Food trivia
Name a variety of tomato
81 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
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Cherry tomato
- Beefsteak
- Plum tomato
- Roma
- Vine tomato
- San Marzano
- Tomatoes on the vine
Below the waterline
These 41 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Heirloom
- Heritage tomato
- Gardener's Delight
- Moneymaker
- Alicante
- Ailsa Craig
- Shirley
- Sungold
- Sweet 100
- Sweet Million
- Tigerella
- Marmande
- Brandywine
- Cherokee Purple
- Green Zebra
- Yellow Pear
- Big Boy
- Better Boy
- Early Girl
- Celebrity
- Costoluto Fiorentino
- Costoluto
- Pomodorino
- Datterini
- Piennolo
- Pachino
- Cuore di bue
- Ox heart
- Cherry plum
- Grape tomato
- Cocktail tomato
- Campari tomato
- Truss tomato
- Salad tomato
- Standard tomato
- Green tomato
- Fried green tomato
- Sun-dried tomato
- Tomato puree
- Passata
- Tinned tomatoes
The iceberg for “Name a variety of tomato”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsCherry tomato · Beefsteak · Plum tomato
- Below the Surface41 answers · 25 ptsHeirloom · Heritage tomato · Gardener's Delight …
- 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, B, C, G, H, I, K, M, O, P, R, S and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 81 answers in total, 55 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Roma”. Longest: “Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter”.
- P, C and S are the most common first letters; together they start 40% of the answers.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with P than with any other letter (12). Run through it first.
- Skip Cherry tomato, Beefsteak and Plum tomato; everybody says them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a variety of tomato”?
- Most people start with Cherry tomato, Beefsteak, Plum tomato, Roma and Vine tomato. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a variety of tomato”?
- 81 in all: 7 on The Tip, 41 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 variety of tomato”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Roma” and the longest is “Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter”.
- Is “Name a variety of tomato” 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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