What are the most common answers to “Name a capital city of any country”?

Most people start with Paris, London, Tokyo, Washington DC and Rome. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a capital city of any country”?

107 in all: 5 on The Tip, 20 Below the Surface, 36 in The Deep, 45 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

What is the shortest answer to “Name a capital city of any country”?

The shortest accepted answer is “Bern” and the longest is “Andorra la Vella”.

Is “Name a capital city of any country” an easy or a hard prompt?

Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

Geography trivia

Name a capital city of any country

107 answers count for this geography prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.

Floating on top

Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.

Paris
London
Tokyo
Washington DC
Rome

Below the waterline

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Berlin
Madrid
Moscow
Beijing
Canberra
Ottawa
Cairo
Athens
Lisbon
Vienna
Amsterdam
Dublin
Stockholm
Oslo
Copenhagen
Helsinki
Brussels
New Delhi
Seoul
Mexico City

The iceberg for “Name a capital city of any country”

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	20	25
The Deep	36	50
The Abyss	45	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 36 answers starting with A, B, C, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, W and Z. The Abyss has 45 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

107 answers in total, 13 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Bern”. Longest: “Andorra la Vella”.
B, A and S are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Cape Town” counts as Pretoria.

How to go deeper

More answers begin with B than with any other letter (14). Run through it first.
Skip Paris, London and Tokyo; everybody says them.
Think regionally: after the famous capital, try the second and third city of the same country.

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Quick answers

What are the most common answers to “Name a capital city of any country”?: Most people start with Paris, London, Tokyo, Washington DC and Rome. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a capital city of any country”?: 107 in all: 5 on The Tip, 20 Below the Surface, 36 in The Deep, 45 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
What is the shortest answer to “Name a capital city of any country”?: The shortest accepted answer is “Bern” and the longest is “Andorra la Vella”.
Is “Name a capital city of any country” 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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