What are the most common answers to “Name a capital city in Africa”?

Most people start with Cairo, Nairobi and Pretoria. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a capital city in Africa”?

56 in all: 3 on The Tip, 10 Below the Surface, 12 in The Deep, 30 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

What is the shortest answer to “Name a capital city in Africa”?

The shortest accepted answer is “Juba” and the longest is “Yamoussoukro”.

Geography trivia

Name a capital city in Africa

Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 56 answers to “Name a capital city in Africa”, and only 3 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.

What everyone says first

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Cairo
Nairobi
Pretoria

Just below the surface

Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:

Rabat
Algiers
Tunis
Addis Ababa
Abuja
Accra
Dakar
Kampala
Kigali
Tripoli

How the answers sink

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	10	25
The Deep	12	50
The Abyss	30	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 12 answers starting with A, B, F, G, H, K, L, M and W. The Abyss has 30 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

56 answers in total, 5 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Juba”. Longest: “Yamoussoukro”.
M, A and B are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.

How to go deeper

More answers begin with M than with any other letter (7). Run through it first.
Skip Cairo, Nairobi and Pretoria; everybody says them.
Use the map in your head: walk along a coastline or a river and name what you pass.

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