Food trivia
Name a supermarket chain
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 269 answers to “Name a supermarket chain”, and only 12 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Walmart
- Tesco
- Aldi
- Lidl
- Kroger
- Costco
- Target
- Sainsbury's
- Asda
- Morrisons
- Waitrose
- Whole Foods Market
Just below the surface
These 51 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Safeway
- Trader Joe's
- Publix
- Albertsons
- Wegmans
- Food Lion
- Giant
- Stop & Shop
- Meijer
- H-E-B
- Sprouts Farmers Market
- Ralphs
- Vons
- Winn-Dixie
- Piggly Wiggly
- Harris Teeter
- Save-A-Lot
- Dunnes Stores
- SuperValu
- Centra
- Spar
- Londis
- Co-op
- Iceland
- Booths
- Ocado
- Marks & Spencer
- Carrefour
- Auchan
- E.Leclerc
- Mercadona
- Edeka
- Rewe
- Kaufland
- Penny
- Netto
- Woolworths
- Coles
- Loblaws
- Sobeys
- Albert Heijn
- Jumbo
- Migros
- ICA
- Biedronka
- IGA
- Metro
- No Frills
- ShopRite
- Pick n Pay
- AEON
How the answers sink
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsWalmart · Tesco · Aldi
- Below the Surface51 answers · 25 ptsSafeway · Trader Joe's · Publix …
- The Deep133 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss72 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 133 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, W and Z. The Abyss has 72 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 269 answers in total, 83 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “A&P”. Longest: “Real Canadian Superstore”.
- S, F and M are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
- 19 answers can be typed more than one way: “Dunnes” counts as Dunnes Stores.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (31). Run through it first.
- Skip Walmart, Tesco and Aldi; everybody says them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a supermarket chain”?
- Most people start with Walmart, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Kroger. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a supermarket chain”?
- 269 in all: 12 on The Tip, 51 Below the Surface, 133 in The Deep, 72 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a supermarket chain”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “A&P” and the longest is “Real Canadian Superstore”.
- Is “Name a supermarket chain” 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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