Food trivia
Name a type of salad
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of salad”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 71 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Caesar salad
- Greek salad
- Green salad
- Potato salad
- Coleslaw
- Fruit salad
- Caprese
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Waldorf salad
- Cobb salad
- Niçoise
- Pasta salad
- Rice salad
- Chicken salad
- Tuna salad
- Egg salad
- Tomato salad
- Cucumber salad
- Beetroot salad
- Three-bean salad
- Bean salad
- Tabbouleh
- Panzanella
- Russian salad
- Olivier salad
- Chef salad
- Garden salad
- Side salad
- Mixed salad
- Rocket salad
- Spinach salad
- Wedge salad
- Taco salad
- Thai beef salad
- Som tam
- Papaya salad
- Larb
- Glass noodle salad
- Seaweed salad
- Chuka salad
- Gado-gado
- Rojak
- Kachumber
How deep does “Name a type of salad” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsCaesar salad · Greek salad · Green salad
- Below the Surface35 answers · 25 ptsWaldorf salad · Cobb salad · Niçoise …
- The Deep18 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 18 answers starting with C, E, I, M, P, R, S and X. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 71 answers in total, 49 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Larb”. Longest: “Salade de chèvre chaud”.
- C, S and P are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
- 8 answers can be typed more than one way: “Celeri remoulade” counts as Céleri rémoulade.
Getting below the surface
- Start with C: 11 of the answers begin with it.
- Caesar salad, Greek salad and Green salad are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a type of salad”?
- The usual first answers are Caesar salad, Greek salad, Green salad, Potato salad and Coleslaw. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of salad”?
- 71 in all: 7 on The Tip, 35 Below the Surface, 18 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a type of salad” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Larb” and the longest is “Salade de chèvre chaud”.
- How hard is “Name a type of salad”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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