Geography trivia
Name a river, lake, sea or ocean
“Name a river, lake, sea or ocean” is one of 63 geography prompts in Icillion. Of its 494 accepted answers, 15 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Nile
- Amazon
- Mississippi
- Thames
- Danube
- Lake Superior
- Loch Ness
- Lake Victoria
- Lake Michigan
- Lake Titicaca
- Pacific
- Atlantic
- Indian Ocean
- Arctic Ocean
- Mediterranean
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Rhine
- Seine
- Yangtze
- Ganges
- Mekong
- Volga
- Missouri
- Colorado
- Hudson
- Tiber
- Jordan
- Euphrates
- Tigris
- Congo
- Zambezi
- Rio Grande
- Yellow River
- Lake Erie
- Lake Ontario
- Lake Huron
- Lake Tahoe
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Geneva
- Lake Como
- Lake Garda
- Great Salt Lake
- Caspian Sea
- Dead Sea
- Lake Tanganyika
- Lake Malawi
- Windermere
- Lake Placid
- Crater Lake
- Lake Mead
- Sea of Galilee
- Lake Lucerne
- Lake Constance
- Lake Bled
- Lake Louise
- Lake Chad
- Aral Sea
- Loch Lomond
- Southern Ocean
- Caribbean Sea
- Red Sea
- Black Sea
- North Sea
- Baltic Sea
- Irish Sea
- Aegean Sea
- Adriatic Sea
- South China Sea
- Arabian Sea
- Sea of Japan
- Bering Sea
- Coral Sea
- Tasman Sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- Sargasso Sea
- Yellow Sea
Answers by level
| Level | Accepted answers | Points |
|---|---|---|
| The Tip | 15 | 10 |
| Below the Surface | 60 | 25 |
| The Deep | 133 | 50 |
| The Abyss | 285 | 85 |
| Below the Iceberg | 1 | 100 |
The Deep holds 133 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 285 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 494 answers in total, 368 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ob”. Longest: “Western Interior Seaway”.
- L, S and C are the most common first letters; together they start 52% of the answers.
- 240 answers can be typed more than one way: “Mashu” counts as Lake Mashu.
How to go deeper
- Start with L: 191 of the answers begin with it.
- Nile, Amazon and Mississippi are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Use the map in your head: walk along a coastline or a river and name what you pass.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a river, lake, sea or ocean”?
- The usual first answers are Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, Thames and Danube. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a river, lake, sea or ocean”?
- 494 in all: 15 on The Tip, 60 Below the Surface, 133 in The Deep, 285 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a river, lake, sea or ocean” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ob” and the longest is “Western Interior Seaway”.
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How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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