Food trivia
Name a type of tea
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 89 answers to “Name a type of tea”, and only 10 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 10 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Black tea
- Green tea
- Earl Grey
- English Breakfast
- Chamomile
- Peppermint
- Herbal
- White tea
- Oolong
- Chai
Just below the surface
These 28 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Darjeeling
- Assam
- Ceylon
- Lapsang Souchong
- Jasmine
- Matcha
- Sencha
- Rooibos
- Lady Grey
- Irish Breakfast
- Pu-erh
- Gunpowder
- Genmaicha
- Hojicha
- Bubble tea
- Iced tea
- Fruit tea
- Lemon tea
- Yerba mate
- Hibiscus
- Ginger tea
- Nettle
- Fennel
- Lemon balm
- Mint tea
- Masala chai
- Kombucha
- Tisane
How the answers sink
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsBlack tea · Green tea · Earl Grey
- Below the Surface28 answers · 25 ptsDarjeeling · Assam · Ceylon …
- The Deep32 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss18 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 32 answers starting with A, B, D, F, G, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 18 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 89 answers in total, 43 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Chai”. Longest: “English Breakfast”.
- G, L and B are the most common first letters; together they start 22% of the answers.
- 12 answers can be typed more than one way: “Black” counts as Black tea.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with G than with any other letter (7). Run through it first.
- Skip Black tea, Green tea and Earl Grey; 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 type of tea”?
- Most people start with Black tea, Green tea, Earl Grey, English Breakfast and Chamomile. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of tea”?
- 89 in all: 10 on The Tip, 28 Below the Surface, 32 in The Deep, 18 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a type of tea”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Chai” and the longest is “English Breakfast”.
- Is “Name a type of tea” 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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