Food trivia
Name a type of plum
77 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.
- Victoria plum
- Damson
- Greengage
- Prune
- Sloe
- Cherry plum
Below the waterline
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Red plum
- Yellow plum
- Black plum
- Purple plum
- Santa Rosa
- Satsuma plum
- Mariposa
- Plumcot
- Pluot
- Aprium
- Apriums
- Japanese plum
- European plum
- Italian plum
- Stanley plum
- President plum
- Marjorie's Seedling
- Czar plum
- Pershore plum
- Pershore yellow egg
- Yellow egg plum
- Opal plum
- Excalibur
- Purple Pershore
- Early Rivers
- Merryweather damson
- Shropshire Prune
- Bullace
- Mirabelle de Nancy
- Mirabelle de Metz
- Reine Claude
- Reine Claude d'Oullins
- Oullins Gage
- Cambridge Gage
- Transparent Gage
- Denniston's Superb
- Jubilee Gage
- Kirke's Blue
The iceberg for “Name a type of plum”
- The Tip6 answers · 10 ptsVictoria plum · Damson · Greengage
- Below the Surface38 answers · 25 ptsRed plum · Yellow plum · Black plum …
- 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 A, J, L, P, Q, S, T, U and Z. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 77 answers in total, 50 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ume”. Longest: “Reine Claude d'Oullins”.
- P, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 43% of the answers.
- 3 answers can be typed more than one way: “Victoria” counts as Victoria plum.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with P than with any other letter (19). Run through it first.
- Skip Victoria plum, Damson and Greengage; 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 plum”?
- Most people start with Victoria plum, Damson, Greengage, Prune and Sloe. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of plum”?
- 77 in all: 6 on The Tip, 38 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 plum”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ume” and the longest is “Reine Claude d'Oullins”.
- Is “Name a type of plum” 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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