?: 30 in all: 3 on The Tip, 7 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 11 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a poet” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Rumi” and the longest is “William Shakespeare”.

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