Geography trivia
Name a city or town in Michigan
“Name a city or town in Michigan” is one of 176 geography prompts in Icillion. Of its 372 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Detroit
- Grand Rapids
- Ann Arbor
- Lansing
- Flint
- Kalamazoo
- Dearborn
- Traverse City
- Saginaw
- Warren
- Sterling Heights
- Mackinac Island
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Livonia
- Troy
- Southfield
- Farmington Hills
- Royal Oak
- Novi
- Westland
- Taylor
- Pontiac
- Rochester Hills
- Rochester
- Birmingham
- Bloomfield Hills
- Grosse Pointe
- Ypsilanti
- Plymouth
- Northville
- Dearborn Heights
- Monroe
- Jackson
- Battle Creek
- Muskegon
- Holland
- Grand Haven
- Midland
- Bay City
- Port Huron
- Marquette
- Houghton
- Escanaba
- Sault Ste. Marie
- Petoskey
- Charlevoix
- Harbor Springs
- Cadillac
- Alpena
- Mount Pleasant
- East Lansing
- Okemos
- Portage
- Kentwood
- Wyoming
- Ferndale
- St. Clair Shores
- Auburn Hills
- Brighton
- Howell
- Frankenmuth
- Adrian
- Chelsea
- Saline
- Dexter
- Wyandotte
- Southgate
- Allen Park
- Lincoln Park
- Roseville
- Clinton Township
- Shelby Township
- Mount Clemens
- Lapeer
- Grand Blanc
- Fenton
- Marshall
- Coldwater
- Hillsdale
- Canton
- Mackinaw City
- St. Ignace
- Saugatuck
- South Haven
- St. Joseph
- Benton Harbor
- Ludington
- Manistee
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsDetroit · Grand Rapids · Ann Arbor
- Below the Surface75 answers · 25 ptsLivonia · Troy · Southfield …
- The Deep118 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss166 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 118 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 166 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 372 answers in total, 106 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Mio”. Longest: “Sterling Heights”.
- C, M and B are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
Getting below the surface
- Start with C: 36 of the answers begin with it.
- Detroit, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor 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 Michigan A–Z
Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a city or town in Michigan”?
- The usual first answers are Detroit, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Lansing and Flint. 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 Michigan”?
- 372 in all: 12 on The Tip, 75 Below the Surface, 118 in The Deep, 166 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a city or town in Michigan” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Mio” and the longest is “Sterling Heights”.
- How hard is “Name a city or town in Michigan”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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