Geography trivia
Name a city or town in Massachusetts
“Name a city or town in Massachusetts” is one of 176 geography prompts in Icillion. Of its 348 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.
- Boston
- Cambridge
- Worcester
- Springfield
- Salem
- Plymouth
- Provincetown
- Nantucket
- Lowell
- Quincy
- Concord
- Lexington
One step down
These 86 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Brookline
- Somerville
- Newton
- Medford
- Malden
- Revere
- Chelsea
- Everett
- Lynn
- Gloucester
- Rockport
- Marblehead
- Newburyport
- Ipswich
- Andover
- North Andover
- Lawrence
- Haverhill
- Methuen
- Amherst
- Northampton
- Pittsfield
- Lenox
- Stockbridge
- Great Barrington
- North Adams
- Williamstown
- Holyoke
- Chicopee
- Westfield
- Greenfield
- Deerfield
- Brockton
- Taunton
- Fall River
- New Bedford
- Falmouth
- Hyannis
- Barnstable
- Chatham
- Orleans
- Wellfleet
- Truro
- Eastham
- Dennis
- Yarmouth
- Harwich
- Sandwich
- Edgartown
- Oak Bluffs
- Vineyard Haven
- Tisbury
- Chilmark
- Aquinnah
- Woods Hole
- Duxbury
- Hingham
- Cohasset
- Scituate
- Marshfield
- Braintree
- Weymouth
- Milton
- Dedham
- Needham
- Wellesley
- Natick
- Framingham
- Waltham
- Watertown
- Belmont
- Arlington
- Woburn
- Burlington
- Bedford
- Billerica
- Chelmsford
- Acton
- Sudbury
- Wayland
- Weston
- Lincoln
- Marlborough
- Fitchburg
- Leominster
- Sturbridge
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsBoston · Cambridge · Worcester
- Below the Surface86 answers · 25 ptsBrookline · Somerville · Newton …
- The Deep72 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss177 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 72 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 177 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 348 answers in total, 28 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Lee”. Longest: “Manchester-by-the-Sea”.
- W, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 1 answers can be typed more than one way: “Manchester” counts as Manchester-by-the-Sea.
Getting below the surface
- Start with W: 48 of the answers begin with it.
- Boston, Cambridge and Worcester 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 and towns in Massachusetts A–Z
Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a city or town in Massachusetts”?
- The usual first answers are Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, Springfield and Salem. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a city or town in Massachusetts”?
- 348 in all: 12 on The Tip, 86 Below the Surface, 72 in The Deep, 177 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a city or town in Massachusetts” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Lee” and the longest is “Manchester-by-the-Sea”.
- How hard is “Name a city or town in Massachusetts”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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