Food trivia
Name a Thanksgiving food
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a Thanksgiving food”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 150 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Turkey
- Stuffing
- Mashed potatoes
- Cranberry sauce
- Pumpkin pie
- Gravy
- Sweet potatoes
- Green bean casserole
- Corn
- Dinner rolls
- Apple pie
- Pecan pie
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Mac and cheese
- Brussels sprouts
- Roasted vegetables
- Cornbread
- Biscuits
- Ham
- Salad
- Collard greens
- Cranberry relish
- Creamed corn
- Corn pudding
- Creamed spinach
- Butternut squash
- Roasted carrots
- Peas
- Green beans
- Deviled eggs
- Cheese ball
- Charcuterie
- Pumpkin soup
- Oyster stuffing
- Chestnut stuffing
- Cornbread stuffing
- Sausage stuffing
- Giblet gravy
- Stuffed mushrooms
- Sweet potato pie
- Pumpkin bread
- Pumpkin roll
- Cheesecake
- Apple cobbler
- Ambrosia salad
- Jell-O salad
- Waldorf salad
- Wild rice
- Rice pilaf
- Baked beans
- Potato salad
- Scalloped potatoes
- Au gratin potatoes
- Roast potatoes
- Twice-baked potatoes
- Turducken
- Deep-fried turkey
- Smoked turkey
- Prime rib
- Turkey legs
- Pumpkin muffins
- Apple crisp
- Chocolate pie
- Banana pudding
- Pumpkin cookies
How deep does “Name a Thanksgiving food” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsTurkey · Stuffing · Mashed potatoes
- Below the Surface52 answers · 25 ptsMac and cheese · Brussels sprouts · Roasted vegetables …
- The Deep52 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss33 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 52 answers starting with B, C, D, F, G, H, J, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V and Z. The Abyss has 33 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 150 answers in total, 112 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ham”. Longest: “Cranberry orange relish”.
- C, P and S are the most common first letters; together they start 47% of the answers.
- 24 answers can be typed more than one way: “Broccoli cheese casserole” counts as Broccoli casserole.
How to go deeper
- Start with C: 29 of the answers begin with it.
- Turkey, Stuffing and Mashed potatoes are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a Thanksgiving food”?
- The usual first answers are Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed potatoes, Cranberry sauce and Pumpkin pie. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a Thanksgiving food”?
- 150 in all: 12 on The Tip, 52 Below the Surface, 52 in The Deep, 33 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a Thanksgiving food” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ham” and the longest is “Cranberry orange relish”.
- How hard is “Name a Thanksgiving food”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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