Food trivia
Name a type of pie
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 74 answers to “Name a type of pie”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Apple pie
- Cherry pie
- Pumpkin pie
- Pork pie
- Steak and kidney pie
- Chicken pie
- Shepherd's pie
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Cottage pie
- Fish pie
- Mince pie
- Lemon meringue pie
- Key lime pie
- Pecan pie
- Blueberry pie
- Rhubarb pie
- Banoffee pie
- Cream pie
- Banana cream pie
- Chocolate cream pie
- Custard pie
- Mud pie
- Meat pie
- Steak and ale pie
- Cheese and onion pie
- Game pie
- Pot pie
- Chicken pot pie
- Cornish pasty
- Quiche
- Tart
- Pasty
- Sausage roll
- Pizza pie
- Humble pie
- Cutie pie
- Easy as pie
- Sweet potato pie
- Shoofly pie
- Whoopie pie
- Moon pie
- Eskimo pie
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsApple pie · Cherry pie · Pumpkin pie
- Below the Surface34 answers · 25 ptsCottage pie · Fish pie · Mince pie …
- 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, F, G, H, M, P, R, S, T and V. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 74 answers in total, 60 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Tart”. Longest: “Melton Mowbray pork pie”.
- B, C and P are the most common first letters; together they start 45% of the answers.
- 2 answers can be typed more than one way: “Tourtiere” counts as Tourtière.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with B than with any other letter (11). Run through it first.
- Skip Apple pie, Cherry pie and Pumpkin pie; everybody says them.
- Name what people cook at home in that country, not what restaurants abroad serve.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of pie”?
- Most people start with Apple pie, Cherry pie, Pumpkin pie, Pork pie and Steak and kidney pie. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of pie”?
- 74 in all: 7 on The Tip, 34 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 pie”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Tart” and the longest is “Melton Mowbray pork pie”.
- Is “Name a type of pie” 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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