Food trivia
Name a type of cooking oil
70 answers count for this food prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Olive oil
- Sunflower oil
- Vegetable oil
- Rapeseed oil
- Coconut oil
- Sesame oil
- Peanut oil
Below the waterline
These 30 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Palm oil
- Corn oil
- Soybean oil
- Avocado oil
- Walnut oil
- Grapeseed oil
- Safflower oil
- Hemp oil
- Flaxseed oil
- Argan oil
- Rice bran oil
- Mustard oil
- Ghee
- Lard
- Dripping
- Butter
- Goose fat
- Duck fat
- Tallow
- Suet
- Schmaltz
- Cottonseed oil
- Pumpkin seed oil
- Hazelnut oil
- Almond oil
- Macadamia oil
- Pistachio oil
- Truffle oil
- Chilli oil
- Garlic oil
The iceberg for “Name a type of cooking oil”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsOlive oil · Sunflower oil · Vegetable oil
- Below the Surface30 answers · 25 ptsPalm oil · Corn oil · Soybean oil …
- The Deep22 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 22 answers starting with B, C, E, F, K, M, N, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 70 answers in total, 63 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ghee”. Longest: “Watermelon seed oil”.
- C, S and P are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Linseed oil” counts as Flaxseed oil.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (9). Run through it first.
- Skip Olive oil, Sunflower oil and Vegetable oil; everybody says them.
- Name what people cook at home in that country, not what restaurants abroad serve.
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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of cooking oil”?
- Most people start with Olive oil, Sunflower oil, Vegetable oil, Rapeseed oil and Coconut oil. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of cooking oil”?
- 70 in all: 7 on The Tip, 30 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a type of cooking oil”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ghee” and the longest is “Watermelon seed oil”.
- Is “Name a type of cooking oil” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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