Geography trivia
Name a city or town in New South Wales
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 481 answers to “Name a city or town in New South Wales”, and only 11 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 11 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Sydney
- Newcastle
- Wollongong
- Parramatta
- Bondi
- Manly
- Byron Bay
- Wagga Wagga
- Albury
- Coffs Harbour
- Dubbo
Just below the surface
These 60 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Tamworth
- Orange
- Bathurst
- Port Macquarie
- Lismore
- Armidale
- Broken Hill
- Goulburn
- Queanbeyan
- Gosford
- Penrith
- Blacktown
- Liverpool
- Campbelltown
- Cronulla
- Katoomba
- Tweed Heads
- Ballina
- Nowra
- Maitland
- Cessnock
- Lithgow
- Griffith
- Mudgee
- Cooma
- Bega
- Batemans Bay
- Kiama
- Terrigal
- Hornsby
- Chatswood
- Bankstown
- Newtown
- Surry Hills
- Paddington
- Coogee
- Mosman
- Kings Cross
- The Rocks
- Glebe
- Balmain
- Leichhardt
- Sutherland
- Cabramatta
- Castle Hill
- Hurstville
- Burwood
- Strathfield
- Ryde
- Windsor
- Camden
- Leura
- Bowral
- Thredbo
- Jindabyne
- Lightning Ridge
- Forster
- Taree
- Yamba
- Grafton
How the answers sink
- The Tip11 answers · 10 ptsSydney · Newcastle · Wollongong
- Below the Surface60 answers · 25 ptsTamworth · Orange · Bathurst …
- The Deep124 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss285 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 124 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 285 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 481 answers in total, 93 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Hay”. Longest: “South West Rocks”.
- B, C and M are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Bondi Beach” counts as Bondi.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with B than with any other letter (62). Run through it first.
- Skip Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong; everybody says 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 are the most common answers to “Name a city or town in New South Wales”?
- Most people start with Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Parramatta and Bondi. 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 New South Wales”?
- 481 in all: 11 on The Tip, 60 Below the Surface, 124 in The Deep, 285 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a city or town in New South Wales”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Hay” and the longest is “South West Rocks”.
- Is “Name a city or town in New South Wales” 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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