Food trivia
Name a British dish
“Name a British dish” is one of 135 food prompts in Icillion. Of its 173 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Fish and Chips
- Sunday Roast
- Full English Breakfast
- Shepherd's Pie
- Cottage Pie
- Bangers and Mash
- Toad in the Hole
- Yorkshire Pudding
- Beef Wellington
- Cornish Pasty
- Scones
- Haggis
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Steak and Kidney Pie
- Trifle
- Sticky Toffee Pudding
- Black Pudding
- Bubble and Squeak
- Pie and Mash
- Lancashire Hotpot
- Welsh Rarebit
- Cullen Skink
- Scotch Egg
- Eton Mess
- Spotted Dick
- Jam Roly-Poly
- Bread and Butter Pudding
- Treacle Tart
- Christmas Pudding
- Mince Pies
- Crumpets
- Fish Pie
- Ploughman's Lunch
- Sausage Roll
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- Bakewell Tart
- Victoria Sponge
- Shortbread
- Beans on Toast
- Cheese on Toast
- Bacon Butty
- Kippers
- Jellied Eels
- Welsh Cakes
- Pork Pie
- Chip Butty
- Mushy Peas
- Coronation Chicken
- Banoffee Pie
- Apple Crumble
- Lemon Drizzle Cake
- Rice Pudding
- Kedgeree
- Cawl
- Neeps and Tatties
- Cranachan
- Scotch Broth
- Hot Cross Buns
- Eccles Cake
- Pigs in Blankets
- Cream Tea
- Jacket Potato
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsFish and Chips · Sunday Roast · Full English Breakfast
- Below the Surface49 answers · 25 ptsSteak and Kidney Pie · Trifle · Sticky Toffee Pudding …
- The Deep73 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss38 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 73 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, P, Q, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 38 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 173 answers in total, 141 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Cawl”. Longest: “Steak and Kidney Pudding”.
- S, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 43% of the answers.
- 25 answers can be typed more than one way: “Hotpot” counts as Lancashire Hotpot.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 30 of the answers begin with it.
- Fish and Chips, Sunday Roast and Full English Breakfast are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Name what people cook at home in that country, not what restaurants abroad serve.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a British dish”?
- The usual first answers are Fish and Chips, Sunday Roast, Full English Breakfast, Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a British dish”?
- 173 in all: 12 on The Tip, 49 Below the Surface, 73 in The Deep, 38 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a British dish” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Cawl” and the longest is “Steak and Kidney Pudding”.
- How hard is “Name a British dish”?
- 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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