What do most people say for “Name a city in Australia”?

The usual first answers are Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a city in Australia”?

37 in all: 3 on The Tip, 6 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 19 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a city in Australia” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Dubbo” and the longest is “Mount Gambier”.

Geography trivia

Name a city in Australia

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a city in Australia”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 37 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

Right, but shallow: 3 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.

Sydney
Melbourne
Canberra

The next answers people reach for

Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:

Perth
Brisbane
Adelaide
Darwin
Hobart
Gold Coast

How deep does “Name a city in Australia” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	6	25
The Deep	8	50
The Abyss	19	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 8 answers starting with B, C, G, L, N, T and W. The Abyss has 19 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

37 answers in total, 4 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Dubbo”. Longest: “Mount Gambier”.
B, G and A are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.

Getting below the surface

Start with B: 7 of the answers begin with it.
Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra 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 city in Australia”?: The usual first answers are Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a city in Australia”?: 37 in all: 3 on The Tip, 6 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 19 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a city in Australia” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Dubbo” and the longest is “Mount Gambier”.

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