Food trivia
Name a leafy green
95 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
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Spinach
- Lettuce
- Kale
- Cabbage
- Rocket
- Chard
- Collard greens
- Watercress
- Iceberg lettuce
- Romaine lettuce
Below the waterline
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Bok choy
- Endive
- Chicory
- Radicchio
- Mustard greens
- Turnip greens
- Beet greens
- Dandelion greens
- Lamb's lettuce
- Butterhead lettuce
- Little Gem
- Lollo Rosso
- Oak leaf lettuce
- Napa cabbage
- Savoy cabbage
- Red cabbage
- Green cabbage
- White cabbage
- Cavolo nero
- Curly kale
- Baby spinach
- Frisée
- Escarole
- Sorrel
- Choy sum
- Gai lan
- Spring greens
- Mizuna
- Pea shoots
The iceberg for “Name a leafy green”
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsSpinach · Lettuce · Kale
- Below the Surface29 answers · 25 ptsBok choy · Endive · Chicory …
- The Deep34 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss21 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 34 answers starting with A, B, C, G, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 21 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 95 answers in total, 63 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ugu”. Longest: “Castelfranco radicchio”.
- C, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 49 answers can be typed more than one way: “Yellow dock” counts as Dock.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (13). Run through it first.
- Skip Spinach, Lettuce and Kale; everybody says them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a leafy green”?
- Most people start with Spinach, Lettuce, Kale, Cabbage and Rocket. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a leafy green”?
- 95 in all: 10 on The Tip, 29 Below the Surface, 34 in The Deep, 21 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a leafy green”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ugu” and the longest is “Castelfranco radicchio”.
- Is “Name a leafy green” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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