Geography trivia
Name a city in California
“Name a city in California” is one of 176 geography prompts in Icillion. Of its 289 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- San Diego
- San Jose
- Sacramento
- Oakland
- Fresno
- Long Beach
- Santa Barbara
- Palm Springs
- Anaheim
- Santa Monica
One step down
These 52 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Bakersfield
- Berkeley
- Pasadena
- Malibu
- Hollywood
- Beverly Hills
- Santa Cruz
- Monterey
- Carmel
- San Luis Obispo
- Napa
- Sonoma
- Santa Rosa
- Stockton
- Riverside
- San Bernardino
- Irvine
- Santa Ana
- Huntington Beach
- Newport Beach
- Laguna Beach
- Burbank
- Glendale
- Compton
- Inglewood
- Fremont
- Palo Alto
- Mountain View
- Sunnyvale
- Cupertino
- Santa Clara
- Redwood City
- San Mateo
- Modesto
- South Lake Tahoe
- Oxnard
- Ventura
- Thousand Oaks
- Temecula
- Escondido
- Oceanside
- Carlsbad
- Chula Vista
- Coronado
- La Jolla
- Sausalito
- West Hollywood
- Mammoth Lakes
- Davis
- Chico
- Mendocino
- Solvang
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsLos Angeles · San Francisco · San Diego
- Below the Surface52 answers · 25 ptsBakersfield · Berkeley · Pasadena …
- The Deep169 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss55 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 169 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 55 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 289 answers in total, 112 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Etna”. Longest: “South San Francisco”.
- S, M and B are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 3 answers can be typed more than one way: “SF” counts as San Francisco.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 44 of the answers begin with it.
- Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think regionally: after the famous capital, try the second and third city of the same country.
Play geography trivia nowList of cities in California A–Z
Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a city in California”?
- The usual first answers are Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose and Sacramento. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a city in California”?
- 289 in all: 12 on The Tip, 52 Below the Surface, 169 in The Deep, 55 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a city in California” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Etna” and the longest is “South San Francisco”.
- How hard is “Name a city in California”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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