Food trivia
Name a type of onion
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of onion”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 69 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.
- Red onion
- White onion
- Yellow onion
- Spring onion
- Shallot
- Chives
- Leek
The next answers people reach for
These 29 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Brown onion
- Spanish onion
- Sweet onion
- Pickling onion
- Pearl onion
- Cipollini
- Boiling onion
- Salad onion
- Green onion
- Welsh onion
- Tree onion
- Egyptian walking onion
- Walking onion
- Garlic
- Elephant garlic
- Wild garlic
- Ramps
- Walla Walla
- Maui onion
- Texas 1015
- Bermuda onion
- Red Baron
- Sturon
- Stuttgarter
- Ailsa Craig
- Hybrid onion
- Setts
- Onion sets
- Cooking onion
How deep does “Name a type of onion” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsRed onion · White onion · Yellow onion
- Below the Surface29 answers · 25 ptsBrown onion · Spanish onion · Sweet onion …
- 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, I, M, N, T and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 69 answers in total, 47 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “1015”. Longest: “Cebolla de Fuentes de Ebro”.
- C, S and W are the most common first letters; together they start 51% of the answers.
- 3 answers can be typed more than one way: “Ramson” counts as Ramps.
How to go deeper
- Start with C: 21 of the answers begin with it.
- Red onion, White onion and Yellow onion are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a type of onion”?
- The usual first answers are Red onion, White onion, Yellow onion, Spring onion and Shallot. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of onion”?
- 69 in all: 7 on The Tip, 29 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a type of onion” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “1015” and the longest is “Cebolla de Fuentes de Ebro”.
- How hard is “Name a type of onion”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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