Culture trivia
Name a tennis shot
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a tennis shot”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 80 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.
- Serve
- Forehand
- Backhand
- Volley
- Smash
- Lob
- Drop shot
The next answers people reach for
These 47 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Ace
- Double fault
- Slice
- Topspin
- Underspin
- Backspin
- Sidespin
- Flat serve
- Kick serve
- Slice serve
- Underarm serve
- Second serve
- First serve
- Return
- Return of serve
- Half volley
- Drive volley
- Swinging volley
- Overhead
- Overhead smash
- Passing shot
- Cross-court
- Down the line
- Inside-out
- Inside-in
- Approach shot
- Chip and charge
- Serve and volley
- Baseline game
- Rally
- Dink
- Block
- Chip
- Angle shot
- Winner
- Unforced error
- Forced error
- Net cord
- Let
- Foot fault
- Tiebreak
- Deuce
- Advantage
- Love
- Fifteen
- Thirty
- Forty
How deep does “Name a tennis shot” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsServe · Forehand · Backhand
- Below the Surface47 answers · 25 ptsAce · Double fault · Slice …
- The Deep15 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss10 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 15 answers starting with B, D, E, G, H, M, O, S, T and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 80 answers in total, 48 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ace”. Longest: “Double-handed backhand”.
- S, B and D are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
How to go deeper
- Start with S: 12 of the answers begin with it.
- Serve, Forehand and Backhand are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a tennis shot”?
- The usual first answers are Serve, Forehand, Backhand, Volley and Smash. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a tennis shot”?
- 80 in all: 7 on The Tip, 47 Below the Surface, 15 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a tennis shot” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ace” and the longest is “Double-handed backhand”.
- How hard is “Name a tennis shot”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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