Geography trivia
Name a city in Texas
294 answers count for this geography prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Houston
- Dallas
- Austin
- San Antonio
- Fort Worth
- El Paso
- Arlington
- Corpus Christi
- Plano
- Lubbock
- Galveston
- Amarillo
Below the waterline
These 53 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Laredo
- Irving
- Garland
- Brownsville
- McKinney
- Frisco
- Grand Prairie
- Killeen
- Pasadena
- Waco
- Denton
- Carrollton
- Midland
- Odessa
- Abilene
- Round Rock
- Richardson
- Lewisville
- Tyler
- College Station
- Pearland
- San Marcos
- Wichita Falls
- Sugar Land
- Beaumont
- McAllen
- Port Arthur
- Longview
- Texarkana
- Victoria
- Conroe
- The Woodlands
- Katy
- Baytown
- League City
- Temple
- New Braunfels
- Georgetown
- San Angelo
- Mesquite
- Allen
- Edinburg
- Harlingen
- Mission
- Marfa
- Fredericksburg
- Kerrville
- Del Rio
- Eagle Pass
- Nacogdoches
- South Padre Island
- Rockport
- Port Aransas
The iceberg for “Name a city in Texas”
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsHouston · Dallas · Austin
- Below the Surface53 answers · 25 ptsLaredo · Irving · Garland …
- The Deep127 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss101 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 127 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 101 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 294 answers in total, 55 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Buda”. Longest: “Sutherland Springs”.
- S, B and C are the most common first letters; together they start 29% of the answers.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (30). Run through it first.
- Skip Houston, Dallas and Austin; 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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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a city in Texas”?
- Most people start with Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Fort Worth. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a city in Texas”?
- 294 in all: 12 on The Tip, 53 Below the Surface, 127 in The Deep, 101 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a city in Texas”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Buda” and the longest is “Sutherland Springs”.
- Is “Name a city in Texas” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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