Geography trivia
Name a city or town in Alberta
255 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
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Calgary
- Edmonton
- Banff
- Jasper
- Red Deer
- Lethbridge
- Medicine Hat
- Canmore
- Fort McMurray
- Grande Prairie
Below the waterline
These 62 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- St. Albert
- Sherwood Park
- Airdrie
- Cochrane
- Okotoks
- Leduc
- Spruce Grove
- Stony Plain
- Fort Saskatchewan
- Camrose
- Lloydminster
- Wetaskiwin
- Lacombe
- Brooks
- Cold Lake
- High River
- Strathmore
- Chestermere
- Beaumont
- Devon
- Drumheller
- Hinton
- Edson
- Whitecourt
- Peace River
- High Level
- Slave Lake
- Athabasca
- Lac La Biche
- Bonnyville
- Vegreville
- Wainwright
- Vermilion
- Drayton Valley
- Rocky Mountain House
- Sylvan Lake
- Innisfail
- Olds
- Didsbury
- Carstairs
- Crossfield
- Three Hills
- Pincher Creek
- Fort Macleod
- Claresholm
- Nanton
- Vulcan
- Taber
- Coaldale
- Raymond
- Cardston
- Magrath
- Milk River
- Waterton Park
- Crowsnest Pass
- Blairmore
- Black Diamond
- Turner Valley
- Bragg Creek
- Lake Louise
- Kananaskis
- Exshaw
The iceberg for “Name a city or town in Alberta”
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsCalgary · Edmonton · Banff
- Below the Surface62 answers · 25 ptsSt. Albert · Sherwood Park · Airdrie …
- The Deep104 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss78 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 104 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 78 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 255 answers in total, 61 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gem”. Longest: “Rocky Mountain House”.
- C, B and S are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
- 1 answers can be typed more than one way: “Waterton” counts as Waterton Park.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (31). Run through it first.
- Skip Calgary, Edmonton and Banff; everybody says them.
- Use the map in your head: walk along a coastline or a river and name what you pass.
Play geography trivia nowList of cities and towns in Alberta A–Z
People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a city or town in Alberta”?
- Most people start with Calgary, Edmonton, Banff, Jasper and Red Deer. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a city or town in Alberta”?
- 255 in all: 10 on The Tip, 62 Below the Surface, 104 in The Deep, 78 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a city or town in Alberta”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gem” and the longest is “Rocky Mountain House”.
- Is “Name a city or town in Alberta” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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