Geography trivia
Name a city in the United Kingdom
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a city in the United Kingdom”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 75 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- London
- Manchester
- Birmingham
- Liverpool
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Cardiff
- Belfast
- Leeds
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Bristol
- Sheffield
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- York
- Bath
- Brighton and Hove
- Southampton
- Portsmouth
- Leicester
- Coventry
- Aberdeen
- Dundee
- Swansea
- Plymouth
- Exeter
- Canterbury
- Norwich
- Derby
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Wolverhampton
- Sunderland
- Bradford
- Kingston upon Hull
- Inverness
- Stirling
- Perth
- Chester
- Durham
- Winchester
- Lincoln
- Salisbury
- Worcester
- Gloucester
- Lancaster
- Carlisle
- Peterborough
- Derry
- Newport
How deep does “Name a city in the United Kingdom” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsLondon · Manchester · Birmingham
- Below the Surface38 answers · 25 ptsNottingham · Oxford · Cambridge …
- The Deep24 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss0 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 24 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, H, L, M, N, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 0 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 75 answers in total, 7 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ely”. Longest: “Newcastle upon Tyne”.
- S, C and L are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
- 5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Londonderry” counts as Derry.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 12 of the answers begin with it.
- London, Manchester and Birmingham are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think regionally: after the famous capital, try the second and third city of the same country.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a city in the United Kingdom”?
- The usual first answers are London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Edinburgh. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a city in the United Kingdom”?
- 75 in all: 12 on The Tip, 38 Below the Surface, 24 in The Deep, 0 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a city in the United Kingdom” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ely” and the longest is “Newcastle upon Tyne”.
- How hard is “Name a city in the United Kingdom”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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