Geography trivia
Name a city or town in Connecticut
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 258 answers to “Name a city or town in Connecticut”, and only 10 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 10 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Hartford
- New Haven
- Stamford
- Bridgeport
- Waterbury
- Norwalk
- Danbury
- New Britain
- Greenwich
- Mystic
Just below the surface
These 59 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Westport
- Fairfield
- Darien
- New Canaan
- Ridgefield
- Milford
- Stratford
- Shelton
- Trumbull
- Wilton
- Weston
- Bethel
- Brookfield
- New Milford
- Litchfield
- Torrington
- Norfolk
- Salisbury
- Kent
- Washington
- Woodbury
- Southbury
- Newtown
- Middletown
- Meriden
- Wallingford
- Cheshire
- Hamden
- West Haven
- East Haven
- Branford
- Guilford
- Madison
- Old Saybrook
- Essex
- Chester
- Old Lyme
- East Lyme
- Niantic
- Waterford
- New London
- Groton
- Stonington
- Norwich
- Willimantic
- Storrs
- Manchester
- Glastonbury
- West Hartford
- East Hartford
- Wethersfield
- Newington
- Bloomfield
- Windsor
- Simsbury
- Avon
- Farmington
- Bristol
- Southington
How the answers sink
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsHartford · New Haven · Stamford
- Below the Surface59 answers · 25 ptsWestport · Fairfield · Darien …
- The Deep110 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 110 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V and W. The Abyss has 78 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 258 answers in total, 47 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Avon”. Longest: “Stafford Springs”.
- W, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with W than with any other letter (29). Run through it first.
- Skip Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; everybody says them.
- Small states score well: microstates, island nations and landlocked countries are rarely the first answer anyone gives.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a city or town in Connecticut”?
- Most people start with Hartford, New Haven, Stamford, Bridgeport and Waterbury. 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 Connecticut”?
- 258 in all: 10 on The Tip, 59 Below the Surface, 110 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 Connecticut”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Avon” and the longest is “Stafford Springs”.
- Is “Name a city or town in Connecticut” 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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